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Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Linda M. Head, Rowan University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Change'. Proceedings. , vol.1, no., pp.383-386 vol.1, 5-8 Nov 1997.9. J. Marchese, R. Ordonez, C. Sun, E. Constans, J. L. Schmalzel, R. Ramachandran, H. L. Newell, H. Benavidez and J. Haynes, “Integration of Multidisciplinary Design and Technical Communication: An Inexorable Link”, International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 18, No.1, pp.32–38, 2002.10. Bolding, K.; Bauman, E., "Integrating engineering into a freshman liberal arts curriculum," Frontiers in Education Conference, 1999. FIE '99. 29th Annual, vol.3, no., pp.13C2/1-13C2/5 vol.3, 1999.11. Heywood, J., "“Think…about how others think”, liberal education and engineering," Frontiers In Education Conference - Global Engineering: Knowledge Without

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Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia; Tracie Costantino, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Nicki Wendy Sochacka, University of Georgia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

environmental engineering curriculum through crossdisciplinary studios in American Society for Engineering Education2010: Louisville, Kentucky.12. Costantino, T., et al., An interdisciplinary design studio: How can art and engineering collaborate to increase students' creativity. Art Education, 2010. 63(2): p. 49-53.13. Linnenbrink, E.A., The role of affect in student learning: A multi-dimensional approach to considering the interaction of affect, motivation, and engagement, in Emotion in Education, P.A. Schutz and R. Pekrun, Editors. 2007, Elsevier: New York.14. Linnenbrink, E.A., Emotion research in education: Theoretical and methodological perspectives on the integration of affect, motivation, and cognition

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Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown; Lea Campbell, University of Houston, Downtown

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

internal team leadership needed toresolve common behaviors within dysfunctional teams. While no new theoretical results onteamwork are presented, the authors have focused instead on applying their experience asmanagers of teams in major corporations and institutions of higher education to explore what aneffective teaming curriculum might include and to develop related assessment tools. This paperoutlines a strategy for integrating deliberate teaming instruction into senior-level engineeringcapstone or project courses. The curriculum focuses on building team leadership skills andtechniques for addressing challenges such as planning and execution, social loafing, andprocrastination. Models for assessing students‟ teaming skills and for providing

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Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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April A. Kedrowicz, University of Utah; Maria Dawn Blevins, University of Utah

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

from school to workplace. TheAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology’s (ABET) Engineering Criteria 2000revised the criteria for evaluation to include (among other outcomes) an ability to function onmultidisciplinary teams and an ability to communicate effectively.1 In order to prepareengineering students for their future as professionals, several approaches to teaching have beenemployed. These include requiring completion of a technical writing course, participation in Page 22.14.2writing/speaking across the curriculum programs, integrated communication/engineeringcourses, and integrated communication/engineering programs.2 In

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Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tom A. Eppes, University of Hartford; Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford; Frederick Sweitzer, University of Hartford

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. • Professional – Included for all E majors and covers topics common to disciplines. Currently, ET programs do not have a professional component. • Capstone – An integrating experience of 3 to 6 semester credits and taken in the final year of study in which the student completes an unscripted design project. • Other – A technical communication course sequence focused on written and oral skills taken by all ET majors.Broader Educational ContextThe changes being mandated by NEASC are part of a much larger policy initiative that isnational in scope. Most, if not all regional accreditation boards are undertaking similar efforts intheir respective areas of authority. Over the last decade, concern over the quality of highereducation

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Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Using Boundary Negotiating Artifacts to Investigate Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary TeamsAbstract: Teamwork, and interdisciplinary teamwork in particular, are increasingly recognizedas an important part of engineering education. Engineering educators have therefore taken aninterest in employing and studying teamwork in their curriculum. Yet much of their scholarshiphas focused on documenting student and faculty experiences of teamwork and describingprograms and courses only. Examinations of the actual practices and artifacts, that studentscreate and use to manage interdisciplinary team collaborations are an underexplored researcharea. However, such studies

