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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 2011-635: 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

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Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Geselowitz, IEEE History Center; John Vardalas, IEEE

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-928: USING HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY TO PROMOTE ANUNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPACT OF ENGINEERING SOLUTIONSAMONG ENGINEERING STUDENTSMichael Geselowitz, IEEE History Center Michael N. Geselowitz is Staff Director of the IEEE History Center. Immediately prior to joining IEEE in 1997, he was Group Manager at Eric Marder Associates, a New York market research firm, where he supervised Ph.D. scientists and social scientists undertaking market analyses for Fortune 500 high-tech companies. He is also a registered Patent Agent. He holds S.B. degrees in electrical engineering and in anthropology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from Harvard University. His

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown; Lea Campbell, University of Houston, Downtown

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Downtown, Dr. Campbell was the Associate Vice Chancellor for Develop- mental Education at City Colleges of Chicago. She has published articles and text books on developmental mathematics, technical communications and strategies for improving student success. Page 22.1504.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 The Teamwork Conundrum: What Should be Taught and How Can We Assess Team Learning in Engineering Technology?Abstract A reoccurring theme in national surveys of employers, including a 2005 survey sponsored by theAssociation of American

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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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

AC 2011-1120: ETHICAL AND SOCIETAL IMPLICATIONS OF INTERNET-BASED ENGINEERING EDUCATION: FACULTY AND STUDENT PER-SPECTIVESK.L. Jordan, Michigan Technological University K.L. Jordan completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Tech- nological University in 2006 and 2008 respectively. During her undergraduate tenure she was an active member of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and currently serves on the Board of Direc- tors. She is also the current President of the ASEE student chapter at Michigan Tech. As the recipient of a King-Chavez-Parks graduate fellowship, Ms. Jordan has agreed to seek an engineering faculty position upon completion of her doctoral degree

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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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Gary Lee Downey, Virginia Tech; Masanori Wada, Tokyo Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-1415: AVOIDING INFERIORITY: GLOBAL ENGINEERING ED-UCATION ACROSS JAPANGary Lee Downey, Virginia Tech Gary Downey is Alumni Distinguished Professor in Science and Technology Studies and affiliated Profes- sor in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. A mechanical engineer (Lehigh) and cultural anthropolo- gist (University of Chicago), he is co-editor of What Is Global Engineering Education For?: The Making of International Educators (Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2010). Author of The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers, he is Editor of The Engineering Studies Series at MIT Press and Global Engineering series at Morgan & Claypool, as well as the Engineering Studies journal

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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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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

understand key factors that influence the establishment, maintenance, and restoration of biomechanical function in skeletal tissues such as tendon, ligament, and bone. Dr. Mikic has formerly served as the Director of the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning at Smith College as well as the Chair of the Liberal Education Division of the ASEE.Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Atsushi Akera is Director of First Year Studies and Associate Professor of History in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has published Calculating a Natural World: Computers, Scientists and Engineers During the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research with MIT Press (2006), and is

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Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology; Betsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; April A. Kedrowicz, University of Utah

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-1503: WHY INDUSTRY SAYS THAT ENGINEERING GRADU-ATES HAVE POOR COMMUNICATION SKILLS: WHAT THE LITERA-TURE SAYSJeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology Jeffrey Donnell coordinates the Frank K. Webb Program in Professional Communication at Georgia Tech’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical EngineeringBetsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University Betsy M. Aller is an associate professor in industrial and manufacturing engineering at Western Michigan University, where she teaches and coordinates the capstone design project sequence. She also teaches first-year engineering, manufacturing for sustainability, and graduate-level project management courses.Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University

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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

focuses on thecultivation of technical and substantive knowledge embedded in an apolitical, individualistic andmeritocratic orientation.5,13,14 We elaborate on these themes in the next section.The findings reported here are drawn from a larger, longitudinal study of engineering students atfour sites, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), The Franklin Olin College ofEngineering (Olin), Smith College and the University of Massachusetts (UMass). Students werefollowed for five years, beginning with freshmen orientation in 2002, and concluding one-yearpost-graduation (for most of the participants in the study). Data collection included yearlysurveys to the panel (n=781), in-depth interviews in years one and four with a sub-sample of the

