Conference Session

Innovations in Promoting Technological Literacy II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vazgen Shekoyan, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Todd Holden, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Raul Armendariz Ph.D., Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Helio Takai, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Dimitrios S. Kokkinos Ph.D., Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Regina Sullivan, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; George Tremberger Jr, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Paul J. Marchese, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; David H. Lieberman, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Tak Cheung, Queensborough Community College, CUNY

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

AC 2012-4458: TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY IN REQUIRED SCIENCECOURSES FOR NON-STEM STUDENTS IN A COMMUNITY COLLEGEWITH EXTENSION TO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTProf. Vazgen Shekoyan, Queensborough Community College, CUNYDr. Todd Holden, Queensborough Community College, CUNY Todd Holden is an Associate Professor in the Physics Department of Queensborough Community College of CUNY. His current research interests include bioinformatics and microbial fuel cells. He also mentors student research projects.Raul Armendariz Ph.D., Queensborough Community College, CUNYDr. Helio Takai, Brookhaven National Laboratory Helio Takai is an Elementary Particle and Nuclear Physicist with interest in development of instrumenta- tion for the

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Hennessey Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Michael Hoge Carriere, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

strategies Chu was forced to devise are what eventually led him andseveral of his Bell Labs co-workers to win multiple Nobel Prizes. Says Chu: Page 25.798.6When most people think of industrial labs they think of, “Oh, you’re makingbetter widgets. You’re making something that’s going to be good for the phonesystem.” Now, ultimately, that’s true. But at Bell Labs in that time—this is in1978—allowed a small fraction of us—fifty, sixty, eighty—to do whatever wewanted; really to do whatever we wanted.So I joined Bell Laboratories. My department head said, “Steve, you can dowhatever you want. It doesn’t even have to be physics. All we ask is that youdon’t go to

Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Arlene Ann Russell; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University; Chester G. Wilmot, Louisiana State University; Boz Bowles, Louisiana State University; David R. Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; W. Todd Monroe, Louisiana State University; Warren R Hull Sr. P.E., Louisiana State University; Dianne Raubenheimer, Meredith College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

first science laboratory course. Typical general chemistry labmanuals devote an introductory section or an appendix to graphing procedures, including explicitdirections for layout, format, and data presentation, and newer manuals support technology toolsand encourage students to use them to prepare graphs of their experimental data. However, moststudents have not internalized the principles of scientific graphic, but rather resort to the defaultoptions of the “chart” tools of Excel, a program designed for marketing and advertising, not forscience. Page 25.744.5The goals of the assignment were not only to test the upload feature, but also to

Conference Session

Advances in Communication Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Bateman Newborg, University of Pittsburgh; Teresa L. Larkin, American University; Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

ofengineering and how engineering has impact on society. X University’s Physics 100embraces liberal arts-oriented approaches to understanding and liberal arts-orientedlanguage choices to maximize “non scientists’” understanding of scientific clarity,accountability, precision, and proof.With an emphasis on Newtonian Mechanics, Physics 100, Physics for the Modern World(PMW) is a foundation-level course within the sciences portion of the General Educationcore at X University. Many students who enroll in PNM are liberal arts majors and do soto fulfill their General Education requirements for the sciences. The course also has arigorous laboratory component. Students in this course are encouraged to engage in thelearning of physics in many ways. In addition

Conference Session

STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Department and the Secretary of the committee  Ronald H. Robnett, professor of Engineering and Business Administration and a fiscal officer in the DIC (MIT’s sponsored research office)  C. Richard Soderberg, a theoretically oriented mechanical engineer and head of that department  Julius Stratton, physicist and director of Research Laboratory for Electronics, the postwar incarnation of the Radiation Lab Page 25.1322.3Among the other items the committee discussed was an unsolicited letter from the head of thePhysics Department, John Slater, expressing his unabashed preference for a curriculum moresolidly

Conference Session

STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley Marshall P.E., University of Colorado, Denver; Michael Tang, University of Colorado, Denver; Stephan A. Durham, University of Colorado, Denver

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

59 92 Regular 53 60 ENGR 3600 Online 110 92 120 Regular 97 95 Total Enrollment 320 306 212Research Related to the Courses A third and largely unexpected development of these courses, due in part to the largenumber of students in each, is that the courses provide an ideal laboratory for quantitativeresearch as to their effectiveness. This includes the study of online course delivery incomparison to more traditional teaching methods with respect to the impact of such technologieson higher

Conference Session

Advances in Communication Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Risa Robinson, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

new, and students who have participated in the workshop as part of ateaching-based co-op indicate that their communication skills are generally enhanced by the co-op. Future offerings of the workshop will include additional topics specifically relevant to TAs,and the workshop will be offered for credit.AcknowledgementsSupport for the TEAK Project is provided by the National Science Foundation's Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program under Award No. 0737462. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.The authors would like to acknowledge the support of Sarah Cass, an Instructional

Conference Session

Linking Engineering and Liberal Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gayle E. Ermer, Calvin College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Technology (New York:VCH Publishers, 1993).xxii Jet Propulsion Laboratory web-site, “Advanced System Modeling and Control of Bioregenerative Life Support”,http://aemc.jpl.nasa.gov/activities/bio_regen.cfm (accessed 1/12/2012).xxiii Terry Bossomaier and David Green, Patterns in the Sand: Computers, Complexity, and Everyday Life (Reading,MA: Helix Books, 1998) 153. Page 25.1279.15xxiv Mark Swilling and E. Anneke, Just Transitions: Exploring Sustainability in a Unfair World (University ofCapetown, 2010).xxv Alfred A Marcus and Zachary Sheaffer, “Analogical Reasoning and Complexity,” Journal of Homeland Securityand Emergency

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jessica Erin Sprowl; Rui Pan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Melissa Dyehouse, Purdue University; Carrie A. Wachter Morris, Purdue University; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

strong a team solidarity causes inappropriate protectiveness”. (p.69)65Community InvolvementCommunity involvement is identified as one of the essential characteristics of programs thatattract women and minorities to engineering and science.66 An example of engineering programsthat encourage community involvement is EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service)which is built on the premise that students develop real-world skills by solving problems basedon the needs of a community.36,56 Such projects can provide students with experiences that Page 25.520.9“complement and reinforce classroom and laboratory learning” and “serve to demonstrate