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Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cherrice Traver, Union College; Douglass Klein, Union College; Borjana Mikic, Smith College; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Ari W. Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Gillette, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

as Florman38described effective E&LE integration as an “intractable problem.”The difficulties giving rise to this intractability have been stated repeatedly in the multiple ASEEstudies of “humanistic-social” training in engineering.6, 42, 48, 87 Difficulties cited include: lack ofstudent engagement; curricular compaction in engineering, and the limited time available liberalarts (LA) subjects; engineering faculty who do not model and fully support the importance ofLA; limited engagement of LA faculty; and poorly formulated objectives for the LA componentof the curriculum.2, 6, 34, 42, 73, 87In the past, obstacles have prevented transformation, and the work of Symposium participantsseeks to avoid them.22, 25, 67, 99 Previous attempts have

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Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

knowledge to “changing times and needs,” and how this body ofpractice evolved from the early voluntary traditions of this society to the more centralized,administrative direction of policy as represented by ABET‟s EC 2000 and other relatedinitiatives. While some of the closing, policy-relevant remarks of this paper may tread uponterrain that will be more familiar to those who experienced the latest efforts firsthand, Inevertheless use the historical perspective gleaned from this paper to revisit the question of therelevance of engineering and liberal arts integration in the context of an outcomes orientedapproach to engineering education.IntroductionThis paper offers a historical and analytical introduction to the long history of attempts

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Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Geselowitz, IEEE History Center; John Vardalas, IEEE

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

integrated social impact into the engineering curriculum.Virginia Tech, which boasts of having “the only STS program in the U.S. that is situated withinan engineering school at a national, comprehensive university,” provides a four-course sequencethat is required of all engineering majors. At Princeton, Dave Billington developed a two-semester history of technology course that—by having engineers take reading and writingsections and non-engineers take an laboratory section—fulfills requirements for each whilesuccessfully integrating the two topics. Although not technically required, it draws a huge Page 22.1622.5percentage of the freshman class.The

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Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elena Poltavtchenko, Northern Arizona University; John Tingerthal, Northern Arizona University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Management faculty at Northern Arizona University in 2007. His engineer- ing career spans a wide variety of design and forensic engineering experiences. He spent the first eight years of his career performing structural consulting engineering in Chicago. This work culminated with design work on the Minneapolis Public Library and the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison Wiscon- sin. He was also involved with forensic investigations in Iowa and Wisconsin and participated in structural coordination efforts at Ground Zero in September of 2001. He holds professional engineering licenses in the States of Arizona an Illinois. He is currently working on a Doctorate of Education in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in

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Myths About Gender and Race

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

AC 2011-1548: METRICS OF MARGINALITY: HOW STUDIES OF MI-NORITY SELF-EFFICACY HIDE STRUCTURAL INEQUITIESAmy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng.) Amy E. Slaton is an associate professor of history at Drexel University and a visiting associate professor at Haverford College. She received her PhD in the History and Sociology of Science from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania and has written on the history of standards and instrumentation in materials science, engineering and the building trades. Her most recent book , Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineer- ing: The History of an Occupational Color Line (Harvard University Press, 2010), traces American ideas about race and technical aptitude since 1940. Current

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Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keith E. Hedges, Drury University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

important components of earthquakeengineering. The master’s curriculum has greater adaptability for an intervening disaster due tothe research directive despite of this deficiency. The students chose to engage the new master’scourse a couple of years early with uniform consensus. Page 22.1425.3   ProcedurreThe centrral phenomeenon is the in ntervention of o a synchro nous disasteer event on student learning.To examine the naturre of this pheenomenon, a qualitative research deesign was

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Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sandra Soto-Caban, Muskingum University; Emre Selvi, Muskingum University; Ferdinand Avila-Medina, Ohio State University, Newark

