Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education

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

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

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

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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Liberal Education

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

Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education

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

Conference Session

Questions of Identity

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ollis, North Carolina State University

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Liberal Education

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

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

interacted with multiple expertson the 1750s time period. While the students had some rudimentary knowledge of the timeperiod, they were challenged to gain and retain new information so that it could be used later inthe trip to answer the public’s questions. Also, through practice, the students gained anintellectual understanding of team operations, leadership, entrepreneurship, navigation,watercraft skills, camping/outdoor skills, time management, design, fabrication, andenvironmental issues.The students were challenged emotionally in three distinct ways. First, the students lived closely(ate, slept, played, and worked) together 24 hours a day for two months. The team was a diversegroup of students, staff, and faculty, which could create much