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

we consider the SPIRAL curriculum that hasbeen implemented. ME 1000 is the first of a four-semester sequence where students will beworking in groups and applying teamwork skills to their engineering, oral communication, andwriting assignments. The fact that students interpreted the instruction as meaningfully relevantand also noticed an improvement in proficiency lends itself nicely to the next step in the SPIRALsequence. We are hopeful that students’ perceptions of writing and speaking instruction willimprove in future semesters, due to their appreciation for effective teamwork to both engineeringand communication practices.Peer EvaluationsA review of students’ peer evaluation memos provides additional insight into their experienceswith

Conference Session

Communication - Needs and Methods

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Warren Hull, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; David Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Stephen Sears, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Daniel Thomas, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Paige Davis, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

-EPSCoR Center for Bio-Modular Multi-Scale Systems (CBM2) and is responsible for the development and implementation of several of the centers K-12 and public outreach programs.Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Sarah Liggett is a Professor of English at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge. She is the Director of the campus-wide Communication across the Curriculum Program and is also the Director of the LSU Writing Center. She has published extensively on the histories, theories, programs, practices of technical and scientific writing. Dr. Liggett holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University.Warren Hull, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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

very fewof them will have spent much time listening to audio-only pieces, and almost certainly none ofthem will have done any critical analysis of such pieces.) The class thus initially proceeds downtwo tracks: hands-on “laboratory” sessions in which students use audio gear and software togather, edit and structure sound; and intensive group listening sessions, in which the class as awhole listens to a wide variety of audio pieces, analyzing them closely in order to understandwhat makes them effective (or not). Individual writing assignments complement this work,giving students the opportunity to focus on particular aspects of radio production andstorytelling.At the beginning of the semester students need first to develop their ability to

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

in highperformance workplaces need. These were (1) Basic skills in reading writing, arithmeticand mathematics, speaking and listening. (2) Thinking skills – the ability to learn, toreason, to think creatively, to make decisions, and to solve problems. (3) Personalqualities - individual responsibility, self-esteem and self-management, sociability andintegrity. The committee argued that each subject of the school curriculum couldcontribute to the development of these competencies and presented matrices todemonstrate their point at any level K - 12. The problem with that approach is that thesubjects of the curriculum may lose their integrity. If they don’t the students may not beat a sufficient level of development (in Piagetian/Perry terms) to

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

individuals, how they described themselves in the article, and how they were described in relation to men. • How was the relationship between women, men, and engineering work described? In particular, how did women describe their work as engineers, and how did men describe women’s engineering work? • How did the article’s author frame the import of the article? In other words, what is “of note” in this situation that the article was deemed worthy of writing and publication?For this project, data constituted both quotations from articles (including headlines, captions, andbody text of articles) and from images published alongside such articles. We collected text andimages of articles that helped us think through

Conference Session

Normative Commitments and Public Engagement in Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Downey, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

the purposeof the project and the specific research and writing strategies one selects. Adams and colleagues,for example, examine “storytelling in engineering education” with the explicit goal of betterunderstanding the emergence of an “engineering education research community.” Their focus is,in other words, accounting for an observed convergence and possibly contributing further to it.They invited eight scholars, including three co-authors, to prepare “story poster” presentations atthe national Frontiers in Education conference (supported by the IEEE). The organizers askedpresenters to respond to a structured set of questions designed to evoke “insider knowledge”pertaining to “driving passions and goals, processes such as getting started