Conference Session

Linking Engineering and Liberal Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert O. Grondin, Arizona State University, Polytechnic

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

; • importance to national economy; • criteria by which work is judged to be beautiful.He then used these dimensions to compare and contrast natural science, social science and thehumanities by constructing a table in which the nine dimensions are the rows and the threecultures are the columns. We reproduce it here as Table 1. All the wording is direct fromKagan.Table 1. Kagan’s comparison of the three cultures (natural science, social science and thehumanities).Dimension Natural science Social science HumanitiesPrimary Prediction & Prediction & An understanding of humaninterests explanation of explanation of reactions to events and the all natural human behaviors meaning humans

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Shari E. Miller, University of Georgia ; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

issues concerned with the transfers of theseconcepts to an engineering context. This includes the discussion of lessons learned from thetransdisciplinary dialogue. More specifically, these insights provide a new perspective onengineering communication on a conceptual as well as instructional level.1 Introduction: The need to foster empathic communication as part of engineering students’ professional developmentAs the nature of engineering work changes from well-defined, technological questions to broad,multi-facetted, and ill-defined issues 1, a focus of engineering education on preparing studentsfor socio-technical complexity emerges 2-6. The socio-technical systems, that constitute the coreof the engineering work our current students will

Conference Session

Advances in Communication Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keri Lynn Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

from engineering and science revealed that almost two-thirds had a topic-phrase headlinesupported by a bulleted list of subtopics.1 Because slides are used so often by engineeringeducators to communicate research, to teach students, and to have students demonstrate whatthey have learned, the question arises how effective this topic-subtopic structure is, comparedwith other slide structures, for helping audiences understand and remember the information In a recent study, we found that presentation slides following an assertion-evidencestructure led to statistically significant increases in comprehension of complex concepts in Page

Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

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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

the learning process. Aseparate instructor interface and student interface provide customized reports on performance forindividual assignments (see Figure 1). Figure 1: A Dynamic, Multi-staged Learning Environment Page 25.744.3• Task: Students are presented with a challenging communication task, with guiding questions to act as scaffolding for the demanding cognitive activities. Web-linked resources (e.g., tutorials, samples, guidelines, or other handouts) may be embedded at this point.• Calibration: Students examine three “benchmark” samples and assign each a score based on a series of evaluative questions

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Page 25.798.2IntroductionCan entrepreneurship be taught? Until a few decades ago, the answer was usually “no.”Entrepreneurs were popularly understood to be a special breed of self-made man—anideal closely linked to the “American Dream” and characterized by the optimism,ingenuity, grit, and risk-taking that marked the rise to greatness of such giants of industryas Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie, and other innovators from modestbackgrounds with limited formal education.In recent years, though, entrepreneurial education has flourished. Today more than 2,000colleges and universities in the United States, about two-thirds of the total, now offer atleast one course in entrepreneurship. [1] Despite its widespread growth

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

problems, explore impacts of technology and science, and to engage productively withdiverse groups of people in the contexts of technical and health science professions (Fuller andCollier 2004; Bauchspies, Croissant et al. 2005 2005; Hess 2007). STS, as a field of study,, has been steadily growing over the last thirty years. This isevident, to some extent, by a bibliometric analysis of hits on Google Scholar using the followingkeywords: “science,, technology and society,” “engineering “engineering,” and “society.” Figure 1 depicts theresults. The graph also shows that scholar scholarly work in engineering is rapidly

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

. Page 25.520.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Empathy and Caring as Conceptualized Inside and Outside of Engineering: Extensive Literature Review and Faculty Focus Group AnalysesAbstractThe purpose of this study was to investigate how faculty both inside and outside of engineeringconceptualize empathy and care and how they perceive empathy, care, and engineering to be (ornot to be) interrelated. The project employed a comprehensive comparative literature reviewalongside a thematical analysis of focus group interviews, the interviews being conducted withfaculty inside and outside of engineering. The primary research objectives include (1) definingempathy

Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra A. Yost, University of Detroit Mercy; Laurie A. Britt-Smith, University of Detroit Mercy

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the institution’s liberal arts core curriculum willbe presented, along with the findings from building on these successes.1 Introduction and MotivationIn response to a mandate from the institution’s regional accreditation body, the University ofDetroit Mercy (UDM) is in the process of implementing a new general education core, consistingof student learning outcomes that are based on the cognitive levels in Bloom’s taxonomy ratherthan lists of courses in various disciplinary areas. The courses that are being designed or adaptedto satisfy these outcomes must include an assessment component that will enable the institution toevaluate the effectiveness of this core curriculum. Assessment processes in programs separatelyaccredited by ABET or

