Conference Session

Writing and Technical Communications

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Hall, The Ohio State University; Bob Rhoads P.E., The Ohio State University; Tyler James Stump, The Ohio State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Paper ID #43797(Re)visions: Approaches to Teaching Technical Communications and ProfessionalDevelopment in a Multidisciplinary Engineering Capstone CourseLynn Hall, The Ohio State University Lynn Hall is a Senior Lecturer and the Associate Chair for Academic Administration for the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. in English from Miami University (Ohio). Her research interests include writing in the disciplines, technical communications, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.Mr. Bob Rhoads P.E., The Ohio State University Bob Rhoads currently functions as the

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline Rose Tawney, California Institute of Technology; Meredith Hooper, California Institute of Technology; Harly Ramsey, University of Southern California; Morgan Hooper, University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

-regulation. She developed and continues to work on Engineering Moment, a co-curricular podcast project about the social role of engineering, and Vision Venture, a video series exploring students’ engineering identities, agency, and purpose after graduation.Dr. Morgan Hooper, University of Toronto After completing her PhD at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT), Morgan Hooper is now an Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) at the University of Toronto. There, her teaching focuses on building community within hands-on Engineering Design courses and beyond. She encourages students to engage with multi-faceted, trans-disciplinary engineering projects to learn the complex

Conference Session

Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer C. Mallette, Boise State University; Harold Ackler P.E., Boise State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

teaches advanced undergraduate laboratory courses and manages the senior capstone program in the Micron School. He ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Building a Communication-Integrated Curriculum in Materials ScienceAbstractWith the need to meet ABET outcomes around professional skills, such as communication andteamwork, engineering programs have long explored approaches to ensure their graduates areable to participate in the workplace in ways that employers demand. While approaches vary andsuccess depends on a number of factors, research demonstrates that an integrated approach toprofessional skill development is the most impactful for student learning. How can anengineering program build an

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Reddy, Colorado School of Mines; Courtney Van Kirk; Marie Stettler Kleine, Colorado School of Mines; Emily York, James Madison University; Shannon Conley; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park; Nicole Farkas Mogul, University of Maryland, College Park; Marisa Renee Brandt, Michigan State University; Kathryn Peck

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

-Technical IntegrationResearch (STIR) protocol developed by Erik Fisher and team [29]. They developed the STIRprotocol to bring STEM researchers and others, particularly scholars in the humanities and socialsciences, together to explore the broader ethical, political, social, and legal aspects of scientificdecision making in a laboratory context. STIR facilitates “collaborative inquiry betweenembedded humanists or socialscientists and the scientists,engineers and others who host them” Opportunity Elaborations/Alternatives[30].STIR was first adapted for non-laboratory teaching and learningcontexts by Shannon Conley startingin the 2014-2015 academic year.STIR has been used in the classroomfor a variety of group activities

Conference Session

Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna G Burchfield, University of South Florida; April A. Kedrowicz, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

ethics.This program began with College-wide, dean’s level administration and support. Thecommunication lab and consultations space was centrally located in the main College ofEngineering building. It was in this space that the director, administrative assistant, and graduateteaching fellows also occupied office space. PhD students from the College of Humanities withinterests in instructional communication, writing/composition, and communication across thecurriculum served as strong ambassadors for the importance of disciplinary expertise. In additionto classroom instruction, communication laboratories, and student consultations, the programdirector and graduate teaching fellows offered monthly workshops targeting engineering facultyon topics related

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration and Sociotechnical Thinking: The Big Picture

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Fernandez, UMass Amherst; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Ankita Kumar; Bailey Bond-Trittipo, Florida International University; Zoii Arrianna Henry; Corin L. Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Paper ID #38960Work-In-Progress: Re-Engineering Engineering: A Collaborative InquiryToward a Solidarity Engineering-Focused FutureDr. Stephen Fernandez, UMass Amherst Steve is currently employed in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion office in the College of Engineering at UMass Amherst. He works on outreach, community engagement, and student support and he teaches a class in Engineering Service-Learning. His background is in sustainable energy engineering. He has worked on the modeling and design of stand-alone hybrid photovoltaic / wind turbine systems. His professional experiences include secondary school STEM

