Conference Session

FPD X: First-Year Design with Projects, Modeling, and Simulation

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mario Gomes, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

their camera to their desired height usingtethers, and have it take a photograph of the target area. Then analysis of the photographwould be done using the MATLAB program developed in stages during the course. Theresult of the analysis was to determine the area enclosed by the figure on the ground. Many Page 22.149.2different designs for timers were created from the materials given, ranging from water clocktimers, viscous timers, ice timers, etc.The programming component of the project was done as individuals, i.e. each student wasresponsible for writing the analysis software. The lab component of the course taught basicprogramming constructs such

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meagan Ita, The Ohio State University; Laine Rumreich, The Ohio State University; Krista Kecskemety, The Ohio State University; Rachel Kajfez, The Ohio State University

teams to encourage EM attributes with their students.The FYP at OSU has a strong history of employing TAs and training them through a robust multi-step program thatstarts with an orientation and continues with content knowledge checks throughout the first few weeks of everysemester [16]. As an example, in the past we have developed detailed grading training to support TAs grading oftechnical writing [17]. The FYP employs around 200 total GTAs and UTAs during any given semester and has a highturnover rate of instructional staff on all levels. This high turnover rate and large population further motivates theneed for annual orientation and content training. While our past training efforts served us well, they did not alignwith our new EML

Conference Session

Technical Session 11 - Paper 1: Using Utility Value Interventions to Explore Student Connections to Engineering Mechanics Topics

Collection

2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

Isabella Grace Sorensen, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Dominick Trageser, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

educators have sought to increase student motivation and success is through theuse of Utility Value Interventions (UVIs) (Hecht et al., 2020; Hulleman, Kosovich, Barron, &Daniel, 2017). UVIs typically take the form of short writing assignments that prompt students tothink about course content and the relationship that content might have to their own lives orgoals. UVIs have been used in STEM education as well as other disciplines to increasemotivation and a growing body of research has demonstrated positive student outcomes. Forexample, Hulleman et al. (2017) used UVIs in an introductory psychology course anddemonstrated their positive impact on interest, expectancy for success, and subsequentperformance. Relatedly, Kosovich, Hulleman, Phelps

Collection

2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

Authors

Jenna Wong P.E., San Francisco State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

orally between students as well as with the instructor.The use of music in lectures was easy to do in overcoming the ambient silence to initiateconversation amongst peers and the instructor. However, the form of communication between thein-person and online offerings differed. While in-person initiated oral communication, the onlinecourses saw increases in chat or written communications. Although it would have been ideal toinitiate more oral communication, limitations beyond the control of the instructor and the studentparticipants restricted this option. Nevertheless, it created an opportunity for students to stillremain engaged and feel free to comment/ask questions throughout the sessions. In otherengineering courses that did not utilize

Conference Session

The Human Element of Librarianship

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bertha P. Chang, North Carolina State University; Honora N. Eskridge, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

often work in laboratory settings –there are significant differences in the nature of their work and education. Pinelli explains thesedifferences in the work of engineers vs. scientists in great detail,3 but for our purposes whatmatters is how this plays out in terms of library use. As users, engineers behave differently thantheir peers in other disciplines. Many of them simply don’t use the library, physically orvirtually, and are unaware of library resources and services. Neither group is known to askreference questions in the traditional sense or request mediated searching. Tenopir states, “Evenwhen they do use a library, engineers like to search for information themselves rather than gothrough a librarian or other intermediary.”4

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Gerlick, Washington State University; Denny Davis, Washington State University; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho; Jay McCormack, University of Idaho; Phillip Thompson, Seattle University; Olakunle Harrison, Tuskegee University; Michael Trevisan, Washington State University

simply recall of information.The examples above highlight some common methods for assessing student design processknowledge. In addition to this, faculty have used design products as opportunities to assessprocess activities. For instance, common capstone products include design reviews (peer, client,and faculty), oral presentations, and written reports. In the assessment and evaluation of theseproducts, performance criteria may also be included to address various elements of the designprocess. This is commonly done by addressing a particular activity – identification of customerneeds, for example – through a single scoring metric in a rubric. In this case, the nature of theassessment is more holistic with little depth, mainly used as a

