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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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and other institutionsincluding some who answered an open call for participation. There were six main components tothe workshop: (1) workshop consultants presented background of the EESE program andgraduate education issues in science and engineering; (2) ASU project personnel described eachof the four instructional models; (3) participants divided into discussion groups to develop ideasabout microethical and macroethical issues and desirable outcomes regarding those issues forgraduate education in science and engineering, followed by general discussion of group reports;(4) participants divided into discussion groups to develop ideas about instructional methods forthe four curriculum models, followed by general discussion of group reports; (5

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

interest include sustainability, mechanical design, appropriate technology and service-learning.Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton Margaret Pinnell is the director for the ETHOS program and assistant professor for the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Dayton. Her areas of interest include materials, materials characterization and service-learning. Page 11.1164.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 STUDENT PERSPECTIVES OF CURRICULUM-INTEGRATED INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL IMMERSIONSabstract: The Engineers in Technical, Humanitarian

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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AC 2010-1747: INTEGRATING THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUM THROUGHCROSSDISCIPLINARY STUDIOSNadia Kellam, University of Georgia Nadia Kellam is an Assistant Professor and engineering educational researcher in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Georgia. She is co-director of the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER) research group. Her research interests include interdisciplinarity, creativity, identity formation, and the role of emotion in cognition.Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Joachim Walther is an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Georgia

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Endeavor

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Brocato, Mississippi State University

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Liberal Education

forassessing their performance relative to ABET Program Outcomes (f) (professional ethicalresponsibility) and (g) (effective communication).Case Study 1: The Pendergrass E-mail ExerciseThe beauty of using narrative case studies in educational settings is their finiteness: they createscenarios with a relatively closed set of details wherein students can analyze a realisticprofessional situation as a way of preparing for similar situations in their upcoming careers.Below we discuss one such case study that has proven especially useful.The “Pendergrass Circuits E-mail” exercise (hereafter simply called Pendergrass) provides ashort-story-like narrative that puts students directly into the scenario described in the case itself(first line: “You are an

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I: Innovative Models for Curriculum and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Lisa McNair, Virginia Tech; Diana George, Virginia Tech; kelly belanger, Virginia Tech; Lisa Norris, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education

strategies for effectivelyincorporate writing and speaking into engineering courses1-41. The approaches include writing-to-learn exercises to enhance students’ mastery of technical concepts, individual courses thataddress specific types of documents and presentations (e.g., the design report, the laboratoryreport), and integrated curricula that support students throughout a curriculum. What all of theseapproaches share is a commitment to helping students learn to use writing productively in theirengineering careers. Whether it be an emphasis on writing to learn, where students come to seewriting as a tool for thinking, or introducing students to the types of genres common in aparticular discipline, engineering faculty are seeking ways to support

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I: Innovative Models for Curriculum and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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April Kedrowicz, University of Utah

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chemicalengineering and (2) the incremental, integrated approach in mechanical engineering. Aspreviously mentioned, CLEAR communication instruction varies by department throughout thecollege, with most departments utilizing an incremental, four-year approach to instruction.However, the Chemical Engineering Department’s curriculum constraints demand thatcommunication instruction occur during the senior capstone course. As such, these two differentapproaches to the development of communication competence are utilized and assessed.Implications of these findings to student learning and professional socialization are discussed.Chemical Engineering Intensive Capstone ExperienceCommunication instruction in the Chemical Engineering Department takes place largely in

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

accreditation rules (especially criterion h) and professional societies’ pronouncements tojustify and orient innovations around sustainability. 17 One specific example is the use ofASCE’s “Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge,” which has “embraced sustainability as anindependent technical outcome,” to guide integration of sustainability criteria into a civilengineering program. 18 Finally, others have reached beyond “engineering” to develop graduateprograms in “Sustainability” more broadly, but which extend out of engineering perspectives andare targeted to include, but not be limited to, graduates of engineering programs. One such effortextends the project-based engineering curriculum approach to an interdisciplinary, professional“Masters of

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carole Goodson, University of Houston; Susan Miertschin, University of Houston; Barbara Stewart, University of Houston; Luces Faulkenberry, University of Houston; Curtis Johnson, University of Houston

