Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bill Genereux, Kansas State University, Salina; Elena Mangione-Lora, University of Notre Dame

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Liberal Education

lecture halls are still sending the message, ‘follow along.’ “This new media environment demonstrates to us that the idea of learning as acquiring information is no longer a message we can afford to send to our students, and that we need to start redesigning our learning environments to address, leverage, and harness the new media environment now permeating our classrooms. 4Educators are beginning to understand how media technology is changing the world, but alsohow it is changing the way students learn. Some research suggests that in general, “NetGeneration” students raised on digital technologies have developed some very distinctive stylesof learning that work well in video projects. Two of these are

Conference Session

Venturing Out: Service Learning, Study Abroad, and Criterion H

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Carol Barry, University Massachusetts Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; David Kazmer, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; William Moeller, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Cheryl West, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Liberal Education

AC 2008-1525: SERVICE-LEARNING PROJECTS IN 35 COREUNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING COURSESJohn Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell Professor, Mechanical EngineeringCarol Barry, University Massachusetts Lowell Associate Professor, Plastics EngineeringLinda Barrington, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Service-Learning Coordinator, College of EngineeringDavid Kazmer, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Professor, Plastics EngineeringWilliam Moeller, University of Massachusetts Lowell Professor Emeritus, Civil EngineeringCheryl West, University of Massachusetts Lowell Doctoral Student, Work Environment Department Page 13.1074.1© American

Conference Session

Communication - Needs and Methods

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University; Joanna Garner, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University

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Liberal Education

AC 2010-670: PROJECTED WORDS PER MINUTE: A WINDOW INTO THEPOTENTIAL EFFECTIVENESS OF PRESENTATION SLIDESMichael Alley, Pennsylvania State University Michael Alley is an associate professor of engineering communication at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer, 2003) and gives many professional workshops on presentations to engineers and scientists in the United States and Europe.Joanna Garner, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus Dr. Joanna K Garner is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Penn State University, Berks College. Her research interests focus on the application of cognitive psychological principles to the

Conference Session

Normative Commitments and Public Engagement in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juan Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Jen Schneider, Colorado School of Mines; Jon Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

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Liberal Education

, Mexico, challenging engineering students enrolled in the course Engineering and Sustainable Community DevelopmentAbstractOver the past ten years, engineers and engineering students and faculty have increasingly turnedtheir efforts toward “underserved” communities. Such efforts raise important questions. Is thereanything problematic with wanting to help a community? How do engineers listen to acommunity? If invited, how do engineers work with a community?Wondering about questions like these in relationship to engineering courses, design projects,volunteer activities, or international assignments motivated us to develop a project in criticalpedagogy entitled Engineering and

Conference Session

Ethical Responsibilities of Engineers in the World of Corporate Business

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education

needs, working to endpoverty, or providing students with cross-cultural design experience in preparation for careers ina globalized economy, numerous small-scale engineering projects have proliferated indeveloping countries, either driven by or with participation from U.S. engineers and engineeringstudents. Many different models have been employed to this end, curricular and co-curricular, incollaboration with foreign governments, educational institutions or non-governmentalorganizations, with entrepreneurial, sustainable, appropriate technology and/or community-basedapproaches to design.These engineering projects are occurring in the context of globalization and broader economicdevelopment efforts. It is important that we in the engineering

Conference Session

Approaches to Learning Outcomes Assessment in Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lorraine Fleming, Howard University; Kami Carey, Howard University

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Liberal Education

tool, which asks students tothink about how knowledge from prior courses both technical and non-technical wasapplied to the design process, is used as a means of training engineering students toincorporate prior knowledge, including their liberal arts education, into the engineering Page 12.1458.3designs. 2Purpose Engineering projects not only require the incorporation of sound technical skills,but also the integration of the social, legal, economical, historical and political constraintsthat define the range of solutions to engineering problems. It is hypothesized that theopportunity to reflect allows

Conference Session

Communication - Needs and Methods

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Lockwood, University of Calgary; Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary

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Liberal Education

AC 2010-1653: COMMUNICATIONS INSTRUCTION IN FIRST YEARENGINEERING: THE GLUESarah Lockwood, University of CalgaryDaryl Caswell, University of CalgaryMarjan Eggermont, University of Calgary Page 15.292.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 COMMUNICATIONS INSTRUCTION IN FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING: THE GLUEAbstractENGG 251: Design and Communications One and ENGG 253: Design andCommunications Two are the flagship courses for the Common Core year at The S___School of Engineering, University of C___. Mandatory courses for all first year (~730)students, ENGG 251/253 are project-based courses on engineering design, taught by aninterdisciplinary

