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Conference Session
Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development
Collection
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
David Farrow, University of Tennessee-Martin
Tagged Divisions
Instrumentation
• • Rotation and reporting of individual team member roles for each laboratory exercise (i.e. data taker, equipment operator, editor, responsibility for draft section(s) of report, etc.) • Bringing any team conflicts to the instructor’s attention only after failing to resolve such issues as a team • Individual team member accountability addressed by the peer evaluation conducted at the end of the course • Self-governance of teamsBenefits to downstream courses in curriculumFaculty have commented on how much better students write in various courses and labs aftercompleting ENGR 317, but equally important is that successful completion of the ENGR 317course benefits students in that they are able to apply the technical
Conference Session
First-year Programs: Cornucopia #1
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Stacie Edington, University of Michigan; Claudia G. Cameratti-Baeza, University of Michigan; Raven Knudsen, Kennesaw State University; Frank J. Marsik, University of Michigan
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First-Year Programs
career paths, reflect on how their personal strengths [8] andinterests align with a particular path and consider what educational experiences would supportthe development of necessary skills required.When the assignment was originally developed in Fall 2018, students submitted a writtenreflection on two career pathways of interest, incorporating strengths, relevant skills and aconsideration of a day in the life of an engineer in this career. While this assignmentincorporated some element of choice in relation to career paths to reflect on, it required no actionbeyond reflective writing and students had limited experience upon which to base their response.Students indicated during focus groups that the reflective writing nature of the assignment
Conference Session
Qualitative Methodologies
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Educational Research and Methods
Paper ID #12048The Power and Politics of STEM Research Design: Saving the ”Small N”Prof. Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Amy E. Slaton is a Professor of History at Drexel University. She write on issues of identity in STEM education and labor, and is the author of Race, Rigor and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line .Prof. Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alice Pawley is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies Program and the Division of
Conference Session
Project-Based Education in Energy Conversion
Collection
2007 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Margaret Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions
Energy Conversion and Conservation
EducationThermodynamics (ME680) during their fourth or fifth years. Like their peer institutions, RIT hasthe desire and requirement to improve curriculum structure, integration, and assessment. ME413 and 680 form a progression in course work into the study of Thermodynamics and,therefore, the courses are carefully integrated. This integration is achieved through a courseassessment process conducted by the faculty leads from both courses.The goal of Thermodynamics is to provide studentswith practical and relevant engineering science Table 1. Summary of Topics Exploredbackground in thermodynamics. The course also in Thermodynamics (ME 413)provides the groundwork for subsequent courses in Topical Areas
Conference Session
ERM Potpourri
Collection
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University; Mehmet Ayar, TUBITAK; Dennie L. Smith, Texas A&M University; Christine Ehlig-Economides, Texas A&M University
Tagged Divisions
Educational Research and Methods
’ experiences with e-bookpublishing was helpful for the group in proceeding with the project. In his interview, Richardadded: …In my experience …the publishing companies…sometimes might have some input, while other faculty did not have exactly the same experience when they were trying…to publish more traditional books…I had some explanation to for this…they tried either to talk to some publishers and the orders of the textbooks…the chapters and things like that…basically at different doors…so in that sense I had delivered more experience than some others had.The professors could easily write the assigned chapters within their content expertise but e-bookpublishing presented unfamiliar technical, economic, and social
Conference Session
System 1 in Engineering Education and Research
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
James L. Huff, Harding University; Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Harding University; Stephen Secules, University of Georgia
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Educational Research and Methods
interview howshe felt that she maintained a good interpersonal relationship with her engineering peers and professors.Additionally, as the epigraph of this paper indicated, Rebecca was a high-performing student and hadachieved several markers of traditional success as an engineering student, including high grades andprestigious internships. Furthermore, at the time of the interview, she had planned to pursue a degree in aprofession outside of engineering following her graduation. However, as will be clear in our findings, herrole as an engineering student was important to understanding her core identity. 1We chose to present Rebecca’s case of shame as a mechanical engineering student because it
Conference Session
Engineering Management Division (EMD) Tech Session 3: Engineering Management — From Classroom to Practice
