Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie E. Sharp, Vanderbilt University; Christopher J Rowe, Vanderbilt University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

particular majors in their career quest.12An exploration of 14 universities’ online course catalogs in Vanderbilt’s peer and aspirationalgroups indicates that career development courses currently offered at institutions vary almost asmuch as the institutions themselves. The surprisingly small handful of institutions who offersuch courses either offer them through a centralized career center or through the engineeringschool within a college or university. The speculation over the type of institution that may offercourse-based resources for students’ career development is discussion for another paper. Five ofthe 14 universities sampled offer career development courses with variable credit hours from

Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

YunJeong Chang, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #23162Motivational Factors of Undergraduate Engineering Students in Introduc-tory Non-technical CoursesDr. YunJeong Chang, University of Virginia Dr. YunJeong (Eunice) Chang is a Research Scientist at the University of Virginia. She earned her PhD in Learning, Design, and Technology program from the University of Georgia. Her research interests involves supporting teaching and learning in higher education and designing online or blended learner- centered learning environments within STEM context.Dr. Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia Dr. Rider W. Foley is an assistant professor in the science, technology &

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California - Davis

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

new methodology to examine the architecture of sentences through the lens of math. Intended for students majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), the course offers both alternative and complement to the study of grammar and style as informed by contemporary linguistic theories...”Unfortunately, some miscommunications occurred, and the STEM tag and revised descriptiondid not appear on the student interface for online enrollment. Instead, the course appeared as106: special section. Thus, many of my students enrolled without clear understanding that whatdistinguished the special section from the regular version was that it featured an experimental(and radically different) math-based approach.Course

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Maysam Nezafati, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mel Chua, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

focuses on model-based reasoning and conservation principles (mass, energy, etc.). An NSF grant funded courserelease time for instructors and support from learning scientists in order to integrate inclusiveengineering skills into the course design.The course redesign team chose to focus on the awareness of bias and its effects on technicalmodeling. An additional goal was building interpersonal skills at the dyad and team (2-4 people)level, although this second goal is not the focus of this paper. Both goals were incorporated intothe formal syllabus and course objectives. The new learning objectives are addressed not inseparate lectures about inclusivity, etc. but via changes to the context of the analytical problemsbeing solved. For instance, a

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

: Instructions Provided to Students Self-Assessment. (10%; pass/fail) • The five learning objectives listed in the table below are drawn from the course syllabus. Assess the degree of development you achieved in each area through both informal and formal learning you did in this course. (The table simply repeats the outcomes outlined above. The most significant feature of its design is that it requires students to provide evidence to support their assessments.) Provide evidence to support each of your assessments. Your self-assessment will notaffect your course grade. The goals here are self-awareness and differentiating degrees ofdevelopment. Specifically, • Convey your assessment by filling out the

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkaç, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

and technology education.Pilot RunCourse DescriptionThe syllabus of the pilot course was centered on standard critical-thinking material. Thesetypically include cognitive science and psychology6, logic, epistemology, and philosophy ofscience. In addition, key concepts in Statistics7, experiment design, history of medicine, andcomputational techniques from machine learning and decision making were incorporated toforge connections to the students’ technical majors. These were, in turn, linked to the humanitiescontent through several means, including prompted written and oral inquiry into connections andparallels between contemporary and historical issues and their representation, the use of a6 Such as content from [19–25

Conference Session

Sustainability

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L. Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Alexander T. Dale, Engineers for a Sustainable World

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

being listed initially as special topicscourses for upper class engineers of all disciplines, with a recommended syllabus of basic skillsand concepts that can be tailored to the local curriculum. This will be paired with an annualwicked problem that is chosen by the larger community and shared by all schools. The samelarger community will provide professional expertise in relevant disciplines via online Page 24.1257.18courseware and mentoring throughout the semester. ESW has a history of operating courses atthe local level, and already operates a distributed community that the instances of this course canparticipate in.Improving engineering

Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jacquelyn E. Borinski, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kimberly Danielle Haight, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Elaine Catherine McCormick, Georgia Institute of Technology; Alisha A.W. Waller, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #9632Engineering habits of the mind - an undergraduate course that asks: ”Whatis it that makes someone an engineer?” and ”What distinguishes engineersfrom other professionals?”Prof. Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology Joe Le Doux is the Executive Director for Learning and Student Experience in the Department of Biomed- ical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. He has also previously served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies for the Department. Dr. Le Doux’s research interests in engineering education focus on problem-solving, diagrammatic reasoning, and on the socio-cognitive

Conference Session

Governance, Diplomacy, and International Comparisons in Engineering Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

campus-wide system afterthe fifteenth week of the course. The course format includes modified mastery learning,and students were required to complete a variety of instruments to demonstrate mastery,including multi-choice vocabulary quizzes, true/false statements from the online, requiredlectures, and true/false statements from the required readings. Students whodemonstrated full mastery before the deadlines stated in the syllabus received a grade of‘C’ for the course. A buffet of optional assessments were used to assign grades tostudents above a “C”. These optional assessments included the performance of portionsof policy analysis on case studies, and reporting the results using the Pechu Kucha format(i.e., available online at: https

Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra A. Yost, University of Detroit Mercy; Laurie A. Britt-Smith, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

as an on-demand consultant to thefaculty members in departments delivering the targeted courses. At the end of the semester, asecond meeting with each Chair/Director took place to assess progress toward a systematic androbust process for assessing the Core Outcomes addressed by the targeted courses.5.3 Introduction to Philosophy (PHL 1000)In the original collection of syllabi, only one PHL 1000 syllabus was available. Because this is arequired course for all undergraduate students, multiple sections are offered, and several full-timeand part-time faculty participate in teaching the course. After identifying PHL 1000 as a targetedcourse in this study, the first author requested and obtained from the department Chair the PHL1000 syllabi from

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Gallagher, Montana State University; Irina Karapetyants, Russian University of Transport; Karalyn Clouser, Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University; Natalie Marie Villwock-Witte P.E., Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

on thetopic. Five institutions (24%) estimated between 4 and 14 student contact hours on the topic andonly two respondents expected students to spend more than 14 hours on accessibility topics atthe graduate level. Overall, few differences were observed between the undergraduate andgraduate levels in expected student coursework exposure to accessibility topics.The survey requested information on the course number and title for departmental coursesoffering content related to accessibility and/or the ADA. Twelve civil engineering programsentered course information for 23 different courses containing ADA/accessibility content.Researchers located online course descriptions for twenty-two of the courses and obtained syllabifor ten of the courses

Conference Session

Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isabel Simões de Carvalho P.E., ISEL, Lisbon, Portugal; Christy Moore, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

efficiency topic is embedded in most of thelearning activities and course assignments along the semester. The course is designedand delivered in a way that allows students to experience a variety of teachingenvironments: i) traditional lectures; ii) invited speakers and field trips; iii) shortformative assignments; iv) individual and team long term assignments with a strongcollaborative component, and; v) an online environment (Learning Management System)for course resources and materials, information and assignments sharing and severaldiscussion boards.As students are used to more traditional assignments they tend to feel uncomfortablewhen they are asked to make decisions, share information and get actively involved inpeer review and even in peer

Conference Session

Promoting Technical Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Vicki V. May P.E., Dartmouth College; David Alexander Macaulay

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, students are expected to create a display (poster, brochure, animations, or video)that visually communicates how an engineered system of their choice works. While the studentswork individually on the displays for each unit, they collaborate with peers in the class tobrainstorm ideas, improve drafts and evaluate the final projects. Engineered systems that studentshave selected to explain include clocks, LED lights, bicycle gears, stethoscopes, games,thermometers, wind turbines, photovoltaics, and more. The course syllabus is provided inAppendix A.In addition to the projects, each unit includes introductory lectures related to engineering,sketching lessons and exercises, hands-on building projects, and reverse engineering activities.The following

