Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education

DevelopmentAs demonstrated by accounts such as Thomas Friedman‟s The World is Flat1 and the Engineer of2020 investigations by the National Academy of Engineering,2 engineering educators are onceagain focusing on necessary changes to our national engineering workforce. If there ever were anopportunity draw useful lessons from history, it would surely be on this topic. Concerns about an“engineering manpower” crisis persisted throughout the Cold War years in American history,fueled by massive federal expenditures and the emphasis placed on science and its application tothe nation‟s arsenal and economic wealth. Even as we proceed to transform, if not dismantle, theinstitutional apparatus developed to meet the exigencies of the Cold War period, it may well

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Maines, Cornell University

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Liberal Education

in democracies’ primary social serviceof keeping its citizens alive. Page 15.477.16 Bibliography1 Foster, Richard S., and Francis P. Hoeber, "Limited mobilization: a strategy for preparednessand deterrence in the Eighties," Orbis 24 (1980: 451.2 Fierro, Eduardo. "Preliminary reconnaissance presentation about Haiti earthquake," at PacificEarthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California at Berkeley, 27 January 2010,available at http://peer.berkeley.edu/publications/haiti_2010/related_events_haiti.html, accessed8 March 2010.3 Bajak, Frank (Associated Press). "Chile was ready for quake, Haiti wasn't

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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Liberal Education

necessary to make onefurther point about the practice of change that is often overlooked and that is the role ofthose in power. Very often those with the power authorise an individual(s) to makechanges but do not subsequently give them the support they need. The respondents tochange need to see that those with power support the change wholeheartedly and providethe resources for it to be brought about.20Toward curriculum changeIn general, therefore, curriculum change is more likely to be internalised when it is seen Page 15.1.6to be plausible, and planned to take place in small steps that are seen to be naturaldevelopments, one following from the other

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Simmons, University of Utah; Susan Sample, University of Utah; April Kedrowicz, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

environment, where issues specific to each individual team member can beaddressed. Next, teams create a working agreement and submit it for feedback regarding clarity,expectations, consequences, etc. The agreement is assessed and returned with comments,suggestions, and encouragements. At the end of the term, each team member assesses both theworking agreement and the team’s ability to abide by (and, if necessary, revise) the document.To facilitate application of teamwork skills in the classroom, students participate in a role-playexercise. The roles relate to different interpersonal styles and the goal is to encourage students tothink about their own role(s) within the team process. Finally, in an effort to keep in contact witheach team and to

Conference Session

Communication - Needs and Methods

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Lockwood, University of Calgary; Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary

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Liberal Education

corresponding increasein understanding and achievement 2, 3. In most cases, they remain dedicated courses, oftenfulfilling university communications requirements.The University of C___’s S____ School of Engineering has decided on a slightlydifferent approach, in order to ensure that students are gaining the propercommunications skills. While engineering students are still required to take theuniversity-mandated technical communications course, students are also given instructionin communications in their first year of study, as part of an engineering design course.This method ensures not only that students are exposed to proper technicalcommunications skills from the start of their engineering careers, but that communicationis seen as an integral part

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Grondin, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University

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Liberal Education

, June 20076. Matthew W. Ohlund, Sheri D. Sheppard, Gary Lichtenstein, Ozgur Eris, Debbie Chachra and Richard A. Layton “Persistence, Engagement, and Migration in Engineering Programs”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 97, No. 3, pp 259-278, July 20087. C. Roberts, D. Morrell, R. Grondin, C.-Y. Kuo, R. Hinks, S. Danielson, and M. Henderson, “Developing a Multidisciplinary Engineering Program at Arizona State University’s East Campus,” 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Portland, June 20058. Marcia Mentowski & Associates, Learning That Lasts: Integrating Learning, Development and Performance in College and Beyond, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco

Conference Session

Normative Commitments and Public Engagement in Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Downey, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education

is more coherence in the tellingthan in the living.” But, s/he added, “still you can’t create a thread if there isn’t one.”2 In the context of the dominant image of education for global competitiveness, the key issue inorganizing research strategies for this project lay not in the extent they would make visiblecontingencies and complexities or call attention to continuities, although both are important andthe differences among them are significant. The key issue also lay not in a goal of providing orapproaching some sort of complete account of what is now taking place in international andglobal engineering education. Rather, it lay in what specific strategies promised to make visibleor risked hiding in the identities of international and

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betty Harper, Pennsylvania State University; Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University; Alexander Yin, Penn State University; Patrick Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

ABET. Engineering criteria 2000. Baltimore, MD: Author.5 National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine. (2007). Rising Above the gathering storm: Energizing and employing America for a brighter economic future. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.6 Galloway, P. D. (2008). The 21st Century Engineer: A proposal for Engineering Education Reform. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers Press.7 Sheppard, S. D., Macatangay, K., Colby, A. & Sullivan, W. M. (2008) Educating Engineers: Designing the Future Page 15.844.15 of the Field. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.8 Duderstadt, J. J. (2009). Engineering

Conference Session

Communication - Needs and Methods

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Kevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Thomas McGlamery, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

thisgap between educational preparation and practice in the field. It seems clear, based on this workand associated work of others, that to become “more than just engineers,” in the field, ourengineering students require more authentic, situated, and socially complex preparation thanmuch of what the curriculum currently provides.Bibliography1. National Academy of Engineering (NAE). (2004) The Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education tothe New Century. Washington, D.C.2. ABET Criteria for Evaluating Engineering Programs, (2007). Page 15.1391.93. Crawley, E. F., Malmqvist, J., Östlund, S., & Brodeur, D. R. (2007). Rethinking