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mia Baytop Russell, The Johns Hopkins University; Illysa Izenberg, The Johns Hopkins University; Michael Agronin; Aabhas Jain
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Management Division (EMD)
: a. Diagnose team challenges and devise and implement solutions b. Coach your peers, team leader, client, or faculty c. Recognize and respond to conflict productively d. Influence others without authority e. Write collaboratively f. Use a project management technique such as design freeze planning, scheduling tools, customer needs assessment and conversion to product specs, team charters, change order management, etc. 7. In what ways, if any, did the course not support your design teams or projects that you wish it had? 8. Is there anything else that I should have asked or that you would like to share
Conference Session
Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Fethiye Ozis P.E., Northern Arizona University; Meliksah Demir, Northern Arizona University
Tagged Divisions
Environmental Engineering
learn” remains to be one of the biggestchallenges college students face in their first year, especially when we take nation-wide readinglevels into consideration (US Department of Education, NAEP, 2015). In Fall 2015, a “MindDump” pedagogical strategy was implemented to encourage students to read the class material forpre-exposure. The students have 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence in class to write downeverything they can remember from their reading (Whitman, 2015). Mind Dumps are used as cheatsheets during exams. The same procedure with the addition of guided reading questions wereadapted for the Spring 2016 semester. Aggregated survey results from the first two semesters(N1=78, N2=75) showed that about one third of the students Agreed
Conference Session
Bridge Programs Connecting to First-Year Engineering
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Amanda Simson, The Cooper Union; Laura C. Broughton, City University of New York, Bronx Community; Elizabeth J. Biddinger, City College of the City University of New York
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
First-Year Programs, Pre-College Engineering Education
. Additionally,students were exposed to common college practices like office hours, course syllabi, coursereadings, and class discussions. In the 2018 course, specific time was set aside to allow studentsto work on their own (with freedom to work anywhere on campus). These portions of time werespecifically designed to give students choices in how to manage their time.The course, which drew juniors and seniors from various local high schools, did not havespecific prerequisites. Thus, a fundamental challenge of the course was to incorporatedifferentiation into the curriculum delivery to meet the needs of a variety of skill levels. Toaccommodate all students, each section of the course included peer-peer tutoring, office hoursduring lunch, and optional
Collection
2001 Annual Conference
Authors
Peter Golding; Walter Fisher; Stella Quinones
studentsÀ English placement. The three Englishcourses in order from lowest to highest level are Introduction to Writing (D), Basic EnglishComposition (D), or Expository English Composition. Each of the freshman seminar (Seminar inCritical Inquiry) sections and the Introduction to Engineering sections is taught by engineeringfaculty. The Reverse Engineering Lab is taught by engineers from the staff of the TexasManufacturing Assistance Center (TMAC) located on the UTEP campus.Students are clustered each semester until they complete Pre-calculus. Figure 2 illustrates thecluster sequencing for a student entering UTEP with placement in Introductory Algebra and BasicEnglish Composition. An asterisk (*) after a course indicates that it is part of a
Collection
2024 CIEC
Authors
Nathan Luetke; Orlando Ayala
. Traditionally a heat transfercourse is a challenging one due to its heavy mathematical content. As the course is part of atechnology program, the content is concentrated on the use of the major concepts in industrialapplications, therefore problem-solving and project design are central to the teaching approach ofthis class.The course has been taught by two different MET faculty in the last 10 years and the project-based-learning activity has been assigned for the last 6 years. The course syllabus can bedownloaded from https://shorturl.at/efv39. In the syllabus, the importance of writing in theengineering profession is explained, which is an important component of this project-basedlearning activity (it is an important part of its grading).At this
Conference Session
Research and Graduate Studies
Collection
2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
John Andrew Janeski, Virginia Tech; Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech; Chris Venters, Virginia Tech
Tagged Divisions
Graduate Studies
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Creating and Sustaining Productive Research Groups in Engineering Departments: Results from a Faculty and Future Faculty WorkshopAbstractIn July 2011, 45 engineering graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty members andadministrators from 33 universities across the country met to discuss how to foster successfulengineering graduate research groups. This paper summarizes the recommendations andconclusions from this meeting. Analysis of workshop discussions yielded four major themes:clarity of expectations, attending to community, organization for group and peer learning, andstructuring student development towards independence. In
Conference Session
Computers in Education (CoED) Engineering Poster Session
Collection
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Neelam Soundarajan, Ohio State University
Tagged Divisions
Computers in Education
