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

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education

have provided entire engineeringcourses oriented toward sustainability. 14Even more ambitious efforts exist to introduce sustainability content across engineering curriculain a variety of ways. One initiative entails infiltrating sustainability content into a variety ofexisting courses in an undergraduate civil engineering program to ensure that coverage of suchcontent was not subject to variations in specific instructor interests. 15 Another initiative entailsdevelopment of a graduate civil engineering/green construction program that combinescoursework, directed research projects, and international exchanges in a format similar to design-based, service-learning experiences. 16 Educators developing new curricula sometimes rely onABET

Conference Session

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

AC 2007-601: HOW ENGINEERING STUDENTS LEARN TO WRITE:THIRD-YEAR FINDINGS FROM THE ENGINEERING WRITING INITIATIVELucas Niiler, University of Texas-TylerDavid Beams, University of Texas-Tyler Page 12.810.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 How Engineering Students Learn to Write: Third-Year Findings of the UT-Tyler Engineering Writing InitiativeAbstractThe Departments of Electrical Engineering and English of the University of Texas at Tyler arein the third year of the Engineering Writing Initiative (EWI), a four-year longitudinal studyinvestigating how engineering students learn to write, how they apply these skills in their studies,and how

Conference Session

Writing Is Fundamental

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Beams, University of Texas, Tyler; Luke Niiler, University of Alabama

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Liberal Education

regularly contributes to writing assessment initiatives. Our research designis in part grounded in three longitudinal studies of student writing ability performed by Sommersand Saltz at Harvard 11 (2004), Carroll at Pepperdine12 (2002), and Sternglass at the City Collegeof New York 13 (1997). Sommers and Saltz find that students must understand their writing ashaving a purpose beyond that of fulfilling the expectations of a single course 14. Carroll notesthat student writers greatly benefit from instruction in writing throughout their entire academiccareers, and not just in first-year composition courses 15. And Sternglass sees in her cohort ofresearch subjects a general lack of awareness of the value of writing, both in their classes and inthe

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luke Niiler; David Beams, University of Texas-Tyler

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Liberal Education

2006-1521: HOW ENGINEERING STUDENTS LEARN TO WRITE: THE SECONDYEAR OF THE ENGINEERING WRITING INITIATIVE AT THE UNIVERSITYOF TEXAS AT TYLERLucas Niiler, University of Texas-Tyler LUKE NIILER is an Associate Professor of English in the Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Texas at Tyler. He received his BA degree from Gettysburg College and his MA and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo.David Beams, University of Texas-Tyler DAVID M. BEAMS is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler. He received his BS and MS degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in and the Ph.D. from the University of

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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

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nadia Kellam, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Tracie Costantino, University of Georgia; Bonnie Cramond, University of Georgia

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Liberal Education

AC 2010-1747: INTEGRATING THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUM THROUGHCROSSDISCIPLINARY STUDIOSNadia Kellam, University of Georgia Nadia Kellam is an Assistant Professor and engineering educational researcher in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Georgia. She is co-director of the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER) research group. Her research interests include interdisciplinarity, creativity, identity formation, and the role of emotion in cognition.Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Joachim Walther is an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Georgia

Conference Session

Questions of Identity

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

EELI retreat, Barbara Waugh, co-founder of World eInclusion of HP gaveus a copy of her book, Soul of the Computer, and gently suggested it might provide a diversionon our flights home.2 In Soul of the Computer, Barbara describes her transition from radicalactivist to corporate executive and explains how she has come to see those two roles asremarkably similar. In her years at Hewlett Packard, a corporation she warily joined as atemporary way to pay the bills, Barb has effected countless institutional changes, ranging fromnew human resources policies on domestic partner benefits to corporate-wide changes in missionshifts. For example, she describes how initially the vision of HP labs becoming “the World’sBest Industrial Research Lab” was “not

Conference Session

Blurring the Boundary between Content Knowledge and Professional Knowledge

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Verna Fitzsimmons, Kent State University - Kent; Stephane Booth, Kent State University - Kent

