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First-year Programs: Student Perceptions and Perspectives

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Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Tina Lee, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Elizabeth Anne Buchanan, University of Wisconsin-Stout

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masculine whilehumanities, social sciences, and “soft skills” such as communication and ethics are often seen tobe more feminine [20]. These patterns might explain why women entered the class more awareof social and environment issues and likely account for the women in our study being more opento a class about social justice, volunteering, and how engineering can be used to help others thanmen were (see also [20] for a discussion of men’s resistance to communication skills instructionin engineering). It is important to note, however, that socialization may not directly account forall aspects of how gender differences are expressed through student perceptions. There is someevidence that correlations between empathy or care and social or

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2018 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Tabitha L. Sprau Coulter

engineers have a combination oftechnical, high-level, problem solving skills and soft skills. Additionally, practicing engineersare required to have a broad knowledge of general engineering content along with a mastery ofspecific skills. With the many demands placed on engineers and the rigorous requirementsestablished by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), undergraduatecurriculums are overflowing with required courses. Issues with declining interest in pursuing engineering degrees coupled with someprograms having inadequate industry connections have contributed to retention problems formany engineering programs [1]. A lack of curriculum flexibility, increasing awareness of thedifficult nature of engineering course

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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Lisa Deane Morano, University of Houston, Downtown; Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering

presentation and other important professional soft skills. Students were also asked torespond to open questions about the program. Key highlights from the annual assessments andcomments by the external program evaluator are summarized in the following paragraphs. For simplicitywe have focused on the data from the last cohort of the program, but it is representative of previous years.a. DiversityUHD is a Minority Serving Institution and a Hispanic Serving Institution which serves a large segment ofthe city’s underrepresented population. As the program at this university would automatically have aracially diverse group of students we focused on making sure there was also a diversity of students basedon additional parameters of socioeconomics and

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Reimagining Engineering Ethics

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Jessica Koehler, Wake Forest University; Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University ; Michael Lamb, Wake Forest University; Alana Demaske, Wake Forest University; Carlos Santos, Wake Forest University; Michael D. Gross, Wake Forest University; Dylan Franklin Brown, Wake Forest University

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First-Year Programs: Major Choice

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J.w. Bruce, Tennessee Technological University; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University

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”, Proc. 2007 ASEE Midwest Sectional Conference, 2007.[5] R. Christensen, G. Knezek, and T. Tyler-Wood, “Student perceptions of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) content and careers”, Computers in Human Behavior, Elsevier Press, 2014.[6] R.M. Felder, G.N. Felder, M. Mauney, C.E. Hamrin, and E.J. Dietz, “A Longitudinal Study of Engineering Student Performance and Retention. III. Gender Differences in Student Performance and Attitudes, J. Engr. Educ., vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 151-163, 1995.[7] M. Itani and I. Srour, “Engineering Students' Perceptions of Soft Skills, Industry Expectations, and Career Aspirations,” J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract., vol. 142, no. 1, 2016.[8] B.N. Geisinger

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Integrating Sustainability and Resilience Concepts into Courses

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Benjamin Sanchez, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Romeo Ballinas-Gonzalez, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Miguel X. Rodriguez-Paz, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Juan Arturo Nolazco-Flores, Tecnologico de Monterrey

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Civil Engineering

Education (SDE)3.1 Project-based learning approachIn the last two decades PBL has become an important and recurrent learning technique applied inAEC education in combination with ICTs [1]. PBL is a proven effective pedagogical approachwhere the students have an active participation in the learning process [20]. PBL involvesplacing the students in realistic scenarios in order to solve real problematics. Some of the skillsthe students can develop through this approach are building knowledge, critical thinking,creativity, and soft skills (e.g. leadership, communication, teamwork) [1].3.2 Transversal citizenship attributeTransversal citizenship is an academic component of support for educational models inuniversities [7]. The objective is to bring the

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Maker Spaces in Design Education

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Colton Daniel Brehm, Texas A&M University; Julie S. Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Astrid Layton, Texas A&M University