Conference Session

Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

ofdesigning and building technologies. However, they do this within the context of unique placesand among distinct milieu that reflects its own engineering culture [8]. Thus, engineering cultureand the development of engineering identity is inextricably tied to the places that reproduce itand contains within it specific organizational patterns, embedded norms and routines, sharedbeliefs, and values that often mediate how students engage with faculty, staff, and one another.In short, culture cannot be decoupled from the place in which it is experienced and imparted.Extant research delineates visible manifestations of culture as “ways of doing things” within theclassroom and laboratory spaces—which often prioritizes the teaching and development

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration and Sociotechnical Thinking: The Big Picture

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

) 2 (1910) Physics Teaching as It Is and as It Might Be in Wisconsin Schools: Papers Read Before the Wisconsin Teachers’ Association (1910) “Physics and Education” in The School Review (1916) “A Study of Engineering Education” in Engineering Education and Columbia University Quarterly (1918) A Study of Engineering Education: Prepared for the Joint Committee on Education of the National Engineering Societies (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching) (1919) The American Spirit in Education (War Department) (1919) The Committee on Education and Special Training: A Review of Its Work in 1918 (C.R. Mann, Chair; Civilian Advisory Board

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James T. McLeskey Jr., Randolph-Macon College; Deonna Woolard

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Paper ID #36728Engineering Physics at a Small Liberal Arts College: Accomplishments andChallengesDr. James T. McLeskey Jr., Randolph-Macon College Dr. James T. McLeskey, Jr. is Professor and Director of the Engineering Physics program at Randolph- Macon College where he teaches courses across the Engineering and Physics curricula. His research has been focused in the areas of renewable energy and clDr. Deonna Woolard Dr. Deonna Woolard received her BS in Physics from Bethany College (WV, USA) and her MS and PhD in Physics from The College of William and Mary (VA, USA). As an applied physicist, she has been engaged with

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary K. Pilotte, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rich Dionne, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

chances for employment upon graduation.With these beneficial outcomes for students in mind, why is it that single-discipline designcourses – particularly those for engineering capstone design, still prevail? Research offers longlaundry lists of difficulties associated with developing collaborative design coursework includingsystemic challenges (Behdinan, Pop-Iliev, & Foster (2014); Bannerot, Kastor, Ruchhoeft, &Terry (2004)). An 11-year review of the literature suggests that while providing students withauthentic interdisciplinary practice is important, the ability to model and teach ininterdisciplinary ways is lacking (Van den Beemt, MacLeod, Vander Veen, Van de Ven, van Baalen, Klaassen, & Boon, 2020).The hypothesis of Newell, Doty

Conference Session

Accountability and Stewardship

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gail Baura, Loyola University, Chicago; Matt Miller, Loyola University, Chicago

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

. Between her graduate degrees, she worked as a loop transmission systems engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories. She then spent 13 years in the medical device industry conducting medical device research and managing research and product development at five companies. In her last industry position, Dr. Baura was Vice President, Research and Chief Scientist at CardioDynamics. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).Prof. Matt Miller, Loyola University, Chicago Matt Miller is Professor of Counseling Psychology at Loyola University Chicago where he directs the Race, Culture, and Health Equity Lab. His scholarship represents the intersection of multicultural and social

Conference Session

Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, California State University, Channel Islands; Andrew Li; Rebecca Jun, University of Virginia

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

. Courses and programs in these four areas also share somechallenges. They often depend on contingent faculty and compete for resources with disciplinarycurricula and research programs. Because of the competitive environment in which they operate,the faculty who design and teach in them are often under pressure to provide evidence of thevalue they add and challenged with finding a place in perpetually overcrowded undergraduatecurricula. The history of engineering education demonstrates that curricular transformation inengineering is difficult at best. As the president of the Carnegie Foundation put it in his prefaceto A Study of Engineering Education (1918), “It is sometimes easier to start a new school than totry an educational experiment