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Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth R. Leitch, West Texas A&M University; Rhonda B Dittfurth, West Texas A&M University; Freddie J Davis P.E., West Texas A&M University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the importance of technical communication skills, as evidenced by astudy conducted in 20102. That study indicated a need for an “awareness of the big picture” and a “willingness toengage” in regard to communication skills in the workplace. The Body of Knowledge document prepared by theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) further emphasizes the need for technological communication skillsalong with business management competence and lifelong professional development in order to compete in theglobal marketplace3. Communication and business management skills can be fuzzy concepts for people primarilytrained in applied math and science, yet these skills are recognized when they are or are not present in individuals

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Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Micah Hale, University of Arkansas; Richard A. Coffman, University of Arkansas

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-1455: OBSERVATIONS FROM AN ENGINEERING WRITINGPROJECTMicah Hale, University of Arkansas Dr. Hale is an Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas. His research interests include concrete materials and structural concrete design.Richard A. Coffman, University of Arkansas Richard A. Coffman is an assistant professor of Civil Engineering (geotechnical emphasis) at the Uni- versity of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Rick received his bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Wyoming in 2002, his masters degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003, and his doctoral degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri- Columbia in 2009. Rick

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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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Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University; Warren R. Hull, Louisiana State University; David Bowles, Louisiana State University; Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University; Stephen O. Sears, Louisiana State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

remainingrespondents (5.3%) saying communication skills are important. None of our respondentsdoubted the importance of communication skills. In fact, one of our respondents said, “Tosucceed, engineers must have tremendous communications skills.”At our university, our communication initiatives already take globalism somewhat into account.In our Communication-Intensive (C-I) courses, we emphasize 4 modes of communication:written, spoken, visual, and technological. Of these, only 2 are language specific. However,even when working in language-specific modes, rhetorical strategies that consider audienceneeds are taught so that language can be supplemented with graphical information, calculations,or other non-linguistic elements. The visual and technological modes

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Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William K. Durfee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Benjamin Adams, University of Minnesota; Audrey J. Appelsies, University of Minnesota; Pamela Flash, University of Minnesota

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

is tied to the ABET accreditation process.1. IntroductionDespite widespread acknowledgment that effective written communication is as essential forlearning as for disseminating ideas and discoveries, teaching writing and improving the qualityof student writing remain challenges for educators in engineering. National studies, such as thoseconducted by the Commission on Writing1 and the Boyer Commission on EducatingUndergraduates in the Research University2, argue that writing is a central means for developingstudents’ critical thinking, communication, and metacognitive skills. These studies urge reforms,suggesting that educators pay greater attention to writing instruction in all disciplines and urgingscience, technology, engineering, and

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Myths About Gender and Race

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peggy Layne, Virginia Tech

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

AC 2011-1325: THE ENGINEERING ”PIPELINE” METAPHOR AND THECAREERS OF FEMALE DEANS OF ENGINEERINGPeggy Layne, Virginia Tech Peggy Layne, P.E., joined Virginia Tech in 2003 as director of the AdvanceVT program, a National Science Foundation sponsored program to increase the number and success of women faculty in science and engineering. Prior to accepting her current position, Ms. Layne worked as a diversity consultant for the American Association of Engineering Societies and as director of the program on diversity in the engineering workforce at the National Academy of Engineering. She also spent a year as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in the office of Senator Bob Graham, where she was responsible

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Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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April A. Kedrowicz, University of Utah; Maria Dawn Blevins, University of Utah

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

appeal to those students who have abasic knowledge of Power Point and challenge them to have more sophisticated slide shows.In summary, increasing enrollment in civil engineering coupled with fixed, or in some cases, adecrease in instructional personnel challenge instructors to provide students with individualizedattention and feedback. Yet, one-on-one contact is paramount to improving students’communication competence. To rise to this challenge, we offer a model of interdisciplinary teamteaching that capitalizes on split sessions as the way to provide both introductory civilengineering information, while also consulting on speaking, writing, and teaming skills.Bibliography1. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. www.abet.org.2

