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Innovation and Reflection

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Kirsten A. Davis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ramon Benitez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #18789Self Authorship and Reflective Practice in an Innovation MinorChris Gewirtz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Chris Gewirtz is PhD student in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. His research interests start with how culture, history and identity influence assumptions made by engineers in their practice, and how to change assumptions to form innovative and socially conscious engineers. He is particularly interested in humanitarian engineering, where American engineering assumptions tend to fall apart or reproduce injustice.Dr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State

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Innovation and Reflection

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph R. Herkert, North Carolina State University; Jennifer Kuzma, North Carolina State University; Patricia Mae Roberts, North Carolina State: School of Public and International Affairs; Erin Banks, North Carolina State University ; Sharon A Stauffer, NC State University Genetic Engineering and Society Center

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of Responsible Innovation across Bio-engineering Communities”,upon which this paper is based on. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Ethics and responsible innovation in biotechnology communities: A pedagogy of engaged scholarshipIntroductionIssues surrounding genetic engineering, biotechnology, and synthetic biology are contentious,especially when applied to food, the environment, and industrial applications for which directhuman consent and medical benefits are not present. How researchers, developers, and policy-makers communicate about and reflect upon their work is of utmost importance to these fields.Increased understanding about how participants within and

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Innovation and Reflection

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Irene B. Mena, University of Pittsburgh; Alexander T. Dale, Engineers for a Sustainable World

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

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Innovation and Reflection

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beth Rieken, Stanford University; Mark Schar, Stanford University; Shauna Shapiro, Santa Clara University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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analytical training at the expense of fostering important skills in creativethinking (e.g., questioning, observation, reflection) that are fundamental to developinginnovative solutions to these engineering challenges. To help address this gap, there is anincreasing number of studies exploring the pathways by which engineering students developinterest and skills in innovation (e.g. Yasuhara, Lande, Chen, Sheppard, & Atman, 2012; Davis& Amelink, 2016; Gilmartin et al., 2017). These studies aim to understand where students aregaining innovation interests and skills and are finding that extracurricular activities play anotable role. Within engineering classrooms, there is a push to increase student exposure todesign and to teach creative

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Innovation and Reflection

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott A. Newbolds P.E., Benedictine College; Patrick F. O'Malley, Benedictine College; Meredith Stoops, Benedictine College

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Paper ID #19626Integration of Critical Reflection Methodologies into Engineering Service-Learning ProjectsDr. Scott A. Newbolds P.E., Benedictine College Dr. Newbolds is an assistant professor in the engineering department at Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas. After graduating from Purdue University in 1995, Dr. Newbolds started his career in construction as a Project Engineer for the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT). He returned to Purdue for graduate school in 1998 and subsequently took a position in the INDOT Research and Development office. While completing his graduate degrees, Dr. Newbolds conducted and

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Improving Presentation Skills Through Summer Research and Ambassador Programs

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Marie-Christine Brunet, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Paper ID #19236Pre-post Assessment in a Speaking Communications Course and the Impor-tance of Reflection in Student Development of Speaking SkillsDr. Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr Amos joined the Bioengineering Department at the University of Illinois in 2009 and is currently a Teaching Associate Professor in Bioengineering and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Educational Psychology. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech and Ph.D. in Chemical En- gineering from University of South Carolina. She completed a Fulbright Program at Ecole Centrale de Lille in France to

Conference Session

Social Justice, Social Responsibility, and Critical Pedagogies

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashley R. Taylor, Virginia Tech ; Cynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech; Bevlee A. Watford, Virginia Tech; Ben David Lutz, Virginia Tech

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life. The goals of product archaeology provide a strong foundation on which to developa classroom and project in which students can think critically both within and about engineering.MethodsWe used qualitative methods to explore how first year students’ perceptions of engineeringchanged during the course of a summer bridge program. When we desire to intimatelyunderstand a complex issue, such as changes in students’ perceptions of engineering, qualitativeapproaches serve as a particularly useful research strategy (Creswell, 2009). In order to betterunderstand the ways in which critical pedagogies can influence students’ perceptions of what itmeans to be an engineer, participants reflected on what it meant to be an engineer and how

