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Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Liberal Education

AC 2010-1688: TEACHING TO ABET'S CRITERION 3(I) LIFELONG LEARNINGOUTCOME: LESSONS ON INNOVATION FROM CREATIVE COMMUNITIESKatherine Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering KATHERINE WIKOFF is Associate Professor in the General Studies Department at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where she teaches courses in freshman communication, business and technical communication, literature, political science, film studies, and creative thinking. Email: wikoff@msoe.edu Page 15.1189.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Teaching to ABET’s 3(i) Lifelong Learning Outcome

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University

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Liberal Education

serves as Chair of the Educational Innovation Collaborative at LTU and Coordinator of the Civil Engineering Assessment Program. He is actively involved in ASEE and serves as Faculty Advisor for the ASCE Student Chapter at LTU. His research interests involve academic integrity, assessment tools, urban stream restoration, and watershed processes. Page 11.768.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Innovative Learning Experience – Detroit to Pittsburgh Canoe ExpeditionAbstractEngineering students at Lawrence Technological University participated in a unique

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Ross, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Liberal Education

time and are not even necessarilyconsistent. Whether or not a planet will be hospitable and welcoming to intelligent life seems inmany instances unpredictable. Academic courses are a little like that.The “freshman comp” course described in this paper exists within a “first year” program in theCollege of Engineering; it covers basic communication skills, research, oral presentations, andelementary project management; it addresses professional and liberal education issues; itattempts to create a “learning community” by focusing on the big theme of “space exploration.”At UW-Madison this course has its home in a Technical Communication program within theCollege of Engineering; additionally, the opportunity and empowerment to innovate have

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Layton, DeVry University

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Liberal Education

, taught at Clark College inVancouver, Washington, and Washington State University, Vancouver. This course is now anopen “concepts” course, no longer strictly a science fiction course. Segall does argue for use ofscience fiction to teach some ethical issues related to engineering technology, especially thoserelated to food, resources, and technological consequences. However, Segall’s proposal discussesmostly the teaching of strictly engineering concepts. These included such areas as designrequirements for the Starship Enterprise, the accuracy of engineering physics in science fictionstories, and computer communications systems. This course is also a fairly straightforward andtraditional course, in which students watch a movie or video, or read a

Conference Session

Communication and Collaboration

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University; Are Magnus Bruaset, Simula Research Laboratory; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University; Marianne M. Sundet, Simula Research Laboratory; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University

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Liberal Education

AC 2009-1894: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL WORKSHOP TO TEACHNORWEGIAN PH.D. STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE HOW TOCOMMUNICATE RESEARCHMichael Alley, Pennsylvania State University Michael Alley is an associate professor of engineering communication at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Presentations (2002, Springer-Verlag). In addition, he regularly teaches presentation workshops at several research institutions in the United States and Europe. For the Norwegian national workshop discussed in this paper, he served as a lecturer for the formal classes and a principal instructor for the parallel critique sessions.Are Magnus Bruaset, Simula Research

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Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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George Catalano, State University of New York, Binghamton

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Liberal Education

light of recent advances in stem cell research, cloning, and bio-engineered agricultural products. Do you agree with Schumacher...or are scientists as capable as anyone else, perhaps even more so, to explore the consequences of their work? ≠ Schumacher asks a simple but penetrating question: what is progress? How does he answer that question...and how do you? Do you agree or disagree with Schumacher? ≠ What are Schumacher's views on assisting developing countries? Do you agree or disagree with Schumacher?Student Feedback Page 15.881.7Student opinion of the course was genuinely positive. Information was

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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Liberal Education

© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Some Recommendations for U.S.A. Faculty on Teaching Liberal Education Courses in JapanAbstractThis work presents a summary of practical information for faculty from United Statesinstitutions of higher education planning on teaching liberal education courses in Japan.These recommendations are based on the experience of the authors in teaching sociology,history, economics, psychology, and general education classes, at both a US liberal artscollege and at a medium sized comprehensive university in Tokyo, Japan. For facultyparticipating in an exchange program, a key element is successful adaptation of existingfamiliar course materials for use in a different institution and

Conference Session

Questions of Identity

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Ollis, North Carolina State University

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Liberal Education

few forty-somethings and aneasy majority of engineering elders. Why would an “old guard” be the dominant courseinventors for this topic, when new engineering courses are typically initiated by youngerfaculty ? Why would accomplished senior researchers and a former dean and departmentheads teach a course characteristically populated by undergraduates outside theirdepartments and college? And why did no consensus technology literacy emerge at thisworkshop, when undergraduate engineering courses are famous for their uniformitywithin the US, due largely to common utilization of a few widely accepted texts in eachdiscipline? Reflection on the individual presenters showed that their academic journeys werelogically similar in origin, but not

