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Anneliese Watt is a professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She teaches and researches technical and professional communication, rhetoric and composition, medicine in literature, presidential election rhetoric and other humanistic studies for engineering and science students. Her current work focuses on engineering design. Entrepreneurial Thinking in a First-Year Engineering Design StudioIn summer 2016, the authors and several other collaborators developed and taught a course aiming to advance the pedagogy informing a proposed new degree program in Engineering Design, in which design, writing, and engineering topics are integrated into a multidisciplinary design studio setting. Most closely associated with the disciplines of industrial design and architecture, design studios immerse students in an authentic problem-solving environment:"In studio, designers express and explore ideas, generate and evaluate alternatives, and ultimately make decisions and take action. They make external representations (drawings and three-dimensional models) and reason with these representations to inquire, analyze, and test hypotheses about the designs they represent. Through the linked acts of drawing, looking, and inferring, designers propose alternatives, and interpret and explore their consequences. ... They use the representations to test their designs against a priori performance criteria. And in the highly social environment of the design studio students learn to communicate, to critique, and to respond to criticism, and to collaborate."

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