Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Reddy, Colorado School of Mines; Leslie Light, Colorado School of Mines

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

instructors to talk about their students, focusing their attentionparticularly on challenges in short (10-20 minutes long) semi-structured and open endedinterviews. In these interviews, faculty responded to prompts such as “what parts of workingwith stakeholders do you think your students struggle with?” by describing their ways ofthinking about students and teaching. These responses were diverse, and reflected on their ownlearning experiences, and on the different capabilities of students who came through theirclassroom and their roles supporting students taking on challenges that might be more difficultfor some than for others. Faculty showed commitment to helping students, and did so with theunderstanding that some students experienced more

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Technical Session Session 10

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Cheryl Allendoerfer, Shoreline Community College; Dan Ewert

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

very inspirational in the sense that they’re not at all selectively admitting. But, if you see what their graduates can do-- well, even what their students can do after a year or two, it’s pretty amazing. I mean, it’s just astounding. And so we thought, “Hey, we can do that.”Reflecting on this from the post-forced department merge perspective, that same facultymember noted that the social influence of their new department colleagues limited theprogram’s ability to maintain the fundamental norms necessary for the Alverno approach. But the reason they’re able to do that is their culture is to spend every Friday afternoon looking at classes, looking at what they’re doing, assessing themselves, figuring out how

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University; William M. Jordan P.E., Baylor University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

shown below. 4 Table 1 Current ABET Minimum Standards Review year Semester hours of Semester hours of engineering science science and mathematics 2018-2019 [23] 48 32 2019-2020 [24] 45 30These changes reflects a change in approach. The minimum number of hours was once definedin terms of numbers of years (1.5 years of engineering science and 1.0 years of math/science). Ithas now been changed to just require a certain number of semester hours

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Jacquelene Erickson, Colorado School of Mines; Alyssa Miranda Boll, Colorado School of Mines; Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

additional projectdata in combination with the survey data, ensuring that students understand that their instructorsare not performing the detailed survey analysis will help to mitigate concerns that students mayanswer in the manner that they believe they are expected. The influence of different instructorswithin a specific class is outside of the scope of this paper.The survey alone is not well-suited to assess which specific pedagogical elements were moreinfluential in promoting sociotechnical thinking or shaping engineering habits of mind. Instead,the other data sources generated within the overall project – namely, focus groups, assignmentdata, and faculty reflection logs – are being analyzed to better answer this question. Analyzingthese data

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole Farkas Mogul, University of Maryland, College Park; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park; Timothy Duane Reedy, University of Maryland, College Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

student language reflect or challenge entrenched ideologies in the engineeringcurriculum? Do student’s perceptions of Con/Decon problems help us gain insight into how theyprescribe a proper engineering education? What do students believe to be a complete education?In Cech’s [19] phrasing, what is supplemental and what is fundamental?Our primary study questions are as follows:R1: Given that students are conditioned to work with decontextualized problems, what is theirattitude towards contextualized ones?R2: What strategies are students using to create context?4Research Design and MethodologyIn fall 2018, we adapted the Problem Rewrite Assignment (in an engineering ethics course,ENEE200) in order to better understand how students perceive

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mathew D. Evans, Arizona State University; Michelle Jordan, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

sucheducational opportunities13. Students participating in “science communication activities inauthentic settings, creating written, oral and visual science messages suitable for various non-technical audiences, and engaging in fruitful dialogues with those audiences”13 (p. 288).Reviewing articles that report on public science communication learning, Baram-Tsabari andLewenstein13 found that academic programs attend to goals ranging from “affective issues,content knowledge, methods, reflection, participation, and identity” (p. 285). Ideally, a scienceprogram gives students an opportunity to speak, think, and do as scientists and engineers withreal audiences if they are to make inroads to attain these goals 12. This means students andaudiences negotiate

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alberto Esquinca, San Diego State University; Lidia Herrera-Rocha, University of Texas at El Paso

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

as part the observed PK team exchanges. Oscar’s parentsimmigrated to the US from the Mexican side of the border and Genesis spent her childhoodthere. Alicia, who was open about her daily border crossing experiences, also faced jokes aboutMexico and Alicia’s hometown during teamwork activities. In sum, it seems that team PK’smonoglossic language ideologies and behavior may have reflected a larger trend in perspectivesabout Mexico and Mexicans in circulation in the US at the time (2017-2018).Intersections of Gender and Ethnicity As the findings above show, the choice of language may have signaled to participants aparticular language ideology. However, ideologies about language intersected with ideologiesabout gender in ways that

