Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Todd, University of Alabama; Garry Warren, University of Alabama; Susan Burkett, University of Alabama; David Cordes, University of Alabama; Marcus Brown, University of Alabama

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Liberal Education

the NY Times every week, starting the second week of classes, day TBA, at 12:30 and free pizza will be included. You will find in your career that technology and society can change quickly and slap you in the face if you’re not paying attention—we’ll talk about this more later in the semester. You are required to attend five (5) of these discussion sessions during the semester, and to submit a paragraph or two about the main ideas discussed to me by e-mail (1% of your grade each). If you have a class conflict at the time of the discussion, you will be required to submit five essays – a paragraph summarizing a science article in the NYTimes, and a paragraph giving your comments about it, again 1

Conference Session

Liberal Education and Leadership

Collection

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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drive it. Where will this leadership comefrom? China? India? The United States? The choice is ours to make.”14 These calls and many Page 14.11.3others like them are not the only evidence of the increasing need for leadership in technicalareas. One need only look at the rapidly changing landscape of global competition, the flatteningof industry organizational charts and continued reliance on multi- and inter-disciplinary teams inglobal and domestic environments.Over 50% of engineers serve in a management or leadership position during their career, manyhaving take their first steps in management within 5 or 6 years of graduation.15

Conference Session

Liberal Education and Leadership

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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degree program. It also reflects Rose-Hulman’s emphasis on service activities. In addition to “leadership,, Rose-Hulman recentlyadded “service” to the institutional student learning outcomes. Thus, underlying theme in theLeadership Academy is that leadership skills are applicable in all areas of one’s life, not just atwork.In the Post-Course Survey, the participants were asked “In what areas of your life do you thinkthis leadership training will help you?” Every participant identified at least one area in additionto work. Their responses included the following: ≠ Student ≠ Family ≠ Extra curricular ≠ Friendships ≠ Career ≠ Follower & Leader ≠ CommunitySeveral

Conference Session

Writing Is Fundamental

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Richards, University of Hartford; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz; Hisham Alnajjar, Computer and Electrical

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Liberal Education

, non-literature texts).A second advantage to the participation of English Literature instructors is that they live inHerat, teach at the university, and plan to remain there to build careers. They are deeply investedin rebuilding their country and are eager to act as a “service center” for the university.The challenges of assessment—first semester and beyondStudents are admitted to the HU engineering program based on their performance in secondaryschools as well as an entrance examination, which focuses on math, science, and analytical skills.As noted above, there currently is no mechanism in place to assess incoming students’ Englishlanguage skills. Even if such an instrument were available, at this point there is no capacity forteaching

Conference Session

A Century of Development, Promotion, and Reform: ASEE and Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Johnson, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

government, both federal and state, firmly into thesupport of higher education. In the land-grant institutions the American people achieved popularhigher education for the first time.”10 Knowledge had begun to be available on a wider scale. Public colleges became established by the end of the 19th century. The ongoing debateabout who should have the right to award degrees – the professional associations or the college –continued until 1905 when educators acquired a voice in the councils of the ASME,compromises were made and the market for engineering, in general, was expanding.6 Aneducational system had been built that was strong enough to give graduates a basic educationfrom which they could further their careers; the acquisition of

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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many more students with an opportunity for leadership training.Leadership Honors ProgramThe Information and Systems Engineering Leadership Program (ISELP)1 was an honors programdeveloped for students in the Information and Systems Engineering degree program. Themotivation for the program came from alumni in leadership positions advocating that a formalleadership program would provide theory and practice in leadership and better prepare studentsfor leadership roles in their careers. ISELP was developed at the same time as the I&SE degreewith the intention of attracting highly qualified students to the university and providing themwith a broader education than the typical engineering student. ISELP began in 2002 and ispresently being phased

Conference Session

Questions of Identity

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Graham, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Amy Wendt, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Paul Peercy, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Patrick Farrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jay Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sarah Pfatteicher, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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started by communicating, listening and studying with thecommunity to learn about our identity, and what it is that we value.While the UW COE remains in many ways homogenous, there is a tremendous diversity ofreasons for believing that change is worthwhile. For some, it’s a desire to continue to competesuccessfully (for students, for funding, for prestige). For others, it’s a desire to find newchallenges in a career. For still others, it’s a nagging sense that we can do better, and that weneed to stretch if we are going to reach our full potential.The Task Force has faced numerous challenges in the apparent dichotomy that exists betweenefforts to fully engage the community in study and conversation about the challenges facing thecollege and how

