Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Rogers, Arizona State University; Dale Palmgren, Arizona State University; Dennis Giever, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Mary Lynn Garcia, Sandia National Laboratories

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Liberal Education

AC 2007-826: SECURITY EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE ROLE OFENGINEERINGBradley Rogers, Arizona State UniversityDale Palmgren, Arizona State UniversityDennis Giever, Indiana University of PennsylvaniaMary Lynn Garcia, Sandia National Laboratories Page 12.1259.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Security Education in the 21st Century: The Role of EngineeringIntroductionHigher education bears the primary responsibility for the development of the nation’s humanresources in all fields, and security is no exception. However, the development of educationalprograms in the security field is complicated by the fact that the practice of security does not

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II: Practical Perspectives on Teaching and Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luke Niiler; David Beams

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Liberal Education

. We make the followingobservations from Fig. 1: • Organization was noticeably improved; this could probably be attributed to the fact that all assignments in this sample were laboratory reports were apparently created using standardized guides or templates. • Neither author noted much change in the quality of the content of laboratory reports. This is somewhat surprising, given the expectation that students at this level would be adapting to the idiom of their professional communities of discourse. A possible explanation is that wide discrepancies in participants’ writing samples were noted, and this range of responses was reflected in the overall rating. • Evaluations of mechanics showed problems

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II: Practical Perspectives on Teaching and Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

necessarily help the student transition to the skills necessary for engineering andscientific technical writing.Since effective communication skills are as important to engineers as their technical skills,students need guidance from department and institutional support teams to help them understandthe complexities of the engineering writing processes and products. Writers need to understandand appreciate the investment of time required for informal writing, such as writing to learncourse content. They also need to value audience expectations and learn the forms in which toexpress content knowledge, such as laboratory reports and design projects. Further, they need tolearn the conventions of sentence-level expression within those forms. This includes

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Martello, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Liberal Education

of the effects of technical-humanities integration on student learning and attitudes arelacking, and important questions remain. Page 12.1147.4Integrated course block: Paul Revere enters the science labPaul Revere is a project-based course that employs new pedagogies and laboratory facilities totest the effectiveness of different educational approaches and assessment mechanisms. Thecurrent incarnation of the course is completely integrated, i.e., students only encounter a singleset of assignments and learning objectives that apply to both the history of technology and thematerials science halves of the course, and students may not take one

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Meyer, Clarkson University; Dick Pratt, Clarkson University

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Liberal Education

problems using both quantitative and qualitative in the major reasoning ̇ Mathematics, including statistics ̇ Think critically and imaginatively ̇ Science (with integrated laboratory) ̇ Technology course Areas of Knowledge ̇ Imaginative arts ̇ Five courses across six areas of ̇ Cultures and societies knowledge, including at least one ̇ Contemporary and global studies interdisciplinary course meeting ̇ Economics and organizations outcomes in two areas. ̇ Interrelation

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I: Innovative Models for Curriculum and Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

incorporating documents such asproposals, laboratory reports, and design reports into engineering courses.22, 24, 35 Few, if any,offer models in which first-year composition courses serve as sites to ground students’ rhetoricaldevelopment in college and provide the framework for subsequent communication learning.Fewer still take full advantage of the broad skill base developed in the composition classroom. In Page 12.1135.4fact, disturbingly, a number of authors speak quite disparagingly of English courses, as thefollowing examples suggest: • “Traditional composition courses cannot adequately prepare students for the writing required to solve

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Tonkay, Lehigh University; E. Zimmers, Lehigh University

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Liberal Education

AC 2007-2283: MIGRATION FROM A LEADERSHIP HONORS PROGRAM TOAN ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP MINORGregory Tonkay, Lehigh University Gregory L. Tonkay, Ph.D. is an associate professor and associate chairperson of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Lehigh University. He is also the director of the ISELP and the Electronics Manufacturing Laboratory. Tonkay has been actively involved in curriculum development for the college’s common freshman year and the department’s degree programs and minors.E. Zimmers, Lehigh University Emory W.Zimmers Jr. Ph.D is professor of Industrial Systems Engineering and Director of Enterprise Systems Center at Lehigh University. Zimmers has been responsible

Conference Session

Approaches to Learning Outcomes Assessment in Liberal Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Lappenbusch, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

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Liberal Education

students a data-driven curriculum to guide their efforts at making connections would help students seethemselves as engineers. We assert portfolios are one way to satisfy our obligation as educatorsto design an engineering learning experience focused on the student and not the content.AcknowledgementsThis work has been supported by the National Science Foundation through grant REC-0238392,“Using portfolios to promote knowledge integration in engineering education.” The authorswish to thank all of our research participants and all members of the Laboratory for User-Centered Engineering Education for the insightful reviews and comments that helped to shapethis paper.References1 Loshbaugh, Heidi G., Ruth A. Streveler, Kimarie Engerman, Dawn Williams

Conference Session

Approaches to Learning Outcomes Assessment in Liberal Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhiwei Guan, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

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Liberal Education

Heinricher 2002 5, assess their own competencies and take amore active role in the learning process as in Erikson 19986, and even have a betterunderstanding of course objectives as in Guan 2005 7. Additionally, these results providea basis for ensuring that a portfolio assignment helps the most students.AcknowledgementsThis work has been supported by the National Science Foundation through grant REC-0238392, “Using portfolios to promote knowledge integration in engineering education.”The authors wish to thank all of our research participants. The authors also wish to thank Page 12.1254.12the members of the Laboratory for User-Centered Engineering Education