Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Geselowitz, IEEE History Center; John Vardalas, IEEE

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

understanding of the impact of engineering solutions among engineering studentsIntroduction:Ten years ago, ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology), the primaryaccreditation organization for post-secondary engineering and technology departments in theUnited States, revised its requirements for undergraduate programs leading to a bachelor’s ofscience degree in engineering1. The new standards, known as EC2000, require for the first timethat students receiving the B.S. degree “understand the impact of engineering solutions in aglobal, economic, environmental, and societal context.” Other national bodies have similarstandards2The reason behind such criteria is the recognition that, by its definition as the

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Gillette, Director, Liberal Arts & Engineering Studies, Colleges of Liberal Arts & Engineering. Has 20 years of multi-disciplinary collaborative team development expertise all focused on community development, documentation, educational outreach, and technology prototype development and testing. Past work has included project development for various educational and communications divisions of NASA, Universal Studios, and Disney Imagineering. Has over 16 years experience teaching undergradu- ate and graduate level students in technical communications, cross-disciplinary technology development and testing, and in media technology design and use for many universities in the USA, Japan and Aus- tralia

Conference Session

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

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

US Dept. of Education, including the AWAKEN Project (funded by NSF-EEP), which examines learning, instruction, teacher beliefs and engineering practices in order to foster a more diverse and more able pool of engineering students and practitioners, and the Tangibility for the Teaching, Learning, and Communicating of Mathematics Project (NSF-REESE), which explores the role of materiality and action in representing mathematical concepts in engineering and geometry. Dr. Nathan is on the editorial board for several journals, including The Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-Peer).Amy C. Prevost, UW-Madison Ms. Prevost is a doctoral student in Education Leadership and Policy Analysis at the

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Scientific Teaching for six years before joining the Technical Communication Program. Page 22.579.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Engineering Communication Across the Disciplines: Using Online Video Modules to Standardize Instruction and ExpectationsAbstractThis paper explores the challenges of identifying faculty expectations for engineeringcommunication skills, reinforcing those skills consistently across the curriculum, and assessinglearning outcomes in undergraduate students through a series of online communication modulesdesigned for mid- and upper-level engineering