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Myths About Gender and Race

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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

, students were asked to report the extent to which they agreed with a numberof statements related to motivation. The six motivation constructs and associated items are shown inTable 1.Table 1. Motivation constructs on the APPLE survey.1. Motivation (Financial)Engineers are well paid.Engineers make more money than most other professionals.An engineering degree will guarantee me a job when I graduate.2. Motivation (Parental Influence)My parents would disapprove if I chose a major other than engineering.My parents want me to be an engineer.3. Motivation (Social Good)Technology plays an important role in solving society’s problems.Engineers have contributed greatly to fixing problems in the world.Engineering skills can be used for the good of society.4

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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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Joseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-1604: YOGI MEETS MOSES: ETHICS, PROGRESS AND THEGRAND CHALLENGES FOR ENGINEERINGJoseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University Joseph Herkert, DSc, PE is Lincoln Associate Professor of Ethics and Technology in the School of Letters and Sciences and the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University. He has taught engineering ethics and related courses for more than twenty years. His work on engineering ethics has appeared in engineering, law, social science, and applied ethics journals. Dr. Herkert is the past Editor of IEEE Technology & Society and a founding Associate Editor of Engineering Studies. He has recently served on the IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Committee and the

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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

education. This was disproportionately the case with minority students who made up the majority at underfunded, inner-city high schools.... Thus, to mandate the admission of only qualified and not qualifiable students put the burden of integration on a part of the education system that patently was not doing its job. [...] What would have happened if institutes of technology and universities, given enough support and sanctioning by employers of their engineering graduates, took over the task of remedial education? Schools could conceivably maintain sound material standards for engineering but train students over longer periods, with greater provisions for remedial instruction. Even if such instruction costs more than existing

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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

engaged in a pluralistic,complex world, we have undertaken a project to develop and assess core liberal educationoutcomes. This paper describes the planning and actions thus far to meet these new requirementsat the university and specifically in our engineering programs. We have begun to expandoutcome assessment to include five “intellectual and practical skills,” specifically, critical andcreative thinking, inquiry/analysis, problem-solving, and information literacy. VALUE rubricsare being used as part of the process to ascertain where the best opportunities are to measurestudent achievement within the engineering and technology programs. An assessment frameworkis presented and successful pilot results are discussed.The ChallengeOur regional

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Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kacey Beddoes, Virginia Tech; Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-1369: USING BOUNDARY NEGOTIATING ARTIFACTS TO IN-VESTIGATE INTERDISCIPLINARY AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMSKacey Beddoes, Virginia Tech Kacey Beddoes is a Ph.D. student in Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech. Her current research interests are interdisciplinary studies of gender and engineering education and international en- gineering education. She serves as Managing Editor of Engineering Studies. She is also co-editor of What is Global Engineering Education For? The Making of International Educators, and Assistant Editor of the Global Engineering series from Morgan & Claypool publishers.Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech Maura Borrego is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering

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Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Arthur Brown, Penn State University ; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Human Development specializing in Educational Technology Leadership. Her work focuses on projects that measure and assess student perceptions of learning related to their experiences with engineering course innovations. She is a faculty development consultant with previous experience in instructional design and instructor of the Graduate Assistant Seminar for engineering teaching assistants. Page 22.906.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011  Integrating Ethics into Undergraduate Environmental Science and Economics Education Abstract Good

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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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George D. Catalano, State University of New York, Binghamton

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

tofind many who would find reason to disagree with the identification of any of these topics forboth present and future engineers. Rather than object to what is included, I would like to raise theissue of what has been neglected on this list and far too often in engineering – listening to thequiet voices that speak from within each of us, from our heart. I am suggesting this act oflistening as one additional entry for this most important list.In my view, our profession does not encourage very well stopping and listening to each other, tolife around us or even to ourselves. This is a skill that given our pace of our modern society,technological advances and our cultural conditioning, must be cultivated for it surely will eitherdevelop or quickly

