AC 2012-3653: DO WE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY OR DOES TECH-NOLOGY CONTROL US?Dr. J. Douglass Klein, Union College J. Douglass Klein is the Kenneth B. Sharpe Professor of Economics at Union College. Klein joined the Union faculty in 1979, after earning a B.A. in mathematics at Grinnell College and a M.A. and Ph.D. in economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. At Union College, he has held several administrative positions, including most recently, Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies, and from 2008-2011 served as Co- chair of the Symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education. His research is in the areas of energy, the economics of auctions, the measurement of efficiency, and the integration of engineering and liberal
AC 2012-3893: USING STORIES TO PROMOTE TECHNOLOGICAL LIT-ERACYDr. William R. Loendorf, Eastern Washington University William R. Loendorf is currently a Full Professor of engineering and design at Eastern Washington Uni- versity. He obtained his B.Sc. in engineering science at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside, M.S. in electrical engineering at Colorado State University, M.B.A. at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, and Ph.D. in engineering management at Walden University. He holds a Professional Engi- neer license and has 30 years of industrial experience as an Engineer or Engineering Manager at General Motors, Cadnetix, and Motorola. His interests include engineering management, technological
AC 2012-3711: TEACHING NON-MAJOR STUDENTS ELECTRICAL SCI-ENCE AND TECHNOLOGYDr. Harold R. Underwood, Messiah College Harold Underwood received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at UIUC in 1989 and has been a faculty member of the Engineering Department at Messiah College since 1992. Besides teaching circuit analysis and electromagnetics, he supervises the Communications Group of the Messiah College Collaboratory, including a project involving flight tracking and messaging for small planes in remote locations, and an assistive communication technology involving wireless enabled remote co-presence for cognitively and behaviorally challenged individuals. He has been teaching Exploring Electrical Technology as a
clearly distinguish between images of "engineers" and"scientists"). The paper also assesses specific character and professional attributes, stereotypes(profession-, ethnicity or gender-based) and attributes known to facilitate viewer's identificationwith on-screen characters, of engineering professionals portrayed in selected films. In particular,the key research question of “How are engineer(s) and their work portrayed in the feature films?”was broken down to more detailed sub-questions: • What types of engineering work are represented? How is creative component of that work shown? How successful (or unsuccessful) are the outcomes? • Is the distinction between science and technology, and scientist and engineers depicted? • Are
AC 2012-3526: INTEGRATION OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SO-CIETY (STS) COURSES INTO THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUMDr. Wesley Marshall P.E., University of Colorado, Denver Wesley Marshall is an Assistant Professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado, Denver, and Co-director of the Active Communities Transportation (ACT) research group. He focuses on transporta- tion research dedicated to building a more sustainable infrastructure, particularly in terms of improving road safety, active transportation, and transit-oriented communities. Other recent research topics involve transportation planning, congestion pricing, human behaviors, parking, and street networks. A native of Watertown, Mass., Marshall is a
AC 2012-3854: THE MIT LEWIS SURVEY: CREATING A BLUEPRINTFOR A COLD WAR TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, 1947-1949Dr. Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Atsushi Akera is Associate Professor of history in the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Director of First-year 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 currently working on a book on the history of engineering education reform in the United States. Page 25.1322.1
; Graduate Center of the City University of New York, electrical engineering, M.E., 1981; the City College of the City University of New York, electrical engineering, B.E., 1977; and University of Patras (Greece), physics, B.S., 1973. Appointments: Queensborough Community College of CUNY, 2009-present, As- sistant Professor of physics, Queensborough Community College of CUNY, 2006-2008, Subst. Assistsnt Professor of physics, Queensborough Community College of CUNY, 1990-2005, Adjunct Assistant Pro- fessor of physics, Verizon Communications Science & Technology, 1986-2006, Dist. Member Technical Staff (DMTS), AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1984-1986, Member Technical Staff (MTS), the City College of CUNY, 1976-1984
AC 2012-4526: A WORKSHOP TO IMPROVE COMMUNICATION SKILLSFOR TEACHING ASSISTANTSDr. Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology Elizabeth A. DeBartolo is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She earned her B.S.E. at Duke University in 1994 and her Ph.D. at Purdue University in 2000. She works with students on assistive device design and determining mechani- cal properties of materials. DeBartolo serves on her college’s leadership teams for both multi-disciplinary capstone design and outreach program development.Prof. Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology Margaret B. Bailey, P.E., is a professor of mechanical engineering
AC 2012-4619: WORKFORCE COMMUNICATION INSTRUCTION: PRE-LIMINARY INTER-RATER RELIABILITY DATA FOR AN EXECUTIVE-BASED ORAL COMMUNICATION RUBRICDr. Tristan T. Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology Tristan Utschig is a Senior Academic Professional in the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning and Assistant Director for the Scholarship and Assessment of Teaching and Learning at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In this role, he consults with faculty about planning and assessing edu- cational innovation in the classroom. He also serves as an evaluator on educational research grants. For- merly, he was tenured Associate Professor of engineering physics at Lewis-Clark State College. Utschig has regularly