Page 23.1391.2additional work that would be needed to develop materials and activities that would be relevantfor their courses and be approrpriate for the medium; students, despite their reliance, almost to thepoint of addiction, on interactive social media in other walks of life, have been even more resistantto on-line collaboration in their STEM courses, preferring even to having their grades penalizedrather than participating in such collaboration. There have been some reports of successful wiki-usage in engineering courses. But, as we will see later in the paper, the activities involved in thesereports tend to be primarily non-technical, e.g., engineering writing, etc.Peer-instruction 3 (PI) is a classroom technique that helps students
Conference Session
Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 4
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Andrea Gregg, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University
Tagged Divisions
Graduate Studies
Pennsylvania StateUniversity. In its eighth year at the time of this writing, the online MSME program hasexperienced significant growth and over the last five years of the online MSME program hasgone from a total of ~40 students in the program to 130 students. Nearly 50 students havingearned their master’s of science degrees via the online program. This growth is in part due toexplicit theory-driven attention to pedagogy, recruitment, mentoring, and facilitated guidance.Similar to our resident students, our online students have faculty research advisors and conductmasters-level research projects. This research element makes our online MSME program unique.While there is increasingly more written about the modest growth in online engineeringeducation
Conference Session
Reassessing Your Teaching Through Turmoil
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Claudia Mara Dias Wilson, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Janille A. Smith-Colin, Southern Methodist University; Baris Salman, Syracuse University; Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez, Colorado State University
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Civil Engineering
toquestions such as "Who am I ?" at the beginning of the course provides the opportunity for suchpractice. We also recommend that students critique each other's concept maps. The opportunityto offer peer feedback further exposes students to the rules and expectations for conceptmapping. This scaffolding approach is expected to improve the quality of the pre- and post-evaluation of the concept maps during module implementation.Furthermore, reflective writing is a useful tool for having students reflect on their personalexperiences while surprisingly teaching students empathy. The act of looking beyond their ownexperiences to the experiences of various stakeholders appears to have created opportunities forstudents to consider broader social and
Conference Session
Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future
Collection
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Cristina Pomales-Garcia, University of Michigan; Yili Liu, University of Michigan; Virginia Soto, University of Michigan
Tagged Divisions
Educational Research and Methods
) educational technology, (3) the student’s rolein the engineering college, and (4) the professor’s role in the engineering college. Theparticipants were instructed to write 10 words or phrases that come to their mind when they thinkabout each of the questions and rank their answers in the order of importance. Following theindividual questions, ten questions were discussed in a focus group. The results of the studyshowed that when it comes to evaluation of education and teaching methods, students would liketo see more opportunities to give input in the system and be more involved as part of the creationin all levels and steps. Current literature on Excellence in Engineering Education stresses theimportance of skills and knowledge but leaves out two
Conference Session
Entrepreneurship and Design
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University; Tom Merrill, Rowan University; Leigh Weiss, Rowan University
Tagged Divisions
Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
III.The Freshman and Sophomore Engineering Clinics are intended to provide a foundation ofengineering skills needed for Junior/Senior Engineering Clinic. The goals of the SophomoreEngineering Clinic consist of teaching engineering design principles and technicalcommunication (technical writing in the fall, public speaking in the spring). The SophomoreEngineering Clinic is an integrated course, team-taught by Communication and Engineeringfaculty. There are two 75 minute lecture periods and one 160-minute lab period each week.Students work on design problems during lab periods, which are supervised by a team of 5-6engineering faculty representing all four Rowan engineering departments (Chemical, Civil &Environmental, Electrical & Computer
Conference Session
Innovations in First Year Programs
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
James Lewis, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Hieb, University of Louisville; David Wheatley, University of Louisville
Tagged Divisions
First-Year Programs
approaches undertaken since 2008, in Introductionto Engineering, to introduce freshmen engineering students to critical thinking. Also presentedare recent 2009 revisions to the components of the course, such as the reworking of the casestudies in an effort to encourage students to demonstrate critical thinking. Explicit discussionswith the students regarding the reasons for time and effort being spent on case studies and criticalthinking were also added to the course. The number of critical thinking assignments wasincreased, expanded, and further clarified from the previous year and some assignments werealso redesigned to allow for some peer reinforcement during intermediate stages. Statisticalanalysis of a pre and post assessment of critical
