Wikoff, K. H., & Barnicki, C. W., & Kieselburg, J. R. (2014, June), Integration of Art and Engineering: Creating Connections between Engineering Curricula and an Art Museum's Collection  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2--20676

\bibitem{asee_peer_20676}
  Wikoff, K. H., \& Barnicki, C. W., \& Kieselburg, J. R. (2014, June), \emph{Integration of Art and Engineering: Creating Connections between Engineering Curricula and an Art Museum's Collection}
  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  10.18260/1-2--20676

Katherine Hennessey Wikoff, Cynthia Wise Barnicki, and James R. Kieselburg II.  "Integration of Art and Engineering: Creating Connections between Engineering Curricula and an Art Museum's Collection".  2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2014.  https://peer.asee.org/20676 Internet.  24 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_20676}
  Katherine Hennessey Wikoff, Cynthia Wise Barnicki, and James R. Kieselburg II.
  "Integration of Art and Engineering: Creating Connections between Engineering Curricula and an Art Museum's Collection".
  \emph{2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2014.
  https://peer.asee.org/20676 Internet.  24 Apr, 2024

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AB  -        Integration of Art and Engineering: Creating Connections between            Engineering Curricula and an Art Museum’s Collection                                          ABSTRACTWithin STEM education, a movement called STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art,and Mathematics) has been gathering momentum over the past few years. At present, thepublished material in this area shows that most of the classroom practice and ongoing researchseems to focus on K-12 learning environments—and much of that, even, primarily on preschooland kindergarten children.This paper reviews the literature on STEAM education at the university level and describes aunique relationship that has developed between one university’s engineering curricula and thecollection of an art museum on its campus.The Museum and its collection have been utilized in a range of academic coursework. Allengineering students are required to take a freshman humanities seminar which includes aresearch paper on the Museum collection. Some students have gone on to participate in theMuseum’s docent training program. The collection has proven useful in courses dealing withergonomics studies, aesthetic interpretation, OSHA studies and manufacturing processes. Aspecial exhibit of bridge photographs was used as the starting point for research papers bygraduate students in civil engineering. Currently, the Museum Director is adjunct professor inthe Technical Communication program, teaching a course that engages engineering students invisual design and interpretation and culminates in a Museum exhibition of the student designwork created over the previous quarter.This paper also presents a case study in which a cohort of students engaged with the Museum’scollection during their freshman and junior years. In their freshman-level honors humanitiesseminar, students considered the concept of “The City” from a variety of perspectives (literary,philosophical, historical, and aesthetic). Art was a key component of this course. After learningbasic art concepts and terminology, students spent multiple class sessions in the Museumanalyzing the collection’s sculpture and paintings. Each student then produced an original workof art for inclusion in an exhibit focusing on “The City” that opened with a reception organizedby the class and ran for three weeks.In the junior-level manufacturing course for mechanical engineering students, the art collectionwas used as a starting point to investigate manufacturing processes or practices. The students,working in groups, or individually, selected a piece of artwork after going on a tour of thecollection and researched a particular process depicted in the artwork. The students presentedtheir work to the class on the history, and present day practices of their selected process. Datawas collected on the student response to the assignment.The authors of this paper—a mechanical engineering professor, a liberal arts professor, and anart museum director—bring truly multidisciplinary perspectives to the STEAM challenge ofcoherently integrating art and engineering education.
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