Conference Session

Rethinking Engineering Writing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven R Walk, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

assignments. The information was provided in the course syllabus also.To be effective, the assignments required some weight (providing some external motivationto improve) but not too much weight (limiting internal grade anxiety or evaluationapprehension in the creative writing process). The average low stakes writing score wasweighed only 10% of the course grade, as shown in Table 1. Students reported that 10% wasa fair and preferred weight (see student survey responses below).Table 1. Course Grade Components and Weights Component Weight (%) Laboratory Preparation or Data Gathering Role 30 Formal and Informal Lab Reports 50

Conference Session

Ethics, Mindfulness, and Reform During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Thomas A. De Pree, University of New Mexico; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany-SUNY; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Melissa Shuey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

waysof approaching these questions, this mode of inquiry and intervention is at the heart ofengineering studies, as demonstrated above.Situating Engineering EducationWe began formulating our problem statement after attending a series of online webinars hostedby EdTech companies like Chegg and Course Hero. These companies had become synonymouswith cheating among certain university faculty, particularly instructors who taught the samecourse year after year using the exact same syllabus and course content, as students wereapparently able to circulate course materials using these platforms. During one such webinar, theundergraduate research assistant in our research team, Melissa Shuey, took account of atriggering display of professors venting about

Conference Session

Pedagogies of Making and Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; James W. Malazita, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

’: Assessing the Value of Crowdsourced, User-Generated Metadata.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, 9(1).[7] Frost, C. (2016). Art Criticism Online: A History. Gylphi Ltd. Press.[8] Sample, M. (N.D.). “Digital Studies at Davidson College.” Course Syllabus.[9] Sayers, J. (N.D.). “Kits for Cultural History.” Course Syllabus.[10] Douglas, E. P. (2015). “Engineering as a Space of White Privilege.” Understanding and Dismantling Privilege, 5(1).[11] Riley, D. M. (2013, June). “The Island of Other: Making Space for Embodiment of Difference in Engineering.” Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. https://peer.asee.org/22606.[12] Riley, D. M. (2014, June). “What’s Wrong with Evidence? Epistemological Roots and Pedagogical

Conference Session

Social Justice: Pedagogy, Curricular Reform, and Activism

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Gabriel Medina-Kim, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

approaches to equity. Titled “Power, Equity,and Praxis in Computing,” the course plan is discussed and assessed through three facets: thecourse’s purpose, its content, and its (intended) learning environment. The purpose of the courseis to make space for undergraduate computing students to explore how systems of power arecoproduced with computing so that students can practice making social justice-centeredtransformations as critical participants of their field. The content of the course plan is organizedthrough modules that overview opportunities and considerations for intervention in computing.The learning environment is discussed through commitments to queer and critical racepedagogies, interdisciplinarity, and mixed methods in which teacher

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David A. Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Mary U. Christiansen; Adrian T. Hanson, University of Minnesota Duluth; Jill D. Jenson, University of Minnesota Duluth; Sara Ojard; Rebecca L. Teasley, University of Minnesota Duluth; Emily Woster, University of Minnesota Duluth

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Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and writing studies faculty. The collaboration reinforced workdone in the required writing classes and allowed both parties to leverage their expertise. Thewriting guide currently contains sections detailing reports, figures, tables, equations, references,memos, homework, professional e-mails, and a general grading rubric. The rubric is generalenough so that individual instructors can adapt it for a given assignment, while maintaining aconsistent framework as students move from course to course. Civil engineering faculty used theproposed rubric to evaluate Fall 2014 assignments from a freshman-level introduction to civilengineering course, two required junior-level laboratory courses, and the department’s capstonedesign course; all four

Conference Session

Ethics, Mindfulness, and Reform During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alexis Powe Nordin, Mississippi State University; Amy K. Barton, Mississippi State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