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

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Cowan, James Madison University; Elise Barrella P.E., James Madison University; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Robin Anderson, James Madison University

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

Principles of SustainableEngineering for application in civil and environmental engineering (CEE) courses, and wasrecently updated through systematic literature review to reflect a broader set of evaluationcriteria. The rubric’s constructs of sustainable design and their measures are being validated inthree phases consistent with the Benson model of construct validity.This paper will focus on efforts to iteratively validate the new rubric’s content by benchmarkingthe criteria against well-established sustainable development and design frameworks, includingthe UN Sustainable Development Goals, STAUNCH© (Sustainability Tool for Auditing forUniversity Curricula in Higher-Education), and the Envision™ Infrastructure Rating System.These three frameworks

Conference Session

Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rose M. Marra Ph.D., University of Missouri; So Mi Kim, University of Missouri; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Douglas J. Hacker, University of Utah; Shann Bossaller, University of Missouri

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engineers work with great autonomy, graduating engineers must have themetacognitive skills necessary to negotiate the problems they encounter in practice.Recently graduated engineers agree with the importance of problem solving abilities on the job.Passow (2012) found that problem solving was one of the top ABET competencies thatgraduated engineers value. This same study found that life-long learning was ranked in themiddle in terms of perceived importance, but the study also found that life-long learning can bepositively tied to the highest ranked competencies, including problem solving.In Schon’s (1983) work on the “reflective practitioner,” he describes that professionalsconsistently face “messy” problems that require reflecting on one’s actions

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Social Justice, Social Responsibility, and Critical Pedagogies

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech ; Christian Matheis, Virginia Tech

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thinking needs further attention.2The complexity in defining and understanding critical thinking is one of the major challenges forengineering educators and students.25-27 Hicks, Bumbaco, and Douglas argued that exploration ofinterconnection between different philosophical concepts, in particular critical thinking,reflective practice, and adaptive expertise, may help educators to better understand and applyeach concept.28 Yet, some scholars critique the traditional viewpoints on critical thinking. Clarisand Riley identified four major themes that engineers generally have given too little attention, orno attention at all: power/knowledge relationships, transgressive validity, reflection andreflexivity, and praxis and relationality.29In this paper

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Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas Robert Welling, Seattle University; Nathan E. Canney, Seattle University; Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech

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in order to gain insight into the largerand multi-faceted culture in which these experiences take place5. This approach places value onthe subjectivity of the researcher, acknowledging the inherent bi-directional influences betweenthis individual and the culture they are studying. The autoethnography herein focuses on onestudent’s experiences of identity formation and reflection spurred by his involvement in aresearch project about engineers’ imaginaries of “the public.” These experiences are discussedin three journal entries and analyzed with the lens of identity formation described below.Through this research, the student was able to gain a deeper understanding of experiencesfoundational to his personal and professional identities as well

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Diversity and Inclusion

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lorena Colcer, Oregon State University; Christina Smith, Oregon State University; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University

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the global community, and have become more prominent at this culturalmoment. In an effort to address the topics of social justice, equity, and inclusion manyuniversities and groups of faculty and students have focused on ways to educate STEM studentand faculty populations.There is a complex and continually developing body of literature discussing and reflecting onreform efforts both in engineering education and more broadly. This literature can simplisticallybe classified into three general types: (1) calls for action that explain and provide evidenceconcerning the needs for reforms [1], e.g. , [2]; (2) research describing the reform process e.g. ,[3], [4], and; (3) research examining why most reform efforts fail [5], [6].This third type of