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Beyond the University

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roxanne Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology; Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sunni Haag Newton, Georgia Institute of Technology; Anna Newsome Holcomb, Georgia Institute of Technology, CEISMC

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

different from many other invention competitions in that teamwork isstrongly encouraged and the teacher is a vital part of facilitating the process. When studentsparticipate in the InVenture Challenge, they do not work alone at home; rather, they arecollaborating with up to two other student peers and their teacher is guiding them through anengineering design process. As a result, the InVenture Challenge is inclusive and diverse—abouthalf of K-12 participants are female and nearly 40% are underrepresented minorities.The contributions of this paper are two-fold. First, a model is provided for a K-12 innovationprogram housed at a university that is aimed at empowering underrepresented groups in STEMdisciplines by looking further down the pipeline

Conference Session

Software Engineering Concepts

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University; Peter Y Wu, Robert Morris University; Bruce R Maxim, University of Michigan, Dearborn

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

has a Ph. D. in Materials Engineering (1998) and Graduate Diploma in Computer Science (1999) from Uni- versity of Wollongong, Australia and holds Bachelor of Engineering (Metallurgical Engineering) degree from Pune University, India (1985). He has worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon Uni- versity, Pittsburgh (2001 – 2003) and BHP Institute for Steel Processing and Products, Australia (1998 – 2001). Dr. Manohar held the position of Chief Materials Scientist at Modern Industries, Pittsburgh (2003 – 2004) and Assistant Manager (Metallurgy Group), Engineering Research Center, Telco, India (1985 – 1993). He has published over 55 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences including a 2007 Best

Conference Session

Tips and Tricks for Assessing Student Performance

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan M. Hicks, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

. This could beachieved by showing graders how the grades they assign align with their peer graders (in termsof average and distribution), which tends to influence more extreme graders to become moremoderate25. Alternatively, calibration rounds can be used to establish complex formulas to adjustfor different tendencies4.MethodsContext and data collection. This study investigated grading in the second of a two-semester,first-year engineering course sequence that is required for all engineering undergraduates at alarge Midwestern university. The course employs standards-based grading using a set of 19major learning objectives, each with a set of minor learning outcomes, collectively accountingfor 88 total learning outcomes.The course was offered

Conference Session

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Role of Engineering Education towards Attaining UN Sustainable Development Goals

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Mercedes Ward, University of Utah; Tariq Banuri, University of Utah; Sajjad Ahmad, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Rasool Bux Mahar P.E., Mehran University, Pakistan; David Lawrence Stevenson, University of Utah; James A. VanDerslice, University of Utah; Kamran Ansari; Abdul Latif Qureshi

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Community Engagement Division, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering

U.S. and several countries. More than 75 authored or co-authored peer-reviewed publications, 100 conference papers and project reports, and several software packages and databases have been produced from this research. Dr. Burian’s enthusiasm for student learning has led to numerous teaching awards and the creation of new pedagogical approaches directed toward multi-institution collaborative learning. He has also sought to advance teaching effectiveness of engineering educators by serving as mentor at the American Society of Civil Engineers ExCEEd Teaching Workshop and as the developer of a vari- ety of teaching and curriculum development workshops, including the recent Wasatch Experience at the University of

Conference Session

Motivation, Identity, and Belongingness

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan D. Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Michael D. Gross, Wake Forest University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

environments with the goal of improving learning opportunities for students and equipping faculty with the knowledge and skills necessary to create such opportunities. One of the founding faculty at Olin Col- lege, Dr. Zastavker has been engaged in development and implementation of project-based experiences in fields ranging from science to engineering and design to social sciences (e.g., Critical Reflective Writing; Teaching and Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering, etc.) All of these activities share a common goal of creating curricular and pedagogical structures as well as academic cultures that facilitate students’ interests, motivation, and desire to persist in engineering. Through this work, outreach, and