Conference Session

Communication - Needs and Methods

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Warren Hull, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; David Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Stephen Sears, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Daniel Thomas, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Paige Davis, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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) printer, which enables students tosee their designs come to life by creating a functional ABS plastic model directly from designfiles. Additionally, a large-format printer allows students to create posters and CAD drawings informats up to 42 inches wide. To aid in the development of communication projects, the Studiooffers a wide range of audio-visual resources for student checkout. These resources include stilland video cameras, wireless and corded microphone systems, and highly portable projectors andprojection screens.The campus-wide CxC program and the Studio comprise a sustained support system forengineering students and faculty. This has contributed to enthusiastic acceptance ofprogrammatic changes by both faculty and students and helped

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nadia Kellam, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Tracie Costantino, University of Georgia; Bonnie Cramond, University of Georgia

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Liberal Education

of artistic cognition and the transformative potential of aesthetic experience as an educative event. She is exploring this topic in an interdisciplinary curriculum project funded by the National Science Foundation with colleagues from engineering and creativity studies. In addition to numerous published articles and book chapters, Costantino has served as the editor of the Arts & Learning Research Journal and associate editor for the International Journal for Education & the Arts.Bonnie Cramond, University of Georgia Bonnie Cramond, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia. An international and

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Endeavor

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Herkert, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Jameson Wetmore, Arizona State University; Heather Canary, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Karin Ellison, Arizona State University

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Liberal Education

graduate students still struggle tofind the most effective models for ensuring that their students internalize professional values andmake them part of their scientific and technical practices4,5,6. This paper will report on the firststage of a three year NSF-funded research project to develop and assess four differentinstructional models that introduce and educate science and engineering graduate students to themicroethical and macroethical issues in their work.Graduate education in science and engineering ethics has typically focused on responsibleconduct in research (RCR) issues and has had a microethical focus (although collectiveresponsibilities are sometimes explored). Topics such as public policy on stem cell research orthe societal

Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Helen Donis-Keller, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Liberal Education

. Therefore, it isimportant that these courses address the educational goals for engineers as effectively andcomprehensively as possible. Page 14.20.2 I propose a unique first year foundation course, designed specifically for engineeringstudents, which facilitates the development of communication skills, individual creativity,critical thinking and writing, and requires that students contextualize their work with respect toprofessionals in the field and the world at large. My course, titled "Seeing and Hearing:Communicating with Photographs, Video and Sound", fulfills a first year foundation requirementin AHS and provides a project-based

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory Tonkay, Lehigh University; E. Zimmers, Lehigh University

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for more than 200 funded research and technology projects with over 115 industry and academic partners. He has co-authored one text and over 180 technical reports and publictaions. He is a fellow of SME and IIE technical societies. Page 12.1068.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Migration from a Leadership Honors Program to an Engineering Leadership MinorAbstractThis paper presents a new Engineering Leadership Minor developed for all engineering majors atLehigh University. This minor program utilizes the experience of engineering faculty, liberal artsfaculty, and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Martello, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Liberal Education

already overcrowded curriculum. This paper presents thegoals, design approach, implementation, and selected outcomes of one integrated project-basedcourse (using Paul Revere and other case studies to integrate materials science with the history oftechnology) and uses it to discuss the advantages of disciplinary integration, particularly withrespect to improved student self-direction and contextual understanding. Assessmentsadministered during and after class suggest that this integrated course successfully engenderedhigh student motivation along with an increase in student aptitudes over the course of thesemester without a corresponding loss of discipline-specific knowledge. The implementation ofthis integrated course and the evaluation of its

Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Schreier, University of Dayton; Carl Eger, University of Dayton; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton

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Liberal Education

Opportunities of Service-learning (ETHOS)program at the University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio) is founded on the belief that engineers aremore apt and capable to serve our world when they have experienced opportunities that increasetheir understanding of technology’s global linkage with values, culture, society, politics andeconomy. ETHOS seeks to provide these opportunities by means of curriculum integratedservice-learning programming. Such educational programming – classroom projects, studentorganization activities, collaborative research and international technical immersion – facilitatesholistic learning, ethical engineering practices, perspectives of technology integration andappropriate technology transfer. To appropriately measure the value

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University

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Liberal Education

weeks of paddling Lake Erie, students portaged sixteen miles from Erieto Waterford, Pennsylvania (on French Creek), thereby passing from the Great Lakes to the OhioRiver basin. They were the first people in modern times to make this historic portage, which wasa key transportation link for the French colonial government and Native Americans in the region.The students then traveled down the Allegheny River to Pittsburgh, participating incommemorative events along the way.The purpose of this project was to provide students with a multi-faceted out-of-class educationalexperience to better prepare them to be lifelong learners, problem solvers, and more wellrounded citizens. From beginning to end, the students gained valuable life lessons and

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I: Innovative Models for Curriculum and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