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-2000: IMPROVING COMMUNICATION SKILLS: USING PECHAKUCHASTYLE IN ENGINEERING COURSESSandra Soto-Caban, Muskingum University Sandra Soto-Caban received her BSEE and MSEE from University of Puerto Rico, Mayagez Campus, and her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University. She is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Muskingum University in New Concord, OH. Her interests focus on engineering education and electromagnetics, especially electromagnetic characterization of materials.Emre Selvi, Muskingum University Emre Selvi is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Muskingum University, New Concord. He received his academic degrees in Mechanical Engineering; B.S. and M.S. from Middle East

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Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Conrad, Portland State University; Timothy James Pfeiffer P.E., Foundation Engineering, Inc.

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

on the following questions:1) In what ways, if any, do practitioners’ sentence structures and use of active vs passive voice reflect concerns of engineering practice? In other words, do the practitioners just use standard English that could be used in any formal written communication, or are aspects of engineering practice integrated into the grammar of their texts?2) To what extent and in what ways do students’ sentence structures and use of active vs passive voice differ from the practitioners’? To what extent do differences demonstrate neglect for concerns that are important in engineering practice?We answer these questions with an analysis of reports and technical memoranda (tech memos)written by civil engineering practitioners

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Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

1961 a White Paper was to recommend increases in the time allowedfor English and General Studies [7] and with this and a pamphlet of the same name camea change of emphasis toward general education in these courses. However, althoughcontroversial, the terms liberal education and liberal studies continued to be applied tothat component of the curriculum in dip.tech courses. Although the circularrecommended a time allocation of between 15 and 20%, The NCTA had already Page 22.776.4stipulated an allocation of between 10 and 11% or roughly 3 hours of student contact timeper week, and according to Davies it remained at this level throughout the period of

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Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Duncan, Valparaiso University; Mark M. Budnik, Valparaiso University; Jeffrey Will, Valparaiso University; Peter E. Johnson, Valparaiso University; Shahin S. Nudehi, Valparaiso University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

asCriterion 3 identifies that students attain "an ability to communicate effectively" as a requiredprogram outcome3. Additionally, the importance of communication skills to the practicingengineer is predicted to remain important in the future. The National Academy of Engineering2004 report, "The engineer of 2020: visions of engineering in the new century"4, whendescribing the attributes of engineers in 2020 states that, "As always, good engineering willrequire good communication."Because technical communication skills are so vital to engineers, many studies have beencompleted to investigate the effectiveness of technical communication pedagogical methodsimplemented in engineering curriculums. These studies generally focus on two areas oftechnical

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Ethical Perspectives on the Grand Challenges of Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Xiaofeng Tang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

to students that the material is directly relevant toengineering practice.The approach of integrating social and technical dimensions of engineering into a single courseis evident in many design initiatives, and we believe design offers a unique opportunity forscaling up efforts to bridge social and technical facets of engineering in the context of anengineering course. Teaching engineering students to solve real-world problems via designprojects may improve students’ awareness of an array of contextual factors, including user needs,social and environmental costs, and other concerns affecting the scope and nature of engineeringwork. 48 Interdisciplinary design projects also provide opportunities for developing enhancedcollaboration skills

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Special Session: Moving Towards the Intended, Explicit, and Authentic: Addressing Critical Misalignments in Engineering Learning within Secondary and University Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Mitchell J. Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy C. Prevost, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christine G. Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci M. Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Thomas Dean McGlamery, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy K. Atwood, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Educational Research and Methods, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

PLTW foundations courses. Findings include insight into the level ofexplicit integration of math and engineering, and how PLTW experiences influenceteacher’s views about preparing students for engineering careers. Implications forpractice include the importance of creating awareness surrounding the need forinstructors to make explicit connections at an early stage in precollege engineering so thatstudents can improve their academic preparation as well as career readiness. Our studiesof engineering practice indicate that curricula in high school and college give students anincomplete picture of engineering work and what engineers do and often do not developthe full skill set needed to successfully execute increasingly complex, interdisciplinary

