Conference Session

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2018 Best PIC and Zone Paper Presentations

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors

occasionally derogatory fashion” [28, p. 41]. In its Body ofKnowledge, the National Society of Professional Engineers organizes 30 capabilities intobasic or foundation, technical, and professional practice [29]. However, this distinctionremains as a challenge for some of the interview participants who were confronted with theimplication that ethical responsibilities and societal impacts were “soft”. An intervieweewho teaches a course in which students are involved with a design project for a developingcommunity explained, I automatically react to anyone referring to recognizing the relationship between engineering and human kind as a soft skill because to me that’s the most technical skill, to be able to know what’s right to do when.Another