April Kedrowicz, University of Utah

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Liberal Education

thesenior projects lab sequence. Students are briefly introduced to the importance of communicationto engineering in the freshman class and receive minimal instruction in writing in a junior class.This takes the form of one lecture on the basics of technical writing. If students choose, they canreceive in-depth feedback on their writing in the form of a one-on-one consultation with theCLEAR writing instructor. Few students take advantage of this. As a result, the bulk of students’oral communication, teamwork, and writing instruction occurs in the senior lab. This two-semester sequence emphasizes the “experimental and theoretical solution of realistic problems inheat transfer, fluid flow, mass transfer, chemical-reaction kinetics, and process

Conference Session

Communication and Collaboration

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University; Marilyn Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

senior project at Oregon Institute of Technology combines communicationand engineering design in a group intensive, team-taught environment. Student teams, however,are not always serendipitous. The most common problem is conflict, usually the result of “socialloafing”: students who either ride the coattails of others or do not perform up to groupexpectations. Unresolved conflict can fester and result in group dysfunctionality. Peer review,as well as judicious faculty oversight, can help alleviate some of the more typical group Page 14.1287.2problems. This portion of the paper explains some common group problems, offers a peerreview instrument and

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Ross, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Liberal Education

time and are not even necessarilyconsistent. Whether or not a planet will be hospitable and welcoming to intelligent life seems inmany instances unpredictable. Academic courses are a little like that.The “freshman comp” course described in this paper exists within a “first year” program in theCollege of Engineering; it covers basic communication skills, research, oral presentations, andelementary project management; it addresses professional and liberal education issues; itattempts to create a “learning community” by focusing on the big theme of “space exploration.”At UW-Madison this course has its home in a Technical Communication program within theCollege of Engineering; additionally, the opportunity and empowerment to innovate have

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Fry, Brigham Young University

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Liberal Education

page for the d.school. “We believe having designers in the mix is key to success in multidisciplinary collaboration and critical to uncovering unexplored areas of innovation. Designers provide a methodology that all parties can embrace and a design environment conducive to innovation. In our experience, design thinking is the glue that holds these kinds of communities together and makes them successful.”8This statement describes the influence on education of the increasingly “messy”, large scaleproblems and projects that will typify projects in our modern society. It also marks theseparation of the “process” used by applied artists/designers from their traditional “results”.Rather than just being applied to the

Conference Session

Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Judith Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Nicoleta Serban, Georgia Institute of Technology; Nagi Gebraeel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Garlie Forehand, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

-2847AbstractAt Georgia Tech, instruction in communication has been incorporated into the introductorystatistics class for undergraduate engineers. Communication instruction focuses on presentationsto workforce professionals—clients, executives, and engineers. The communication instructionis based on interviews conducted with engineers, supervisors, and senior executives whosecompanies employ many engineers. Students worked in small project teams to formulatehypotheses about a set of data and to select the appropriate statistical method to evaluate the data.Student teams presented their projects at the end of the semester. In preparation for projectpresentation, students received workforce presentation instruction in class and in a WorkforceCommunication

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Simmons, University of Utah; Susan Sample, University of Utah; April Kedrowicz, University of Utah

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Liberal Education

collaborative writing skills; and (d)feedback from the instructional team guiding continuous improvement in the course.BackgroundCollaboration and communication impact engineering practice in profound ways. Engineers needto be creative, innovative problem solvers, often under time constraints. As a result, effectiveteamwork and communication are paramount. To equip students with the teamwork andcommunication skills necessary for engineering practice, educators have developed variousapproaches including writing across the curriculum, cooperative project-based learning, andintegrated communication instruction. For more than ten years, we have integrated teamwork andcommunication (oral and written) instruction into the freshman and senior

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II: Practical Perspectives on Teaching and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen Jernquist, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; David Godfrey, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Todd Taylor, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Liberal Education

leaders in service to our nation.USCGA provides the U. S. Coast Guard (USCG) with approximately 190 new Coast Guardofficers each year. Each graduate earns both a commission (as Ensign, USCG) and a Bachelor ofScience degree in one of eight academic majors. Four of these majors are in engineeringdisciplines: Civil; Electrical; Mechanical; Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.A typical cadet day at USCGA involves academics, leadership and military training, and somesort of athletic activity (NCAA division III or intramural). At least once each semester, eachcadet is required to participate in an outside community service project either individually or as agroup. All cadets must complete the academic requirements for their chosen major

Conference Session

Communication and Collaboration

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sally Blomstrom, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Hak Tam, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Liberal Education

taught by different instructors using the sametextbook and syllabus. Three of these sections included a service-learning component. This paperexamines whether the course achieves the ABET 3(d) and 3 (g) objectives from the students’perspective. We also look at the similarities and differences between the sections utilizingservice-learning and those that use other pedagogies.Review of Literature This paper grew out of an assessment project focusing on the basic speech course. Toframe the assessment process, two the paradigms of assessment were identified by Ewell [2].While we set to provide information to instructors and administrators for the purpose ofcontinuous improvement, it was possible the results could also be used to address

