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Liberal Education Division Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory Tonkay, Lehigh University; E. Zimmers, Lehigh University

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Liberal Education

. Page 12.1068.2 • Use of leadership assessment tools. ISELP students learn to assess leadership styles using various assessment tools. They first assess their own leadership practices as well as their skill strengths and weaknesses. Later, as they gain experience, they assess the leadership practices of their peers and provide feedback for improvement. They formulate a plan to improve their own leadership skills and meet individually with their industry and faculty mentors to critique and improve according to their plan. Later in the program, they assess the success and/or progress of their plan. • Individual interaction with industrial and faculty mentors. Throughout the four years, ISELP

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Liberal Education Division Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Meyer, Clarkson University; Dick Pratt, Clarkson University

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Liberal Education

education. The implementation of this curriculum, including themeasures we have taken to ensure that the curriculum is sustainable and kept current, isdescribed. Assessment of outcomes-based learning is vital to determining the overall success ofthis curricular change. We have just begun implementation during the 2006-07 academic year,and our plan will be phased over four years. We discuss our initial efforts and results ofassessment.IntroductionFor many years Clarkson required all students to complete The Foundation Curriculum inaddition to their departmental major requirements. It was a traditional distribution-based set ofrequirements intended to provide students with a broad background covering the sciences,mathematics, liberal arts, business

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Writing and Communication II: Practical Perspectives on Teaching and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen Jernquist, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; David Godfrey, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Todd Taylor, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Liberal Education

various stages of writing.More importantly, the chart helps writers to grasp more fully the complexity of college-levelthinking and writing. It also suggests that writers (with guidance by their instructors and studentsupport services) need to plan time in order for an audience to emerge to the writer as a genuinepresence that can guide and shape their ideas. Because the chart helps writers locate themselvesin their own composing process, in the world of ideas and among a community of readers,writers are less likely to just “fix grammar” on a draft or decide that they “just can’t write.” Witha basic language and a growing sense of the time required to produce a college-level engineeringproject, writers gain a growing sense of “authority” over

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Writing and Communication I: Innovative Models for Curriculum and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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April Kedrowicz, University of Utah

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Liberal Education

, and the owners have received asource of funding (approx. $ 0.7 million) and they would like to investigate a businessinvestment that will bring in new profits to the company. The firm is trying to evaluate designand manufacturing of new, exciting products. Students are required to complete an oral andwritten proposal. The oral proposal includes justification of proposed process or product,manufacturing process plan, design changes, economic analysis, equipment, etc. The writtenproposal clearly and comprehensively presents the proposed solution/initiative. This proposaloutlines all necessary technical information on the proposed changes.To prepare students for this task, four lecture sessions are devoted to instruction in oral andwritten

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Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Martello, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Liberal Education

Paul Revere in the Science Lab: Integrating Humanities and Engineering Pedagogies to Develop Skills in Contextual Understanding and Self-Directed LearningAbstractABET, ASEE, and the wider engineering community have long acknowledged the potentialbenefits of interdisciplinary education, including the opportunity to develop non-technical skillssuch as communication and teamwork while cultivating a broader awareness of the ethical,societal, historical, and environmental impacts of engineering work. Instructors haveencountered many challenges in planning and implementing integrated courses, such as thedifficulty of coordinating the teaching methods, content, and learning objectives of differentacademic disciplines in a finite and

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Writing and Communication II: Practical Perspectives on Teaching and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luke Niiler; David Beams

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Liberal Education

‘highfunctional contexts.’”2 This paper is the third in a series of four planned EWI reports, and willdescribe these students’ further development and maturation as writers, with a particularemphasis on how findings may affect instructional practice with regard to writing. Page 12.810.2MethodologyWe continue to gather data, and results shown below should therefore be considered tentative.Student access continues to be an issue, now as in last year’s report. The work of fifteenfreshmen was studied during the 2004-2005 academic year; nine sophomores participated duringthe 2005-2006 academic year. To date, the work of seven students has been reviewed during

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Approaches to Learning Outcomes Assessment in Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zhiwei Guan, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

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Liberal Education

departments.Portfolios show professors students’ skill level and knowledge. A major challenge shenoted was that gaps exist between class teaching and students’ prior knowledge andskills. She suggested this may occur because professors do not seem to know whatstudents have already learned and what students’ skills are. She sees the portfolio as abridge to connect students’ knowledge and skills into the classroom, so that what theylearned in the class may fit into each individual’s learning plan and goals. “I'm talking about all of the courses that I've taken at the University of Washington, whether it be in the philosophy department or in the electrical engineering department or even in the mechanical engineering department. Um, like