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Writing and Communication II: Practical Perspectives on Teaching and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

Page 12.486.4first-year courses with a true engineering writing course. In addition, there is not roomelsewhere in the engineering curricula to insert such an independent writing course.In an effort to resolve some of these issues teaching technical writing to engineering students, theEngineering-writing center collaboration began with individual instructors. The Engineering-writing center collaboration is informed, in part, by research that supports the writing center asone among several sites, including academic departments, for effective Writing Across theCurriculum programs. The center’s practice allows mutually beneficial dialogue among faculty,tutors and writing program administrators.3The Cadet Writing and Reading CenterThe Cadet

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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M. Pinar Menguc, University of Kentucky; Ellie Hawes, University of Kentucky; Jane Jensen, University of Kentucky; Ingrid St. Omer, University of Kentucky

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Liberal Education

or device work under many differentconditions over its life span. There is always inherent uncertainty regarding the operationof a given device, which needs the implementation of layers of a priori assumptions bythe engineers who built it. It is almost impossible to engineer a sophisticated instrumentwith the precision of physical principles or mathematical formulae. In the process,engineers always leave a few details to their feelings, more accurately to their gutfeelings, which is akin to a process an artist goes through. For that reason, many devicesand processes work sufficiently well before we completely understand why they do. If afinal product works well, then, it has to be understood better just to make it work morepredictably, and

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deborah Sinnreich-Levi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology; David Silverstein, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

AC 2010-713: IMPROVING THE ABILITY OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS TOCOMMUNICATE TO NON-TECHNICAL AUDIENCESDeborah Sinnreich-Levi, Stevens Institute of Technology Prof. Deborah Sinnreich-Levi is associate professor of English and comparative literature at Stevens Institute of Technology, where she has directed the writing program since 1990. She ran the grant-funded Humanities Resource Center for 17 years. She direct both the undergraduate writing program, and the graduate professional communications certificate program. She teaches literature and advanced writing courses for engineers. She has been awarded two Institute distinguished teaching awards, and one research award, in addition to receiving

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ari Epstein, MIT; Joellen Easton, American Public Media; Rekha Murthy, Public Radio Exchange; Emily Davidson, MIT; Jennifer de Bruijn, MIT; Tracey Hayse, MIT; Elise Hens, MIT; Margaret Lloyd

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Liberal Education

public radio content. Prior to joining PRX she was a user-experience designer for web and mobile applications and a producer for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." She holds an M.S. from the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT, where she helped to develop (and later served as a Teaching Assistant for) Terrascope Radio.Emily Davidson, MIT EMILY DAVIDSON is a senior at MIT, majoring in Chemical Engineering with a double minor in Physics and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. She has been both a student and an Undergraduate Teaching Fellow in Terrascope Radio, and has also served as a mentor to teen interns in Terrascope Youth Radio.Jennifer de Bruijn, MIT

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Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Liberal Education

Paul Revere in the Science Lab: Integrating Humanities and Engineering Pedagogies to Develop Skills in Contextual Understanding and Self-Directed LearningAbstractABET, ASEE, and the wider engineering community have long acknowledged the potentialbenefits of interdisciplinary education, including the opportunity to develop non-technical skillssuch as communication and teamwork while cultivating a broader awareness of the ethical,societal, historical, and environmental impacts of engineering work. Instructors haveencountered many challenges in planning and implementing integrated courses, such as thedifficulty of coordinating the teaching methods, content, and learning objectives of differentacademic disciplines in a finite and

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Liberal Education

received greater emphasis in the engineering education literature recently. 1Engineering teaming research, in general, encompasses the following areas: (a) cooperativelearning,2-10 (b) specific examples of using teams in the classroom,11-15 (c) the impact of gender(and other demographic variables) on team productivity,16-18 (d) essential team skills,19-23 and (e)approaches for assessing teamwork (i.e., grading or evaluating team projects).24-29 Although thisliterature is a valuable resource for instructors of teamwork, it fails to address team pedagogy.That is, of the essays that afford mention of team communication as an important aspect ofeffective professional development, none go on to explain how to teach students effectiveteamwork principles

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Writing and Communication II: Practical Perspectives on Teaching and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luke Niiler; David Beams