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Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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George D. Ricco, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Bucciarellii, L. (2003). Engineering Philosophy. Delft University Press. Delft. 6. Downey, G. L., J.C. Lucena, and C. Mitcham. (2007). Engineering Ethics and Identity: Emerging Initiatives in Comparative Perspective. Science and Engineering Ethics. 13(4), 463-487. 7. Goldman, S. L. (2004). Why We Need a Philosophy of Engineering: A Work in Progress. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 29(2):163-176. 8. Lewin, D. (1983). Engineering Philosophy – The Third Culture. Leonardo. 16(2), 127-132. 9. Moser, F. (1997). Philosophy of/and engineering. An Introduction to and Survey of the Engineering and Technology Problems for the 21st century. Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly. 11(1), 1-5. 10

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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

Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), an interdisciplinary research group with members from engineering, art, and educational psychology. His research interests span the formation of students’ professional identity, the role of reflection in engi- neering learning, and interpretive research methods in engineering education. He was the first international recipient of the ASEE Educational Research Methods Division’s ”Appren- tice Faculty Award”, was selected as a 2010 Frontiers in Education ”New Faculty Fellow”, and is currently a UGA ”Lilly Teaching Fellow”. His teaching focuses on innovative approaches to introducing systems thinking and creativity into the en

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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

. If we think criticallyabout the framing of these ideas, it leads to questions in four key areas:*Who participated in this framing, and by what process? Who was left out of the deliberations,or given a lesser role?* What does it mean to frame out a set of “Grand Challenges” in engineering? What does it sayabout the role of technology in society, or the role of engineering? How might otherunderstandings about technology in society have led to different framings?* Why are the Challenges framed as morally imperative or at least for the greater good? Shouldthey be framed this way? Are the ends even desirable, and for whom? Why are certaintechnologies included, and not others?* What ethical consideration was given, or needs tonow be given, to the

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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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Linda M. Head, Rowan University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Integrated CurriculumIntroduction and BackgroundThere have for many years been efforts to bridge the gap between educational experiences inengineering and the liberal arts and sciences. Such efforts typically take the form of coursesdesigned to promote technological literacy for liberal arts majors, or courses designed toencourage engineering or science majors to consider the social and political implications of theirprofessions.Technological literacy for non-technology majors has been addressed in a variety of ways. Onevery popular version is to provide a course for students, early in their collegiate career, to learnan engineering application that has direct relevance to their lives. This approach has been used atYale University in the course

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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

for Engineering Education, 2011 Teaching the Unbalanced Equation: Technical Opportunities and Social Barriers in the NAE Grand Challenges and BeyondIntroductionThe National Academy of Engineering (NAE) released its report Grand Challenges forEngineering in 2008, describing 14 major engineering challenges that must be overcome to makethe world “a more sustainable, safe, healthy, and joyous—in other words, better—place.” 1 Thechallenges identified encompass areas as diverse as energy, environment, infrastructure, health,security, learning, and research, but in each case the emphasis is on “engineering” dimensions ofthe larger problem domain and, in particular, on the technologies

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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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Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

include the blog STEMequity.com, and a study, with sociologist Mary Ebeling, of economic equity in nanotechnology training and employment. She is also writing on distributions of blame between workers and materials for failures in contemporary building technologies, as economies of scale and automation continue their long incursion on the labor of commercial construction. Page 22.1104.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Note to Self: Save Humanity (A Social and Cultural History of the "Grand Challenges")AbstractThe list of

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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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Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isabel Simões de Carvalho P.E., ISEL, Lisbon, Portugal; Christy Moore, University of Texas, Austin

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineering education.Christy Moore, University of Texas, Austin Christy Moore is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin where she has taught in Engineering Communication since 1993. Ms. Moore’s current research is focused on ways of expanding the undergraduate engineering curriculum to better incorporate study of communication skills, global responsibility, and engineering ethics. Since 2004, Ms. Moore has developed curriculum for and taught a First-year Seminar that addresses the impact of technology on society and the environment. Page 22.332.1