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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

Kyle Frederick Larsen P.E., Eastern Washington University; Nm A Hossain, Eastern Washington University; Hani Serhal Saad, Eastern Washington University; Abolfazl Amin, Utah Valley University; Heechang Bae, Eastern Washington University

Paper ID #242992018 ASEE Zone IV Conference: Boulder, Colorado Mar 25Optimizing the Curriculum in an Engineering Statistics Course with Realis-tic Problems to Enhance LearningDr. Kyle Frederick Larsen P.E., Eastern Washington University Dr. Larsen currently teaches mechanical engineering at Eastern Washington University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from California State University Sacramento and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University.Dr. NM A HOSSAIN, Eastern Washington University Dr. Hossain is Professor in the Department of Engineering and Design at Eastern

Conference Session

It's All About the Student: Integration, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Self-Efficacy

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd M. Brown P.E., University of Hartford; David Pines, University of Hartford; Don Quinn

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Fundamental Outcome of Critical Thinking & Problem Solving and theTechnical Outcome of Design. The assignments used in junior and senior level courses focusboth on the technical (e.g. size and slope of pipe) and constructability/maintainability (e.g.proximity to other utilities and access for maintenance) aspects of design that engineers face inpractice.The Department leveraged a faculty development grant to pay professors to learn the softwareand to build it into the curriculum for their classes. The Department also partnered with EaglePoint Software to make their on-line training platform available to every civil engineeringstudent and faculty member to provide on-demand assistance with Civil3D and AutoCadcommands and work flows.In its second

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronny Veljanovski, Victoria University; Alex Stojcevski, Victoria University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

AC 2007-1416: ONLINE ROLE PLAYING IN A NEW PROBLEM BASEDLEARNING CURRICULUM IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGRonny Veljanovski, Victoria University Ronny Veljanovski received his Bachelor of Science in 2000 from Victoria University, Melbourne Australia. After completing his Bachelors, Ronny completed his PhD in electrical engineering (also at Victoria University). His thesis involved the design and implementation of low power reconfigurable architectures for wireless communications. His research was financially sponsored from Ericsson in Sweden and supported through the Heterogeneous Signal Processing Group which is a collaboration of universities and industries in Europe. Ronny has also recently

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Peter Vogt, University of Utah; Stacy Bamberg, University of Utah; Debra J. Mascaro, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

AC 2012-5593: A MANUFACTURING CURRICULUM USING A STUDENT-DRIVEN PEDAGOGY OF INTEGRATED, REINFORCED, ACTIVE LEARN-ING (SPIRAL) APPROACHMr. Andrew Peter Vogt, University of Utah Andrew Peter Vogt is a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering at the University of Utah. He received his B.S. from the University of Idaho in mechanical engineering. In addition to his Ph.D. research in human related slip studies, he has taught statics and mechanics of materials for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is working on a University Teaching Assistantship for developing the SPIRAL Manufac- turing Curriculum, and teaches skiing at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort. Vogt is aspiring to be an educator and is highly interested in

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Harms; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) at Iowa State Universityadministers two separate curricula, the Agricultural Engineering (AE) curriculum in the Collegeof Engineering, and the Agricultural Systems Technology (AST) curriculum in the College ofAgriculture. The learning community was designed to enhance our students’ academic and sociallives, in addition to providing an opportunity for students from our two majors to have at leastone class together (first-year composition). Comprehensive objectives, as well as specific ABELC objectives, have been designed to help guide our program development and on-goingassessment.ABE Learning Community ObjectivesWe established the following comprehensive objectives for the ABE LC initiative

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrence Kelly; Aaron Cowin

Session 15470 Modernization of an Aircraft Maintenance Curriculum: Measuring up to the TAC of ABET Aaron R. Cowin, Terrence K. Kelly Parks College of Engineering and Aviation Saint Louis UniversityAbstractThe Department of Aerospace Technology at Parks College of Engineering and Aviation, SaintLouis University has offered a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aeronautics with a concentration inAircraft Maintenance Engineering since 1949.1,2 The degree was developed in an era when aircraftmanufacturing was in its infancy and

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Alice Agogino; Ann McKenna

Session 1280 Integrating Design, Analysis, and Problem Solving in an Introduction to Engineering Curriculum for High School Students Ann McKenna and Alice Agogino Graduate Group in Engineering, Science and Mathematics Education/ Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, CA 94720AbstractThe current paper describes an Introduction to Engineering class that was taught to a group ofhigh school students in the summer of 1997. The class was offered through an outreach programat the University of California at Berkeley called the Academic Talent Development Program(ATDP