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. As the program began, these composition experts wrote assignmentsrequiring research into and writing about engineering-related topics, but in the languagefamiliar to liberal arts oriented composition knowledge constructs and practices.Assignments asked students to “imagine the possibilities of....” and “position yourselfamong the current critiques that subvert...” and “consider, perhaps, the multiple pathstowards....”1 It became clear, however, early on in the development and execution of theE/FEWP, that English composition faculty needed to give close attention not just to whatthe students were required to write about, but to how the assignments were worded anddiscussed.In the early days of University of X’s E/FEWP, the English composition

Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan; David B. Knight, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Inger M. Bergom, University of Michigan

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, and few tools have beendeveloped to date to assess such interdisciplinary learning.In this paper we describe the development and testing of a measure of interdisciplinarycompetence. We identify eight dimensions of interdisciplinary competence that emerged from anextensive literature review: 1) awareness of disciplinarity; 2) appreciation of disciplinaryperspectives; 3) appreciation of non-disciplinary perspectives; 4) recognition of disciplinarylimitations; 5) interdisciplinary evaluation; 6) ability to find common ground; 7) reflexivity; and8) integrative skill. We next describe how these dimensions were operationalized as a set ofsurvey items, refined through focus groups with engineering faculty, and pilot tested. Followingthis development

Conference Session

Innovations in Promoting Technological Literacy II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Douglass Klein, Union College

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

technology, andgain practice in critical reading, writing and presentation skills.1. Introduction Do we control technology, or does technology control us? Since technology is a humanactivity – indeed the former Director of the National Academy of Engineering, William Wulf,suggests that technology is what defines us as human – the answer seems self-evident: of coursewe control technology.8 But might it be the case that technology is a genie, which once releasedcannot be coerced back into its bottle? 43 How does this change us as humans? These fundamental questions provide the opportunity to engage first-year students from bothengineering and the liberal arts with important issues regarding the direction of technologicalprogress and more

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad A. B. Wilson, University of Houston

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

research and design in thecurriculum, the course project was changed from a simple library/informational research projectto a design project. Students were tasked with redesigning a light switch, an ink pen, a whole-house water filtration system, a rainwater collection system, or a backyard garden to sustain afamily of four. Because our students are sophomores, they were not required to give technicaldetail but had to maintain the scope of work that they included in their proposal. Students wouldthen explain their newly designed devices in a poster and PowerPoint presentation.Some student proposals and presentations included a light switch that uses celebrity voices (seeFigure 1); a pen that incorporates perfume; a pen that keeps the user awake by

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

teachingassistants (TAs) often lead recitation sessions and hold “office hours” in tutoring centers, it isimportant that these TAs can clearly communicate new, discipline-specific, technical informationto other students who have a technical background, but lack expertise in the topic at hand. Thesame can be said for any engineering student who will be required to communicate on technicaltopics after graduation. ASME’s “Vision 2030: Creating the Future of Mechanical EngineeringEducation”, cites the results of a survey of over 1000 engineering managers as pointing tocommunication as an area where engineering graduates need improvement.1 At the same time,Felder and Brent report that learning through teaching is highly effective in enhancing studentlearning. 2

Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

close with some discussion of alternatives to outcomes-based education thatmight better support change in engineering education.Introduction – EC 2000This paper is part of a session that seeks to continue an ongoing conversation about accreditationand liberal education, that has taken many forms over the years, and was most recently taken upby historians at the 2011 ASEE conference.1 My particular concern here is to bring critiques ofoutcomes-based education (OBE)2 from critical scholarship in Education to bear on our ownversion of OBE in engineering in the U.S. – EC 2000. This is very much a work in progress,drawing on discussions among Liberal Education/Engineering and Society Division members in

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Hertzberg, University of Colorado, Boulder; Bailey Renee Leppek, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kara E. Gray, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

arange of resources and are required to use creativity, guided by their own aesthetic sensibility, to generate their Page 25.206.2fluid flows and visualization techniques. Grades are de-emphasized by grading based on full completion of allassignments. Constructive feedback is provided by in-class critique sessions. All student work is published on ahigh-visibility archival website 1, such that their work becomes a part of their permanent online persona. Noneof these innovations were research-based at the time; they were assembled based on the instructors’ personalvalues as an empirical experiment. As hoped, students

Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Kusbit Dunn, East Carolina University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

can work and live competently outsidetheir own culture. The phrase global competence has been adopted in engineering andtechnology fields, while intercultural competence, cultural competence, multiculturism, culturalintelligence and even global citizenship are used elsewhere [1]. Regardless of its label, the ideathat universities have a responsibility to promote understanding of other cultures has becomesomething of a buzzword in higher education. Lutz noted that ―more and more institutions ofhigher learning adopt global awareness as part of their strategic plans and QEP‖ [2]. It is in fact astrategic plan at the university in question that first brought the notion of global competence tobear on the Technical Writing course discussed

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

curriculum.Engineering ModelingThe central activity of the engineering profession involves creative design of new systems inresponse to given needs. Design is a process of problem-solving, consisting of many stages Page 25.1279.5between the development of a new concept and the implementation of a concrete solution. It isabout bringing ideas to life. A structured engineering design process is commonly taught andused to help clarify and reduce the complexity of engineering design work. A typical prescriptiveflow chart for this process, taken from a popular first-year engineering design textbook, is shownin Figure 1.xiiiThe modeling/analysis/evaluation stage of

Conference Session

STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

grappled with MIT’s unique wartime experience.Without question, the MIT administration, beginning with Karl Compton and James Killian,played a key role in MIT’s postwar transformation.1 Yet it was the Lewis Survey thattransformed MIT’s organizational structure through its “Four School Plan,” began the work ofredefining the role of the faculty at a “technological university,” and most importantly built aconsensus among the faculty for a way forward. This paper looks closely at the intense efforts ofthe Lewis’ committee—its members met no less than 119 times over the course of three years—and how their views evolved in conversation with the MIT administration. Especially amidstpresent-day concerns about the erosion of shared governance at many U.S

Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

"skills necessary to functioning in society."1 The student's stakein preserving existing disciplinary goals and attendant institutional structures is thus assured.Contingency and Power in the Engineering CurriculumWithout attempting to paint a panoramic picture of engineering compared to other fields ofintellectual endeavor, we can articulate the ways in which engineering epistemologies make itparticularly difficult to interrogate matters of social and political power. Most obviously,engineering identifies itself with an almost extreme practicality. In a lengthy (and in certainways quite nuanced) 2009 report for the Carnegie Foundation on recent engineering educationreforms, Sheppard et al repeatedly have recourse to the belief that engineering

Conference Session

Advances in Communication Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Andrea M. Motto, Virginia Tech ; Kelly J. Cross, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

comparison, the interviews revealedless structured ways of talking about good teamwork skills and more ad hoc ways of teachingsuch skills.Introduction: Teamwork and communication in the engineering classroomCommunication and teamwork skills remain a top-priority outcome for engineering graduates inboth academic and industry settings. They are considered by ABET to be key student learningoutcomes for accreditation 1 and are consistently high on employers list of necessary skills fornew hires 2, 3. Despite recognition of the importance of these skills in the workplace, there isminimal integration into engineering courses. In their 2008 survey of engineering faculty, forexample, House et al. 4 found that faculty who do incorporate communication into

Conference Session

Innovations in Promoting Technological Literacy II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William R. Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

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

people can and do affect its development” (Young, Cole, &Denton22, 2003). Page 25.1441.3This lack of understanding of technologies, both past and present, is directly related to enhancingnot only the student's but society’s technological literacy level. “Technological literacy can bethought of a comprising three interrelated dimensions that help describe the characteristics of atechnologically literate person... (1) knowledge; (2) ways of thinking and acting; and (3)capabilities” (National Academy of Engineering12, 2008). “Technological literacy is the ability touse, manage, assess, and understand technology” (International Technology

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Enrique D. Gomez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Esther Gomez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Angela D. Lueking, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

called the Engineering Ambassadors to relay these messages in freshmen levelcourses, is to impact student perceptions of engineering and to provide information to studentsthat will be critical in making career decisions.In the Fall of 2011, a pilot program was launched in two sections of a Chemical EngineeringFirst Year Seminar. Engineering Ambassadors made four separate visits to each section,focusing on the following topics: 1) An overview of College of Engineering Majors, 2) Optionswithin Chemical Engineering, 3) Student experiences in the College of Engineering, and 4) Howto be a successful engineering student. Woven through each presentation were themes fromChanging the Conversation, focusing on how engineers are essential to health

Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jens Kabo, Chalmers University of Technology; Xiaofeng Tang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; John Currie, University of Sydney; Hu Wenlong, Beihang University; Caroline Baillie, University of Western Australia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