Conference Session

Flexible Engineering Curricula

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego

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mechanical,electrical, or industrial engineering degrees. Upon further explanation, the alumni clarified thatwhat they meant by this statement was that they did not use their disciplinary expertise. Theydid, however, emphasize the ways that the abilities they acquired in their engineering education-- namely technical problem solving, critical thinking, communication, and teamwork -- werewhat allowed them to succeed as engineers. To the surprise of our current students, the panelistsall agreed that one of the most useful classes they took was public speaking. Recognizing theneed for a broad curriculum that reflects the diversity of skills engineers require, including thosewithin the liberal arts, we have started a new major in General Engineering. In

Conference Session

Design and Making

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

structures and examine alternative ideologies.In the narrative I sketch of the lesson plan evolution, I draw on the lesson plans, notes takenduring class and pictures of board work, and reflections written after the class. Where students’ideas were similar in pattern across many semesters, I take the liberty of synthesizing them into asingle list. Where ideas changed markedly either due to some idiosyncrasy or in response to achange in the lesson plan, I note that. I start with a section on review of relevant constructsbefore launching into course context and lesson plan evolution.BackgroundIn this paper, I draw on two constructs to organize my narrative. One, responsive teaching,comes from research on teacher education. The second is two related

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Diversity and Inclusion

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mel Chua, Olin College; Tess Edmonds, Olin College

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engineering students. Thesearchitectures are compatible with a wide range of course and informal learning settings. They arefocused on engaging in, observing, and reflecting-in-action on individual and group dynamics,especially in conversations that challenge personal views and comfort zones. After attending toeach architecture in turn, we discuss the collection of architectures as a toolset for facilitating thedevelopment of interpersonal skills in engineering students.IntroductionThe ability to engage with and facilitate conversations on complex topics is a crucial skill forengineering students preparing to thoughtfully encounter a world full of diversity, challengeassumptions, and work across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. This kind of

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Writing and Communication

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Necia Werner, Carnegie Mellon University; Suguru Ishizaki, Carnegie Mellon University

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of a single course. It’s a bit likeinvestigating dark matter; one can hypothesize without seeing it that it exists because of radiationsignals observed when particles collide, but not really understand what it’s composed of or howit holds galaxies in the universe together. Our goal in this project is to provide student writerswith a means to jumpstart their understanding of writing as compositional decision-making byequipping them with the means to quickly, and literally, “see” their composing decisions.To help students notice and reflect on composition decisions in their writing, our team of writingresearchers, educators, and statisticians is piloting use of a suite of computer-aided learning toolsfor corpus-based text analysis in core

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Design and Making

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marisa Exter, Purdue University; Iryna Ashby, Purdue University; Colin M. Gray, Purdue University; Denise McAllister Wilder NCIDQ, Purdue University; Terri S. Krause, Purdue University

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thetwo courses in Spring 2016, including increased integration of readings, reading reflections, anddiscussion in Design Lab, and hands-on projects and introduction of tools that could be used toweigh trade-offs in Seminar. As one student expressed in a focus group, “Well, I got to say, it's alot more design in seminar and a lot more seminar in design.” Although some students indicatedsome sense of ambivalence regarding this change, all students in the other group agreed with onestudent’s explanation: It kind of feels like they've blurred the lines between our design lab and seminar. It's actually kind of nice because it makes it harder to differentiate between the two. I kind of liked the classes have somewhat blurred together

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The Big Picture in Engineering Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M. Riley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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these courses and programs.The EELE Project situates itself within the broader “technological literacy” space, that is,incorporating engineering content into liberal or general education initiatives. Rather than focuson how engineers come to experience a liberal education, the EELE initiative is focused on hownon-engineers do or ought to come to learn about engineering. Our analysis of these efforts,therefore, is focused on how engineering is presented and communicated to non-engineeringstudent communities. These case studies reflect decisions about what non-engineers need toknow about engineering, and how engineering relates to society in contemporary or historicalcontexts, which reveal much about how engineering and liberal education are

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Improving Presentation Skills Through Summer Research and Ambassador Programs