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Design in Engineering Education

first time. Toolsin the connector role (seen in Table 2) can serve as launching points to other modules, but maynot necessarily promote further student interaction with tools in that module. Separating studentsinto cohorts informs on how to move makerspace users from ultra-peripherals and peripherals toconnectors, better connecting the makerspace and promoting student-student interactions byenhancing soft skills. Students that fulfill the connector role are more likely to feel confident inall types of makerspace tasks, and because the design process is often a team activity, connectorstudents are more likely to act as mentors to others. Connector hubs can be thought of aslaunching pads for the makerspace, made up of the most general nodes in

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Pedagogy and Teaching Preparation in Graduate Programs

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Miguel Velez-Reyes P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Fenot Aklog, Columbia University; Dawn M. Horton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Yajaira Mejia, City College of New York; Ivonne Santiago P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Jorge E. González, City College of New York; Jeff Sivils, El Paso Community College; Harry Meeuwsen, University of Texas at El Paso; Fred Moshary, City University of New York; Joseph Barba, City University of New York

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their professional lives.● Objective 2: Develop Fellows’ skills in traditional and innovative technology-based teaching and in cutting-edge interdisciplinary research.● Objective 3: Build Fellows’ soft-skills and provide mentoring training critical to success in academic careers.● Objective 4: Enhance Fellows’ research skills to become effective and contemporary researchers in ESE, and better teachers by incorporating real ESE problems into the classroom.● Objective 5: Contribute to the knowledge base and literature on the career decision-making and success of Fellows, particularly focused on barriers that affect Hispanic doctoral student selection of an academic career and the mitigation of those barriers.The partnership

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New Developments in ECE

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Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University; Melinda Holtzman, Portland State University; Phillip Wong, Portland State University

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Electrical and Computer

curriculum with constant tensionbetween the need to cover ever-expanding technical topics and, at the same time, teach studentsthe “soft skills” that they need to be effective engineers. This ties into accreditation, with ABETissuing a new set of criteria for evaluation of engineering programs [5]. One new item thatABET explicitly calls for is the development of teamwork and project management skills: Criterion 5: “an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives”Most programs are constrained to 120 semester hours or, equivalently, 180 quarter hours for theiroverall program. This limited the number of

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Christine E King, University of California, Irvine

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disseminated either or boththrough oral and/or written communication4. These activities are typically conducted over oneor two semesters, although future work is required to understand which duration is mostbeneficial for learning outcomes and available resources 5. Furthermore, the activitiesperformed throughout the capstone course are designed to promote soft and hard skills that arerarely taught in the traditional engineering courses 6.In order to promote the above soft skills throughout the capstone course, students are oftenrequired to work in teams on a real-world project. Previous research has found that the teamsize has a significant effect on learning performance7. For example, in a study conducted byChou and Chang7, it was found that smaller

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Cultural Issues in Engineering: International Division Technical Session 2

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Nicholas Andres Brake, Lamar University; Oleksandra Sehin, Texas State University; John Wade Partain, Universidad Politecnica de Guanajuato; Damian Valles, Texas State University; Alberto Marquez P.E., Lamar University; Jesus Alejandro Jimenez, Texas State University; George Saltsman, Lamar University; Rosario Davis, Texas State University

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includes thecurricular activities, a summary of the first-year participant demographics, and a summary ofrecorded pre/post survey responses serving to quantify student cross-cultural beliefs, reasons forparticipation, learning and expectations, and engineering teamwork effectiveness. The paper isorganized with three major sections that discuss the Implementation, Methods, and Results of theprogram. The Implementation section discusses the pre- and camp soft-skill communication andengineering activities. The Methods section covers the cross-cultural skill assessment anddemographics. Finally, the Results and Discussion section explains the analysis for reasons forparticipation, learning and expectations, teamwork effectiveness, and discussion

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ENT Division Technical Session: Competitions, Challenges, and Teams

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Sandra Furnbach Clavijo, Stevens Institute of Technology; Matthew Wade, Stevens Institute of Technology; Kishore Pochiraju, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