the usability of a new urban state trail.It is clear that the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and math) areimportant at this critical juncture in America life. But, as Columbia University historianAlan Brinkley has recently argued, “we would be equally impoverished withouthumanistic knowledge as well. Science and technology teach us what we can do.Humanistic thinking can help us understand what we should do.” A pedagogy based uponentrepreneurialism can help create a vibrant relationship between the liberal arts andengineering education, one that strengthens both disciplines as it better prepares studentsfor the realities of 21st century economic life
AC 2012-5395: VISIONS OF SOCIAL COMPETENCE: COMPARING EN-GINEERING EDUCATION ACCREDITATION IN AUSTRALIA, CHINA,SWEDEN, AND THE UNITED STATESDr. Jens Kabo, Chalmers University of Technology Jens Kabo works as a researcher at the Division of Engineering Education Research at Chalmers Univer- sity of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.Xiaofeng Tang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Xiaofeng Tang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Dr. Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dean Nieusma is Assistant Professor in science and technology studies and Director of the programs in design and innovation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Mr. John
AC 2012-3917: IMPROVING ENGINEERING EDUCATION WITH EN-HANCED CALIBRATED PEER REVIEW ASSESSMENT OF A COLLAB-ORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTDr. Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patricia A. Carlson teaches at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She is the author of over seventy publications and presentation. She has used her experience in educational technology on two large-scale Lilly Endowment grants and on two National Science Foundation-funded research projects. In addition to teaching, she is the Director of the PRISM Project, an outreach program that helps Indiana teachers of middle school science, mathematics, and technology to integrate new information technology applications into their
AC 2012-4539: THE COMPLEXITIES OF ENGINEERING DESIGN ANDSYSTEM MODELINGDr. Gayle E. Ermer, Calvin College Gayle Ermer is a professor of engineering at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. She teaches in the mechanical concentration in the areas of machine dynamics and manufacturing processes. Her master’s degree was obtained from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in manufacturing systems engineering (1987), and her Ph.D. from Michigan State University (1994). Her research interests include philosophy of technology, engineering ethics, and women in engineering. Page 25.1279.1 c
Colorado School of Mines Mercer University Dartmouth College Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Johns Hopkins University University of South Alabama Massachusetts Institute of Technology1 Morgan State University2 New Jersey Institute of Technology Baccalaureate Institutions: North Carolina A&T2 Harvey Mudd College1 Purdue University Lafayette College Stony Brook University Milwaukee School of Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
AC 2012-4586: ENGINEERING AS A LIBERAL DISCIPLINE: TWO, THREE,OR FOUR CULTURES?Dr. Robert O. Grondin, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Robert Grondin has B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michi- gan. He joined the faculty of Arizona State University in 1983, serving first in the Department of Electri- cal Engineering in the Fulton Schools of Engineering on ASU’s Tempe campus and more recently in the Department of Engineering of the College of Technology and innovation on ASU’s Polytechnic campus. Page 25.537.1 c American Society for
that informed citizen of thefuture is a course in Infrastructure for all college graduates. Infrastructure should be taken hereas a widely inclusive term, with many systems and meta-systems (the health care system,electrical power, information technology, transportation, etc.) providing the framework for suchstudies. The how of such a course, what such a course might consist of, possible course syllabi,models and the like, is presented by Hart et al. (2011), but this paper seeks to address a verydifferent question; why require such a course, particularly for non-engineers. More directly put,this paper argues that if we are to address the broad and complex problems posed by ourdecaying existing infrastructure and our demand for future
were used for photography instruction, all class time wasspent in critiques. Also, students were not put on teams, and no students from outside of engineering wereinvited. Unlike FV, this course has not become particularly popular; it has not fully filled, averaging 20 students,while FV is always full at up to 50 students, with a wait list.Perception of Design Course Outcomes: Student Images from Fall 2011 Figure 4: Canning jar by Ball. Image by Alyssa Frank Page 25.206.9Figure 5: Clock technologies, by Justin Curtice. Page 25.206.10Figure 6: Bobby pin by Haley Schneider
AC 2012-4670: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF EMPATHY IN ENGINEER-ING COMMUNICATION THROUGH A TRANSDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUEDr. Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Joachim Walther is an Assistant Professor of engineering education research at the University of Georgia (UGA). He is Co-director of the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), an interdisciplinary research group with members from engineering, art, educational psychology, and social work. His research interests span the formation of students’ pro- fessional identity, the role of reflection in engineering learning, and interpretive research methods in en- gineering education. He was the first international