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Necia Werner, Carnegie Mellon University; Joanna Dickert, Carnegie Mellon University; Nisha Shanmugaraj, Carnegie Mellon University ; Kevin G. Monahan, Carnegie Mellon University; Stephanie Wallach, Carnegie Mellon University; Jennifer Keating, Carnegie Mellon University

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-program aggregate response report to Carnegie Mellon University. The response rate forsummer 2015 respondents from Carnegie Mellon University was 70.7%. Responses reflect self-reported learning gains for each construct andwere measured on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from very large gain (5) to no gain or very small gain (1).2.2 Efforts to build a communications program for summer undergraduate researchers throughbroad stakeholder collaborationIn 2010, the American Society for Engineering Education issued two reports on the future ofscholarly and systematic innovation in the discipline. Among their recommendations for success,ASEE urged those engaged in new pedagogies to be sure to gain broad, collaborativeparticipation among stakeholders

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Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University; Diana Mitsova, Florida Atlantic University; Alka Sapat, Florida Atlantic University; David J. Terrell, Florida Atlantic University

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MSAs and their impact on quality of life metrics, to find multiplealternative hypotheses to pursue, and find ways, both engineering and non-engineering, toimprove such metrics. This should help place engineering solutions in the broader scope ofthings and their impact.We hypothesize that, by providing scaffolding with ’executable’ narrative case studies andinteraction with students in other disciplines, we can help mainstream engineering students tostep out of their comfort zones and reflect on broader societal issues. We also hypothesize thatthis would help non-mainstream engineering students to find a new awareness and strength inbecoming engineers.Our approach is derived from two theoretical models with strong emphasis on studentinvolvement

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Assessment and Liberal Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kirsten A. Davis, Virginia Tech; Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Tech; Ramon Benitez, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

research interests include: engineering for social justice, engineering with community, innovation, ethics, transformative learning, reflection, professional identity.Mr. Ramon Benitez, Virginia Tech Ramon Benitez is interested in how engineering identity and animal participatory design can be used to recruit Chicano K-12 students to engineering professions. Benitez completed his BS in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), and is now a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech (VT). Benitez seeks to understand how to best instruct and assess ethical reasoning of engineering practices and engineering responsibilities, including wildlife and humanity, in

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Design and Making

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Summers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Renee D. Rogge, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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asupplement to more important learning. The course design outlined below reflects our bestattempts to use the lens of disability students to show STEM and the liberal arts as organic,essential, and generative partners.Course background and overviewAs an academic field, Disability Studies solidified in the 1990s alongside a social model ofdisability that rejected biological definitions of “normal” bodies and medical perspectives thatidentified disabilities as problems to be fixed. As a result, the study of disability fractured, oftenhighlighting conflicts between academic and professional interests4. At its foundation, the goal ofour Introduction to Disability Studies course is to bridge the chasm between theories andresearch in disability studies and

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Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexandra Vinson, Northwestern University; Pryce Davis, University of Nottingham; Reed Stevens, Northwestern University

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engineer’s identity(Anderson, Courter, McGlamery, Nathans-Kelly & Nicometo, 2010). Problem solving ability isheavily emphasized in engineering education. However, engineering education has beencriticized for emphasizing problems that may reflect students’ ability to work with formulatedand represented problems, but that do not resemble the types of problems students will encounteras professional engineers.However, despite engineering educators’ efforts to align the school and work contexts, scholarshave noted that there is a scarcity of systematic analyses of engineering work (Trevelyan & Till2007, Stevens, Johri & O’Connor 2013). Moreover, Trevelyan (2010) pointed out thatengineering education operates on a model of engineering as

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Social Justice, Social Responsibility, and Critical Pedagogies

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Lachney, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; David Adam Banks, University at Albany - SUNY

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

16If we add the legacies of violence that persist in engineering education and industry, to thepresent-day illusion of neutrality it becomes clear that the disciplines of engineering providelittle opportunity for practitioners to be reflective about their roles in perpetuating violence. Still,reflective research on the intersections of engineering/liberal education andengineering/sustainability appears to be growing.17 18 This research helps to support a vocalminority seeking alternative forms of engineering education that are not rooted in violence. Uponrecognizing the long-standing role of engineers as “hired guns” for the military-industrialcomplex, these educators and researchers use frameworks of peace19 and critical pedagogy20 topropose