Conference Session

Interest & Identity

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Murad Musa Mahmoud, Wartburg College; Jessica Marie Faber, Wartburg College; Luke G. Grzech, Wartburg College; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

Paper ID #26352Factors Influencing the Interest Levels of Male versus Female Students goinginto STEM Fields (Evaluation)Dr. Murad Musa Mahmoud, Wartburg College Murad is an Assistant Professor at the Engineering Science Department at Wartburg College. He has a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Utah State University. Research interests include recruitment into STEM, diversity in STEM as well pedagogy and instruction.Ms. Jessica Marie Faber, Wartburg College Jessica is a student at Wartburg College studying Engineering Science with a minor in Creative Writing and Mathematics. She is active with soccer at Wartburg and works

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Assessment

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randall D. Manteufel, University of Texas, San Antonio; Amir Karimi, University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

experience with ABET accreditation. Healso has lead the preparation of self-study reports for the various engineering programs in thecollege in the past. The committee members include both full time tenured/tenure track and non-tenure track faculty, including the department chair. All members contribute to the committeefunctions and several are involved in writing various sections of self-study report. Thecommittee meets as needed and more often in the summer to prepare for the fall semester. It isestimated that 8 meetings in the summer, 12 meetings in the spring/fall semester. A total of 20meetings of 2 hours each, involving 8 faculty occur per year, representing a 320 person hoursefforts devoted to meetings and at least double this effort for

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Muench P.E., University of Washington; Ashley Ann Thompson, University of Washington/PCS Structural Solutions; Sheryl Brandalik

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

projects, which required them to do additionalanalysis and research on a topic of their choosing and, importantly, incorporate site visits and theknowledge gained from those visits into the project.Finally, we borrowed some aspects of the Montessori Method17 that we felt might proveadvantageous. Engineering Rome is (1) a multi-level, course (i.e., appropriate for Freshmanthrough graduate students) designed to foster peer learning, and (2) the final project is a guidedchoice work activity with the instructor serving in the role of Montessori’s “directress.” WhileMontessori’s writings generally concern early aged learning (and not college students), we feltthere was substantial evidence that these ideas would be beneficial. For instance, Katz et al

Conference Session

Supporting Diversity through Co-curricular Programming

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Alexis Y. Williams, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Shawnisha Shonté Hester, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Affairs, and International system, Officer of Diversity, Latina/o Affairs Education Policy (PhD)6 Human Development, Assistant professor of education, coordinator of STEM emphasis on reading and education for teacher preparation; currently planning a literacy (PhD) collaborative proposal with other faculty and administrators for a STEM Center at the request of the institution. Over the course of the last two years, collaborated with faculty in Engineering to write grant proposals for programs that would provide professional development for teachers

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

forced requirement of her large introductory STS course. At the same time, they weresignificantly less skilled at reading and writing than Wylie had anticipated. Their open laptops,poor attendance, missing assignments, and silence in response to her discussion questions wereperhaps all signs of their intimidation at this foreign subject, which may have heightened orcreated their resistance to learning about it. In response to students’ inability or unwillingness toread the assigned sources – a widespread cause of poor class discussions – Wylie began showingcartoons about issues relevant to the day’s lecture topic. After all, cartoons demand only basicliteracy skills, require no homework preparation, are fun and silly, and yet nonetheless manage

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debarati Basu, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech; Kang Xia, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

Students (IRES) projects funded by the NSF. He has published over 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.Dr. Kang Xia, Virginia Tech Kang Xia received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1997), M.S. from Louisiana State University (1993), and B.S. from Beijing Agricultural University (1989). She was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1997-1998), an Assistant Professor at Kansas State University (1998-2001), University of Georgia (2002-2005), and Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Mississippi State University (2006-2010), an Associate Professor at Mississippi State University (2010- 2011) and at Virginia Tech (2011-2016). She also served as Director for Re

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University; Laura Ann Gelles, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Marialuisa Di Stefano, Utah State University; Buffy Smith, University of St. Thomas; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego; Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Anne Therese Hunt, Hunt Consulting Associates; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Gery W. Ryan, Pardee RAND Graduate School in Policy Analysis