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University, and an EdD in Curriculum and Instruction from Brigham Young University.Curtis Johnson, University of Houston Curtis D. Johnson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Engineering Technology at the University of Houston. He received his BS in Physics from the University of California, Berkley and his PhD in Physics from the University of California Riverside. He recently completed the 7th edition of his text: Process Control Instrumentation Technology, published by Prentice-Hall, Inc. Page 12.928.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Integrating Technology: Our

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arthur Sacks, Colorado School of Mines

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Liberal Education

AC 2008-796: CHINATOWN: INTEGRATING FILM, CULTURE, ANDENVIRONMENT IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONArthur Sacks, Colorado School of Mines Page 13.292.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Chinatown: Integrating Film, Culture, and Environment in Engineering EducationIntroductionChinatown, a commercial film produced in 1974 by Robert Evans, directed by Roman Polanskiand based upon the academy award-winning film original screenplay by Robert Towne1, is aprime example of a film that may be studied and used in the liberal arts curriculum withinengineering education to convey the complexity of the human condition and the human contextof

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arthur Snider, University of South Florida

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subject of fine artfrom a perspective where technology-oriented students would have an advantage, rather than ahandicap; to exploit the experience so as to reinforce some aspect of engineering science byreviewing it in a new context; and to place the engineering students in an environment composedmostly of others in the same discipline.BackgroundAlthough many engineering students would argue otherwise, an exposure to the arts is anessential part of every undergraduate's curriculum. This is underscored by its de facto inclusion,in some form, in the required "distributional elective" hours imposed by virtually every degreeprogram in the United States. Educators recognize that many young people who selecttechnology as a career objective at an early

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Riley, Smith College; Lionel Claris, Smith College

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Liberal Education

grounded in one’s experience.An excerpt from Foucault’s Power/Knowledge discussing the “regime of truth” was used tostimulate critical thinking about the course content. In a reflective essay and class discussion,students considered the relationship between power and knowledge in thermodynamics andbeyond. Analyzing student responses to the Foucault reading and regular course reflectionsreveals a significant shift in their understanding of classroom pedagogy, an increase in criticalthinking about the course and its subject matter, and an emergence of independent ideas thatstudents pursued further in the course.IntroductionEngineering students continually confront the challenge of bridging the gap between theory andpractice, between curriculum

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Krupczak, Hope College; James Heisler, Hope College; Thomas Ludwig, Hope College; Roger Nemeth, Hope College; James Piers, Hope College; Neal Sobania, Pacific Lutheran University

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Liberal Education

degrees in any given field 2,5,6.For Japanese students, entrance to universities is determined by performance on entranceachievement examinations taken at the end of high school. The examinations are difficultand challenging even for the best students. Outside observers have noted that Japanesehigh school is “not a minimal competency curriculum”1 and “pre-university education inJapan is demanding, and gets results.” 6There is inordinate competition for admittance into those few universities considered tobe the most desirable and prestigious. This stems from the hiring practices of the largestcorporations and the government in Japan which hire only graduates of certain schools7.Undergraduate grades are not considered to be an important factor in

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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science to engineering applications, and the role of failure in the developmentprocess.Summary:As a foundations course, HON101B not only served as an introductory seminar in thehistory of emerging technologies, but also as the first step in a diagonal curriculum thatwe hope students will follow into graduate school. Beginning with the three courses thatmake up the Honors Track we hope to help our students understand the impact on and byother engineers to society through discussion and the creation of their own works.Following this sequence, students will be encouraged to continue to participate in UPoNthrough the Nano-scale Engineering Certificate Program offered through the College ofEngineering.We have begun a longitudinal evaluation study of

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

. Page 11.768.21. IntroductionIn recent years, there has been a call to integrate more of the so-called “soft skills” into theengineering curriculum, including written and oral communication, time management,teamwork, and leadership1. To be a successful engineer, these skills have been found necessaryby engineering industry. Introducing core courses to the engineering curriculum (e.g.,humanities, history, social sciences, communication courses) has been effective in alleviating thelack of necessary “soft-skills.” Unfortunately, the classroom is not always the best place to learnand practice these skills. Therefore, innovative techniques and out-of-class learning experiencesare paramount to the engineering curriculum. They allow the student a

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristyn Masters, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Sarah Pfatteicher, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Liberal Education

