“professionalskills”10. While this seems to be one of those cases where a scholarly consensus is at leastbeginning to form, we know that implementation of this best practice will take years at manyinstitutions. We’re relatively lucky at UW-Madison: At the December 2006 commencementceremony, our chancellor noted that an unprecedented number of our university’s graduates hadparticipated in service learning11. However, we are as yet far from making this opportunityavailable to all students. In a sense, then, the question we try to answer with this course and withthis paper is “What might we do in the meanwhile for those students who won’t have the chanceto do service learning before they graduate?”12Our answer is informed by a metaphor that environmental writer
AC 2009-1610: COMMUNICATION PEDAGOGY IN THE ENGINEERINGCLASSROOM: A REPORT ON FACULTY PRACTICES AND PERCEPTIONSJulia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Julia M. Williams is Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment & Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana. Her articles on writing assessment, electronic portfolios, ABET, and tablet PCs have appeared in the Technical Communication Quarterly, Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, The International Journal of Engineering Education, Journal of Engineering Education, and The Impact of Tablet PCs and Pen
. Oral presentation using PowerPoint summarizing accomplishment and significance of the completed project.#3 Academic Academic Argument Project Planning.Argument Formal Proposal for Argument Project. Continued development of relevant specialized second research tools.The space race Deliverable – a position paper: science, technology, and major social problems.“debates”#4 Group/team 1. Breadth of Knowledge – Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, and Business.discussions 2. Best Practice and Ethics – focus on the NSPE Code of Ethics.Implications forspace explorationEnrichment Representative Lectures:Activities A Local Small
Page 12.486.4first-year courses with a true engineering writing course. In addition, there is not roomelsewhere in the engineering curricula to insert such an independent writing course.In an effort to resolve some of these issues teaching technical writing to engineering students, theEngineering-writing center collaboration began with individual instructors. The Engineering-writing center collaboration is informed, in part, by research that supports the writing center asone among several sites, including academic departments, for effective Writing Across theCurriculum programs. The center’s practice allows mutually beneficial dialogue among faculty,tutors and writing program administrators.3The Cadet Writing and Reading CenterThe Cadet
Ethics & Computer Ethics: methods and concepts from Computer Ethics with significant implications for engineering research and practice such as intellectual property, privacy, and safety-critical systemsPlans call for the online modules to be piloted in a graduate engineering course in earth systemsmanagement as well as a graduate course in ethics and emerging technologies.Model IV – Ethics and the LabThis model is based on the idea that scientists and engineers sometimes disregard traditionalethics training in the classroom because they don’t see how the lessons could pertain to theirdaily work or how the ethics instructor could understand their situation. Holding these sessionsin laboratories where the students are comfortable
AC 2008-1891: INTEGRATING TECHNICAL, SOCIAL, AND AESTHETICANALYSIS IN THE PRODUCT DESIGN STUDIO: A CASE STUDY AND MODELFOR A NEW LIBERAL EDUCATION FOR ENGINEERSDean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dean Nieusma’s research and teaching focus on interdisciplinary design collaboration and the expertise that enables it. With a BS in mechanical engineering and another in general studies and a PhD in interdisciplinary social sciences, Dean has worked as a member of design teams in contexts as diverse as the U.S. and European automotive industries; Sri Lanka’s renewable energy sector; and STS, engineering, and design curriculum planning. He teaches across Rensselaer’s Product Design and
2006-22: ENGINEERING, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND PEACE: A REVOLUTION OFTHE HEARTGeorge Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton George Catalano is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering.He researches and teaches in the areas of engineering design, the fluid dynamics of the natural world and applied mathematics and is included in the Philosophers’ Index for his work in environmental ethicsCaroline Baillie, Queens University-Kingston Caroline Baillie was appointed in 2003 as the Dupont Canada Chair in Engineering Education Research and Development, the first position of its kind in the world. Caroline previously worked for the UK Centre for Materials Education, which was a national programme to
