Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Ross, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

–based, and lively intellectual themes in a freshman writingclass, supported and nurtured by innovative and empowering programs such as the UW-MadisonFIGs program, benefit both students and instructors. Instructors and administrators shouldactively develop such opportunities, particularly making use of the flexibility and “high impact”educational power provided by “freshman comp” within first year engineering programs.References1. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2006. Initiative for science, engineering, and technology. http://www.amacad.org/projects/ionitSciTech.aspx (aerospace in the classroom)2. ASEE/University of Notre Dame. 2006. A dialogue on engineering education: the role of the first tear. (DVD summary disk) (first

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom Moran, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

popular pulp magazines andseveral science fiction novels. Hubbard studied engineering for two years at George WashingtonUniversity.8 Robert A. Heinlein, the famed writer of such science fiction classics as Stranger ina Strange Land, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and worked as an engineer duringWorld War II.9A number of other engineers are active contemporary writers. These include memoir writer andnovelist Hickam (industrial engineering), science fiction craftsman Gene Wolfe (mechanicalengineering), mystery novelist Aileen Schumacher (civil engineering), poet Brad Henderson(mechanical engineering), and acclaimed literary novelists Nick Arvin (mechanical engineering)and Stewart O’Nan (aerospace engineering).10,11,12,13,14,15 At some point

Conference Session

Tree-huggers, Diggers, and Queers--Oh my!

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Cech, University of California, San Diego; Tom Waidzunas, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

foster morehostile climates than others. When asked to rank engineering degree programs from most toleast tolerant of LGB individuals, respondents consistently ranked biological and chemicalengineering departments as the most tolerant and electrical and computer engineering andcomputer science with average tolerance. Mechanical, aerospace, civil and structuraldepartments were considered to be the least tolerant fields. These rankings are based onrespondents’ perceptions that the more “masculine,” “technical”, or “hard” a subfield isstereotyped, the less tolerant it is: In all these different facets of engineering, mechanical is held up as THE engineering field, because it’s practical, hands-on, it’s where it all kind of stems from

Conference Session

Liberal Education and Leadership

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Val Hawks, Brigham Young University; John Harb, Brigham Young University; Alan Parkinson, Brigham Young University; Spencer Magleby, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

of Engineering Practice, Research, andEducation, The Millennium Project, 2008, p. 27.15 M. Ali Porbahaie, Civil Engineering—ASCE, Vol. 64, No. 6, June 1994, pp. 73-7416 Howard, A., "From Engineer to Engineering Manager: A Qualitative Study of Experiences, Challenges, andIndividual Transitions for Engineering Managers in Aerospace Companies." Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania StateUniversity, 200317 Wulf, B., “An Urgent Need to Change,” National Academy of Engineering, 2004.18 J.N. Harb and R.E. Terry, "Use of the Kolb Learning Cycle and the 4MAT System in Engineering Education," J.Eng. Education, 82, 70 (1993).19 Maxwell, John C., Developing the Leader Within You, Thomas Nelson Inc., 1993

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Fry, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

2006-996: UNDERSTANDING "DESIGN THINKING" IN THE CONTEXT OFEDUCATIONRichard Fry, Brigham Young University Richard Fry currently serves as the program chair in the Industrial Design Program in the School of Technology at Brigham Young University where he specializes in Product Design. Previous to entering the education field, he worked professionally in the areas of Appliance, Aerospace, Exhibit, and Home Fitness design. He received his MFA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1994. Page 11.1363.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Understanding “Design

Conference Session

Communication - Needs and Methods

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Lockwood, University of Calgary; Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

communication curriculum in one department of civil engineering." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 51.3 (2008): 313-3278. Class surveys, conducted November 15-27, 2009 by anonymous response to 7 multiple choice/scaled answer/fill-in questions.9. Examples have been drawn with permission from Encana; Spar Aerospace; medical research labs at Mount Sini Hospital (Toronto), University of Calgary, University of Manitoba; Bell Labs, Hydro One (Ontario); Canadian Ministry of the Environment.10. American Society of Mechanical Engineers Curriculum Innovation Award, 200511. American Society of Engineering Education Best Paper Award, 200412. Alan Blizzard Award for Collaborative Education, 200413. Eggermont, M

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Endeavor

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Brocato, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

engineering majors represented, some students gripe about studying Challenger because “it’s for aerospace majors.” In truth, the space shuttle system is as interdisciplinary as it is complex, though the nontechnical issues we discuss – effective communication, ethical codes, individual versus corporate responsibility – are probably more important than application to any specific discipline; and these nontechnical issues, of course, can be applied to any working professional.Our approach to using Challenger is far more formal and lengthy than our approach to usingcases like Pendergrass, often spanning the entire latter half of a semester. The following listprovides an example of one typical incorporation of

Conference Session

Normative Commitments and Public Engagement in Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Downey, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

countries with respect to environment, energy, finance, health of our planet and ourselves mandate cooperation rather than conflict. On the fine line between cooperation and competition, let us choose to err on the side of cooperation with peaceful longterm objectives. Lester Gerhardt (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) traces a career pathway that began withspace flight simulation at Bell Aerospace, led to “try[ing] out academe” in a faculty position atRensselaer, and a flurry of activities in international engineering education. These include co-founding and continued leadership of the Global Engineering Education Exchange Program,leadership in structuring and implementing the Rensselaer Education Across Cultural HorizonsProgram (REACH

Conference Session

Tree-huggers, Diggers, and Queers--Oh my!

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

contribution to thinking aboutinnovations in the future. Page 14.1386.10Sustainability as an Interdisciplinary Cross-course CollaborationConfiguration: The third initiative for integrating sustainability into engineering education atRensselaer entails aligning the content, schedule, and assignments of three different courses andhaving students collaborate on projects that span the courses. This initiative is in-process duringthe current (Spring 2009) semester. One course, “Sustainability and Design,” is a 4000-leveltechnical elective offered by the Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering Departmentand targeted primarily to engineering