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gail Baura, Loyola University Chicago; Leanne Kallemeyn, Loyola University Chicago

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

for a medical device to be cleared or approved by the Food and Drug Administration. We believe all patients should receive high-quality medical devices, regardless of their ability to pay. All BME courses are patient-centered, which is atypical of medical device and medical device regulation courses. For example, when the Director teaches eighteen electrical and mechanical medical devices 3 that have saved numerous lives in her Medical Device Systems course, five requirements from applicable engineering standards are discussed for each medical device. As a former Vice President of Research in the medical device industry, she asks students to reflect if each requirement is

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason R. Harron, University of Texas, Austin

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

southernUnited States during the fall of 2018. In order to enroll in the course, participants completed anonline application and were approved by instructors. Active recruitment was done in the Collegeof Communications, College of Fine Arts, and School of Engineering in an effort of creating acohort that reflected a diverse set of design disciplines. Participants included 7 Theatre andDance (T&D) majors, 7 Engineering majors (4 mechanical and 3 electrical), 4 Arts,Entertainment, and Technology (AET) majors, 3 Radio, Television, and Film (RTF) majors, 1Studio Art major, and 1 double major in French and Design Arts & Media (see table 1). 12females and 11 males were enrolled in the course. Of the engineers, six were male (3 electrical, 3mechanical

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Ann Cave, Colorado State University; Zinta S. Byrne, Colorado State University; Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

comprehensively what studentswere thinking regarding how they were learning professional skills. Our results showed thatstudents value the ABET outcomes and think professional skills are essential for careerdevelopment but felt the PLI implementation was not an effective way to teach and encouragethose skills.As industry and student needs evolve over time, programs similar to the PLI must remainadaptable and receptive to feedback to ensure the content reflects those changes. Based on theresults from our current study, engineering students believe they should be learning ABETprofessional skills via integration into the core curriculum. As ABET professional skilldevelopment is integrated into the core engineering curriculum, it will be essential

Conference Session

Targeted Harassment in Engineering Education: What It Looks Like, Why Now, and What Is at Stake

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L Pawley, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Erin A. Cech, University of Michigan; Donna M Riley, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

actually do the engineering work, basically costing companies twice as much as it should.In this zero-sum game, any recognition that engineering work is sociotechnical in nature or anywhiff of preparing engineers for the professional expectations of the 21st century workplace istantamount to technical disaster, as if professional skills are some kind of kryptonite erasingtechnical skillsets. Diverse engineers are presumed incapable and pitted against “real engineers.”Yet ABET’s new requirements for diverse teaming reflect the reality that if our students don’tget basic training in power relations across categories like race, gender, class, ability, sexualorientation, gender identity, nationality, immigrant status, and veteran status, they

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Ian Linville, University of Virginia; Angielyn Campo, University of Virginia; Suk Jun Kim, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

communities of practice [3] to understandstudents’ mutual learning. Based on ethnographic observations of pairs of graduate andundergraduate engineers working in four research laboratories, we investigate how students learncrucial research skills from each other. In general, all the students learned professional skills,such as communication and collaboration, while the undergraduates also learned technical skills,such as how to conduct laboratory work. In addition, the graduate students benefitted from self-reflection about their research routines and assumptions thanks to undergraduates’ questions andsuggestions. 1This paper investigates the

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramiro Jordan P.E., University of New Mexico; Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon University; Kamil Agi, SensorComm Technologies Inc.; Donna M. Koechner, eNova Solutions, LLC

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

reflection is going on about how we as educators need to evolve. • Conversion of discussions into action in technical education around the globe will be highly appreciated. • A breakthrough, courageous act for the organizers to introduce and seat this concept; a surprise to see how much momentum and appetite exists for Peace Engineering. The challenge is to open up to co-create it without politics of sector (academe v business; engineering v business schools) or internal politics. Walk the talk of system wellbeing.Conclusions – Lessons from the ConferenceEssentially, Peace Engineering is a movement towards a new ethos for engineering. Foreducation, it means developing students with a worldview based on inclusion

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maggie Swartz, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Jacquelene D. Walter, Colorado School of Mines; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Q. Li, University of New Haven; Judy Randi, University of New Haven; Jenna Pack Sheffield, University of New Haven

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitch Cieminski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society