primarily JaneJensen’s responsibility, with input from Drs. Mengüç and St. Omer, and Hawes willremain the TA for all courses. Hawes is a PhD candidate in the College of Engineering,whose research focuses on nanoscale engineering.Structure of the Course:We wanted to structure the course around themes that would resonate universally. While“computers” would have been a natural choice to discuss the impact of emergingtechnologies, today’s college freshmen have no memory of the days before computers,just as older generations have little or no recollection of times without electricity orrunning water. On the other hand, our generation’s experience with computers can beconsidered a juxtaposition of “before- and after-personal computers” experience. Wehave
women engineers are mannish looking,” Mrs. Loomis explained, “but a woman defeats her own purpose if she tries to make herself into a masculine type engineer.” The feminine qualities and talents a woman brings to engineering earn for her the acceptance in every type of engineering, according to Mrs. Loomis. These include “a woman’s special talent for detail and thoroughness in research, her loyalty and sense of obligation to her employer, and her creative ability, whether it is in designing or in a time study to do a job more efficiently.”Taken together, SWE archive data deliver a clear message: Women may do the prototypicallymasculine work of engineering, but only if they retain their normative femininity. Ultimately, solong as women
big enough” One day a colleague stopped by Barbara’soffice to comment “Being the best industrial research lab in the world doesn’t do it for me. ButI’d get up in the morning to be best for the world.” It was with that minor “tweak” that the visionfor the lab began to generate sufficient enthusiasm to truly have an impact on the culture in thelab. As we studied this book on the flight home and in the days following our return, as a groupwe realized that there were real possibilities for our organization also.Three QuestionsAt the EELI, and at our initial meetings back in Madison, we began to realize that we wereconfronting three questions central to institutional change in a world of changing demographics,scarce resources, and globalization
AC 2010-1296: "BRIEF ENCOUNTER:" A REFLECTION ON WILLIAMSPROPOSALS FOR THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUMJohn Heywood, Trinity College Dublin Professorial Fellow Emeritius of Trinity COllege Dublin (Ireland. Formerly Professor of Education and Chair Department of Teacher Education.Has published over 50 papers on topics related to engineering and technological education and several books. His book "Engineering Education; Research and Development in Curriculum and Instruction" received the best reseach publication award of division i (professional) of the American Educational Research Association in 2005. previously he has been awarded a premium of the Education, Science and Technology division of the
gained from favoring the graduates of anunderdeveloped and untested engineering program. Where industry executives and recruitersturned more eagerly to Boelter was in the area of continuing education. Many a young engineerhad been lured to Southern California by defense industry salaries, and in so doing, they hadforgone the option of attending graduate school. However, given the wartime contributions ofscience, and the contract structures of a hypercompetitive defense industry that created strongincentives for firms to demonstrate advanced research and design capabilities, specializedtraining at the graduate level became the accepted gold standard for professional advancement.Here, there was a young workforce, many of whom had yet to form a
Question #4 Begin to observe how a scene is changed by light at different times of day. Select a location and a composition then photograph it at different times of the day. Do your best to set up the camera and tripod in exactly the same location for each time period. Choose three of these images and print them on 8.5 x 11" paper for presentation on September 12. Grading Key+ Meets assignment extremely well, great job, just as expected O You’ve done an acceptable job but there is room for improvement ∆ There are significant problems that negatively impact the success of the project Answers the question posed +/O The changes in light are rather subtle and the in the project description subject matter according to the evaporation
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
Learning, Projects that Matter: Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Engineering, AAHE, E. Tsang, ed., Washington D.C., (2000).6 Design Criteria for Sustainable Development in Appropriate Technology: Technology as if People Matter Robert C. Wicklein, Ed. D. University of Georgia, USA7 Hazelton, B, Bull, C. Appropriate Technology: Tools, Choices and Implications, November 1988.8 Wilk, et. al., Preparing Engineering Students to Work in a Global Environmen: The Union College Model,, Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition9 Mayes, et. al., ABET Best Practices: Results form Interviews with 27 Peer Institutions, Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference and
