Conference Session

Educating the Whole Engineer - Building Life Skills

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Kindschi, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Patrick Eagan, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Paul Ross, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Engineering Libraries

engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.ABET criteria a through k invite interpretation. This has been a source of concern for someeducators, but it has invited the IRRAE instructors to assess and articulate the research aims ofthe course and their applications to graduate work in engineering leadership. 2 Facility inresearch methodologies contribute to success in engineering professionalism: knowledge ofbasics, design of experiments, design of systems, problem analysis and solution, impact ofengineering work. It is also easy to see that research skills contribute to the professionalism of“life-long learning” and that the research tools increasingly available for secondary research are“necessary for engineering practice.”The

Conference Session

New Tools and Techniques for Information Literacy

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Baer, Wichita State University

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journals are worried about the rising occurrences of plagiarism in articlessubmitted for publication.3The Internet has changed way students plagiarize to some extent because it has changed the way Page 13.1367.2they research. A wealth of information is now at the researcher’s fingertips. A library ofinformation is brought straight to their desks. The phrase “cut and paste plagiarism” expressesthe ease of copying a sentence, paragraph, or more from an article into a term paper.Additionally, many in the upcoming generation view materials retrieved online differently thanthose obtained from other sources. Clifton Poole stated “there is a tendency to

Conference Session

Educating the Whole Engineer - Building Life Skills

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kate Thomes, University of Pittsburgh; Beth Bateman Newborg, University of Pittsburgh; Kate Joranson, University of Pittsburgh; Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh; Steven Abramowitch, University of Pittsburgh; Carol Washburn, University of Pittsburgh; Carol Baker, University of Pittsburgh

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their studentsgraduate with sound hard skills, also ensure they are graduating “whole engineers”—engineerswho have encountered and practiced communication, teamwork, and the ability to recognize andresolve ethical dilemmas; who are cognizant of the potentially enormous social impact ofengineering; and who have skills which facilitate lifelong learning in these very areas?For engineering schools to educate “whole engineers,” they must embrace their own university’swhole range of resources. Schools of engineering are parts of larger educational institutions,and, as such, have the opportunity and obligation to make the best use of the resources a wholeuniversity has to offer. Here at the University of Pittsburgh, the Swanson School of