Conference Session

Ethical Responsibilities of Engineers in the World of Corporate Business

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

languages. There are competinginterests between critiques of globalization as a phenomenon and neoliberal policies andpractices in particular and multinational corporations that sponsor or participate and many ofthese programs. This raises a point that sociologist of the professions Robert Zussman made inhis 1985 book, Mechanics of the Middle Class, that because engineers are embedded in industry,or in the military, they typically serve the ends of profit-making, or defense, and it has nottraditionally been considered a professional duty to question those ends.10Programs for Global Studies in EngineeringSome institutions have developed concentrations or degrees with a global perspective onengineering. The University of Colorado at Boulder has a

Conference Session

Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Wilson, University of CIncinnati; Teresa Cook, University of Cincinnati; Jo Ann Thompson, University of Cincinnati; James Everly, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

on theimportance of writing for a successful future, especially if this agreement is evident throughoutthe entirety of students’ engineering education.2 Page 13.389.2The paper also outlines how college faculty developed “The Sixty Percent Solution: ACommunication Reality Check.” The innovative interdisciplinary course was taught by ninecollege faculty from a variety of disciplines: Engineering Technology, Architecture, Business,Construction Science, English, and Computer Science. It explored the idea that technology,community service, entrepreneurship, and oral and written presentations lend strength to eachother. Working in groups, students

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

Innovation studio sequence, including courses in industrial design, entrepreneurship and design, and sustainability design. Page 13.767.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Integrating Technical, Social, and Aesthetic Analysis in the Product Design Studio: A Case Study and Model for a New Liberal Education for EngineersAbstractThis paper investigates one initiative to bring technical, social, and aesthetic analyses together inthe same curriculum and even in the same classroom. Rensselaer’s Product Design andInnovation

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

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

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

not only analysis of current environmental problems.Sustainable design interventions were divided into three categories for analysis: lifestyledecisions and individual behavioral change (e.g., consumption, energy use, transportationdecisions); technological innovation (e.g., housing/buildings, energy sources and systems,transportation systems, communications systems, waste management); and institutionalinnovation (e.g., new business ventures, social entrepreneurship, economic policy, and new Page 14.1386.5social and cultural values). Sustainable design in the domain of technological innovation wasintended as an explicit and

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

section.These themes are listed below. ‚ Section 001 – Social Transformation (Physics and Engineering) ‚ Section 002 – The Energy of Life (Biology) ‚ Section 003 – Energy and Its Implications (Chemistry) ‚ Section 004 – What is Earth? (Geography)This paper describes the contents, teaching approach, materials, and class activities of thesection 001 focused on the social transformation created by science and engineering.An Overview of STS Education in the USAN. A. Byars [2] refers to the essay The Two Cultures by C. P. Snow published in 1959noting that “a dangerous chasm divided scientists and engineers from literaryintellectuals, creating two cultures unable to communicate across the divide.” In fact,many academicians agree on the fact that

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cherrice Traver, Union College; J. Douglas Klein, Union College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

IncentiveGuest Lectures An engineering faculty member presenting one 65-100 $200- lecture in a liberal arts course, or vice versa. minutes $250Modules One week of material, in the form of class or 3-6 hours $500 laboratory time.Paired Courses Two courses taught in the same term, sharing At least 3 $1000 three or more activities (lectures, labs, field hours trips, speakers, etc) in the same term. Table 1. Summary of Supported InteractionsIncentives were intended for the first offering of an interaction, and for lectures, supported up totwo guests per