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Liberal Education

project gave us a clearerview of why this might be so: first-year students clearly did not understand writing as relevant totheir work as engineers. This understanding was shown to have been augmented somewhat inthe second year of the EWI, when we found that the sophomore-level students surveyed hadbecome increasingly aware of writing not only as a means of transcribing data but also as anintegral factor in learning course material. In their presentation to this meeting in 2006, weunderscored Norback’s belief that because these students are becoming members of “discoursecommunities,” or groups of researchers and practitioners sharing a common language ofexpertise, they should be provided “ample opportunities for ‘situated learning’ within

Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Liberal Education

Global Century (2007), acknowledges theneeds for all college students to prepare for twenty-first-century challenges by gaining fouressential learning outcomes: 1) knowledge of human cultures and the physical and natural world,focused by engagement with big questions, both contemporary and enduring 2) intellectual andpractical skills, including inquiry and analysis, critical and creative thinking, written and oralcommunication, 3) personal and social responsibility, including foundations and skills forlifelong learning, ethical reasoning and action, intercultural knowledge and competence and 4)integrative learning, including synthesis and advanced accomplishment across general andspecialized studies. For Engineering students in particular

Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven VanderLeest, Calvin College

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Liberal Education

2006-85: JUSTICE AND HUMILITY IN TECHNOLOGY DESIGNSteven VanderLeest, Calvin College Steven H. VanderLeest is a Professor of Engineering at Calvin College. He has an M.S.E.E. from Michigan Tech. U. (1992) and Ph.D. from the U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995). He received a “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers” Award in 2004 and 2005 and was director of a FIPSE grant “Building IT Fluency into a Liberal Arts Core Curriculum.” His research includes responsible technology and software partitioned OS. Page 11.851.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Justice and

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Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

. 3. Explicate possible motivations behind and contributing factors to political violence and terrorist activities and incorporate this knowledge into prevention and intervention strategies. 4. Address challenges and issues that emerge in the field of critical asset protection through research, communication, structural design, policy creation, implementation, and evaluation. 5. Design physical and cyber protection systems that will minimize identified vulnerabilities of a variety of critical assets.Program objectives 1 and 2, listed above, involve mastering the basic framework of the Sandiasystems engineering methodology described earlier in this paper. This provides the opportunityfor interdisciplinary

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Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Liberal Education

develop an integrated program of mid-level writing instruction in the technical disciplines. A multi-faceted program emerged:collaboration among writing faculty and technical faculty; development of interdisciplinarywriting instruction in mid-level technical courses; the utilization of grading rubrics to enhancethe importance of writing and communication skills in technical courses; the formation of adiscourse community; and the creation of e-portfolios to enhance reflection and illuminateconnections among the students’ technical and Humanities courses.IntroductionThis paper describes how the College of Applied Science writing faculty joined forces withengineering technology faculty to research innovative practices in the teaching of writing in

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Ethical Responsibilities of Engineers in the World of Corporate Business

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education

AC 2007-2072: RESISTING NEOLIBERALISM IN GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTENGINEERINGDonna Riley, Smith College Donna Riley is Assistant Professor of Engineering at Smith College. She teaches an upper level elective course on engineering and global development and advises the campus chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World. Page 12.1240.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Resisting neoliberalism in global development engineeringAbstractIn recent years we have seen an explosion of interest in global development engineering on ourcampuses. Driven by a range of goals including addressing basic human

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Venturing Out: Service Learning, Study Abroad, and Criterion H

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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Liberal Education

AC 2008-599: KINESTHETIC LEARNING IN THE CLASSROOMJoe Tranquillo, Bucknell University JOSEPH V TRANQUILLO is an assistant professor of biomedical and electrical engineering at Bucknell University. Dr. Tranquillo teaches courses primarily in bioinstrumentation. His research focuses on theoretical and computational models of electrical activity in the body. Page 13.829.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Kinesthetic Learning in the Classroom “Great ideas originate in the muscles” – Thomas EdisonIntroductionA great deal of information exists regarding the

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Normative Commitments and Public Engagement in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juan Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Jen Schneider, Colorado School of Mines; Jon Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

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Liberal Education

from the Hewlett Foundation in 2005 to create a program that wouldchange the way we traditionally teach engineering to students, engineering and liberal artsfaculty involved with the grant chose to create an initiative called “Humanitarian Engineering”(HE) without being aware of what the synthesis of these two words really meant. Mostengineering faculty viewed HE just as “engineering for the common good” and assumed thatengineers doing good had a fairly simple history. After all, if engineers with good intentionshave always been around doing good for people in the same ways, why should they care aboutunderstanding their history?Slightly more suspicious of the term “humanitarian,” liberal arts faculty involved in this grantbegan a historical