, emphasizes theimportance of training successful engineers who are well-rounded, being both technologicallyproficient and also possessing attributes such as strong leadership, communication skills, andingenuity.2 In order to meet the challenges of the world, these engineers need to be cognizant ofthe social implications of technological decisions and implementations. As the document states,“Successful engineers in 2020 will…recognize the broader contexts that are intertwined intechnology and its application in society” (p. 156). The National Academy charges universitiesand colleges to develop engineers that have these attributes and are ready to meet the globalchallenges facing us. Similarly, Sheppard, Macatangay, Colby, & Sullivan describe the
focused on commercial innovation and globalcompetition, instead reproduce: ...people prepared to secure themselves, and all of us, against the risks of unpredictable and precarious futures.3Such conditions for technological participation, predicated on the attainment of consensus andcontinuity, seem likely to produce very narrow definitions of the environmental, social, political,ethical, and health and safety constraints to be shared with the engineering learner via Criterion3.The distance between understandings of social and political matters of that kind exhibited byengineering educators, and those evinced in many social-scientific studies of engineering, arenothing less than extreme. In part, this reflects that much larger
. It is interesting to note that in reviewing the literature on global competence in highereducation, a rather discipline specific dichotomy emerges. The scholarship published in non-engineering and technology journals tends to emphasize the definition of global competenceitself and a rather idealized vision of the globally competent learner as ―one who recognizes thegeopolitical and economic interdependence of our world; understands the non-universality ofculture, religion and values, is committed to global, lifelong learning…accepts the importance of Page 25.238.2all peoples…‖ among other things [2]. The literature in engineering and
Director of INSPIRE, Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning, and As- sistant Professor of engineering education and learning design and technology at Purdue University. NSF and several private foundations fund his research. His research and teaching focuses on policy of P-12 engineering, how to support teachers and students’ academic achievements through engineering learning, and the measurement and support of change of ”habits of mind,” particularly in regards to sustainability and the use of cyber-infrastructure to sensitively and resourcefully provide access to and support learning of complexity
right talent for a global society. Phase 1 Report," American Society for Engineering Edcuation, Washington, DC, 2009. 2. R.A. Louis and L.D. McNair, “Graduate student identity in engineering and education: The creation of an identity construct.” ePIC 2011: ePortfolio and Identity Conference. London, England: July 11-‐13, 2011. Available online at: http://www.epforum.eu/ proceedings/epic-‐2011-‐1/view. 3. D. Tosh, T. P. Light, K. Fleming, and J. Haywood, “Engagement with Electronic Portfolios: Challenges from the Student Perspective.” Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 31(3), online version, 2005. 4. E. M. Rodgers
-459. Accessed January 11, 2012 from http://www.jstor.org/stable/2668172.31. hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge.32. National Science Foundation (2007). Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering: 2007, Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resource Statistics.33. Slaton, A.E. (2010). Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.34. Oldenziel, R. (1999). Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America 1870- 1945. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.35. Frehill, L.M. (2004). The Gendered Construction
ways of wordingand phrasing and the closely related ways of understanding and analysis—of a givencommunity (rather than dismissing different “languages” as overly complicated orreductively directive) allows for highly successful initial and continuing interaction with Page 25.281.6that community.Fluent Writers “Talking” Physics: Discourse Practices in Physics 100One of the challenges facing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(STEM) education is the fact that knowledge and information are growing at anincreasingly fast pace. In physics education, teachers have watched as the typical physicstextbook has progressively gotten heavier and
book with other students before coming up with ideas. Even then, I felt more strongly about the ethical issues in Prey than in Pompeii.”Students agreed that the novels helped them see the importance of thinking about the impact ofengineering decisions: • “Prey specifically showed how the abuse of future engineering technology can lead to devastating problems.” • “Novels provide lots of context and a view into possible decisions that a lecture could not possibly provide.” • “You could see the consequences of the action in the book, but could then contemplate what might have happened to the character if they had taken the other path or made a different choice
Partnership for Technical Communication, in Writing Across the Curriculum2006: Clemson, SC.9. Kampe, S.L., et al., Leveraging the “Traditional” MSE Degree with an Intensive Communications-across-the-Curriculum Program, in What Makes an Good Materials Engineer and How Best to Educate Them – Best Practices, Materials Science and Technology 2005 Conference and Exhibition2005: Pittsburgh, PA.10. Pembridge, J.J. and M.C. Paretti. The Current State of Capstone Design Pedagogy. in American Society in Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exhibition. 2010. Page 25.1394.11 Louisville, KY.11. Howe, S., Where are