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Approaches to Learning Outcomes Assessment in Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lorraine Fleming, Howard University; Kami Carey, Howard University

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Liberal Education

Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.Kami Carey, Howard University KAMI CAREY is a Ph.D candidate at Howard University in the department of Communications and Culture. Her research interest include identifying ideologies and identities of Black sojourners. She plans to teach at Southern Polytechnic State University in the Fall of 2007. Page 12.1458.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 The Road to the Global Engineer: Using Liberal Arts Prerequisites Effectively in Engineering DesignAbstract This paper examines the role liberal arts education plays in providing theengineering

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Redefining the Boundaries of Engineering and Liberal Education: Contributions to the Year of Dialogue

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Grimson, Dublin Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

ranking for the ‘relevancy’ (High, Medium, Low). It is stressedhere that the exercise was a limited one and included engineers in Ireland only and those with atleast ten years of experience. A more formal exercise is planned which will include engineers at Page 12.1453.5various stages of development and involve a number of countries in Europe and North America.For the present, the results obtained from the exercise give a strong indication that the branchesof philosophy are indeed considered relevant to engineering and the overall conclusions aresummarized as follows: 1. Ethics: The highest ranking (High) was given by all respondents to Ethics

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Liberal Education Division Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carole Goodson, University of Houston; Susan Miertschin, University of Houston; Barbara Stewart, University of Houston; Luces Faulkenberry, University of Houston; Curtis Johnson, University of Houston

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Liberal Education

electrical power industry linkages with otherindustries and relationships with state and local governmental bodies are illustrated by anexercise in planning the construction of an electrical power transmission line.The course requires a term paper on some aspect of the electrical power industry and an in-classpresentation on the paper. The paper topic can be some aspect of the history of electrical power,including people who contributed in a fundamental way to the industry; a technical topic, such asdevelopments in generation, power system protection, ac or dc transmission, or distribution ofsubstations; electrical power practices and regulation in other countries; major electrical powerprojects including those undertaken by governments; or a

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Approaches to Learning Outcomes Assessment in Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kyle Oliver, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Traci Nathans-Kelly; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Laura Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Liberal Education

helpstudents better succeed with Outcomes 4–5. The authors discuss future plans for the course aswell as exportable lessons for those interested in trying to find a place for similar courses at theirown institutions. Throughout the paper, the authors also argue that flexible, interdisciplinary,student-centered discussion courses like this one have the potential to teach some of the ABETprofessional skills in way that students and faculty alike will find refreshing, exciting, andeffective.IntroductionIn his “Ethics Instruction in Engineering Education: A (Mini) Meta-Analysis”1 David Hawsexamines 42 papers on the subject of engineering ethics instruction, all of them from the ASEEannual conference proceedings, 1996-1999. His paper identifies six common

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Writing and Communication I: Innovative Models for Curriculum and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Lisa McNair, Virginia Tech; Diana George, Virginia Tech; kelly belanger, Virginia Tech; Lisa Norris, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education

narrows engineering students’ ability to see perspectives outside their own. In future studies, we plan to examine more integrated composition classrooms using similar pedagogical approaches. • Targeted curricular partnerships early on can provide the basis for helping engineering students cross disciplinary boundaries and encourage them to make varied course selections throughout the rest of their undergraduate education.AcknowledgementsThis work has been conducted through a grant from the Council of Writing Program Page 12.1135.12Administrators.Works Cited1. Alford, E.M. and D. Rocheleau. "Designing Effective

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Liberal Education Division Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Stacey Breitenbach, California Polytechnic State University

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Liberal Education

12.8.3retention and outreach for students who do not seek a career in engineering practice, but maywant to have careers in education, business, law, policy, art and design and seek this inconjunction with technological strength.The charge to the committee was to develop a proposed plan for the BA in Engineering,including a variety of tracks and corresponding curricula which would be submitted foruniversity review and implemented by normal processes at the university.ProcessFaculty members from every college at the university, students, industry representatives and staffjoined the ad hoc committee for the proposed degree program, whose membership swelled tosixteen. As part of the effort to develop a common lexicon and a baseline knowledge the

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Ethical Responsibilities of Engineers in the World of Corporate Business

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education

within engineeringeducation, with a strong emphasis on ecological as well as economic sustainability. For exampleParsons16 was engaged in developing a handbook for U.S. engineering students planning to workin developing countries. Emphasis was placed on listening to the community. For a review ofappropriate technology courses that involve a service learning component see Sandekian et al.17A strong model for service learning and appropriate technology is the ETHOS program at theUniversity of Dayton. The program connects students with service learning opportunities indeveloping countries, and offers a course which includes language and cultural preparation aswell as readings in appropriate technology to prepare students.18 Explicit recognition is