Conference Session

Liberal Education and Leadership

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

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

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

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

Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education

 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

Conference Session

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

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

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

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education

. 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

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

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

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Endeavor

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Brocato, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

AC 2009-1565: TWO WAYS OF USING CASE STUDIES TO TEACH ETHICSJohn Brocato, Mississippi State University John Brocato serves as Coordinator and Instructor in the Shackouls Technical Communication Program in the James Worth Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University. He designed and helps teach GE 3513 Technical Writing and works closely with engineering departments on enhancing the technical communication content in their curricula. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from MSU and previously taught in the English Department there. He is a member of ASEE and serves as its Campus Representative for MSU