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Sociology at Marquette University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The courses she teach include Social Problems, Race & Ethnicity, Social Strati- fication, and the Sociology Senior Seminar. She was an Association for the Study of Higher Education /Lumina Fellow in 2003. Dr. Smith’s primary research interests include examining racial and class dispar- ities within the higher education system. She also writes on policy issues dealing with mentoring, access, retention, equity, and diversity in higher education. She has over 10 years of experience researching how colleges and universities can assist underrepresented students with understanding and navigating the insti- tutional

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 16

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Katherine Leigh Boice, Georgia Institute of Technology; Christopher J. Cappelli, Georgia Institute of Technology; Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jasmine N. Patel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Roxanne A. Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

Accelerator is the Design Thinking Process developed by the Hasso-Plattner Institute ofDesign at Stanford, in which students are encouraged to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, andtest their inventions [5]. The learning objectives for students in the Summer Accelerator mirrorthose set out for students participating in the year-long program, including: choosing a problemand writing a problem statement about how people experience this problem; ideating solutions tothat problem that are better or less expensive than devices that are currently available; sketchingand making a prototype of their idea; obtaining feedback through conferencing and user surveys;and presenting their project to an audience through a “pitch.”Students in the Summer

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogies 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur C Heinricher, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paula Quinn, Quinn Evaluation Consulting; Richard F. Vaz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kent J Rissmiller, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

has published over 55 peer-reviewed or invited papers and is the recipient of numerous teaching and advising awards including the WPI Trustees’ Awards for Outstanding Teaching and for Outstanding Advising. From 2004 to 2010 he served as a Senior Science Fellow of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.Prof. Kent J Rissmiller, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Associate Dean, Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Associate Professor, Social Science and Policy Stud- ies Page 23.874.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Long-Term

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Tillison; David Hand

includes comments from members of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Professional Advisory Committee (CEEPAC).The direct paraphrasing and teacher-designed feedback surveys were created by the evaluator formid-term and final course assessments. Out of fifty assessment techniques that passed a seven-question peer review (Appendix A)22, seven were selected by the evaluator for a finalcomparison of their applicability to the EPSC course (Table 3). These two assessmenttechniques, direct paraphrasing and teacher-designed feedback forms, were chosen as courseassessment tools because: Page 10.683.7 “Proceedings of the 2005 American

Conference Session

Professional Development and Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bailey Kathryn McOwen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Dayoung Kim, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

achieved when informed byethically motivated technology experts, including engineers, as injecting ethics into theformation of policy begins with those who write it. For these reasons, it would be valuable tounderstand the relationship between the variables that may influence a technology expert in theirpursuance of a policy career path, such as the development of their various identities (personaland social, engineering, and ethical identities) of these engineers. Discussions have taken placeregarding public policy engineering workforce expectations and development and the use ofthese various identities, particularly ethics identity, in establishing a policy career pathway forengineers. There is not an explicit connection between the influence of

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hannah Rempel, Oregon State University; Adam Lindsley, Oregon State University; Taylor Ralph, Oregon State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

differentfrom their advisor’s approach) for their thesis or dissertation projects. One additional purposethese graduate students had for searching was to more broadly find literature in their disciplinaryfield. This was especially the case for graduate students whose labs held journal clubs ormeetings where they were expected to regularly share and report out on current literature.The five faculty participants also had multiple reasons for searching the scholarly literature.Some were actively engaged in writing grant proposals and needed literature to demonstrate therelevance of their proposed projects. Faculty also searched the literature to keep tabs on whattheir academic competitors were doing, as well as to look for inspiration from peers in their

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Equity, Inclusion, and Access

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sonia Travaglini, Stanford University; Aya Mouallem, Stanford University; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

ofoutreach program goals, by setting a goal of the program to increase students’ level ofknowledge and clarity around the engineering domain and career trajectory. This wouldresult in a better student-field fit, thereby increasing the likelihood of continued participation inthe program. In addition, it could potentially decrease their likelihood of future attrition from ormigration within a four-year degree program. It can also help inform program activity design -for example including peer-connections and panel events to connect outreach programparticipants with current students and researchers from various engineering domains allied to theoutreach participants’ selected field of study. This provided the outreach program participantswith a richer