. Furthermore, many instructional obstacles exist to incorporating ethicsinto the engineering curriculum, including instructor hesitancy to teach about issues in whichthey may have little training, difficulty identifying which ethics teaching practices are effective,and already-packed syllabi that allow little room for introduction of new topics. Thus, in thispaper, we describe a module in ethical problem-solving and an accompanying assessmentmechanism developed by the authors. This ethical problem-solving module addresses theaforementioned obstacles and may be readily adapted to other courses and engineeringdisciplines to achieve ethics education across the engineering curriculum. Implementation ofthis ethics module in biomedical engineering courses

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

AC 2008-2847: COMMUNICATION INSTRUCTION IN AN ENGINEERINGINTRODUCTORY STATISTICS COURSEJudith Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Judith Norback is the Director of Workplace and Academic Communication in Georgia Tech’s Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She received her B.A. magna cum laude from Cornell University and her Masters and Ph.D. from Princeton. Before joining Georgia Tech in 2000, she taught at Rutgers University, worked in job-related basic skills research at Educational Testing Service, and then founded and directed the Center for Skills Enhancement, Inc. Her research and curriculum development interests lie in workforce communication skills

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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teach allthe “tool” subjects without hopelessly overloading the curriculum it will be necessary toprovide some form of integration. The possibility of understanding the principle ofmutual relations would seem to be better in an integrated program than in a traditionalsubject based curriculum. The key to creating that understanding and developingreflective practice will be in the techniques of assessment that are used and the backwasheffect they have on teaching as well as learning. The model shown in exhibit 2 isintended to illustrate this fact and also to show what is possible in a short period of time.It is based on part of course that was developed for the Engineer in Society examinationof the Council of Engineering Institutions in the UK

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cherrice Traver, Union College; J. Douglas Klein, Union College

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Liberal Education

work on complex, multi-faceted problemsrequires increased efforts to include more breadth in both engineering and liberal education.This paper reports on one school’s pilot program to integrate engineering and liberal artseducation, motivated by the need for a technically literate citizenship, work force, and politicalleadership, fostered by providing students in technical and non-technical programs opportunitiesto communicate with one another. Rather than take the approach of an institutional mandate for a“tech lit” requirement, we present models that are small-scale, portable, and that can be grown Page 15.779.2organically with the right

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

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education

(PDI) program was initiated in 1999 in an effort to integrate engineering, STS, andarts/architecture pedagogy within a single program. PDI students typically receive a dual-degree(usually in STS and engineering), and the curriculum is built upon a foundation ofinterdisciplinary design studios, where technical, social, and aesthetic concerns are dealt withsimultaneously by faculty representing disciplines in engineering, STS, and arts/architecture.The paper reviews the PDI curricular structure as well as pedagogical experimentationsurrounding PDI studios, highlighting the role of theoretical contributions from STS and howthese are integrated into product design pedagogy. While the PDI program has been remarkablysuccessful in attracting students

Conference Session

Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

develop an integrated program of mid-level writing instruction in the technical disciplines. A multi-faceted program emerged:collaboration among writing faculty and technical faculty; development of interdisciplinarywriting instruction in mid-level technical courses; the utilization of grading rubrics to enhancethe importance of writing and communication skills in technical courses; the formation of adiscourse community; and the creation of e-portfolios to enhance reflection and illuminateconnections among the students’ technical and Humanities courses.IntroductionThis paper describes how the College of Applied Science writing faculty joined forces withengineering technology faculty to research innovative practices in the teaching of writing in

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Meyer, Clarkson University; Dick Pratt, Clarkson University

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Liberal Education

&U Greater Expectations project and the Clarkson Common Experience.In an earlier white paper on liberal education in engineering,5 Steneck, et al, considered threetypical curriculum delivery models and recommended the integration of all three models. TheCommon Experience curriculum incorporates each of these models in its implementation.Traditional Humanities and Social Science Courses: Courses addressing the various studentlearning outcomes in six areas of knowledge are predominantly from the humanities and socialsciences disciplines. However, these courses must address specific learning outcomes in one ormore of the knowledge areas, so the concept of humanities and social science courses, per se, isno longer relevant to the curriculum

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

Writing and Reading Center was established in 1986 to support USCGA’s sharedlearning outcome for Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC). Funded by the AlumniAssociation from the John and Erna Hewitt Endowment, the center supports writers at all classlevels and abilities. The Hewitt fund also supports an annual competition that requires allstudents to write substantial researched arguments during each of their four years. During theirthird-year, students write a paper as part of a required class in their major.In 2003 USCGA hired a full-time director and moved the center from the Department ofHumanities to the Department of Academic Resources to support WAC more effectively. Priorto 2003, the center was staffed by ten faculty members, primarily from