Conference Session

Communication - Needs and Methods

Collection

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

corresponding increasein understanding and achievement 2, 3. In most cases, they remain dedicated courses, oftenfulfilling university communications requirements.The University of C___’s S____ School of Engineering has decided on a slightlydifferent approach, in order to ensure that students are gaining the propercommunications skills. While engineering students are still required to take theuniversity-mandated technical communications course, students are also given instructionin communications in their first year of study, as part of an engineering design course.This method ensures not only that students are exposed to proper technicalcommunications skills from the start of their engineering careers, but that communicationis seen as an integral part

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

level of integration asdescribed above.16 Our premise is that as a result of the Studio Series, the students will becomesystems thinkers with the ability to think holistically as well as reductively in order to beprepared to deal with complex issues in their careers. The Studios of the different years will meetsimultaneously to encourage near-peer learning and mentoring among the students, for exampleseniors will provide mentoring to sophomores. These Studios are modeled after the graduate-level studios that have been implemented in the Department of Educational Psychology andInstructional Technology over the last 10 years.18-19The Synthesis and Design Studio Series consists of studio sessions throughout every semester ofthe curriculum that

Conference Session

Communication - Needs and Methods

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Kevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Thomas McGlamery, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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backgrounds.In all, 91 student interviews were conducted. The interviews used a protocol consisting of 15open-ended questions which asked participants about their background, their reasons forbecoming an engineer, and their career goals.Our final method was an electronic survey (N=264) sent to alumni of the college of engineeringof a large midwestern public university. This survey was 37 questions in length, includingquestions on personal background and current professional work. The bulk of the surveyconsisted of likert-scale and open-ended questions on individual’s skills, values, and professionalpractice. Respondents who identified themselves as now working in fields other than

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education

Conference Session

Philosophy of Engineering Education: Epistemology and Ethics

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Valenzuela, University of Evansville; James Allen, University of Evansville; Brian Swenty, University of Evansville

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Liberal Education

Knowledge for the 21st Century,2nd edition, Draft 8 (herein referred to as BOK2)1.The LEAP Report challenges schools, colleges, and universities to fulfill the promise of a liberaleducation in a “new century marked by increasing global complexity, interconnectedness and Page 13.853.5rapid change.” In rethinking general education, the report addresses long-held assumptionsabout liberal education, namely: • That liberal education is not about careers or practical economic benefit. • That liberal education is only the province of certain departments in the arts and sciences and through narrow categories. • That liberal education is

Conference Session

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

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education

interdisciplinary collaboration. The conceptualgrounding in interdisciplinarity not only makes sense theoretically; it also facilitates orienting theminor toward a variety of undergraduate major disciplines. Thus, in developing the minor,faculty participants agreed on the importance of connecting sustainability education withstudents’ disciplinary interests and career aspirations. And luckily, despite pedagogicalshortcomings with the electives approach to big-picture education for most engineering students,the curricular format makes it easy for engineering undergraduates to elect the sustainabilitystudies minor in STS within their existing curricular templates. H&SS electives are simplyreplaced with specific courses that meet the sustainability

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Maines, Cornell University

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Liberal Education

almost any other form of public healthintervention.171 As such, it merits systematic inclusion in education outside the disciplines ofengineering, and more educational attention within in it. Students choosing majors or graduateprograms need to be aware that a career in engineering, like a career in medicine or publichealth, can contribute significantly to reducing the global burden of disease and injury. My medical historiography students learned that the body personal enters the province ofthe engineer not only in the form of medical technology but in the built environment that, inindustrial democracies, is engineered to protect the body politic. Engineers as well as doctors andhealth policy professionals have a significant role to play

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Meyer, Clarkson University; Dick Pratt, Clarkson University

