Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kacey Beddoes, Virginia Tech; Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Becausethe team aimed for interdisciplinarity, it was trying to develop its own community of practice buthad not yet achieved this because the students’ backgrounds and training (e.g. core coursework)were more aligned to traditional disciplines than the project at hand.Participants included six doctoral students, two post-doctoral research assistants who recentlygraduated from the same PhD program, and two faculty members who also held administrativepositions in the interdisciplinary unit. The six doctoral students (three men and three women) hadbackgrounds and were located in departments of engineering, computer science, media arts andsciences, and music. They were in their first, second, third, and fourth years of graduate school atthe University