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

Opportunities of Service-learning (ETHOS)program at the University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio) is founded on the belief that engineers aremore apt and capable to serve our world when they have experienced opportunities that increasetheir understanding of technology’s global linkage with values, culture, society, politics andeconomy. ETHOS seeks to provide these opportunities by means of curriculum integratedservice-learning programming. Such educational programming – classroom projects, studentorganization activities, collaborative research and international technical immersion – facilitatesholistic learning, ethical engineering practices, perspectives of technology integration andappropriate technology transfer. To appropriately measure the value

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

weeks of paddling Lake Erie, students portaged sixteen miles from Erieto Waterford, Pennsylvania (on French Creek), thereby passing from the Great Lakes to the OhioRiver basin. They were the first people in modern times to make this historic portage, which wasa key transportation link for the French colonial government and Native Americans in the region.The students then traveled down the Allegheny River to Pittsburgh, participating incommemorative events along the way.The purpose of this project was to provide students with a multi-faceted out-of-class educationalexperience to better prepare them to be lifelong learners, problem solvers, and more wellrounded citizens. From beginning to end, the students gained valuable life lessons and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Fry, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

page for the d.school. “We believe having designers in the mix is key to success in multidisciplinary collaboration and critical to uncovering unexplored areas of innovation. Designers provide a methodology that all parties can embrace and a design environment conducive to innovation. In our experience, design thinking is the glue that holds these kinds of communities together and makes them successful.”8This statement describes the influence on education of the increasingly “messy”, large scaleproblems and projects that will typify projects in our modern society. It also marks theseparation of the “process” used by applied artists/designers from their traditional “results”.Rather than just being applied to the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hilkat Soysal, Frostburg State University; Oguz Soysal, Frostburg State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

. A modernsociety cannot function properly if anyone of these components is missing. Figure 1shows the interactions between mathematics, sciences, engineering, and society. Thediagram illustrates the role of engineering as a bridge between basic sciences and societyusing the four basic components. This approach does not distinguish between engineeringdisciplines and highlights the interdisciplinary character of most technologicalapplications.Most of freshman students are somehow familiar with the scientific approach thanks tohigh school science courses and science fair projects. However, the concept of Page 11.651.5engineering design and differences

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luke Niiler; David Beams, University of Texas-Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

requires students to make oral presentations as well as towrite laboratory reports, business letters, résumés, and technical research papers. Written reportsand oral presentations are required in mid-level courses, and the senior-level two-semestercapstone design sequence, a joint effort of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering,requires students to write project proposals, progress reports, updates, and final reports as well asmake an oral presentation in each semester. Dr. Niiler, founding director of UT-Tyler’s WritingCenter, has extensive experience working with students from across the disciplines on subject-specific writing projects. He has contributed to the Electrical Engineering Laboratory Reportstyle guide, and regularly

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Contemporary Issues

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Davis, Illinois Institute of Technology; Heinz Luegenbiehl, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

- Page 11.561.5Picayune, New Orleans’ daily newspaper, even obtained the “final review set of design 4drawings for the project”. These showed “the pilings on the New Orleans side of thecanal were to be driven 10 feet”.10 That seemed to be the last word. Even on December 22, 2005, the date I stoppedmy research, the entry for Katrina in Wikipedia (the online encyclopedia) still asserted:“The flood was caused by several levee breaches due to misdesign by the United StatesArmy Corps of Engineers, improper construction, and lack of supervision by the OrleansLevee Board.”11Cause: “take 3” As of that date (December 22), the Corps of Engineers still

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College; Lionel Claris, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

2006-259: POWER/KNOWLEDGE: USING FOUCAULT TO PROMOTECRITICAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF CONTENT AND PEDAGOGY INENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICSDonna Riley, Smith College Donna Riley is Assistant Professor in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. Her work focuses on implementing liberative pedagogies in engineering education.Lionel Claris, Smith College Lionel Claris holds a master's degree in education from Smith College and currently teaches Spanish and French to elementary school students in Springfield, MA. He is a passionate advocate for new ways of thinking about learning, involved locally in the Holistic School Project of Amherst and the Re-radicalization of Hampshire College

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; James Heisler, Hope College; Thomas Ludwig, Hope College; Roger Nemeth, Hope College; James Piers, Hope College; Neal Sobania, Pacific Lutheran University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

active learning techniques should anticipate the needto acclimate the class to these procedures.A common expectation by students is that it should be possible to pass a course bypassing the final examination. In other words, grading schemes that factor in homework,class participation, projects, along with multiple examinations are not familiar. Classattendance is not seen as essential, and attendance is typically around 75%. There is anexpectation on the part of the students that it should be possible by outside studyexclusive of class attendance to pass a course. The connection between this mode ofthought and the university entrance examination system is obvious.In our experience, a major theme in successfully negotiating the exchange process

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

leadershipskills in the areas of change management, creativity, and diversity with explicit attention to theapplication of these skills to the leadership and development of faculty, administrative staff, andstudents. Our goal was to assist engineering education leaders in enhancing their knowledge andskills in areas required for achieving the visions of the NAE report, The Engineer of 2020.”1Inaddition, each of the eight schools was required to identify three challenges faced by theirschool. Prior to attending the retreat, each of the teams was to have developed a plan foraddressing these challenges or a project to pursue.The EELI retreat was a remarkably effective means for the development of our task force, in partbecause of the ideas presented at the

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

as part of the United Nations’Earth Charter18 and offer suggestions for a revised ABET Criterion III.19 We offer a codeof ethics for engineers and engineering societies which includes the promotion of socialjustice and peace rank them as importantly as safety and more importantly than making aprofit. As a result of the new ethics code, we offer an engineering design algorithm,which places the promotion of peace and social justice as key elements in everyengineering design project. Page 11.581.5A New Paradigm for Engineering EducationBackgroundIn June 2000, an international conference entitled “Connecting Ethics, EcologicalIntegrity and Health in the

Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven VanderLeest, Calvin College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

humility as a norm.3 Design NormsWhen designing a product, the engineer works iteratively through a step-by-step process: • Specification: Define the problem. Clarify the requirements of the project. • Ideation: Identify alternative solutions to the problem, often by brainstorming a variety of ideas. • Prioritization: Identify decision criteria to rate the various solutions, such as cost or weight. • Decision: Apply the decision criteria to decide between the alternatives, often using a decision matrix. • Implementation: Work out the details of implementing the chosen solution.Frequently the knowledge and ideas generated during one step in the process leads back toearlier steps for refinement and modification. Thus, the

Conference Session

Recent Developments in Engineering Ethics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

much more cost-effective than hiring high-priced outsideconsulting firms to develop programs, an ironic side effect of the mandated ethics andcompliance provision.Educational AppropriatenessIndustrial ethics games can be a boon to the classroom, for not only do they reinforce the notionwith students that business and industry care about ethics (indeed, now they are required to careabout ethics!), but the games offer insights into organizational structure, which, for mosttraditional-aged college students, is truly new information.As an eight-year veteran of using “The Ethics Challenge” in a variety of classes, including a civilengineering senior-level capstone design project, I can say with certainty that this game is adelight in the classroom