-lenses/ [Accessed Jan. 5, 2021].[15] M. Bouville, “On using ethical theories to teach engineering ethics,” Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 14, March 2008. [Online]. Available: doi: 10.1007/s11948-007- 9034-5. [Accessed Jan. 7, 2021].[16] J. A. Bargh and Y. Schul, “On the cognitive benefits of teaching,” Journal of Educational Psychology, vol. 72, Oct. 1980. [Online] Available: doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/0022- 0663.72.5.593. [Accessed Jan. 7, 2021].[17] R. Tedlow, Class Lecture, Topic: “Say no to normalization.” Apple University course. Undated.[18] G. P. Zachary, “The ethics of dissent in the workplace,” IEEE Spectrum, reprinted jobs.ieee.org, Jan. 31, 2020. [Online]. Available: https

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

as an important measure of a student’s projectwork, other significant components of the student’s activity will likely be included in theoverall course grade to be complete, as laid out in the syllabus for a project course. Atour institution, for the Engineering Project sequence, besides the Portfolio componentworth 20%, we include Progress against the semester plan (20%), Reporting andDocumentation (40%), On Time completion of assigned tasks (15%), Logbook (5%) andan Adjustment Factor (+/-5%). The Progress against the semester plan component isbased on measurable goals set by the project team with approval by the faculty advisornear the beginning, and evaluated by the team at the end of the semester, as reported in a

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, College of Engineering Pune; Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe, College of Engineering, Pune

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and civil.Liberal Learning at Our CollegeLiterature refers to liberal learning, liberal education, and general education as courses in non-professional areasthat are required to develop complete professionals. The courses, it is assumed, are taught like any other coursesand therefore do not really help build life-long learning skills. We have attempted a different approach. Wehave defined Liberal Learning as ―self-learning in self-chosen liberal areas with self-defined scope‖. Unlike astandard course, the course does not have a defined syllabus, identified text or reference books, classroomlectures, and standard examinations. Students define their own syllabus, hunt or harvest for learning resources

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John A. Nestor, Lafayette College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Immerwahr at Villanova University [36] andshown in Table 5 [40]. A copy of this rubric was included in the course syllabus to communicatediscussion expectations to students.All FYS courses at Lafayette College are writing courses, and the St. Martin’s Handbook [41] isused as a secondary text for students learning academic writing skills. They employ a process-writing approach in which students submit first drafts which they then revise after feedback froma peer Writing Associate and the instructor.The first writing assignment, which is given out during the first week of class, asks students toreflect on their own lived experience with semiconductor technology in terms of how they learnand work, communicate with friends and family, and seek

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Golder, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Darlene B. Webb, British Columbia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. However,one of the entry criteria is that participants must have taken a Communication course at Page 26.571.2the institute within the last five years. In their Communication courses, students getinstruction on preparing and delivering effective presentations and give at least onepresentation as an assignment in the course. See Appendix A for a sample syllabus fromone of the first-term Communication courses.Idol is advertised around campus and the opportunity to participate is promoted in classesby instructors. A maximum of 32 students can register. Typically, about 20 to 24 studentscompete in two rounds, giving six- to eight-minute presentations on

Conference Session

Learning Outcomes and Pedagogical Strategies: Problems of Alignment

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Melnyk, United States Military Academy; Brian J. Novoselich, United States Military Academy; Gregory Martin Freisinger, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

education on meeting desired learning outcomes. In one of Knowles’last works on the subject, he discussed eight steps to implementing andragogy in practice [15].These steps involve preparing the learner, creating the proper learning environment, involvinglearners in diagnosing their needs and developing appropriate objectives and plans, to name afew. Overall, these steps describe a much more collaborative learning model different fromtraditional teacher-centric instructional design at the undergraduate level. Where once a major isselected, many courses are prescribed and within those courses the objectives, syllabus, andassessment tools are determined solely by the professor and not in conjunction with the students.To determine the effectiveness of

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Technical Session Session 10