- learning outcomes, where technical and social capabilities represent roughly equal proportions of the total number of requirements. • Social capabilities represent a wide range of competencies, including very high-order social- analytic competencies (e.g., understanding the relationship between engineering and its social context). • Important variations can be identified in how social capabilities are understood, with four distinct categories emerging: Social capabilities 1) as constraints, 2) as awareness, 3) as responsibility, and 4) as cultivation.After reviewing, categorizing, and analyzing the key ways social-analytic competencies arearticulated and understood in the four countries’ accreditation documents, we identify

Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tristan T. Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey S. Bryan, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Page 25.1498.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Workforce Communication Instruction: Preliminary Inter-rater Reliability Data for an Executive-based Oral Communication RubricAbstractWe have conducted a preliminary study to measure the degree of agreement among differentraters (inter-rater reliability) for an executive-based scoring rubric used to rate oral engineeringstudent presentations on 19 skills. We explore the question: do different raters give the samefeedback on the same presentation? We have collected scores from raters in three differentcontexts: (1) the researchers and teaching assistants rating videotaped presentations fromcapstone

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Wende Garrison, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

 and  the  theoretical  motivation  that  serves  as  a  foundation  for  our  activities.  This  section  also  includes  a  description  of  the  settings  for  implementing  the  ePortfolio  curriculum.  Next,  we  describe  the  curriculum  we  have  developed  and  the  processes  used  for  its  pilot  implementation.  Then,  we  outline  the  assessment  methods  to  be  used  in  the  project,  including  a  summary  of  survey  development.  Finally,  we  conclude  with  a  prospectus  of  areas  we  hope  to  describe  in  the  future  with  analyzed  results.      II.    Overview  of  Project  Activities  and  Rationale      The  overall  project  involves  goals  of  1)  creating  curriculum  and  assessment  methods  for

Conference Session

Innovations in Promoting Technological Literacy II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zbigniew J. Pasek, University of Windsor

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

be identified. The work will also roughly classify the identified films into genres anddevelop a small database for tracking. A small sample of feature films and correspondingengineering-related themes is shown in Table 120.Table 1: Examples of feature films illustrating key issues pertaining to engineering and engineer’s work Title Director, year Issues for discussionApollo 13 R. Howard, 1995 Teamwork, creativity, aerospace engineeringThe Bridge on the River D. Lean, 1957 Work organization, civil engineering,Kwai leadership

Conference Session

Linking Engineering and Liberal Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Ledlie Klosky, U.S. Military Academy; Scott M. Katalenich, U.S. Military Academy; Steven D. Hart, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

thisdebate can be seen in a thumbnail analysis of the President’s State of the Union speeches, whichrepresent some of the most carefully planned words in a given political year. Figure 1 shows theresults of this analysis from 1975 through 2011; only the years listed were analyzed. Page 25.1122.3 35 30 Infrastructure Energy + Power 25 Number of Mentions 20 15

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

memberaware of the liberal education interests of everyone connected to engineering.An important element of the effort in fostering poetry writing is a question of value to the engineer,him or herself. Found on http://blogaboutwriting.com/2009/04/4-benefits-of-poetry/ 1is a concise set of reason that speak to the writing and reading of poetry and its importance in thelife of the technical writing engineer who needs both writing activity and a vitality that comes froma variety of writing experiences.1. Poetry helps you to know things more fully. When I turn things over to put them into verse, Ioften find that I have to shift my perspective, usually to see more closely I passed beyond the bigthings moving closer and wider to see a broader picture than

Conference Session

STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R. Underwood, Messiah College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

curriculum. The paper concludes with somesuggestions for future work.IntroductionThe recognized need for Science, Technology and Society (STS) instruction distinct fromtraditional science or engineering disciplines originated in the latter half of the 20thcentury, as described by Solomon.1 Content and approach of STS courses vary widelyfrom one country, university and instructor to the next, but Aikenhead suggests that acommon direction is “toward teaching science embedded in technological and social Page 25.1255.2contexts…”2 Including historical and biographical context brings richer meaning tostudents studying scientific discoveries and technology

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

Space, and Principles of Physics.Examples in imaging, remote sensing and control, wireless communication, fusion, radioactivedating, and others have been used to convey technological literacy in three cognitive dimensions:(1) knowledge, (2) capabilities, and (3) critical thinking and decision-making, consistent with therecommendation of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The astronomy course, whichincludes discussion of NASA priorities and operations, has been found to fulfill the fivetechnological literacy expectations recommended by International Technology EducationAssociation (ITEA); in addition to the usual science literacy requirement. Junior high schoolscience sessions have been conducted with the inclusion of technological