Collection
2001 Annual Conference
Authors
Linda Broadbelt; L. Catherine Brinson; Kathleen Issen; Brad Kinsey
? Page 6.800.12 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education g. How difficult is it to move from a research-focused institution to a teaching-focused institution? What about the reverse? h. What is “peer instruction” and “collaborative learning?” How have you used these techniques in your class?5. Grant Writing – The Funding Process a. Provide an overview of the grant writing, application, review and selection process to obtain funding. b. Is it better to choose a research area and then find funding, or find out the “hot” areas are for a particular funding agency and tailor
Conference Session
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Case Studies in Construction Education
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Long Duy Nguyen P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University; Zofia Kristina Rybkowski, Texas A&M University; Anh D. Chau P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University; Daniel Linares, Florida Gulf Coast University
Tagged Divisions
Construction Engineering Division (CONST)
ethics to mobile technology. A multitude of “how to write a teachingcase study” guidelines are available, including in construction education. However, literature thatprovides insights into developing a specific case study in construction engineering andmanagement is scarce. To fill this knowledge gap, this paper presents the dynamics ofdeveloping an educational case study to explore the implementation of target value design(TVD). This case study was developed for engineering and construction management students toformulate, discuss, and decide on strategies, actions, and solutions to provide the best value tothe project owner when implementing TVD. This work-in-progress paper focuses on the pilottest when developing the case study. Pre-class
Conference Session
First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 9: Student Growth & Professionalization
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Lawrence R. Chen, McGill University
Tagged Divisions
First-Year Programs Division (FYP)
engineering-related scenarios, situations, or dilemmas. The students areassessed based on the following: (1) individual or team responses to the engineering-relatedscenarios, situations, or dilemmas discussed in teams in class; (2) a reflective paper on theengineering profession, (3) a peer-reviewed paper on addressing a professional dilemma inengineering, and (4) two team-based assignments—an infographic and a video. Students areassigned to teams randomly by the instructor at the start of the semester (a maximum of 6students per team) and work in the same team throughout the semester, i.e., for the in-classdiscussions and the two team-based assignments.To facilitate team building, students participate in a number of ice-breaking activities. Teams
Collection
2024 CIEC
Authors
Jiayue Shen; Daniel Jones; Kazi Imran; Xiang Wang; Weiru Chen; Lanju Mee
technical and non- technical environments and identify and employ relevant technical literature as needed. • Conduct standard tests, measurements, and experiments, and analyze and interpret the results to improve processes. • Demonstrate the ability to function as an effective member and leader of technical teams.In addition to theoretical lessons on mechatronics, this course incorporates IoT technologies toprovide students with practical, hands-on experience. The laboratory activities encompass • Provide students with training on Arduino IDE. • Review the laboratory manual and watch related tutorials. • Conduct the experiments. • Gather data and compare results. • Collaborate with team members to write
Conference Session
Embedded System Design
Collection
2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Zaydoun Rawashdeh, Wayne State University; Syed Masud Mahmud, Wayne State University
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer
. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. During the last 20 years, he has been working in the areas of hierarchical multiprocessors, hierarchical networks, performance analysis of computer systems, digital signal processing, embedded systems, in-vehicle networking, performance analysis of networking protocols, secure wireless communications, and privacy protected vehicle-to-vehicle communications and simulation techniques. He has supervised a number of projects from Ford Motor Company and other local industries. He also served as a Co-PI on two NSF funded projects. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference proceeding papers. He
Conference Session
Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Maya Place; Markus Flury; Jennifer Shaltanis; Geoff Puzon; Brent M. Peyton; James Petersen; Candis Claiborn
, activelearning is emphasized, rather than relying on conventional lecture format. These coursesachieve several objectives: 1) they introduce students to approaches to scientific problems thatthey may not have encountered in their own discipline; 2) they leave students with an awarenessof how a multidisciplinary viewpoint can improve research; 3) they sharpen students’ criticalthinking skills; and 4) they expand the students’ resource bases by exposing the trainees to anetwork of “experts” outside their own disciplines. As the students participate in these activities,they develop relationships with their peers from other disciplines, view alternative approaches toenvironmental problems, and develop collaborations with researchers from other areas.2
Conference Session
The Best of First-year Programs Division
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Frank J. Marsik, University of Michigan; Claudia G. Cameratti-Baeza, University of Michigan; Elizabeth Mann Levesque, University of Michigan; Stacie Edington, University of Michigan