“Soft Skills”," in Capstone Design Conference, Boulder, CO, 2010.[12] S. Clavijo, A. Choma, T. Lechler, K. Sheppard, C. Christodoulatos and K. Pochiraju, "Integrating entrepreneurial thinking concurrently with capstone senior design experiences in engineering curricula.," in International Council of Small Business, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2017.[13] A. Osterwalder, "Strategyzer," [Online]. Available: https://www.strategyzer.com/canvas/value-proposition-canvas. [Accessed 3 February 2020].[14] A. Maurya, "https://canvanizer.com/new/lean-canvas," [Online]. Available: Canvanizer. [Accessed 3 February 2020].[15] S. Clavijo, B. Leslie, K. Sheppard and K. Pochiraju, "Teaching Entrepreneurial Thinking through a Companion

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 2

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Tamer Omar, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Abdelfattah Amamra, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Kristina Rigden, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Thomas Ketseoglou, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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IoT and possible threats, attacksand defense techniques as well as to assist in learning new technologies and tools. In addition,students will be able to increase their skills, knowledge and abilities of IoT and cybersecurity. Thecourse will develop their competency in innovation processes, develop their leadership/soft skills,and prepare them for a career in cybersecurity.The second motivation for this course is the industry trend towards technology convergence intoday’s advanced manufacturing. Industries and organizations are rapidly converging their IT withtheir (Operational Technology) OT to provide new IoT systems. A persistent influx of networkedindustrial control solutions into the manufacturing processes has led to a rapidly growing

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 5

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Shinelle Hutchinson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yung Han Yoon, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Neesha Shantaram; Umit Karabiyik, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computing and Information Technology

://www.makeuseof.com/tag/alexa-amazon-echo-privacy-risk/, Jan 2018. Last Accessed: 03-16-2020.[19] J. S. Vogler, P. Thompson, D. W. Davis, B. E. Mayfield, P. M. Finley, and D. Yasseri, “The hard work of soft skills: augmenting the project-based learning experience with interdisciplinary teamwork,” Instructional Science, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 457–488, 2018.[20] E. L. Deci and R. M. Ryan, “Self-determination theory.,” 2012.Appendix A.Software • XRY • Magisk Manager • Magisk • Samsung A505G Stock Firmware (Trinidad and Tobago) - • Odin • TWRP

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Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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Danielle Marie Fredette, Cedarville University; Nathan Jessurun, University of Florida

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teammates, lack of experience regarding how tomanage a team or a meeting, and unreasonable expectations about system integration. In ourschool’s EE/CpE senior design program, we attempt to head off some of these weaknesses byoffering a seminar/lecture component in the fall part of the course in which we teach some ofthese soft skills (similar to what is described as typical in [2]). Software engineering principles,along with instruction on more general project management and leadership, form the basis of theseminar content. Throughout the year, each team is guided by a faculty advisor toward puttingthese ideas into practice on a variety of hardware and software projects.2 Capstone Course Development2.1 Senior Design Course OverviewCedarville

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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Andrea Nana Ofori-Boadu, North Carolina A&T State University; Victor Ofori-Boadu, Penuel Consult Inc.; Jacob Randall Vanderpool, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Dongyang Deng, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

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-Boadu, M. A. Shofoluwe, R. Kelley, E. R. Sowells, and R. B. Pyle, “Assessing theimpact of an industry-led professional development workshop on the 21st century ‘soft’ skills ofCM students at an HBCU,” Proceedings of the 2017 American Society for EngineeringEducation (ASEE) conference, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 25 – 28, 2017, 2017, pp. 1 - 17.A. Phipps, “Engineering Women: The ‘Gendering’ of professional identities,” Int. J. Engng. Ed.,vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 409-414, June 2002.J. Piaget and B. Inhelder, The Psychology of the Child. New York, NY: Basic Books. 1969.D. Porter and A. N. Ofori

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ECCD - Technical Session 1 - Energy & Electrical Engineering

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Radian G. Belu, Southern University and A&M College; Lucian Ionel Cioca, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