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Liberal Education

including rapid prototyping, process improvement, quality management systems, and automated manufacturing.Stephane Booth, Kent State University - Kent Stephane E. Booth, Doctor of Arts, Associate Provost for Academic Quality Improvement, Associate Professor, Department of History, Kent State University. Dr. Booth received her doctorate from Illinois State University. She has over 30 years of experience in teaching students of all ages. Currently she provides leadership in the areas of student learning assessment and continuous improvement initiatives at Kent State University. She continues to teach in the Department of History and her research areas include U.S. Women’s History, U.S. Labor

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I: Innovative Models for Curriculum and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

that builds transferable skills, 2) build a curriculum that effectivelycrosses disciplinary boundaries, 3) help students see how non-engineering disciplines can helpthem be better engineers, and 4) initiate and test a pedagogical approach explicitly intended toadopt both humanities and technology perspectives on a range of issues. This paper describes thebasis for our approach and presents preliminary findings from the pilot study.Learning to Communicate in the Engineering CurriculumThe initial focus of our partnership is on “the ability to communicate effectively.” While manyuniversities still include stand-alone technical writing courses in their curricula, numerousreports at the annual ASEE and FIE conferences and elsewhere describe

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education

clear for these cases, the challenge ahead is to make sure that the institutional messageabout the value of these experiences is sustained. Some ideas for doing this include publicizing alist of cross-disciplinary teaching, holding a speaker series for faculty to talk about theirexperiences, and featuring articles about these experiences in official publications. Anotherproposal is to provide a budget to continue the incentives for new module development,particularly for the required sophomore research seminar in the general education curriculum.Other types of initiatives to integrate engineering/technology and the liberal arts include the Page

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

AC 2009-1287: A COLLEGE-WIDE PROGRAM FOR TEACHING LEADERSHIP:FRAMEWORK, MODEL, AND OUTCOMESVal Hawks, Brigham Young UniversityJohn Harb, Brigham Young UniversityAlan Parkinson, Brigham Young UniversitySpencer Magleby, Brigham Young University Page 14.11.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 A College-wide Approach for Teaching and Developing Leadership: Model, Framework and OutcomesIntroductionIn 2005 the College of Engineering and Technology at BYU began an initiative to assure thateach student graduated with the ability to understand and practice leadership. This paper presentsa

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education

curriculum. Both had followed national trends, as reiterated in (if also reviled inmany of the responses to) the 1955 Grinter Report, which had emphasized that fundamentals,and more importantly, the engineering sciences were necessary subjects for all engineers. Statecollege engineering faculty, and their department heads, also faced a situation similar toBoelter‟s initial quandary at UCLA. Given their limited faculty, and limited facilities resultingfrom the imposed prohibition against research, state college faculty was predisposed to offermore general training in engineering, even in their traditional disciplinary based programs.48Frustrated with both developments, Wahlquist approached Santa Clara‟s state legislativerepresentative, Bruce Allen

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Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Ross, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Liberal Education

researching similar problems in the future.”“I think this project really helped me gain confidence in my writing abilities….I think the step-by-step process is essential.”“During the initial research of this project I was unsure what topic to pursue since I am not a bigfan of space…While researching I ran across the problem of sleep deprivation in space….I wasimmediately hooked by this topic.”“The topic of space radiation is important to me since I am considering majoring in materialsengineering.”“I plan on becoming a mechanical engineer and possibly being involved in future spaceexploration with NASA.”“I really enjoyed researching this topic…My intended major is engineering mechanics andastronautics.“When President Obama faced criticism for his

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education

AC 2008-1891: INTEGRATING TECHNICAL, SOCIAL, AND AESTHETICANALYSIS IN THE PRODUCT DESIGN STUDIO: A CASE STUDY AND MODELFOR A NEW LIBERAL EDUCATION FOR ENGINEERSDean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dean Nieusma’s research and teaching focus on interdisciplinary design collaboration and the expertise that enables it. With a BS in mechanical engineering and another in general studies and a PhD in interdisciplinary social sciences, Dean has worked as a member of design teams in contexts as diverse as the U.S. and European automotive industries; Sri Lanka’s renewable energy sector; and STS, engineering, and design curriculum planning. He teaches across Rensselaer’s Product Design and

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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