Conference Session

Liberal Education and Leadership

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Val Hawks, Brigham Young University; John Harb, Brigham Young University; Alan Parkinson, Brigham Young University; Spencer Magleby, Brigham Young University

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Liberal Education

students. The collegemission statement contains the stated intent to produce graduates “who will become outstandingleaders throughout the world.” Other areas of strategic focus include innovation, globalcompetence and character, all of which are needed to prepare engineers and technologists forsuccess in the 21st century.In order to implement the leadership portion of this strategic plan, the college has moved todesign and implement a college-wide approach to teach leadership principles and developleadership capabilities in students. This approach has been designed not only to influence thestudents, but also to develop the skills and materials needed by faculty to effectively teachleadership. The approach is built around the use of 1) a common

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education

opened for questions and discussion from the rest of the class. Otherformats using small groups may be similarly effective; Augusto Boal’s drama techniques67 canbe utilized to act out and experiment with course material. This can be especially powerful andtransformative when power dynamics are first illustrated and then resisted through theatre.ConclusionIn answering the call of colleagues to teach macroethics to engineers, an upper-level seminar- Page 13.570.15style course was designed and taught with seven students. Innovation in content drew from manydifferent disciplines including engineering, philosophy, science and technology studies

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Engineering Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Endeavor

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Prior to coming to ASU, Dr. Ellison was Interim Assistant Dean for Research Policy and Compliance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Ellison’s Ph.D. is from the Program in Science, Technology and Society at MIT. Page 14.763.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Integrating Microethics and Macroethics in Graduate Science and Engineering Education: Developing Instructional ModelsWhile the government and the public look to universities to educate students in researchethics1,2,3, those who teach ethics to science and engineering

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Normative Commitments and Public Engagement in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Downey, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education

Florida) explains a shift in his research and teachingfrom environmental remediation to “proactive approaches to the prevention of pollution,”especially by developing an international master’s program in cooperation with the U.S. PeaceCorps. He did not anticipate just how much attempting to “merge conviction and values with myprofession” would put him at odds with established practices of research and teaching in civilengineering. Ultimately, he found himself seeking a scholarly environment whose explicitly-defined strategic mission fit more closely the larger objectives of his work.Contributing practices from outside positions: five non-engineers and two hybrids1. Educating for present realities-Bernd Widdig Crossroads in life often emerge

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Communication - Needs and Methods

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Lockwood, University of Calgary; Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary

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Liberal Education

communication curriculum in one department of civil engineering." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 51.3 (2008): 313-3278. Class surveys, conducted November 15-27, 2009 by anonymous response to 7 multiple choice/scaled answer/fill-in questions.9. Examples have been drawn with permission from Encana; Spar Aerospace; medical research labs at Mount Sini Hospital (Toronto), University of Calgary, University of Manitoba; Bell Labs, Hydro One (Ontario); Canadian Ministry of the Environment.10. American Society of Mechanical Engineers Curriculum Innovation Award, 200511. American Society of Engineering Education Best Paper Award, 200412. Alan Blizzard Award for Collaborative Education, 200413. Eggermont, M

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Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education

Albeit at avery small scale, and applied only in one local context, PDI attempts to achieve exactly thisintegration.Structure of Rensselaer’s Product Design and Innovation ProgramRensselaer’s PDI program was devised with no precedent to speak of. Rather, it was imaginedwithin the unique field of constraints and opportunities afforded by Rensselaer’s institutionalcontext and the players at hand, including large programs in a variety of engineering disciplinesand strong but much smaller programs in architecture and STS. In a university dominated byengineering students, faculty, and research programs, the PDI program created strategic openingsfor teaching STS content in ways congruent with the learning approaches and areas of interest

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Riley, Smith College; Lionel Claris, Smith College

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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

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Recent Developments in Engineering Ethics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marilyn Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

2006-513: INDUSTRIAL ETHICS TRAINING: A LOOK AT ETHICS GAMESMarilyn Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology Page 11.753.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Industrial Ethics Training: A Look at Ethics GamesAbstractFederal legislation mandates that US businesses develop ethics training programs for theiremployees. Starting in 1991 with the US Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which were revised in1995, 1999, and 2004, and continuing through the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, passed in thewake of Enron, WorldCom, and other corporate scandals, businesses have had to implementethics training or risk substantial penalties. Industry has responded to the