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Ware, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nicole Turnipseed, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; John R. Gallagher, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Celia Mathews Elliott, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John S. Popovics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Paul Prior, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julie L. Zilles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #26720Writing Across Engineering: A Collaborative Approach to Support STEMFaculty’s Integration of Writing Instruction in their ClassesRyan Ware, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ryan Ware is a PhD student in Writing Studies primarily interested in cultural-historical theories of writ- ing and learning to write. He is part of an interdisciplinary team that focuses on helping STEM instructors integrate writing into their courses, and that helps departments integrate writing across undergraduate curricula.Nicole Turnipseed, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Nicole Turnipseed is a PhD student in

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

engineeringtopics and skills. Bucciarelli, Drew, and colleagues have developed example modules of thistype. One explores the historical development of the engineering of cantilever beam failure, alesson that brings together the history and philosophy of science with static mechanics. Eachmodule is problem-based and benefits from collaborative instruction. The LSE model has alsobeen suggested as a “transformative solution” to the persistent problem of low enrollment ofwomen in STEM majors and careers [10]. Although some courses and online modules in theLSE mold exist, the broader curriculum remains, according to the authors, a “sociotechnicalimaginary” useful for demonstrating to conventional engineering educators that real integrationwith the humanities is

Conference Session

Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

enrolled in the course earned a grade of ‘A. To assess studentsatisfaction with the course, anonymous surveys were made available to each student viaan online tool as administered by the campus-wide Committee on Effective Teaching(CET). The results of student satisfaction for the courses examined in this case study areprovided in Table 1. Overall, the graduate students were more satisfied with the courseas compared to the undergraduate students. To better understand any concerns of thestudents, anonymous, open-ended free-response questions are also included in theelectronic survey. Table 2 provides representative results to the question of what arestrengths, weakness, or opportunities for improvement for the instructor or for the course.Table 1

Conference Session

Sustainability and Social Responsibility

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Courtney Paige Stanton; Carrie J. McClelland P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Emily Sarver; Linda A. Battalora, Colorado School of Mines; Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Susan K. Peterson, Marietta College; Nicole M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Rennie B. Kaunda , Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

department also emphasizes service in the formof providing the materials necessary for everyday life.The statistically significant changes consistently noted in the Marietta classes deserve specialattention. While it could be partially due to the relatively lower scores with which studentsbegan, the course was different from the others in the study in substantive ways. It serves as aFirst Year Seminar (FYS), and the 2019 syllabus describes the course to students as encouraging“self-discovery and an awareness of your strengths and interests. It provides opportunities foryou to reflect on and make connections between your General Education classes, coursework inyour major(s) and minor(s), and your lives beyond the classroom. The FYS challenges you

Conference Session

Teaching Communication I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

ensure class consistencyand quality, in preparing the class syllabus, the instructor set a goal to deliver approximately75% existing, validated course materials balanced with 25% new, experimental course materials.The assessment process selected for the first trial activity was a Kirkpatrick Scale 2 pre- andpost- test measuring “delta-learning.” Here, specifically, the learning was tied to sentence-levelcorrectness, with the key metric being Andrea Lunsford’s well-known, published, and juried listof Twenty Common Errors (see Table 1 and corresponding source link in Results, next section).The instructor decided not to test for concision and clarity during the first trial, in order to avoidconfounding factors, but did so with the intention to add

Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

course materialcoming alive in an episode of South Park, the course was having the intended impact.Team TeachingTeam Teaching can be a powerful way to create a T-shaped course, but it is not for thefaint of heart. Unlike single-instructor courses, decisions require discussion: studentrecruitment, course content and structure, syllabus and website, readings andassignments, grades, office hours, and in-class work. How should the workload bedistributed? How will all of the small decisions (e.g. extensions, in-class surprises) bemade? There are many models, ranging from everyone doing everything to completedivide and conquer. No matter the model, team-taught courses are more work.The weight of these decisions is amplified when two cultures collide