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Flexible Engineering Curricula

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leland Giovannelli, University of Colorado, Boulder; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder

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. Itrecommended courses based on their relevance to the practice of global engineering, but itoffered no context within which students had to reflect seriously on global engineering itself.Consequently, students did not connect their coursework to global engineering and to theiridentity as engineers.Besides suffering a lack of focus, the GEC suffered a severe identity crisis, in that students,faculty, and staff repeatedly confused it with the IEC. There was no obvious difference betweenthe terms “International” and “Global.” The contrast was further blurred with the opening of anew Global Engineering Residential Academic Program, since it highlighted the importance ofworld language acquisition by engineers, rather than professional skills for

Conference Session

Design and Making

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexandra Vinson, Northwestern University; Pryce Davis, University of Nottingham; Reed Stevens, Northwestern University

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interviews with some of these earlycareer engineers as they participate in and reflect upon product design, process testing, datapresentation, and workflow planning. Our objective is to show how engineers conceptualize theusers of their products and take them into account during the design process. Our analysisfollows these engineers as they produce documents, drawings and presentations and highlightsthe role of more senior engineers who provide feedback and corrections to help the newengineers understand who the user of the product will be, what the user expects from the product,and how the company would like the user to behave.FindingsWe found that engineers anticipate the user of the products and systems they design and thatlearning about the

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Writing and Communication

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amanda Simson, University of New Haven; Judy Randi Ed.D., University of New Haven; Amanda Lynn Becker, University of New Haven

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writinginstructor present. The techniques were evaluated primarily by student reflection at the end of thesemester. Additionally, student writing assignments were evaluated to determine students’performance on selected writing tasks. Table 1 describes the writing tasks assigned throughoutthe course.Table 1: Assignments given in the Fall 2016 course Laboratory Module Assignments (all technical memos) Temperature Sensing Experiment Individually written Technical Memo (1 week turn around) Individually written revision (1 week turn around) Double Pipe Heat Exchanger Group-written Planning Report (1 week turn around) and

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Writing and Communication

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Sheffield, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Laura K. Alford, University of Michigan; Katie Snyder, University of Michigan

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Design-Build-Test-Communicate ClassIntroductionIn the following paper, we describe our initial experiences in replacing the detailed analyticrubrics used for assessment in our team-taught first-year engineering technical andcommunication course with a holistic rubric. We address the issues we identified with theanalytic rubrics we had been using, the holistic rubric we developed to address these issues, andthe preliminary understandings we’ve developed--through our own reflections and an informalonline survey of our students--of the impact of this change on our teaching and our students’experiences in the course.Rubrics are frequently used to convey assessment criteria to students; their use in post-secondaryeducation has been shown to have

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Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paula Quinn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Laura A. Robinson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John M. Sullivan Jr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John Bergendahl, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Leslie Dodson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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, statics and stress, filtration and chemical precipitation, and soon). These engineering concepts are not abstracted from social, political, and economicconsiderations. Rather, engineering is imbued with social context. The RPG offers studentsopportunities to reflect on economic, geographical, economic, and philosophical issues whilelearning the technical skills they need to make informed decisions to address the needs of arapidly expanding population.Introduction and Statement of the ProblemIn 1945, when the French mathematician Jacques Hadamard sought to uncover the thoughtprocesses of mathematicians, he approached Albert Einstein, who suggested that “combinatoryplay seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.”1 For many years

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Assessment and Liberal Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Mary Roth, Lafayette College

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Bloom’s Taxonomy Krupczak Proposed Remembering Survey Familiarity (knowing Understanding Focus content and context, understanding methods used) Applying Create/Apply Facility (applying, becoming comfortable) Analyzing Critique/Assess Fluency (critiquing, Evaluating Reflect appreciating