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Liberal Education

Page 12.1399.7environments they will inevitably experience in their future careers. The First Year Seminarhelps students respect and learn from Clarkson’s diverse community. In the Clarkson Seminarstudents question their own assumptions and consider different worldviews. Later in theiracademic coursework, students will gain a deeper understanding of cultural diversity within andamong societies, recognizing how it influences their own actions and affects the lives of thosearound them. The professional requirement in the major area of study will prepare students toenter the global workforce by helping them understand the importance of diversity in theworkplace. Ethics and Values ComponentThrough a repeated emphasis on ethics and values

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Endeavor

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

possible socialimplications of research; (4) ability to identify values and stakeholder interests; and (5) examplesof how different career paths lead to different macro-ethical implications and outcomes (e.g.,pacifists in military jobs).The consultants, advisors, and visitors agreed that the ambitious goal of this project to integratemicroethics and macroethics was well worth pursuing. We worked to formulate ways tointegrate the two spheres. There was much discussion about how to conceive of the relationshipbetween micro and macro issues. Are they overlapping contexts, such as a Venn diagram mightconvey? Are they different levels of abstraction and application to consider? Are they in aninherent duality of action and structure, such as described

Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Springs. The second chroniclesthe career of a developer, Gary Bradley, whose success in transforming “4,000 acres of pristineHill Country into one of the state’s largest and fastest selling subdivisions” 6 made him the targetof that environmental movement to protect Barton Springs. Page 14.1180.3Austin filmmaker Laura Dunn’s alliance is clearly on the side of the environmentalists. At thesame time, though, she evenhandedly explores other sides of the issues: namely, property rightsand the American dream of home ownership. Her cast of characters, in addition to Gary Bradleyand the many local activists, include Robert Redford who speaks for the

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Pinar Menguc, University of Kentucky; Ellie Hawes, University of Kentucky; Jane Jensen, University of Kentucky; Ingrid St. Omer, University of Kentucky

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Liberal Education

UPoN, beginning with the honorssequence, to measure student development in the areas of a) epistemological beliefsregarding the nature of knowledge construction and learning, b) critical reasoning asexpressed in oral and written communication, and c) sense of purpose and self-efficacyregarding academic choices and career aspirations. These three areas of studentdevelopment are interrelated in complex ways and measurable change occurs slowly, thus Page 11.717.10we are implementing an extended case study model of evaluation that will follow thestudents through their college careers.Acknowledgements: This foundational course and the Honors sequence

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

Collection

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

skill.Being able to describe my technical work effectively affects my career 54% 13% 43% 83% -- 4%advancement.It is the responsibility of engineers to communicate technical concepts to 58% 32% 2% 50% 1% 4%people who do not have technical backgrounds or education. Page 15.703.7The surveys also had direct, formative, open-ended questions.In the pre-survey: • List three skills that you want to develop in the current WCC Workshop.In the post-survey: • Name the three things that

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Grondin, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University

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Liberal Education

the world.Level 3: Selects from different scenarios for the future and appropriately adapts them to match current technical, social, economic and political concernsLevel 4: Has formed their own model for the probable future of our society and makes life and career decisions informed by this model.In our initial assessment, students were asked to submit a portfolio of evidence thatdemonstrated that they had achieved an appropriate level of development in theperspective outcome. Most were judged by the faculty to be demonstrating either level 2or level 3. Of immediate interest here is a comparison of where the student went to findevidence with our hypothesis about where and how they would develop perspective in thecourse

Conference Session

Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

Collection

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

careers, this late emphasis on writing competency was lessbeneficial to the college: the lessons learned were not likely to trickle down to lower-levelcourses. In order for writing instruction to be truly beneficial, a better approach is needed: onethat stresses and prioritizes the role of writing throughout a student’s education and across alldisciplinary boundaries.More notably, research suggests that, commonly in the field of engineering, students were notmaking the connections among their writing and engineering courses, and thus did not regardwriting in their engineering courses as “important.”4 In order to underscore these connectionsfor the students, a junior-level capstone course was introduced in the Electrical and ComputerEngineering

Conference Session

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

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York, Binghamton; Caroline Baillie, Queens University, Kingston

