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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 6: LEES Works in Progress

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leanne Dawson, University of Calgary; Ayah Metwali, University of Calgary

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idealengineering career was going to be creating circuits, which aligned with my interest in arts andcrafts. However, I still had the impression that engineering was a solo profession, so that I wouldnot have to work with others. This perspective persists with current undergraduate students, whounderestimate the professional (soft) skills required to be successful in the engineeringprofession [12], [14].Even though most engineering courses in my undergraduate degree involved some form ofteamwork (for lab assignments or term projects), the reason for this was never emphasized, so Icontinued my misconception that engineering work was primarily individual and solely focusedon technical expertise, until I started my internship after my third year. When I

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 9: Collaboration and Community

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahreum Lim, Arizona State University; Emma Frow, Arizona State University

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Pedagogy of Hope. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2013.[47] C. M. Cohen and S. L. Cohen, Lab dynamics: management and leadership skills for scientists, Third edition. Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2018.[48] K. Barker, At the Helm: Leading Your Laboratory. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2010.[49] A. Lucs, “Self-taught soft skills,” Nature, vol. 506, no. 7487, pp. 257–257, Feb. 2014, doi: 10.1038/nj7487-257a.[50] K. D. Welde and S. L. Laursen, “The ‘Ideal Type’ Advisor: How Advisors Help STEM Graduate Students Find Their ‘Scientific Feet,’” Open Educ. J., vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 49–61, Nov. 2008, doi: 10.2174/1874920800801010049.[51] R. Kwok, “How Lab Heads Can Learn to Lead,” Nature, vol

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 2: Identity, Professionalization, and Belonging I

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Junko Munakata Marr, Colorado School of Mines; Jeffrey C Shragge, Colorado School of Mines; Jonah Klemm-Toole, Colorado School of Mines

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professionaldevelopment and for their growing appreciation of team members with different educationalbackgrounds. Students articulated an increased understanding of their own FOK. For example,one stated that “there are both technical and soft skills that I have developed in other areas of mylife that are relevant to my career.” A few students similarly compartmentalized their FOK intotechnical and social domains. For example, one wrote, “I think work in the physical scienceslimits the impact of sociologically based funds of knowledge and that is the great equalizer inSTEM. There is no 'you know something differently', either you do or don't. Funds of knowledgeare impactful for doing everything that isn’t the physical science, IE: organizing,communicating, and

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 1: Critical Reflections on Teaching and Learning

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Howcroft, University of Waterloo; Kate Mercer, University of Waterloo; Julie Vale, University of Guelph; D'andre Jermaine Wilson-Ihejirika P.Eng., University of Toronto; Stephen Mattucci, University of Guelph

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next they’ll be open to the possibility. One of the hardest lessonsI’ve had to learn, personally and professionally is the only change we can truly make is in howwe respond to things. Use data, build technical skills, but in my classes and in my work I wantstudents to see that it’s not just the technical skills, it’s not just the soft skills, but it’s the peopleon the way that help us do good in the world.I wasn’t going to give my story to this panel – I’m not an engineer; I’m not even engineeringfaculty. I have a two-year-old daughter who deserves the world, and what little free time I had Iwasn’t sure I wanted to write another paper, instead of spending it with her, or my husband (whois, of course, a mechanical engineer). But during the

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 6: LEES Works in Progress

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ymbar Isaias Polanco Pino, Tufts University; Luis Federico Suarez, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Greses Perez P.E., Tufts University; Koral Melissa Nuñez Javeir; L. Clara Mabour, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Taisha Pierre, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Mia Jimenez, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

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