Conference Session

Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Wilson, University of CIncinnati; Teresa Cook, University of Cincinnati; Jo Ann Thompson, University of Cincinnati; James Everly, University of Cincinnati

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Liberal Education

investigated the needs of a community, assembledinformation, developed and implemented technological projects, prepared business plans,presented their products to a professional audience, and wrote a final report. Sixty-percent ofthe grading rubric, depicted later in this paper, depended on interdisciplinary communication,oral presentations and report development, emphasizing the importance of writing and oral andvisual communication as a vital study and tool for effective application of technology. Each ofthese findings, presented as sections throughout the paper, had a part in creating a mid-level,writing-in-the-disciplines program at the University of Cincinnati’s College of AppliedScience.The sections include: • Building Relationships: Making

Conference Session

Writing Is Fundamental

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Beams, University of Texas, Tyler; Luke Niiler, University of Alabama

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Liberal Education

assessment 1; a plan for the incremental implementationof writing skills instruction in Engineering courses 2; an outcomes assessment 3; the use ofwritten workplace materials in Engineering courses 4,5 ; a review of shared assumptions aboutwriting skills among Engineering faculty 6; a multiple-trait scoring guide 7; and the first threeiterations of this longitudinal study 8,9,10. To date, there is no other longitudinal study ofEngineering students’ writing skills on record. Our four years of work therefore begins toaddress this gap in knowledge, and it is hoped that this project will be understood as (a) adescription and analysis of trends observed within a single cohort of subjects; and (b) aninvitation for other researchers to begin contributing

Conference Session

Liberal Education and Leadership

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Val Hawks, Brigham Young University; John Harb, Brigham Young University; Alan Parkinson, Brigham Young University; Spencer Magleby, Brigham Young University

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Liberal Education

) Managing conflict and conflict resolution Understanding and use of power, authority and influences Managing and measuring performance Communication and interpersonal skills Project managementGlobal (Holistic) Understanding: Effective leadership occurs within the context of global,meaning general or comprehensive, systems. This has always been true, but the nature of themodern society adds emphasis to this dimension of leadership. The complexity of modern,worldwide systems is reflected in the changing ethnic composition of organizations, the potentialof political change to quickly alter environments and situations, and the extent to whichinternational issues, including trade, business, and employment, affect local

Conference Session

Tree-huggers, Diggers, and Queers--Oh my!

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education

have provided entire engineeringcourses oriented toward sustainability. 14Even more ambitious efforts exist to introduce sustainability content across engineering curriculain a variety of ways. One initiative entails infiltrating sustainability content into a variety ofexisting courses in an undergraduate civil engineering program to ensure that coverage of suchcontent was not subject to variations in specific instructor interests. 15 Another initiative entailsdevelopment of a graduate civil engineering/green construction program that combinescoursework, directed research projects, and international exchanges in a format similar to design-based, service-learning experiences. 16 Educators developing new curricula sometimes rely onABET

Conference Session

Blurring the Boundary between Content Knowledge and Professional Knowledge

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Verna Fitzsimmons, Kent State University - Kent; Stephane Booth, Kent State University - Kent

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Liberal Education

course such as this. The last twooutcomes were added from the LER perspective. It was expected that if the studentsbetter understood various types of learning styles and were explicitly aware of their own, Page 13.841.3they would have a deeper understanding of communications and team work.The course format was primarily discussion based on either class presentations orassigned readings. In-class and out-of-class projects were assigned, as was a reflectivejournal. Depending on the assignment, students worked individually, in pairs, or as ateam. A final take home exam was also assigned.Throughout the course, the instructors worked from the perspective that

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice Pawley, Purdue University; Karen Tonso, Wayne State University

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Liberal Education

myriad ways that everyday life in learning communities contributes to the social and cultural production of inequality along gender, race, and social class lines. In her cultural studies of engineering education, she brings to bear 15 years of experiences as a reservoir engineer in the petroleum industry. Her research in engineering education received the WEPAN’s Betty Vetter Award for Research, the Mary Catherine Ellwein Outstanding Dissertation Award (Qualitative Research Methodology) and the Selma Greenberg Distinguished Dissertation Award (Research on Women and Education) both from the American Educational Research Association. In other projects she examined the contributions of “standardized

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Sinnreich-Levi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology; David Silverstein, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

in engineering and science through research, policy and program development. She is currently the principal investigator for ENGAGE, Engaging Students in Engineering, (www.engageengineering.org) a five year project funded by the National Science Foundation to work with 30 engineering schools to integrate research based strategies that increase retention. Susan’s work at Stevens has been recognized by the White House as a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). She was honored by the Maria Mitchell Association with the Women in Science Award in 2002 and was named an AWIS Fellow in 2007.David Silverstein, Stevens Institute