Collection

2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

Akila Ravichandran; Kiran Katira; Tariq Khraishi

with civic bodies orpublic organizations which is a new soft skill set for the students involved. Nagel et al. (2019)discuss in their paper design courses at James Madison University intended to help the localcommunity through student engagement in projects benefiting the locals. The paper is particularlyfocused on second-year course for the design, development, and delivery of human-poweredvehicles for individuals with disabilities. The course incorporates experiential, problem-basedlearning and active learning pedagogies to teach sophomore engineering students engineeringdesign fundamentals. Lu et al. (2018) presented a paper involving their land-grant university anda created course encompassing three majors (distribution logistics

Collection

2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

Nathan K. Mitchell; Aburi Anil Kumar

underdeveloped and causing problems for women and people ofcolor in the “real” world. A better question might be asked of our students if we should havedeveloped this technology at all?The What Else and Why? GTR challenges students to ask questions related to appropriatecommunication. As applied to engineering education, faculty members might ask students to thinkabout the best way to communicate a finding to different cultural audiences, stakeholders withdiverse backgrounds, or clients with differing abilities. Students need to “slow down” theircommunication to be deliberate with their word choice and phrasing the make the most effectiveimpact.7 It is important to develop and practice these critical “soft skills” in a classroom setting, sothey can