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

goals and objectives, researchtasks, and time schedule for their project. The second through seventh weeks were primarilydevoted to: developing materials, components, structural assemblages, and test equipment;testing; test data synthesis; and interim report presentations. Every alternate Friday afternoonwas devoted to student presentations. Each team submitted a written report and gave an oralPower Point presentation in which each participant participated in some capacity. This approachpromoted teamwork, and provided an opportunity to each student to lead the discussion andrespond to queries. When the goals of a project were nearing completion, the students wereassisted in writing the work as a Technical Report and prepare a Display Poster. On

Collection

2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Christopher Gioia, Slippery Rock University; Samantha (Sami Bortz

. Students will then be required to utilize themin their projects, and improvements can be suggested through the engineering test planintermediate deliverable.4. Instructing students on how to perform a peer-reviewed literature search.Currently, engineering students at SRU are only required to take Critical Reading and CriticalWriting, neither of which emphasize technical communication. As a result, class time will bededicated to instruction on how to properly conduct background research and write a literatureand patent search, class time will be dedicated to. The STEM librarian at SRU will join thecourse and highlight what resources are available to students, which sources are to be consideredreliable, and how to properly cite others’ work. An

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gustavo Lopez, Universidad de Costa Rica; Alexandra Martinez, Universidad de Costa Rica

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

). A problem with this approachis that due to the timeline of the course, the course ends up focusing more on the develop-ment than on the testing part (the author reports that 55% of the time is spent developingwhile only 33% of the time is spent testing, and the remaining 12% is spent writing a shortreflection paper).There have also been experiences using “real-world” (industrial) software under test in test-ing courses8, as a mean to effectively teach students how to test real software. The majorrisks of this approach are confidentiality and technical support on software that is under de-velopment by others. Garousi8 states that this approach requires and leads to strong academ-ia-industry partnerships, but points out that it is necessary

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cate Samuelson, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

expected roles and competencies—a key factor in becoming a successfulprofessional.5 Professional identity development can be influenced by interactive, intellectual, Page 23.1058.3and concrete experiences during professional training, and often relies on verification fromrelevant others. 5 Through interactions with faculty, mentors, and peers, both in and out of the   classroom, students begin to engage in professional behavior as they start to master technicalknowledge and practical competencies and learn to develop a confident demeanor. 5

Conference Session

LEES 7: Experiments in Experiential and Project-Based Learning

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna Burchfield, University of South Florida; Olukemi Akintewe, University of South Florida; Jamie Chilton, University of South Florida

, and practice of teamwork and intercultural communication are taught inengineering classrooms; in short, they are not. Although engineering programs work towardhelping their students develop teamwork competencies, teamwork in engineering classrooms hasbeen largely bereft of direct teaching about the communication-rooted components of teamwork(Kedrowicz & Nelson, 2007), tending instead to focus on the process and organizationalelements of teamwork and various levels of assessment, such as peer-assessment and observation(Chowdhry & Murzi, 2019). Intercultural competency in engineering classrooms suffers asimilar fate (Warnick, 2011; Ndubuisi, et al., 2020) and is often discussed in essentialist termswherein intercultural competency is

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corey T Schimpf, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Jessica E S Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Courtney Burris

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

questions and how they interacted with their peers during thediscussion. The students held steadfast to the discussion guidelines, exhibiting respect andconsideration for their fellow students, allowing for a deeper conversation. As the class consistsof senior engineering students, the expectation was that they would be able to identify theengineering failures, but may struggle with the discussion on racial inequities due to a lack ofexposure in previous engineering courses. Surprisingly, the students understood and articulatedthe impact of institutional discrimination on the events leading up to and response to HurricaneKatrina.However, not all of the students reviewed the reading material prior to class. Since a largeportion of the class had not