Sustainable Community Development. Our project is acritical pedagogy, one aimed at enhancing students’ knowledge, skills and attitudes to reflect onthe historical and political location of engineering, question the authority and relevance ofengineering problem-solving and design methods, and “examine their education, includinglearning objectives, the course syllabus, and the textbook itself” (Riley, 2008, p. 113).Specifically, our project is aimed at engineering education as it relates to a diversity of theseefforts, which we call “Engineering to Help” (ETH). ETH initiatives often exist under namessuch as community service, humanitarian engineering, service learning, Engineers WithoutBorders (EWB), Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) and

Conference Session

Questions of Identity

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Meyer, Clarkson University; Dick Pratt, Clarkson University

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Liberal Education

AC 2007-1451: THE CLARKSON COMMON EXPERIENCE CURRICULUM:GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS BASED ON STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMESRobert Meyer, Clarkson University Robert Meyer is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clarkson University. He received a B.A.(1970) in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, M.E.E. (1970) and a Ph.D. (1974) in Electrical Engineering, all from Rice University. He has been employed by Texas Instruments, and Exxon, and since 1974, by Clarkson University. His research has been on applications of computing in communications network monitoring, including software design, development, and testing, and the application of distributed artificial intelligence to

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Byron Newberry, Baylor University; William Lawson, Texas Tech University; Kathy Austin, Texas Tech University; Greta Gorsuch, Texas Tech University; Thomas Darwin, University of Texas at Austin

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Liberal Education

AC 2008-2589: DESIGN OF WEB-BASED PROFESSIONAL ETHICS MODULESTO ALLEVIATE ACCULTURATION BARRIERS FOR INTERNATIONALGRADUATE STUDENTS IN ENGINEERINGByron Newberry, Baylor University Byron Newberry, P.E., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Baylor UniversityWilliam Lawson, Texas Tech University William D. Lawson, P.E., Ph.D. Senior Research Associate, National Institute for Engineering Ethics & Assistant Professor Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Texas Tech UniversityKathy Austin, Texas Tech University Katherine A. Austin, Ph.D. Assistant Vice President, Information Technology Division, Texas Tech UniversityGreta Gorsuch, Texas Tech University Greta J

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Normative Commitments and Public Engagement in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erin Cech, University of California, San Diego

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Liberal Education

AC 2010-129: TRAINED TO DISENGAGE? A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OFSOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AMONGENGINEERING STUDENTSErin Cech, University of California, San Diego Erin Cech’s research examines individual-level, cultural mechanisms that reproduce inequality, especially those pertaining to sex segregation in science and engineering fields. Her dissertation explores the self-expressive edge of inequality, analyzing how gender schemas and self-conceptions influence the career decisions of college students over time. Her other work examines the experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual engineering students (with Tom Waidzunas), the work devotion of and perceptions of inequality among high

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Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Slaton, Drexel University; Mary Ebeling, Drexel University

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Liberal Education

Development Initiative, edited by The Brookings Institution.(Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 2003).9 PA Bureau of Workforce Development, op cit.10 Stephen J. Fonash, “Nanotechnology and economic resiliency,” Nano Today 4 (2009), p.291.11 Qian Q. Zhao, Arthur Boxman, and Uma Chowdhry, “Nanotechnology in the ChemicalIndustry – Opportunities and Challenges,” Journal of Nanoparticle Research 5 (2003): 567-572.12 Fonash 2009, p. 290.13 John Hayes, "The Engineering Unemployment Problem,"http://www.engineering.com/Blogs/tabid/3207/EntryID/165/Default.aspx (accessed January 8, 2010).14 Matthew H. Wisnioski, "Engineers for Change: America's Culture Wars and the Meaning ofTechnology," unpublished manuscript, 2009, p. 3.15 Richard H.P

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Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beth Todd, University of Alabama; Garry Warren, University of Alabama; Susan Burkett, University of Alabama; David Cordes, University of Alabama; Marcus Brown, University of Alabama

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Liberal Education

Science at the University of Alabama. Page 14.392.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Current Events Articles for Engineering StudentsAbstractFor the past year, a group of students and faculty have been engaging in weekly discussionsregarding articles from Tuesday’s Science section of the New York Times. This initiative wasstarted to foster general science and educational literacy among engineering students, as well asto better engage students and faculty in discussions regarding current topics and issuesconfronting society as a whole. The group meets weekly for a lunch meeting to discuss a subsetof the week’s

