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- Approaches to Learning Outcomes Assessment in Liberal Education
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- 2007 Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Steve Lappenbusch, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington
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- Liberal Education
engineer (i.e., because I have these skills, I deserve to be called an engineer). 3. While having personal agency is key to how portfolio construction can affect(not just reveal identity (theme 1 above), accepting this agency in the process of identity management can bring awkwardness.In the descriptions below whenever we present excerpts, “Q” marks the interviewer speaking and“A” is the student answering the question.Student 1Student 1 was a graduate student focusing on usability engineering in the TechnicalCommunication department. As the quote below shows, she doesn’t mince words when sheclaims that the portfolio process had a profound impact on her confidence.Q. I'm just wondering, I mean if you had to pick a couple ofthings
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- Tree-huggers, Diggers, and Queers--Oh my!
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- 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Erin Cech, University of California, San Diego; Tom Waidzunas, University of California, San Diego
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- Liberal Education
it’s the other way around, and people are expecting gay men, like, there’s no way you could be acting like that in a technical position… (Brian) I guess there’s this assumption that, “oh, you’re a lesbian, you’re kind of butch, you are definitely kind of more guy-ish, so it would make sense that you are an engineer, because guys are engineers”…I think, for straight women, it’s like, “oh, you’re pretty, you would want a social type of major.” Researcher (Q)uestion: Do you think the way that other students see competence in engineering aligns with that? Um, yeah. I actually think so. Because I’m, I guess, not a stereotypical female, or what is socially constructed as a
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- Critical Thinking and Creative Arts
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- 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Christy Moore, University of Texas, Austin; D'Arcy Randall, University of Texas, Austin; Hillary Hart, University of Texas, Austin
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- Liberal Education
Robert Redford – The Unforeseen. Excerpt from Q &A held at the Alamo Draft House. AustinDaze. Retrieved on January 22, 2009 from http://www.austindaze.com/2008/07/03/laura-dunn-and-robert-redford/. Page 14.1180.13Page 14.1180.14
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- Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education
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- 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Amy Slaton, Drexel University; Mary Ebeling, Drexel University
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- Liberal Education
Development Initiative, edited by The Brookings Institution.(Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 2003).9 PA Bureau of Workforce Development, op cit.10 Stephen J. Fonash, “Nanotechnology and economic resiliency,” Nano Today 4 (2009), p.291.11 Qian Q. Zhao, Arthur Boxman, and Uma Chowdhry, “Nanotechnology in the ChemicalIndustry – Opportunities and Challenges,” Journal of Nanoparticle Research 5 (2003): 567-572.12 Fonash 2009, p. 290.13 John Hayes, "The Engineering Unemployment Problem,"http://www.engineering.com/Blogs/tabid/3207/EntryID/165/Default.aspx (accessed January 8, 2010).14 Matthew H. Wisnioski, "Engineers for Change: America's Culture Wars and the Meaning ofTechnology," unpublished manuscript, 2009, p. 3.15 Richard H.P
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- Communication and Collaboration
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- 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University; Are Magnus Bruaset, Simula Research Laboratory; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University; Marianne M. Sundet, Simula Research Laboratory; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University
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- Liberal Education
- Conference Session
- Tree-huggers, Diggers, and Queers--Oh my!
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- 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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- Liberal Education