Conference Session

Equity and Belonging

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaitlyn Anne Thomas, University of Nevada, Reno; Kelly J Cross, Georgia Institute of Technology; Isabel Anne Boyd, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Diversity

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

laboratory projects in the middle years [27]–[29].Engineering teams offer a mode for interdisciplinarity and task delegation so students can finishlarge and complicated projects within the span of a course. What is not often taught, however,are the various skills necessary in the social processes that make teaming effective:communication, delegation, and conflict resolution, to name a few [30]–[32]. The socialcircumstances in which these skills become relevant can reveal hidden epistemologies that guidethe teaming process, especially when gender differences and dynamics are considered [21].Within engineering, these epistemologies are woven into the culture of engineering learningenvironments and often the engineering field itself [18]. Therefore, we

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LIBED) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johanna Bodenhamer, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis ; Robert Weissbach, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Ruth Camille Pflueger, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College; Corinne C. Renguette, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Brandon Sorge, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Annwesa Dasgupta; Immanuel Edinbarough P.E., The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

, "Characterising collaboration: Reflflecting on a partnership between academic support staff and lecturers to help university students learn how to write for the discipline of chemistry," Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 41-53, 2021.Using Tutor-led Support to Enhance Engineering Student Writing for All[11] K. Riegel, "A Scaffolded Approach to Laboratory Report Writing for Non-Major and Introductory Physics Classes," Physics Teacher, vol. 59, no. 6, pp. 488-490, 2021.[12] H. Zhang and Y. Li, "Integrating active learning activities and metacognition into STEM writing courses," Advances in Physiology Education, vol. 45, no. 4, p. 902–907, 2021.[13] S. Dinitz and S. Harrington, "The Role of

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Systems in Practice

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nandini Sharma, The University of Texas at Austin; Jeffrey W. Treem, University of Texas at Austin; Megan Kenny Feister, CSUCI

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

infrastructure, we ask the following research question:RQ: How do technology infrastructures shape problem-solving practices in STEM labs? MethodsWe collected data from three interdisciplinary STEM laboratories from three differentuniversities in North America. Over a period of 16 months, we conducted 27 interviews (19Zoom interviews and 8 on-site in-person interviews), attended 26 lab meetings, and shadowedthree lab members in-person. Remote interviews and meeting observations began in thebeginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in Spring 2020. However, we also conducted in-personinterviews and observations in October 2023 when travel was considered relatively safe with

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Casey Gibson, National Academy of Engineering; David A. Butler, National Academy of Engineering

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

engagement in science andengineering, and developing a diverse STEM workforce. However, Watts et al. [29] found thatactivities aimed at broadening participation of underrepresented groups in STEM fields were lessfrequently reported. Kamenetzky [30] reported that teaching and training were commonly cited,followed by broad dissemination and infrastructure enhancement. Cultural differences amongSTEM fields and political considerations may play a significant role in the types of broaderimpacts mentioned or omitted in research proposals [24], [30] . Roberts [24] found thatresearchers who mentioned societal benefits in their proposals were not more likely to proposedissemination of their results to relevant stakeholders compared to those who only

Conference Session

Wellness, Readiness, and Thriving

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julianna Gesun, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Rachel Eve Gail Swan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Bryan Watson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

. Her prior work experiences include product management, consulting, tutoring, marketing, and information technology.Rachel Eve Gail Swan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Rachel Swan is an undergraduate student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). Since 2022 she has been an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the ERAU Wireless Devices and Electromagnetics Laboratory (WiDE Lab). She has also been an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the ERAU Biologically Inspired Design-for-Resilience (BID4R) Lab since 2023. Her research projects and interests include hardware security for RF applications and machine learning. She is a recipient of the ERAU’s 2023 Outstanding Electrical Engineering Undergraduate