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ekundayo Shittu, George Washington University; Dor Hirsh Bar Gai, George Washington University ; Saniya Leblanc, George Washington University; Erica Cusi Wortham, George Washington University; Annamaria Konya Tannon, George Washington University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Improve Student Engagement and Enhance the Curriculum of Engineering EducationAbstractIn February of 2019, the authors convened a workshop to explore ways to improve student engagement inengineering education. The two-day workshop assembled an uncommon range of stakeholders includingprofessional engineers, engineering faculty, psychologists, anthropologists, pedagogy and educationalscientists, students, curriculum developers, entrepreneurial evangelists, members of the diplomaticcommunity and representatives of industry. Collectively we sought to share existing approaches toimproving student engagement in order to discern what works and what does not. Uncovering strategies toimprove student engagement has meant

Conference Session

ELOS Best Paper Nominations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Loren Limberis, East Carolina University; Jason Yao, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. Our graduates demonstrate the engineering andscientific knowledge to analyze, design, improve and evaluate integrated technology-basedsystems.”2 To help support the objectives of the general engineering program, a common core ofcourses that develops the fundamental engineering skills was developed and implemented. Thiscore curriculum is used as the foundation for four concentrations that build specializedknowledge in growth areas within the region: industrial and systems engineering, bioprocessengineering, biomedical engineering, and mechanical engineering.Within the core curriculum, we have developed and implemented a two course series ofelectrical engineering based courses. The first course is a general circuit analysis course takenfirst

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jade Mitchell-Blackwood, Drexel University; Manuel Figueroa, Drexel University; Chatchai Kokar, Drexel University; Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University; Eli Fromm, Drexel University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

,Inc.Some K-12 programs focus on mutual concepts that appear in both engineering and the physicalsciences (engineering science) rather than design and problem solving (engineering design). It isno coincidence then that middle school students do not know what engineers are or what they doin practice. Hence, they do not choose engineering as a possible career choice. While the formerhas its merits with regard to enriching math and science education for students, the later isnecessary for a true understanding of engineering as a profession. Here we examine changes instudents‘ attitudes toward math and science, as well as their development of ideas aboutengineering after receiving instruction using both approaches - a science curriculum withintegrated

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2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Janie M Moore, Texas A&M University; Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

program Jacques C. Richard Richard@TAMU.edu College of Engineering and Janie M. Moore Janie.Moore@ag.TAMU.edu Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering Texas A&M University AbstractTo improve pathways in math and physics for first year engineering students, a large SouthwesternUniversity redesigned their curriculum. Before the new curriculum was implemented, a pilot coursewas developed to evaluate

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2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Austin Hayes; Vani Sundaram; Graham Williams; Shreya Venkatesh; Claire Isenhart; Antonio Yervez; Celesse Myles; Vera Sebulsky; Kaushik Jayaram; Marina Vance; Gregory Whiting

the United States 3 . Case studieson teacher adoption of PBL are favorable with an educator’s belief that “STEM integration willgive students a variety of 21st century skills they can develop 4 .”Field trips can be a vital tool for cementing classroom learning. In language comprehension,immersion in the culture fosters heightened lingual learning 5 . In engineering education, field tripsoffer the opportunity for students to connect abstract math and science concepts to real worldapplications. Unfortunately, in the educational curriculum, field trips are typically consideredone-off learning experiences 6 . While this model still results in exposure to new experiences, fieldtrip experiences that complement the classroom curriculum can result in

Conference Session

Design Across the Curriculum 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado Denver; Susan Garver Stirrup, University of Colorado Denver

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Engineering, Design, and Computing at the University of Colorado Denver. Her primary focus is developing and delivering the Chemistry For Engineers course, tailoring the chemistry content for engineering majors. Susan earned her MS in Chemistry from The University of Michigan. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Design Across the Curriculum: Reinforcing the Design Process in aChemistry-for-Engineers CourseAbstractAt the University of Colorado Denver, the engineering college has had a long-standing first-yearcourse covering general chemistry from an engineering perspective, taught by the College ofEngineering since 2017. In the past three years, this course has

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Unique Projects & Pedagogies

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ashish D. Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ludvik Alkhoury, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Nicole Bosca

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #29084WIP - Integration of Voice Technology into First-Year EngineeringCurriculumDr. Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. Jaskirat Sodhi is interested in first-year engineering curriculum design and recruitment, retention and success of engineering students. He is the coordinator of ENGR101, an application-oriented course for engineering students placed in pre-calculus courses. He has also developed and co-teaches the Fundamen- tals of Engineering Design course that includes a wide spectra of activities to teach general engineering students the basics of engineering design using a hands-on

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 13

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry Courtney Powell, University of Virginia; Ronald D. Williams P.E., University of Virginia; Todd DeLong, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

with increased depth of presentation at each iteration.3 Inessence, this approach balances cognitive loads on task learning by incrementally teachingconcepts.4 Furthermore, we view this approach as a mechanism for creating successful studentsthat may come from a diverse range of backgrounds and interests; students may excel at oneparticular subarea of the curriculum and yet develop a basic level of understanding in areas atwhich they are less comfortable.5Our curriculum reorganization began in 2014 and was phased in for each successive cohort ofstudents over the succeeding two years; the logistics, scheduling, and approach of thisreorganization have been described previously.6 We were able to build upon experiences gainedin our earlier course

