Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Ross, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

. 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

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice Pawley, Purdue University; Karen Tonso, Wayne State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

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

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

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

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

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

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Simmons, University of Utah; Susan Sample, University of Utah; April Kedrowicz, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

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

Conference Session

Normative Commitments and Public Engagement in Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Downey, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

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

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

and Pank. He previously worked as a technical writer for a market research firm. Page 15.703.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Improving the Ability of Engineering Students to Communicate Their Technical Discoveries to Non-Technical AudiencesAbstract:The Engineer of 2020 identifies the ability to communicate as a key attribute of successfulengineers. ABET requires engineering schools to ensure students’ ability to communicateeffectively upon graduation. Yet traditionally, the ability to communicate has been interpretednarrowly, simply requiring students to convey technical information to