Conference Session

Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sherif Elmeligy Abdelhamid, Virginia Tech; Chris J. Kuhlman, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute; Madhav V. Marathe, Virginia Tech; S. S. Ravi, University at Albany - SUNY; Kenneth Reid, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #16861Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Depression and Its Impact on Stu-dent Success and Academic RetentionSherif Elmeligy Abdelhamid, Virginia Tech Sherif is a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is a graduate research assistant at Network Dynamics and Simulations Science Laboratory. Sherif’s research work lies at the intersection of computation, biology and education: in particular, he is interested in designing and building software systems to enable domain experts to easily access and effectively use high performance computing to

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking I: Classroom Experiences, Identity, and Theory

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jonathan Seth Krones, Boston College; Jenna A. Tonn, Boston College; Russell C. Powell, Boston College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineering program; Jenna Tonn earned herPhD in an interdisciplinary history of science program; and Russell Powell is a theologian andenvironmental ethicist. We acknowledge that our positionalities as individuals and as a group ofCore Fellows affects the way we have conceptualized and delivered this class, as articulated bySecules et al. [15].The learning objectives of Complex Problems courses, stated in The Vision Animating the BostonCollege Core Curriculum [16], provided the scaffolding for a curriculum that would satisfy theambitions of the Renewed Core. These general learning objectives, such as “to understand themajor ideas and methods of inquiry of the scholarly disciplines that comprise the university andbe able to use those methods of

Conference Session

Difference, Disability, and (De)Politicization: The Invisible Axes of Diversity

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie L Taylor, University of Utah

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Humanities. These graduate students provide communicationinstruction in the classroom, consult with students on their writing and speaking, and work withengineering faculty on assignment (re)design.I worked with the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department. ElectricalEngineering can be characterized as a hyper-masculine discipline, consisting of mostly malestudent and faculty bodies.5 The ECE department at this university currently contains less than10% female faculty members (three out of thirty-four) and similarly, less than 10% of thestudents are female, thus, making this context a exaggerated contradiction of masculine andfeminine cultures for study. Over this specific year, I was the oral communication instructor forECE students; my

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Lachney, Michigan State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

using the ethnographic methods of participantobservation and semi-structured interviews. Field notes, pictures, and audio recordings werecollected from classroom observations. This multimedia data collection helped to fill in mynotes, as I was often asked by teachers and students to help work through some of the pedagogicand technical aspects of implementing Mindstorms. After observing implementation in theclassroom, 30min-70min semi-structured interviews were conducted with each teacher. Thesethree interviews were audio recorded and transcribed for analysis.Field notes, interview transcripts, and pictures were uploaded to the computer assisted qualitativedata analysis software, NVivo. Interview transcripts were then analyzed using a

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Alley, The Pennsylvania State University; Lori B. Miraldi, The Pennsylvania State University; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

students use either a scriptor notecards to come up with their words. While such a strategy might be appropriate for aliberal arts student making a political speech, the strategy is not appropriate for an engineeringstudent giving a technical presentation. Put simply, in most of their technical presentations,engineers will not carry credibility by reading scripts or speaking from note cards. As this paper shows, expert speakers in engineering and science typically fashionsentences on the spot, but do so after practice with a planned structure. However, as ourinterviews of engineering students have uncovered, this delivery style is daunting to thosewithout experience in public speaking. Not surprisingly, to simulate this delivery style

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Technical Session Session 12

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Keogh, University of Colorado, Boulder; Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

gap in STEM fields [15][16]. A 2017 U.S.Department of Commerce report indicates in the last decade, women have consistently held lessthan 25% of the STEM jobs in the United States even though they make up almost 50% of theworkforce[17].Many schools and universities are now implementing various activities into their curriculum tohelp students become more comfortable with technical skill-building content, such as materialstesting, computer aided design (CAD), manufacturing processes, and the latest electronics orprogramming platforms. Several of these curricular models try to help build skills throughvisualization, including simulations and field trips to factories to help envision conceptsdiscussed in lecture [18][ 19].A more common way to

Conference Session

Linking Engineering and Liberal Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gayle E. Ermer, Calvin College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

article from Mechanical Engineering magazine personalizes thischallenge: “Engineers don’t have the luxury of ignorance. We who design these complexsystems have to understand how the various components of a system fit together and anticipatehow the interactions between these components could lead to failure.”i Page 25.1279.2The recent failure of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is a good exampleof this phenomenon.ii The need to find more sources of oil has led to the prospect of drilling atever greater ocean depths. This exposes oil rigs to harsher conditions in more isolatedenvironments than previous rigs. It also exposes a

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John A. Nestor, Lafayette College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

begin the exercise with a lecture that introduces Arduinos and the imperative, step-by-step nature of programming using the control of different LEDs in the strip as an example. Theythen apply a delay function and simple programming constructs such as if statements, loops, andvariables to create interesting animated light displays. After completing the exercise, studentscomplete a writing assignment in which they reflect on their experience.Including this exercise in the course section involving early computers provides students with avisceral feel for the scale of technological improvement by comparing the massive size and costof early vacuum tube computers with a small, inexpensive Arduino board, which for all itssimplicity offers vastly more

Conference Session

Research on Diversification & Inclusion

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Lachney, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

are also part of the mix within projects, so majors in computer science, mechanicalengineering, communications, and business can collaborate on the same design teams. PDIadopts the inclusive “engineering for all” mentality as with K-12 engineering initiatives, yetinstead of classifying everyone as an engineer, students learn that diverse domains of expertisecan contribute to engineering design problem solving.This type of higher education engineering is a much milder contrast to what students experiencein K-12 engineering initiatives. In fact, many students and families that visit PDI recruitingactivities have remarked: “This is what I thought engineering was like.” Yet, PDI courses are notmeant to displace or supplant the fundamentals-first

Conference Session

Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan McGrade, Indiana Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

c) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems d) an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice. e) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs f) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams g) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility h) an ability to communicate effectively i) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context j) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning k) a knowledge of contemporary