Conference Session

Integrating Math, Science, and Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eduardo Chappa, Texas A&M International University; Terutake Abe, Texas A&M International University; Fethi Belkhouche, Texas A&M International University; Rohitha Goonatilake, Texas A&M International University; Qingwen Ni, Texas A&M International University; Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M International University

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Mathematics

A&M-Corpus Christi, Northwestern State University, and Franklin University. Dr. Bachnak is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, a senior member of IEEE and ISA, and a member of ASEE. Page 14.773.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Integration of Assessment and Curriculum in Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Science ProgramsAbstractThe development of the curriculum of a program normally includes academic considerations thatpromote knowledge acquisition of the student. In this paper the authors discuss how theEngineering, Mathematics and Physical

Conference Session

Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yvonne Ng, College of St. Catherine; Lori Maxfield, College of St. Catherine

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

) associated with the Connecticut State Department of Education’s Javits Grant. In this capacity, she worked with other writers to identify and to develop curricular units using the Parallel Curriculum Model. Page 11.1316.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 The Parallel Curriculum Model: Understanding Engineering Education Innovations to Optimize Student Learning Past ASEE conferences have presented great ideas for teaching engineering. However, all these innovations lack a way to see how they affect the overall education of

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design, Part 1 of 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Hahler, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal S. Corbett, Cyber Innovation Center

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AMES evolved from a variety of reasons. Initial discussion andresearch led the developers to believe that a need for high school students to be fluent in specificmathematic concepts directly connected to engineering and science existed. Beyond the desire toimprove student’s grasp of the material, the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS)necessitated a curriculum that assisted teachers in executing these standards, primarilymathematical ones but also touching on language arts.The curriculum itself contains four major threads: Coordinate Systems; Vectors and Matrices;Fundamentals of Mathematics; and Conic Sections. Within each thread, a variety of units areincluded. For each unit, the outline is as follows: introductory activity/background

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mukasa E. Ssemakula, Wayne State University; Gene Yeau-Jian Liao, Wayne State University; Shlomo S. Sawilowsky, Wayne State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

funding agencies have investedextensively in projects promoting various forms of experiential learning. Noteworthy amongthese was an NSF grant to the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership, whichdeveloped an integrated practice-based engineering curriculum called the Learning Factory (LF).The LF balances analytical and theoretical knowledge with physical facilities for productrealization in an industrial-like setting. It stresses hands-on engineering activities and industrycollaboration, and offers students an alternative path to a degree that directly prepares them forcareers in manufacturing4-5. A drawback of the LF model however is its high implementationcost, which limits its transferability.2. Development of the MILL Model

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Kander

limitations suggest a long-term targetgraduation rate of approximately 150 per year (on average) from the BS program with anadditional 20 graduates per year (on average) from the MS program. These numbers represent abalance between graduating enough students to penetrate the market and increase recognition ofthe program, and keeping the job and graduate school placement rates acceptably high.The Faculty: The most precious resource in developing and sustaining a unique, interdisciplinaryprogram like ISAT is the faculty. There are more than 40 faculty in the ISAT department, mostwith some practical experience in industry, government, or other agencies. The breadth ofexperience brought together to design and implement this curriculum is best

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Henry Hoe, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

6ConclusionsWith the continued advances in FPGA technology, more designers will be taking advantage ofthe flexibility and performance advantages obtained with designs that use soft processor cores.Indeed, as the number of logic gates and memory resources increase on state-of-the-art FPGAs,the ability to integrate multiple processor cores on an FPGA will grow accordingly. This remainsan active area of research and development. This paper has described the introduction of softprocessor cores into the Computer Engineering curriculum at our institution in keeping with animportant trend in electronic and computer systems design. Initial results from the introductionof soft processor cores into our laboratories is encouraging. In upcoming classes, we intend

Conference Session

Sustainable Construction Practice

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Soller, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Daphene Koch, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

atthe same time they are working on complex solutions.This paper describes the approach taken to develop and deliver a lecture series that is providedby industry professionals and coordinated with the institution curriculum. The lecture seriesaddresses current topics within the construction industry while integrating five leadershipcharacteristic from noted leadership authors Kouzes and Posner 4. As part of the value for theinstitution, the accreditation, and institutional goals are identified to document the benefit of theseries and coordination with the mission of the institution.Significance of CollaborationInstitutions of higher learning are tasked with educating students so that they can enter theworkforce with the knowledge necessary to

