Conference Session

Venturing Out: Service Learning, Study Abroad, and Criterion H

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ollis, North Carolina State University; Anthony Smith, CPE-LYON FRANCE

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

AC 2008-1993: SUMMER ON-SITE IMMERSION IN FRENCH LANGUAGE ANDENGINEERINGDavid Ollis, North Carolina State University DAVID F. OLLIS is Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. His recent NSF DTS grant "CROSS-COLLEGE COLLABORATIONS" has included engineering participation in stateside and overseas foreign language courses in Spanish and French.Anthony Smith, CPE-LYON FRANCE Anthony Smith is Professor of Chemistry and Director of International Relations, CPE-Lyon, Lyon, France. He is the Director of the CPE-Lyon Summer Program which combines French language instruction with a laboratory experience in chemical engineering and

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

beginning, and they show no sign of subsiding. PDI is alsotime-intensive for faculty, requiring more time in class, more time coordinating among multipleinstructors, and more time interacting with (motivated but demanding) students outside of class.Finally, PDI-type instruction and research faces subtle but pervasive prejudice by scholars withinboth engineering and STS. Written off by many as “applied” scholarship, design andinterdisciplinary design especially, is seen as “soft,” “non-rigorous,” or otherwise lowly asopposed to “hard,” “pure,” high-status laboratory-based research. While the question of therelative status of different ways of knowing, and engaging, the world is clearly beyond the scopeof the present analysis, it is relevant to

Conference Session

Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mieke Schuurman, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University; Christopher Johnstone, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

her work at annual conferences of ASEE, WEPAN, and CEIA, and published in the Journal of Engineering Education, the Journal of Language and Social Psychology, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, the European Journal of Social Psychology, and the European Review of Social Psychology.Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University Michael Alley is an associate professor of engineering communication in the College of Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer, 2003) and regularly gives workshops on engineering presentations for different institutions including Sandia National Laboratories, the SPIE, Los Alamos

Conference Session

Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Wilson, University of CIncinnati; Teresa Cook, University of Cincinnati; Jo Ann Thompson, University of Cincinnati; James Everly, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

, respectively. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a registered professional engineer in the state of Ohio. He is current past Chair of the IEEE Cincinnati Section, and in 1997 he received the IEEE Professional Achievement Award. He has held several research and management positions in industry working for such companies as Battelle's Columbus Laboratories, Rockwell International, and Claspan Corporation. He joined the University of Cincinnati in 1985. Page 13.389.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Developing a Writing in the

Conference Session

Venturing Out: Service Learning, Study Abroad, and Criterion H

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Carol Barry, University Massachusetts Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; David Kazmer, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; William Moeller, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Cheryl West, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

Capstone Design course.These students have designed a WiFi system and biodigestors for Peruvian villages and pageturner prototype for World's Largest Book (for Groton Dunstable Regional Middle School).Students taking additional one-credit Community-based Engineering Design Projects courseshave designed a W/C transfer board and trash removers for the Lowell canals.Other CoursesService-learning projects have been introduced into other undergraduate courses.• Civil engineering students in the junior-level Environmental Engineering Laboratory have performed road salt and chemical analyses for the Town of Dunstable. In the next semester’s Water Resources Engineering course, the same students used hydrology to gain insight on chloride levels in

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education