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and manufacturing sectors, restructuring theutilities, smart grid, and low-carbon economy require graduates with a broader understanding oftechnology, economics, social contexts and skills [1-5]. There are growing recognition of theneeds to improve, restructure and reform electrical energy and power engineering curricula. Theissues surrounding this theme are receiving significant interests form faculty, industryprofessionals and often administration. Electrical energy professionals are required to havesignificant scientific capabilities, deep interdisciplinary understandings, and soft skills, e.g. self-learning abilities, communication or interpersonal competence. However, how and which are thebest approaches to better educate the next

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Postgraduate Pathways and Experiences

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Jacqueline Rohde, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jared France, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brianna Benedict, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

took the path less traveled to ensure I had a differentiated value proposition as a job candidate -- namely to hone my soft skills and business acumen in concert with the highly advanced technical skills I acquired... This combination proved invaluable toward taking the step from engineer, to engineering sales, to growing and selling a start-up, to ultimately starting my own venture capital firm.Claiming to be unconventional or nontraditional positions these alumni as differing from the normsin engineering. However, the quantitative data showing the prevalence of various career pathwayssuggest that these norms may be more of a shared expectation than based in reality.Discussion and ConclusionsIn this paper, we

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Pedagogy and Teaching Preparation in Graduate Programs

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Locke Davenport Huyer, University of Toronto; Neal I. Callaghan, University of Toronto; Dawn M. Kilkenny, University of Toronto

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multiple reasons provided by instructors who choose to discontinue participation inDiscovery. These include graduation, personal time constraints, perception that personal goalsare not being met, or lack of support from thesis advisor. The latter is unfortunate as we believethis program provides a legitimate platform for development of teaching skills, and the feel thatthe extracurricular time commitment is not excessive and should not impede research successes.In fact, involved trainees have often remarked on the value of involvement in teachingexperiences in helping them to mentally reframe their research pursuits, in addition to thevaluable soft skill development that is becoming ever more valuable. As an indicator ofinvolvement, graduate

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Star Tech: Bringing Data Science and Technologies into the Classroom

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Sotiria Koloutsou-Vakakis, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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. Vogler, P. Thompson, D. W. Davis, B. E. Mayfield, P. M. Finley, and D. Yasseri, "The hard work of soft skills: augmenting the project-based learning experience with interdisciplinary teamwork," Instructional Science, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 457-488, 2017.[12] M. E. Beier, M. H. Kim, A. Saterbak, V. Leautaud, S. Bishnoi, and J. M. Gilberto, "The effect of authentic project‐based learning on attitudes and career aspirations in STEM," Journal of Research in Science Teaching, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 3-23, 2018.[13] N. Mvududu, “A Cross-cultural Study of the Connection Between Students' Attitudes Toward Statistics and the Use of Constructivist Strategies in the Course,” Journal of Statistics Education [online], vol. 11 no. 3, 2003

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 4 - Innovating Engineering Education through Industry and Community Partnerships, Maker Spaces, Competitions, Research Initiatives, and Experiential Education

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Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University

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benefits have beenshown from project-based learning. Students have been shown to learn soft skills [18] fromthese experiences. Project-based learning has also been shown to increase creativity [19] andimprove students’ self-image [20]. Perhaps for all of these reasons, students who haveparticipated in project-based learning have been shown to have enhanced levels of job placement[21].Project-based learning can be used in the classroom environment, for multi-week or term-longclass projects or in dedicated organized or extracurricular environments. Some projects can spandifferent types of participation [22] with the potential for projects to include students, eitherconcurrently or at different points during the project, who are participating for

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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Mary Kay Camarillo P.E., University of the Pacific; Eileen Kogl Camfield, University of California at Merced

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cultivating inter-personal communication skills that would improve theexperiences of women working on design teams. Inherent in this endeavor is the belief that inter-personal communication and other “soft skills” can be taught, a perspective shared by others,such as those working to foster empathy in engineering courses [15].Capstone course structureThe first author is a civil engineering faculty member at the University of the Pacific where thecivil engineering capstone course is completed in one semester during the senior year, usuallyfollowing the mandatory co-op experience. Students work in teams and take on one of thefollowing roles: structural designer, geotechnical designer, water resources designer, orenvironmental designer. Each team has a

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Biomedical Engineers and Professional Development - June 23rd