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Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

whosuggested that it “might be called a post-graduate secondary school.” [ 1,p131].Payne cites US Admiral Rickover who said “Most of the liberal arts education given in ourliberal arts colleges has been absorbed into the curriculum of the European academic secondaryschools…”[1.p132]. It was an attitude that had important consequences for beliefs about the roleof the university in liberal education. Another consequence of this specialization was that itenabled the three year bachelor‟s degree to be the equivalent of an American master‟s degree[1.p 133]Payne notes that if the purpose of the grammar school system was to enable its students to go touniversity then it had been singularly disappointing [p144]. Only a quarter completed all thestages for

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Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William K. Durfee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Benjamin Adams, University of Minnesota; Audrey J. Appelsies, University of Minnesota; Pamela Flash, University of Minnesota

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

mathematics (STEM) educators in particular to engagetheir students in higher order modes of learning. The uneven rate at which writing and STEMreforms are implemented3,4 reinforces the need for a new approach to reform, one that isdiscipline specific and faculty-driven.The Writing-Enriched Curriculum (WEC) model is informed by shifts in the perception ofwriting itself. Since the mid-20th century, the traditional view of writing as a mode ofcommunication, has evolved. Guided by psycholinguistic research, the current, expanded view isthat writing is a mode of communication and learning. Writing is now recognized as an abilitythat students continue to develop throughout their academic education and later careers as theyengage with increasingly complex

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Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth R. Leitch, West Texas A&M University; Rhonda B Dittfurth, West Texas A&M University; Freddie J Davis P.E., West Texas A&M University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Education, Honolulu, HI.5. Eichhorn K. et al. (2010). “Infusing Communication Skills in an Engineering Curriculum.” Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, Louisville, KY.6. Jernquist, et al. (2007). “Developing an Engineering Writing Handbook – A Case Study.” Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, Honolulu, HI.7. Heibling, J. et al. (2005). “Collaborative Development of an Engineering Style Manual.” Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, Portland, OR.8. Adam, D. and Manion, W. (2005). “When Less is More: Integrating Technical Writing Instruction in a Large

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Ethical Perspectives on the Grand Challenges of Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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George D. Catalano, State University of New York, Binghamton

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the present work with a call for an integration of the skill of listening and of stopping orat least slowing down in the teaching of engineering. I have offered one idea or path as to howsuch a skill might be included in a specific course, that being, an undergraduate fluid mechanicscourse in a bioengineering curriculum. The approach will include frequent and constantintegration of meditation and other described techniques as well as a conscious effort to makeconnections among the subject matter and in this case, the fluid mechanics of living systems. Aresearch question is offered as is a theoretical foundation and methodology. If successful, that is,understanding is increased and can be documented; I shall integrate the contemplative

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Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology; Betsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; April A. Kedrowicz, University of Utah

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

, University Park Michael Alley is an associate professor of engineering communication at Pennsylvania State University. He works in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education and is the author of The Craft of Scientific Writing (Springer, 1996).April A Kedrowicz, University of Utah April A. Kedrowicz is the Director of the CLEAR Program at the University of Utah, an interdisciplinary collaboration between Humanities and Engineering. This college-wide program integrates communi- cation and teamwork instruction into the core, undergraduate engineering curriculum. Dr. Kedrowicz received her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Utah and is the founding director of this innovative program

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Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura R. Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christina Matta, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Technical Communication Program

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

courses. The modules, which include learningobjectives, instructional videos, interactive quizzes with feedback, and sample grading rubrics,can assist faculty in clarifying their communication expectations and, in turn, emphasize tostudents the importance of skills transfer between communication and engineering contentcourses by providing a consistent message across the curriculum. Our paper, therefore, willdemonstrate our modules and share assessment strategies with a broader audience of engineeringfaculty who may face similar challenges, both with integrating communication skills intoengineering courses and with developing consistent expectations for student work. We believeour online modules offer teaching materials and direct assessment tools

