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

by examining the nature and practices of creativecommunities. Why? Creative communities provide a synergistic environment thatencourages ongoing, informal (non-certified) learning experiences out of whichinnovation emerges predictably and organically. This conference paper examines severalcreative communities in a variety of fields, both historical and present-day, to learn whatthey can teach us about self-directed, lifelong learning. The specific communitiesdiscussed within this paper include the following: 1. Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey Page 15.1189.4 2. Silicon Valley 3. Paris, France (the Impressionists and Hemingway’s

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cherrice Traver, Union College; J. Douglas Klein, Union College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

in Education conference. Her teaching interests are in the Computer Engineering area including Digital Design, Embedded Systems, and VLSI. She has co-taught international project courses in Turkey and in Spain. Her research has been focused on timing issues in digital systems. She has directed local and national outreach programs,including Robot Camp and the P. O. Pistilli Scholarship.J. Douglas Klein, Union College J. Douglass Klein is Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies and Special Programs and Professor of Economics at Union College. Klein joined the Union faculty in 1979, after earning a BA in Mathematics at Grinnell College, and a PhD in Economics at the University of Wisconsin

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ari Epstein, MIT; Joellen Easton, American Public Media; Rekha Murthy, Public Radio Exchange; Emily Davidson, MIT; Jennifer de Bruijn, MIT; Tracey Hayse, MIT; Elise Hens, MIT; Margaret Lloyd

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

and clubs.Joellen Easton, American Public Media JOELLEN EASTON works as public insight analyst at the public radio program "Marketplace," from American Public Media. She came to Los Angeles from Boston, where she had worked in public radio since 1998, most recently at Public Radio International's Global Resources Desk at the program "The World." She holds an M.S. from the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT, where she helped to develop Terrascope Radio and served as a Teaching Assistant for the class.Rekha Murthy, Public Radio Exchange REKHA MURTHY is Director of Projects + Partnerships at the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), an online marketplace for the distribution of

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

, representing all five major branches of engineering offered atSchulich (Mechanical, Chemical and Petroleum, Civil, Electrical and Computer, andGeomatics), who supervise the individual lab sections; a fine arts instructor and acommunications instructor; in addition, the course also has a full time technician, 20-24engineering teaching assistants, 4-8 fine arts/industrial design teaching assistants and 4-6communications teaching assistants.Communications instructor as Solo InstructorThe primary role of the communications instructor in ENGG 251/253 is that of sololecture instructor. As one of the two lecture instructors, the communications instructor isresponsible for half the lectures each semester, as well as at least two laboratory periodsof

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadia Kellam, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Tracie Costantino, University of Georgia; Bonnie Cramond, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

national speaker, she has published numerous articles, a book on creativity research, and teaches classes on giftedness and creativity. Page 15.776.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Integrating the Environmental Engineering Curriculum through Crossdisciplinary StudiosAbstractTraditional curricular approaches within and beyond engineering education tend to befragmented, with opportunities for synthesis being predominately limited to freshmen and senioryear design courses. In this paper, we are proposing a curricular model, the Synthesis and DesignStudio, as an example

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

its first few years, the engineeringfaculty operated out of classrooms and laboratory spaces borrowed from across UCLA‟s stilllimited campus.14The postwar enrollment boom, and the special interest that students expressed in technicalsubjects, ensured that Boelter would receive the appropriations necessary for expanding hisfaculty and facilities. However, in terms of the College‟s early postwar growth, a more rapid, and Page 15.474.4exciting expansion occurred in the area of off-campus graduate instruction.From the standpoint of the industrial recruiters, who were given the resources to draw from anational labor pool, there was little to be