standard deviation was1.0. Although the faculty response rate was a subject of contention at subsequent facultymeetings, the question did provide a snapshot of faculty enthusiasm (or lack thereof) for thecurrent general education program. For the authors, however, it raised a larger question thatcould be approached by actual data as opposed to just perception. Namely, how does the generaleducation program at the University of Evansville compare in content, if not in quality, withother such programs across the country?To answer this question, and to identify possible new models and best practices that couldtranslate well into the culture at the University of Evansville, a review of general educationcurricula of colleges and universities with
Yalvac et al. describe how an engineering course was redesigned topromote advanced writing skills by adding writing exercises based on the VaNTH taxonomy ofcore competency skills in writing.11 Many educators and institutions recognize the value ofincreasing communication emphasis in a longitudinal manner throughout a student’s academicprogram.12, 13 While this emphasis is significant and necessary for developing efficient and Page 13.71.2effective engineering graduates, increased “practice” time and/or varied assignment formats arenot sufficient by themselves to accomplish this goal. Just as a successful engineering design isachieved through
the purposeof the project and the specific research and writing strategies one selects. Adams and colleagues,for example, examine “storytelling in engineering education” with the explicit goal of betterunderstanding the emergence of an “engineering education research community.” Their focus is,in other words, accounting for an observed convergence and possibly contributing further to it.They invited eight scholars, including three co-authors, to prepare “story poster” presentations atthe national Frontiers in Education conference (supported by the IEEE). The organizers askedpresenters to respond to a structured set of questions designed to evoke “insider knowledge”pertaining to “driving passions and goals, processes such as getting started
thescholarly impact: this author’s research reputation is based largely upon a small set ofpapers in the photocatalysis domain. Accumulating by age 50 an appreciable research success through increasingnarrowness, albeit a productive one labeled scholarship, in the early 1990s my path beganbroadening. My research group focus had been narrow, as befits most PhD groups. Tobetter prepare my graduate students for the broader world which might have no interest inthe as yet uncommercialized photocatalysis area, I created a graduate PhotochemicalEngineering course, and explored the broader topical range of photography andxerography, of microlithography in microelectronics and microfabrication, of light-basedwater purification, and photovoltaic energy
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
. To be equipped with the required skill set to solve the problem, ordesign and implement the system, a knowledge base is required. Having the required body ofknowledge, the engineer is equipped to implement or develop the design tools necessary toachieve the required outcomes for the project in hand. Through time, experience is gainedenabling knowledge to be refined which will further enhance system design capabilities.The engineering model described in Figure 1 depicts where activities which are philosophical innature are most to the fore10. Epistemology, indeed Logic, Ethics and Aesthetics are fundamentalto the creative design processes essential to good engineering practice. Knowledge inengineering, science and technology has grown through
AC 2007-2010: WHAT PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION EFFORTS REVEALABOUT STUDENTS’ SEARCH FOR ENGINEERING IDENTITYSteve Lappenbusch, University of Washington Steve Lappenbusch is a Ph.D. student in the University of Washington Technical Communication department. His research assistant work investigates how to improve engineering learning. His dissertation topic is risk management in humanitarian relief communication systems.Jennifer Turns, University of Washington Jennifer Turns is an associate professor in the University of Washington Technical Communication department. Her research interests include user-centered design and engineering learning. Her National Science Foundation CAREER grant funds
ofboth language and lab instruction by French (i.e., non-US) faculty, in an overseasexperience.CPE Program in French language class and laboratory The CPE 2007 program brochure, summarized in Table 1, highlights the parallelinstruction in French language and laboratory, along with emphasis on the culturalopportunities of the host city Lyon. The original CPE program1 was founded in 2000with a goal of providing US engineering and chemistry students with a summerexperience in France, which could then lead to an enhanced exchange of technicalstudents in subsequent academic semesters. Several of our previous participants havereturned for summer research experiences in Lyon, and one completed her final semesterof a dual French/engineering