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Liberal Education

and relationships of peoples andorganizations involved in technological development.”1 Harris et al2 describe theirapproach to engineering ethics as bridging the gap between theory and practice usingcurrent case studies available such as Hurricane Katrina and global warming. Fledderman3seeks to provide a text and a resource for the study of engineering ethics and to help futureengineers be prepared for confronting and resolving ethical dilemmas that they mightencounter during their professional careers. Martin and Schinzinger4 provide anintroduction to the key issues in engineering ethics, taking account of both specificorganizational contexts and broader technological trends. Baura5 approaches engineeringethics from an industrial perspective

Conference Session

Questions of Identity

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ollis, North Carolina State University

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Liberal Education

broad reflection, personally satisfying but not professionally promoted bythe various external structures (departments, colleges, professional societies, colleagues).Second, the age of the instructor fascinates. Young faculty are not typically present inthis activity, for evident reasons: they are starting their research careers and both theirresearch and teaching must be easily judged and rewarded by their engineeringcolleagues, almost none of whom teach technology literacy. Second, the outlook of theyounger instructor is in an earlier, outbound phase of exploration and conquest ofresearch (the stated reason, according to Foster), whereas the senior faculty are morelikely to have completed sufficient “stated reason” voyages to reflect more

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Liberal Education

. [Online]. Available:http://old.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/good200412230957.asp [Accessed April 1, 2010].[23] R. Nelson. “Learning and working in the collaborative age: a new model for the workplace.”Edutopia.org, April 11, 2008. [Online video] Available: http://www.edutopia.org/randy-nelson-school-to-career-video [Accessed January 8, 2010][24] P. Elbow, Writing without teachers. New York: Oxford UP, 1973. Page 15.1189.16

Conference Session

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

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Cech, University of California, San Diego; Tom Waidzunas, University of California, San Diego

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Liberal Education

Conference Session

Approaches to Learning Outcomes Assessment in Liberal Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Oliver, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Traci Nathans-Kelly; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Laura Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Liberal Education

protection and resource sustainability. This decisionreflects, in part, our acknowledgement that a more formal course needed to more explicitly relateto ABET outcomes and to the concerns of our department’s industrial advisory board (seebelow).Moreover, it reflects our desire to stimulate engineering students’ critical thinking about thedirection engineering is heading and especially about some of the controversial emergingtechnologies they are likely to encounter and perhaps even work on during their careers. Thisdesire is consistent with Lewis Duncan’s admonition about the need for engineering students todevelop the social, political, economic, and ethical expertise necessary for effective leadership ina twenty-first century engineering landscape

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education

metalworking career of Paul Revere Property • Collect and evaluate experimental data on microstructure, • Research the larger historical context of this question Connections properties, and processing, and compare to theory • Propose a thesis statement and support it with logical • Examine applications of an alloy system, and research argument and relevant technical and historical evidence 5 weeks modern alloys and processing techniques • Develop oral, written, and graphical communication skills • Develop oral, written, and graphical communication skills • Design and

Conference Session

Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Potter, Iowa State University; John Jackman, Iowa State University; K. Jo Min, Iowa State University; Matthew Search, Iowa State University

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Liberal Education

;flowTypeNo=13&pageSeq=2 &reqNo=51358&art_servlet_language=en&csNo=10020, (accessed 10 January 2008).6. 3M, http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Careers/Home/WorkingAt3M/CareerAreas/EngineeringQua lity/, (accessed 10 January 2008).7. Pai, D., and Filatovs, J., 2006, “Synthesis of Teaching and Evaluation Activities for Development of Professional Skills in a Capstone Design Course,” Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE National Conference.8. Gunn, C., 2006, “Integrating Communication Skills into a Mechanical Engineering Department,” Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE National Conference.9. Tranquillo, J., and Cavanaugh, D., 2007, “Building Engineering Communication Skills Through

Conference Session

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

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

participation had significant positiveeffects on 11 outcome measures: academic performance (GPA, writing skills, critical thinkingskills), values (commitment to activism and to promoting racial understanding), self-efficacy,leadership (leadership activities, self-rated leadership ability, interpersonal skills), choice of aservice career, and plans to participate in service after college. “These findings directly replicatea number of recent studies using different samples and methodologies.”(p.ii) 5 They found thatS-L to be significantly better in 8 out of 11 measures than just service without the courseintegration and discovered “strong support for the notion that service learning should be includedin the student’s major field.”(p.iii)6.Eyler and

Conference Session

Communication and Collaboration

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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