Tagged Divisions
First-Year Programs
-authorship, decision-making, and thedevelopment of a Personal Action Plan.The synchronous weekly discussion sections, led by near-peer mentors, provide structuredopportunities for students to explore their interests, values, and goals while building acommunity of peers who are partaking in the same type of exploration. Within this supportiveenvironment, students choose from a wide variety of asynchronous modules to explore the fieldof engineering. Students first complete a series of mandatory Foundation Modules that introducestudents to core course themes. Students then proceed to the Exploration Modules andEngagement Modules. Importantly, students choose which Exploration and EngagementModules to complete. Through Exploration Modules, students
Conference Session
Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Inez Hua, Purdue University; Loring Nies, Purdue University
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Environmental Engineering
program and unique approaches relative tosimilar programs at peer institutions. We seek a broad systems perspective on addressingenvironmental issues, with a focus on ecological interactions and resilient designs that take intoaccount complexity and connectivity between systems. In the undergraduate curriculum, thisphilosophy drives the early focus on systems thinking and systems understanding and leads tothe inclusion of significant course requirements in ecology, sustainability, and industrial ecology.These course requirements are in addition to those typically found in Environmental Engineeringprograms at peer institutions. A complete list of the program objectives, student outcomes anddetails about the EEE degree requirements are included in
Conference Session
The Best of First Year Programs: Best Paper Session
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado Boulder; Kenneth M. Anderson, University of Colorado Boulder
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
First-Year Programs
had immediate access to many resources (peers, TAs, instructors, spaces) to one wherestudents still had the opportunity to share in the same course resources, but did so to a lesser anddifferent extent than in Y1. In other words, as the larger Y2 course moves more toward aninstitutionalized, standard, more factory-like model, we note the tradeoff in losing some of thebenefits that existed in the smaller implementation of the course as well as some surprising gains.As the size of the Y2 pilot is more realistic for any first-year course at a large public university,we share our lessons learned in the hopes of helping other designers of first-year programsponder the consequences of scaling up any course to fit the standard scale of larger
Conference Session
MECH - Technical Session 15: Engineering Education Research and Reviews
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ibrahim Nihad Awartani, University of Cincinnati; Iman Shayegani, University of Cincinnati; David Allen Evenhouse, University of Cincinnati; So Yoon Yoon, University of Cincinnati
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)
University, IN, USA. She also holds an M.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a B.S. in Astronomy and Meteorology from Kyungpook National University, South Korea. Her work centers on elementary, secondary, and postsecondary engineering education research as a psychometrician, data analyst, and program evaluator with research interests in spatial ability, STEAM education, workplace climate, and research synthesis with a particular focus on meta-analysis. She has developed, validated, revised, and copyrighted several instruments beneficial for STEM education research and practice. Dr. Yoon has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings and served as a journal reviewer in engineering
Conference Session
Personnel Development & Retention
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Devayan D. Bir, Loras College
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Aerospace
Paper ID #33453Migrator Stories in an Aerospace Engineering ProgramDr. Devayan D. Bir, Loras College Prior to teaching at Loras College, Devayan pursued his doctorate in Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University and has worked as a Computer Aided Analyst in India. He earned his B.E. in Aeronautical Engineering, and has been passionate about Aerospace Engineering all his life. Hobbies include playing the guitar, soccer, and photography. Research interests include innovative pedagogies (Active, Flipped, and Online instruction) and applied numerical methods. Devayan has published peer reviewed papers, presented at
Conference Session
The Best of First-year Programs Division
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
George James Lamont, University of Waterloo; Kari D. Weaver, University of Waterloo; Rachel Figueiredo, University of Waterloo; Kate Mercer, University of Waterloo; Andrea Jonahs, University of Waterloo; Heather A. Love, University of Waterloo; Brad Mehlenbacher, University of Waterloo; Carter Neal, University of Waterloo; Katherine Zmetana, University of Waterloo; Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo
Tagged Divisions
First-Year Programs
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #29553 Carter Neal is an Instructor in English at the University of Waterloo, where he teaches communications courses in the sciences and Engineering.Dr. Katherine Zmetana, University of Waterloo Katherine Zmetana teaches Communications in the Engineering Profession at the University of Waterloo. She has taught communications and technical writing in the health and science professions for over 20 years.Dr. Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo Dr. Al-Hammoud is a Faculty lecturer (Graduate Attributes) in the department of civil and environmental