technical community have called for systemic changes in engineeringeducation that include a shift to integrated and multidisciplinary approaches; an emphasis onunderstanding of societal impacts of engineering; increased teaming skills, includingcollaborative, active learning; and an improved capacity for life-long, self-directed learning.1,2,3This study focuses upon two of the critical skills listed above: self-directed learning andcontextual understanding.Calls for educational reform emphasize the need for new student-centered learning approachesthat aid development of broader skills and attitudes to complement traditional knowledgeacquisition.1,2 A capacity for self-direction and life-long learning is often identified as a criticaloutcome for
48.3% 42.1% 34.8% Men only Engineering Graduates 41.4% 35.6% 32.9%While job titles are the most obvious proxy for understanding work activities, there exists a greatdeal of variability in the types of day-to-day work that engages different people within the samejob title. Therefore, the second dimension of interest was engineering graduates’ primary jobresponsibilities. Respondents chose between a list of thirteen responsibilities and were asked tochoose the task that comprised the majority of their day-to-day work activities. Theresponsibilities were categorized as technical (basic research, applied research, development ofknowledge, design, computer applications, production, and quality management
. Video serves as a bridge between the humanities andengineering when it brings technology into the humanities classroom and when it brings thehumanities into the technology classroom.ABET accreditation requires that all engineering graduates have effective communication skills,have an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams, and have an understanding of the world,the economy, the environment and society. It is a challenge to fit the broad education requiredfor gaining this kind of understanding into an intensive engineering education. Digital videotechnology addresses this challenge.IntroductionVideo production has a long history in the humanities because it was developed for storytellingout of a theater tradition. While the emergence of
overothers, this can create a “chilly climate” for disadvantaged groups, deterring members of thesedisadvantaged groups from persisting in engineering education and beyond.Research on “chilly climates” within engineering education largely focuses on the experiences ofwomen and racial minorities. In the former, researchers have found “chilly climates” which areunwelcoming to women and can have negative impacts on women’s sense of self-efficacy withinengineering school.15, 16, 17, 18 Researchers investigating the experiences of racial and ethnicminority (REM) students have also found chilly climates which are biased against minoritystudents, particularly African-Americans, Latinos and Native-Americans.15, 19A key mechanism for the facilitation of
, literature, “no Toleration of languages; design for beauty; artmusic, religion, connections” ambiguities. and photography; creativelanguages, “avoid if Understanding writing. Engineering andcultures) possible” cultural impact, aesthetics. “Engineers without Ethics in general. borders.”Social Sciences “not technical” Critical thinking Experience with a variety of(economics, “not scientific” about social people: volunteer work; outreachsociology, “avoid if impact; to public and communitypsychology, possible” Economics of organizations; work with elderly, engineering
Center and designed dripirrigation systems for a village in Peru.Material CoursesPlastics Engineering has a four-year history of incorporating service-learning projects inlaboratories associated with sophomore-level plastics materials courses. The principle learningoutcomes are the ability of students to research polymer materials, to apply their knowledge ofpolymer materials to a practical problem, to work in groups, and to present their work inprofessional manner. Over the past three years, sophomores in Plastics Engineering haveevaluated the suitability of various transparent plastics sheet for solar lanterns that will be used inPeru (for the Village Empowerment Peru Project); designed and created middle-school-levelhands-on activities
another.7So how do we as engineering and technology educators, practically provide our students with aneducation that includes the approach fostered by a liberal education in addition to technicalcontent? How do we provide technical content and perspective for students pursuing a liberaleducation? Although there may be a myriad of approaches to the problem, an obvious tactic thatwould reach all students is to focus on the core curriculum (courses required of all students) andalso on courses required in the technical major. By focusing on these two elements of thecurriculum we have the potential to provide learning opportunities that can impact and broadenperspectives of both technical and non-technical students.Within curricula of the College of