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education

Doe Run in La Oroya, PeruEthics of how to integrate cultural considerations into science and engineering: the case of well-building in KenyaAnalysis of China’s industrialization and widening economic inequality: the role of technology in education andhealth care disparitiesAssessmentBecause learning and assessment are highly linked63, the self-directed learning reflections ofstudents provide a primary vehicle for assessment. This is inherently a qualitative approach toassessment, and one that involves subjective judgment and interpretation of student narratives.Such an assessment follows logically from the content and pedagogy employed here; when oneintentionally teaches content that challenges positivist assumptions, with pedagogies that do

Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven VanderLeest, Calvin College

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Liberal Education

2006-85: JUSTICE AND HUMILITY IN TECHNOLOGY DESIGNSteven VanderLeest, Calvin College Steven H. VanderLeest is a Professor of Engineering at Calvin College. He has an M.S.E.E. from Michigan Tech. U. (1992) and Ph.D. from the U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995). He received a “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers” Award in 2004 and 2005 and was director of a FIPSE grant “Building IT Fluency into a Liberal Arts Core Curriculum.” His research includes responsible technology and software partitioned OS. Page 11.851.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Justice and

Conference Session

Communication - Needs and Methods

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Liberal Education

the role of the communications instructor to capitalize on this manyfaceted skill set that, if properly integrated, can greatly enhance the quality, scope andrelevance to the engineering educational coursework.IntroductionCommunication is increasingly an element of engineering education. A brief survey ofthe curriculum of ten Canadian and American engineering programs1 reveals that at leastone course in communication is mandatory across the board. In the past this course was Page 15.292.2almost exclusively a university-dictated compulsory communications course, designedfor students in many disciplines. While certainly better than no communications

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Liberal Education

specialization. We requirejust above the minimum content but view the last two years of the engineering programas being centered in a primary focus area which the student selects from a menu thatcurrently consists of three choices: sustainable land development; electrical integration of Page 15.421.3engineering systems; and mechanical systems. Prior to the junior year the student doesnot need to select any particular focus inside of engineering. These foci are probablylarger than Newberry and Farison’s “short stem” but are definitely smaller than that thedisciplinary options of an instrumental program, which Newberry and Farison describe astypically closely

Conference Session

Communication - Needs and Methods

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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Society for Engineering Education. June 2008.[3] Hull, W.R., Waggenspack, W.N., Bridwell-Bowles, L., Bowles, D., Choplin, T. “An Innovative Model forTeaching Communications Skills In the Engineering Curriculum” Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Conference ofthe American Society for Engineering Education. June 2009.[4] Hull, W.R., Waggenspack, W.N., Bowles, D. “Assessing the Integration of Communication into EngineeringCurricula” Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education. June2007.[5] Engineering Accreditation Commission, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs Effective forEvaluations During the 2005-2006 Accreditation Cycle, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.,Report, Nov

Conference Session

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

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Ollis, North Carolina State University; Anthony Smith, CPE-LYON FRANCE

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Liberal Education

discussesher experience integrating service learning activities into a Spanish language course, alogical association because the student service occurred within a pre-dominantly Hispaniccommunity. Neville and Brigg10 proposed but have not executed use of problem-basedlearning (PBL) modules to place Spanish into a biological engineering curriculum. Ourintegration efforts here have taken a broader approach, introducing foreign languageimmersion into a laboratory program for engineering students. An additional, if less tangible aspect, is also present. One of the ABET/EC 2000engineering criteria for the undergraduate degree is “the broad education necessary tounderstand the impact of engineering solutions in a global/societal context

Conference Session

Philosophy of Engineering Education: Epistemology and Ethics

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gayle Ermer, Calvin College

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Liberal Education

that contribute to engineering failures will allow us topractice and teach engineering in a way that emphasizes the “system” effects. It is not enough toemphasize that engineers need to have integrity and avoid immoral practices individually,although this is a necessary condition for avoiding engineering disasters. We also need to beaware that the way we practice design and the nature of the technological and cultural systems weinteract with are contributors to some of the problems with technology. The categories describedin this paper can provide an outline for accurately