Conference Session

Communication - Needs and Methods

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Warren Hull, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; David Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Stephen Sears, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Daniel Thomas, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Paige Davis, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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Liberal Education

AC 2010-737: INCORPORATING VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSIGNMENTSTO ENRICH EDUCATION IN ALL ENGINEERING DISCIPLINESWarren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Warren N. Waggenspack, Jr. is currently the Associate Dean for Engineering Undergraduates and holder of the Ned Adler Professorship in Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana State University. He obtained both his baccalaureate and master's degrees from LSU ME and his doctorate from Purdue University's School of Mechanical Engineering. He has been actively engaged in teaching, research and curricula development since joining the faculty in 1988. He currently serves as Co-Director of the Education and Outreach program with LSU’s NSF

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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

, respectively. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a registered professional engineer in the state of Ohio. He is current past Chair of the IEEE Cincinnati Section, and in 1997 he received the IEEE Professional Achievement Award. He has held several research and management positions in industry working for such companies as Battelle's Columbus Laboratories, Rockwell International, and Claspan Corporation. He joined the University of Cincinnati in 1985. Page 13.389.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Developing a Writing in the

Conference Session

Liberal Education and Leadership

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

AC 2009-1610: COMMUNICATION PEDAGOGY IN THE ENGINEERINGCLASSROOM: A REPORT ON FACULTY PRACTICES AND PERCEPTIONSJulia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Julia M. Williams is Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment & Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana. Her articles on writing assessment, electronic portfolios, ABET, and tablet PCs have appeared in the Technical Communication Quarterly, Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, The International Journal of Engineering Education, Journal of Engineering Education, and The Impact of Tablet PCs and Pen

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Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education

AC 2010-846: “THE IMAGE OF A WOMAN ENGINEER:” WOMEN’SIDENTITIES AS ENGINEERS AS PORTRAYED BY HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERSAND MAGAZINES, 1930-1970Alice Pawley, Purdue University Alice Pawley is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program at Purdue University. Dr. Pawley has a B.Eng. in chemical engineering from McGill University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in industrial engineering with a Ph.D. minor in women’s studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is co-PI on Purdue University’s ADVANCE initiative, through which she is incorporating her work on metaphors into better understanding current models of women’s

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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

outcomes are works in progress, and futureassessments are being designed to shed additional light upon these issues.IntroductionIn recent years, the broader engineering community as well as individuals and departmentsaround the country have affirmed the importance of modernizing and updating engineeringpedagogy in many ways, including the application of self- (or student-) directed learningapproaches (i.e., activities that help students to gather and evaluate information, set educationalgoals, and plan and execute activities that help them achieve these goals) as well as theintegration of broader social, historical, ethical, environmental, or other context into technicalprojects and topics. Authors Martello and Stolk initiated this study as a

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Stacey Breitenbach, California Polytechnic State University

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Liberal Education

, California Polytechnic State University Stacey Breitenbach is currently Assistant Dean for Advising and Student Success Initiatives at the College of Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She received her B.S. and M.A. from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Prior to becoming Assistant Dean, she was the Executive Director of the College of Engineering Advising Center. Page 12.8.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A BA Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies Degree at a Polytechnic

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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

]. Since 2000, the image of education for competitiveness has also come to refer (both insideand outside the United States) to the career challenges of individual engineers participating in theglobalization of industry. If industry has gone multinational, then individual engineers must gain“global competence” in order to successfully locate employment and build careers [33]. By 2004, the National Science Foundation (NSF) had officially embraced the image ofeconomic competitiveness as grounding organizational mandates. A letter from the NSFleadership to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, for example,1 The research reported here was supported by NSF Grant #DUE-0752915. Thanks to co-organizers Kacey Beddoes,Brent Jesiek

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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

engineering students as they transition to the writing processes, skills and stylesappropriate to engineering at the same time as they struggle to improve their fundamental writingskills.In an effort to develop the writing skills of engineering undergraduates at the U.S. Coast GuardAcademy, the Electrical Engineering and Naval Architecture/Marine Engineering programs havedeveloped a close collaboration with the USCGA writing center. Over the past several years,this collaboration has transitioned from the efforts of instructors in two classes to improvetechnical writing skills for a few students to a long-term initiative with a goal of improving andstandardizing writing in all four engineering majors.This paper will begin with the institutional

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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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