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Jeffrey A. LaMack, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Icaro dos Santos, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Larry Fennigkoh P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Olga Imas, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Charles S. Tritt, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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of topics such as regulatory affairs [1] and engineeringstandards [2]. Although the combination of technical and “soft skills” can be an importantdistinguishing characteristic of biomedical engineers in industry, it is challenging to effectivelyteach students professional topics in an undergraduate biomedical engineering curriculum thatalso attempts to cover the breadth of engineering and life science topics that is the hallmark ofthe discipline.Recognizing the importance of professional topics, students are often required to implementthem in their culminating capstone design project. A common approach is to teach the topics inthe capstone design courses themselves, often by providing didactic sessions covering each topicjust before students

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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Ryan Milcarek; Michael Garrett; Ryan Falkenstein-Smith; Jeongmin Ahn

involves many cognitiveprocesses and soft skills that characterize good designers. The following skills were listed asdescribing good designers. 1) Ability to tolerate ambiguity 2) Ability to apply systems thinking and focus on the big picture 3) Ability to handle uncertainty 4) Ability to make decisions 5) Ability to think as part of a team 6) Ability to communicate in diverse ways Currently, the design process is taught in most engineering curriculum through a first yearor cornerstone course3 and in the capstone course. The process or structure of engineering design,although lacking in a uniform application across all disciplines or even within disciplines, ofteninvolves elements such as determining the clients

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Design Across Curriculum 1

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Nicole Danielle Trenchard, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Christopher Lombardo, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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Design in Engineering Education

that the head instructor and TAsare able to work effectively and efficiently together to respond to the frequent changes that resultfrom working with real partner(s), another skill that is rarely tested by traditional engineeringcourses that have pre-written assignments and exams that are comparable from year to year.This course also succeeds in creating a team dynamic that closely simulates the types ofdepartments, lab groups, etc. that students will face when they graduate. The project teams formedin the Humanitarian Design Projects course involves students of various ages, disciplines, skills,and knowledge sets. Soft skills are emphasized by instructional staff, which means that beyondworking together for shared deliverables, more

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Key Educational & Professional Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession - and ASCE - Part 2

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Norb Delatte P.E., Oklahoma State University; Stephen J. Ressler P.E., United States Military Academy; Audra N. Morse P.E., Michigan Technological University; Camilla M. Saviz P.E., University of the Pacific; Brock E. Barry P.E., U.S. Military Academy

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aware that each year a substantial percentage of the shortcomings cited were associated withCriterion 3 [3].”The Criterion 3 Task Force was instructed to survey constituents about the EAC Criterion 3outcomes and the accreditation process. Data collected in this survey focused primarily onproblems that evaluators and programs were experiencing with the existing outcomes—e.g.,difficulties and inconsistencies in assessing the “soft skill” outcomes such as life-long learning.The EAC Criteria Committee reviewed the work of the Criterion 3 Task Force and incorporatedadditional constituent feedback into the development of draft revisions to Criterion 3. In doingso, the committee determined that revisions to Criterion 5 (Curriculum) would also be

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Engineering Leadership Skills Development Across the Undergraduate-to-Workforce Transition

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Andrea Chan, Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead); Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Emily Moore P.Eng., University of Toronto; Milan Maljkovic, Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering; Emily Macdonald-Roach

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Engineering Leadership Development

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AEE Journal

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A.Ravishankar Rao

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6

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Cristiano Cordeiro Cruz, Aeronautics Technological Institute

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rate of their students (of some 50% countrywide);developing the students’ soft skills; tightening the relationship with industry; forming engineersthat could better fit the demands of their future employers (in industry) or of innovation andentrepreneurship.Formative initiatives aimed at forming grassroots engineersSo far, we have briefly: presented grassroots engineering (GE) and its theoretical legitimacy;derived from some Freire’s works the four complementary skills an educator/grassroots engineermust possess in addition to the conventional mainstream (or “technical”) ones; sketched someaspects of the Brazilian regulation of both higher education in general and engineering educationin particular that either make it possible or limit this

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1 - Skill and Competency Development through the Co-op Experience

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Haaniyah Ali, York University; Jeffrey Harris, York University

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