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

survey of 16 EDG members regarding the types of activities that need to beresearched relative to the engineering design graphics curriculum. He reported that the mostimportant topics were considered to be developing 3D visualization skills, parametric modeling,3D solid modeling, manual sketching, and a new generation of teaching materials. Itemsconsidered of least importance were lettering, manual construction using instruments, virtualreality, descriptive geometry, and computational geometry. In a review of 3D modeling programs,Ault 5 concluded that there must be an increased emphasis on solid modeling, parametrics andmodern graphical analysis within the engineering graphics curriculum. She also recommended thatnew teaching methods be

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Tang, Rowan University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; S. Keith Hargrove, Tennessee State University; John P. Henry

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

various VR gamemodules, their contributions to student learning, and how the games and tools together fitseamlessly within the pre-engineering curriculum, particularly the Project-Lead-The-Wayprogramming.INTRODUCTIONA number of recent reports make it clear that the United States is losing ground on key indicatorsof innovation and progress because of its poor performance in teaching math and science. Pre-college education, in particular, is lagging well behind its mandate to educate all children tohigher standards especially in areas that prepare students for science, technology, engineering,and mathematics [1]. Therefore, developing educational practices and settings in our K-12classroom becomes extremely important; especially the ones that

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Projects and Applications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Economical Method for Keeping this Important Curriculum CurrentIntroductionThe importance of a programmable logic controller (PLC) component in EngineeringTechnology curriculums is essential. The cost associated with developing or upgradingthis area can range from modest to the extremely expensive. This manuscript willprovide individuals with a strategic approach to creating a very workable PLC lab on aless than generous budget. An actual PLC module will be available for demonstrationand inspection.A review of literature reveals that “PLCs represent one of the fasted growing segments ofthe industrial electronics industry and have proven to be the solution for a variety ofmanufacturing applications which previously relied on

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Terry

Session 2613 A Senior Exam to Assess the Learning of Core Competencies in a Chemical Engineering Curriculum R.E. Terry, W.V. Wilding, and J.N. Harb Department of Chemical Engineering Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602AbstractThe Chemical Engineering Department faculty at Brigham Young University haveidentified a set of core competencies that we feel provide the foundation for problemsolving in chemical engineering. To assist in our assessment of student learning of thesecore competencies we have developed a Core

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2024 ASEE North East Section

Authors

Tolga Kaya, Sacred Heart University; Kevin N. Bowlyn, Sacred Heart University

, 2024Building an Innovative Engineering Curriculum from the Ground Up: Lessons and SuccessStoriesTolga Kaya, Kevin Bowlyn, Cedric BleimlingSchool of Computer Science and EngineeringSacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, USAAbstract:It is challenging to build brand new Engineering programs at a liberal arts college. This workoutlines the 5-year development process of Electrical and Computer Engineering programs.While challenged with limited number of major classes besides liberal arts courses,engineering courses were developed by embedding lab components for each one. Thesequence and course content structure were discussed throughout the paper with projectexamples. Creative ways of a large makerspace utilization for projects and teaching

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norb Delatte P.E., Cleveland State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

across multiple universities, as well as different types ofprograms and courses. The results for the professional (non-technical) component of the Page 24.1049.6engineering curriculum have been particularly encouraging.The student focus group results indicate students enjoyed the case studies and believed that theycontributed to learning the course material. The case studies stimulated their interest. Perhapsmore importantly, the focus group results show important impacts in terms of students’ attitudesabout their profession and about their responsibilities as engineers.The web materials and other resources developed over the course of the

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

nation in a technologically changing environment using mechanical engineering principles and practices. 3. Internalize the design process and develop creativity in problem solving. 4. Demonstrate the necessary leadership and teamwork skills to work in multidisciplinary team environments. 5. …prepare graduates for advanced study in mechanical engineering…and success at top mechanical engineering graduate programs. ABET focuses on output criteria while institutions determine the method of instruction tosupport their programs. Integrating the curriculum such that more opportunities for project-basedlearning exist strengthens any program seeking ABET accreditation.Project

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Carrell, Texas Tech University; Joshua M. Cruz; Andrew Mark Herbert; Iris V. Rivero; Emily Lazarus; Erika Nuñez, Texas Tech University; Nafisha Tabassum; Xueni Fan, Texas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

academic writing.Dr. Andrew Mark HerbertIris V. RiveroEmily Lazarus ˜ Texas Tech UniversityErika Nunez,Nafisha TabassumXueni Fan, Texas Tech University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Efficacy of Humanities-Driven Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Curriculum on Integrating Empathy into Technology DesignKeywords: Discourse Analysis, Interdisciplinary, Team Teaching, Post-secondary EducationThere have recently been calls to consider the development of student empathy withinengineering coursework. We argue that this goal may be reached by infusing more traditionalengineering coursework with humanities. Our Humanities-Driven Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics