Conference Session

Ethical Perspectives on the Grand Challenges of Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

areoversimplified, false dichotomies of social divides (i.e., “wealth and poverty, health andsickness, food and hunger”). Such complex conditions are not binary on-off states but rather acontinuum that exists both within nations and across the globe. Who goes hungry, for example,is as much a function of politics, culture, economics and ethics as it is of agricultural production.Though suggesting that “engineers must frame their work with the ultimate goal of universalaccessibility in mind,” no attention is given to how engineers might go about contributing to thesolution of such complex problems (other than, à la Moses, pushing forward with technologicalprogress).It is beyond the scope of this essay to examine every one of the fourteen specific

Conference Session

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

AC 2011-1233: FOSTERING INNOVATION THROUGH THE INTEGRA-TION OF ENGINEERING AND LIBERAL EDUCATIONCherrice Traver, Union College Cherrice Traver received her BS in Physics from the State University of New York at Albany in 1982 and her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 1988. She has been a faculty member at Union College in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department since 1986, and has been the Dean of Engineering since 2005. Recently Dr. Traver has been involved in initiatives at the interface of engineering and the liberal arts. She has led two national symposia on Engineering and Liberal Education at Union College and she was General Chair for the 2008 Frontiers in Education

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Myths About Gender and Race

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jordana Hoegh, Purdue University

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

AC 2011-2091: EXPLODING PIPELINES: MYTHOLOGICAL METAPHORSSTRUCTURING DIVERSITY-ORIENTED ENGINEERING EDUCATIONRESEARCH AGENDASAlice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Alice L. Pawley is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program at Purdue University. She has a B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a Ph.D. minor in Women’s Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is Co-PI and Research Director of Purdue University’s ADVANCE program, and PI on the Assessing Sustainability Knowledge project. She runs the Research in Feminist

Conference Session

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

pedagogyin all of my teaching. Maybe I can create a bit of anti-entropy. I encourage others among us toalso consider the idea.




























































1 National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges of Engineering, http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/2 Tobin Hart, Opening the Contemplative Mind in the Classroom, Journal of Transformative Education Vol. 2 No. 1,January 20043 Arthur Zajonc, “Contemplative and Transformative Pedagogy,” Kosmo Journal, Vol. V, No.1, Fall/Winter 20064 Jon Kabatt Zinn, “Education as if It Really Mattered: The Unification of Knowing through ContemplativePractice”, Conference on Contemplative Practices and Education: Making Peace in Ourselves and in the World,Teachers College

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Ricco, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, he would not go so far as to say that the needs of society are overruled bythe needs of the individual or even in continuous conflict. Vygotsky’s observations stemmedfrom cultural change in Russia during his lifetime. He noticed change in what would then becalled the developmental learning pathways of individuals based on grand scale societal changes.Thus, the societal impetus was responsible for changing lifelong learning habits and the minds ofindividuals. In the engineering education community, many efforts are spent on developingphenomenographical approaches to problems, but almost none are spent on phenomenological orexistential approaches to problems. The issue at hand may be two-fold: first, phenomenographyas a research

Conference Session

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

recovery plans. In remarks by President Barack Obama on the AmericanGraduation Initiative, a top priority is to ensure that the U.S. has the highest percentage ofcollege-educated workers in the world.10 However, to make excellence truly inclusive, qualitymust drive commitment to college completion.3The implications of LEAP on the engineering and technology higher education community leadsto the following question: What is the purpose of liberal education and how should it permeateour curricula? Newman’s approach to liberal education is that of “enlargement or expansion ofthe mind,” a process in which university education helps students develop skills necessary forintellectual expansion.11 Heywood12 introduced the idea of engineering literacy being

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Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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K.L. Jordan, Michigan Technological University; Anahita Pakzad, Michigan Technological University; Renee Oats, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

other classmates, and participate in live feedback sessions.Internet-based learning also bears in mind students with various learning styles andphysical disabilities. There are many positive implications of internet-based learning suchas a means to interactively present and disseminate curricula through courseworkmanagement tools such as Blackboard. It also promotes collaboration and continuingeducation for full time employees, i.e. “learning anywhere, anytime.” 1 Students areencouraged to expand their knowledge of the material being taught through media,images, animation and streaming audio/video.Internet-based engineering education is an accepted practice throughout the United Statesand abroad. There are interesting ethical and societal

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carroll Suzanne Seron, University of California, Irvine; Erin A. Cech, University of California, San Diego; Susan S. Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brian Rubineau, Cornell University

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

of the sites of this inquiry that are themselves theoretically important: theinstitutions‟ (1) approach to engineering education and (2) commitment to gender parity. Inengineering education, the pedagogical debate revolves around the sequencing of “learning” and“doing” engineering and is succinctly articulated in MIT‟s emblematic motto: mens et manus,mind and hands.iv Pedagogical models focus on the sequence of training minds and hands.Engineering education at MIT and UMass begins with the premise that one must learn (science)before one can do (engineering), “learn then do.” Smith and Olin, by contrast, begin with thepremise that it is best to “do and learn” (science and engineering) at the same time.v Althoughboth MIT and UMass have long

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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

AC 2011-2764: UNCOVERING THE ROLE OF EMOTION IN ENGINEER-ING EDUCATION WITHIN AN INTEGRATED CURRICULAR EXPERI-ENCENadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia Nadia Kellam is an Assistant Professor and engineering educational researcher in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Georgia. She is co-director of the CLUSTER research group. Her research interests include interdisciplinarity, creativity, identity formation, and the role of emotion in cognition.Tracie Costantino, University of GeorgiaJoachim Walther, University of Georgia Joachim is an assistant professor of engineering education research at the University of Georgia (UGA). He is one of the leaders of the Collaborative

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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

AC 2011-999: ENGINEERING COMMUNICATION ACROSS THE DIS-CIPLINES: USING ONLINE VIDEO MODULES TO STANDARDIZE IN-STRUCTION AND EXPECTATIONSLaura R. Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin, Madison Laura Grossenbacher is Director of the Technical Communication Program in the College of Engineer- ing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas at Austin, and has been teaching courses in engineering communication for fifteen years. She has done consulting work in professional engineering writing for private firms (such as HNTB, Inc. and Affiliated Engineers, Inc.) and has taught technical communication as part of the UW-Madison College of Engineer- ing study abroad

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Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-635: HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN ENGLANDAND WALES 1955-1966. COMPULSORY LIBERAL STUDIESJohn Heywood, Trinity College Dublin Professorial Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin formerly Professor and Director of Teacher Ed- ucation. During the period of the paper was a lecturer in radio communication at Norwood Technical College, Senior Research Fellow in Higher Technological Education at Birmingham College of Advanced Technology, and Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow at the University of Lancaster respectively. he has an MSc in Engineering Education from the University of Dublin Page 22.776.1

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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

effective mentorship and social support tracks directly onto gender, ethnic, race,and class differences. With this contingency in mind, the measurement of self-efficacy can betied to a much larger social project. Most suggestively, Jaffee and Riley draw our attention tothe fact that it is in leaving engineering that some women express agency. We certainly need notaccept as final or desirable the departure of these young women from STEM fields, but if we areto understand the complex relationship between identity, self-efficacy, and equitableopportunities in STEM disciplines, such broadened definitions of what counts as self-confidenceand self-determination will be vital. McLoughlin's work on so-called non-traditional students (aproblematic word in

Conference Session

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

AC 2011-634: HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN ENGLANDAND WALES BETWEEN 1955 AND 1966. THE CONTRIBUTION OF THEBRITISH ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING INDUSTRY TO ITS DEVELOP-MENTJohn Heywood, Trinity College Dublin Professorial Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin formerly Professor and Director of Teacher Ed- ucation in the University. During the period of this paper was a lecturer in radio communications at Norwood technical College, Senior Research Fellow in Higher Technological Education at Birmingham College of Advanced Technology, and Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow in Higher Education at the University of Lancaster. Has an MSc in Engineering Education from the University of Dublin

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Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-2241: REVISITING COMMUNICATION EXPERIENCES TO PRE-PARE FOR PROFESSIONAL PRACTICEKathryn Mobrand, University of Washington Kathryn Mobrand is a doctoral candidate and research assistant in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. She is working with Dr. Jennifer Turns on preparedness portfolios for engineering undergraduates; her focus is on the communication of practicing engineers.Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington Jennifer Turns is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington. She is interested in all aspects of engineering education, including how to support engineering

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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

great quest for understanding manyunanswered questions of nature.” 23 On the other hand, Grand Challenges distinguishesengineers’ unique contributions, even to science: “In the popular mind, scientists and engineershave distinct job descriptions. Scientists explore, experiment, and discover; engineers create,design, and build. But in truth, the distinction is blurry, and engineers participate in the scientificprocess of discovery in many ways.” 24 Here again, the report plays the boundaries ofengineering loosely, in this case the boundary between science and engineering, to castengineering in its most favorable light. 25The tension in engineers’ ambiguous relationship with scientists represents an opportunity forengineers to embrace more

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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

AC 2011-1117: LIBERAL LEARNING REVISITED: A HISTORICAL EX-AMINATION OF THE UNDERLYING REASONS, FRUSTRATIONS, ANDCONTINUED PROSPECTS FOR ENGINEERING AND LIBERAL ARTSINTEGRATIONAtsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Atsushi Akera is a historian of engineering education and an associate professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer. His publications include Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineering, and Computers during the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research (MIT Press, 2006) Page 22.1015.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011

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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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Donna M Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Intelligent machines that control their bodies and minds.37What does the choice of certain ends imply about the means? Langdon Winner38 has identifiedthe centralized power structures required for the development of nuclear power (which wouldextend here to fusion technologies). Who will be able to participate in the engineering projectsidentified, and in what capacities – as embedded corporate workers, as government employees,as contractors, as non-profit employees, or as independent professionals? Will engineers haveautonomy to control the means of production? What latitude will they have to negotiate theethical boundaries of a project? Some of these questions relate directly to the means, discussedfurther below, but to what extent does the shaping

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Ethical Perspectives on the Grand Challenges of Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, institutional andmarket forces that have brought about that situation and that may impede its improvement are notaddressed.The Agency of EngineersDefining engineering problems in light of such up- and downstream conditions would require aconcerted shift in the field; in no engineering job description that I know of are the words"Determine the broadest social and political conditions in which you perform your technologicaltasks and act accordingly." Such a work requirement sounds absurd to our ears, but that sense ofabsurdity in fact arises from a culturally specific idea of engineering which can be challenged.Some, if not all, engineers historically involved in humanistic reforms surely had just such arecalibration in mind, despite such impediments as

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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

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

: Ability to keep in mind parameters of the project while creating a solution.UnderstandingConstraintsEngineering: Generate an idea for testing based on knowledge of what might work (from math orCreating physics, for example, or even other things that exist - a bridge in your neighborhood,Hypotheses something found in nature or even experience).Engineering: Figure out what must be done at certain time points in order to meet a deadline.ProjectManagementEngineering: Use Use of computer aided tools for creating and modeling the project.of Software forDesign Page 22.1318.8