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Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isabel Simões de Carvalho P.E., ISEL, Lisbon, Portugal; Christy Moore, University of Texas, Austin

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-1145: COLLABORATING TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR THEGLOBAL WORKPLACEIsabel Simes de Carvalho, ISEL, Lisbon, Portugal Isabel S. Carvalho received a Licenciatura in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Lis- bon. She received her M.S. and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon in 1990 and 1996, respectively. Following a year in the aeronautics industry in France (aero engine manufacturer) she is, since 1999, an Associate Professor at the Military Institute and also lectures at the Mechanical Engineering Department at ISEL. Research interests include energy production and efficiency and active and collaborative and blended (online) teaching and learning in

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Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University; Warren R. Hull, Louisiana State University; David Bowles, Louisiana State University; Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University; Stephen O. Sears, Louisiana State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

to develop communications assignments for topics thatalso help prepare future engineers for a global environment, like cultural awareness and culturalsensitivity. We find ourselves in a position to focus on these topics, not by adding morecommunication assignments to an already-crowded curriculum, but by varying the focus of thecommunication assignments. Students will not treat global issues as mere topics ofcommunication assignments but will have to consider cultural differences in order to completethe communications. In future C-I capstone courses, cultural awareness will not only be aproduct of communication assignments; rather, issues confronting globalism, like culturalawareness, will be a step in the communication processes that is

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Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig W. Somerton, Michigan State University; Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-1350: IMPROVING THE PUBLIC COMMUNICATION SKILLSOF GRADUATE STUDENTSCraig W. Somerton, Michigan State University Craig W. Somerton is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. He teaches in the area of thermal engineering including thermodynamics, heat transfer, and thermal design. He has also taught the capstone design course for the department. Dr. Somerton has research interests in computer design of thermal systems, appropriate technology, and application of continuous quality improvement principles to engineering education. He received his B.S. in 1976, his M.S. in 1979, and his Ph.D. in 1982, all in engineering from UCLA.Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn Mobrand, University of Washington; Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

specific things happen (i.e., change theatmosphere). Without effective communication skills, a good idea could be overlooked. Another example is Yahoo! Hack-U, which is a 24-hr programming contest. Under the time constraint, clear communication and teamwork are necessary among team members. I was able to divide the work, integrate my part with others and change the atmosphere to one that was both enjoyable and memorable.In this last example, the participant describes specific outcomes (e.g., gain funding, convinceothers, prove something is worthwhile) that engineers might desire and asserts that effectivecommunication will empower them to achieve these outcomes. In the work place, an engineer needs to be able to

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Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Lee Downey, Virginia Tech; Masanori Wada, Tokyo Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-1415: AVOIDING INFERIORITY: GLOBAL ENGINEERING ED-UCATION ACROSS JAPANGary Lee Downey, Virginia Tech Gary Downey is Alumni Distinguished Professor in Science and Technology Studies and affiliated Profes- sor in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. A mechanical engineer (Lehigh) and cultural anthropolo- gist (University of Chicago), he is co-editor of What Is Global Engineering Education For?: The Making of International Educators (Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2010). Author of The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers, he is Editor of The Engineering Studies Series at MIT Press and Global Engineering series at Morgan & Claypool, as well as the Engineering Studies journal

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Liberal Education Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-1373: GETTING STUDENTS PREPARED TO PRESENT WELLSmitesh Bakrania, Rowan University Smitesh Bakrania is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his PhD from University of Michigan in 2008 and his BS from Union College in 2003. His research interests include combustion synthesis of nanoparticles and their applications. Page 22.743.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Getting Students Prepared to Present WellAlthough engineering students become aware of what a good presentation entails early in theircollege