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

, he does without rather than make amistake.It is hard to accept seemingly pointless learning, especially in a field that values linearaccrual of knowledge. But as Jobs says, you can’t connect the dots looking forward.Informal, self-directed learning may lead nowhere—or, it may lead to true innovation, asin the design of the Macintosh. If innovation is what we want from a “thinking society,”rather than mere competence, then the challenge for engineering education is to fosterstudents’ ability to engage in lifelong learning in the absence of an immediate payoff interms of grades, certification, or other resume-enhancing qualification. REFERENCES[1] Jobs, S. (2005). Commencement address delivered at

Conference Session

Normative Commitments and Public Engagement in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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George Catalano, State University of New York, Binghamton; Caroline Baillie, Western Australia; Donna Riley, Smith College; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Chris Byrne, Cascadia Community College; Margaret Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Katy Haralampides, University of New Brunswick

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Liberal Education

and Wagon in theirannual workshop Rocky Mountain Mathematica. 2 After finishing the different (eight) tutorials,each of the four course modules is introduced. Two weeks of in-class time is devoted to eachmodule. Students are arranged in teams of three or four per group with the group assignmentsalternating between self-selected, random or purposefully chosen. The first period of each two-week block is used to introduce the topic, discuss any new analytical or numerical techniquesthat are relevant and, lastly, talk briefly about the broader societal issue(s) that each modulebrings forth. The remaining two class periods then are used by the students to work on finishingthe module. It should be pointed out that though students are put into

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Layton, DeVry University

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Liberal Education

profession. Journal of Engineering Education 91, no. 4 (2002): 419-20.8. Harihareswara, S. Politics in modern science fiction [Course Syllabus]. Harihareswara.net. http://harihareswara.net/.html (accessed December 28, 2009).9. Harihareswara, S. Politics in modern science fiction [Course Content]. Harihareswara.net. http://harihareswara.net/.html (accessed December 28, 2009).10. Spinks, C. W. Prophecy, pulp, or punt: Science fiction, scenarios, and values. Paper presented at 5th Annual Conference of the World Future Education Society, Dallas, February, 1983. ERIC Database. http://www.eric.ed.gov///sql/_storage_01/b////.pdf (accessed December 28, 2009).11. Baringer, P., and McKitterick, C. Science, technology, and society [Course

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York, Binghamton

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Liberal Education

specialization.References 1. The Earth Charter, http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/pages/Read-the-Charter.html 2. Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=78&ArticleID=1163 3. Agenda 21, http://habitat.igc.org/agenda21/ 4. Arrow, K.J. and Fischer, A.C. (1974), "Environmental preservation, uncertainty and irreversibility", Quarterly Journal of Economics 88(2):312-319. 5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_cycle_assessment 6. Nair, I., Life Cycle Analysis and Green Design: A Context for Teaching Design, Environment, and Ethics, JEE, October 1998, 489-494. 7. Nair, I., S. Jones and J. White, A curriculum to enhance environmental

Conference Session

Normative Commitments and Public Engagement in Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Jen Schneider, Colorado School of Mines; Jon Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

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Liberal Education

the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. Ithaca, Cornell University Press.Adas, M. (2006). Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission. Cambridge, Harvard University Press.Bridger, J. C. and A. E. Luloff (1999). "Toward an interactional approach to sustainable community development." Journal of Rural Studies 15: 377-387.Burkey, S. (1993). People first: A guide to self-reliant participatory rural development. London and New York, Zed Books.Diacon, T. A. (2004). Stringing Together a Nation: Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906-1930. Durham and London, Duke University Press.Downey, G. and J. Lucena

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Ross, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Liberal Education

year reform)3. Baldwin, Doug. 2006. Aerospace for Educators: Removing the fear of teaching aerospace concepts in the classroom. Technical Papers – Space 2006 Conference, v. 2: 1007 – 1012. (aerospace in the classroom)4. Craig, J. L. et al. 2008. Innovation across the curriculum: three case studies in teaching science and engineering communication. 2008. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, v. 51, n 3, 280 – 301. Sept 2008. (aerospace in the classroom)5. Fraiberg, S. and Adam, M. 2002. Designing a writing across the curriculum program at the University of Michigan’s college of engineering. IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, 530-537. (communication issues)6. Galloway

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice Pawley, Purdue University; Karen Tonso, Wayne State University

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Liberal Education

. Jul 4 1971. “YY Goes From Planes to Plant.” Pp. 2F in The Nashville Tennessean. Accession 1539 Folder 183.33, Society of Women Engineers National Records Collection, Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University38. Weinstein, Harriette S. Oct 5 1958. “‘Mr.’ Ruth Wilson Engineers Job.” Atlanta, GA. Accession 1539 Folder 183.18, Society of Women Engineers National Records Collection, Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University39. Committee on Public Understanding of Engineering Messages, National Academy of Engineering. 2008. “Changing the Page 15.1392.11 Conversation: Messages for Improving Public

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Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Slaton, Drexel University; Mary Ebeling, Drexel University

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Liberal Education

. Kraft, "Manpower Planning and Its Role in the Age of Automation." Review ofEducational Research 40, no. 4 (1970), p. 497.16 Amy E. Slaton, Race, Rigor and Selectivity in U..S Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color-Line(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010).17 John F. Grede, "Collective Comprehensiveness: A Proposal for a Big City Community College." Journal ofHigher Education 41, no. 3 (1970), p. 192; and Arthur B. Shostak, "Old Problems and New Agencies: How MuchChange?" In Power, Poverty, and Urban Policy, edited by Warner Bloomberg Jr. and Henry J. Schmandt (BeverlyHills: Sage Publications, 1968), p. 104.18 Delaware County Community College, Nanofabrication Manufacturing Technology, Associate in Applied