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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

intrinsically lead to injustice, for example,if they disrespect stakeholders or cause discriminatory inequities. The second norm explored inthis paper, humility, has typically been considered a good quality of the engineer, but not oftenapplied to technology. The implications of using humility as a design criterion might includemore emphasis on reliability, user feedback, and more broadly, a recognition of humanlimitations and fallibility.2 IntroductionTraditional engineering education teaches students how to use technical principles to makeengineering decisions. However, the EC2000 criteria encourage broader engineering educationthat includes non-technical, contextual disciplines. Unfortunately engineering students often seecourses in the humanities

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

recreation. The personal context connectseasily, since the current student generation is probably more surrounded and immersed intechnology than any predecessor. This need for connection, or bridging, using context is not new, of course.Florman’s first book, Engineering and the Liberal Arts, argues for the bridge analogy tocreate specific linkages to arts9. Thus, history of technology is a bridge to history, ethics abridge to philosophy, and sound a bridge to music. The intrigue and pleasure of exploringa “liberal education” I opportunistically pursued with the arrival of the ABET EC 200criteria, which attempt to spell out not only the technical but the interpersonal andpersonal attributes of a modern engineer. A survey program organized in

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Redefining the Boundaries of Engineering and Liberal Education: Contributions to the Year of Dialogue

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Grimson, Dublin Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

AC 2007-1611: THE PHILOSOPHICAL NATURE OF ENGINEERING – ACHARACTERISATION OF ENGINEERING USING THE LANGUAGE ANDACTIVITIES OF PHILOSOPHYWilliam Grimson, Dublin Institute of Technology Page 12.1453.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007The Philosophical Nature of Engineering - a characterization of Engineeringusing the language and activities of PhilosophyAbstractThere is a growing volume of literature concerned with the Philosophy of Engineering orEngineering Science. However to develop a satisfactory overall statement of a ‘Philosophy ofEngineering’ is very challenging, and is perhaps not attainable. To some extent the underlyingreason that there cannot be a single

Conference Session

Philosophy of Engineering Education: Epistemology and Ethics

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gayle Ermer, Calvin College

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Liberal Education

ethical codes among practicing engineers and engineering students. On a societal level, weneed to support accountability for poor ethical choices in technology by adopting and enforcingappropriate laws and educating the public about the consequences of their choices related to howthey interact with technology.Many accident investigations conclude by assigning primary blame to the operator. We need torecognize, and help our students to recognize, that operator culpability is often used as an excuseto direct blame away from the designers and economic sponsors of the technology involved. Acorrect understanding of human immorality should allow us to recognize where people need to beheld accountable, but we need to be clear that in many disasters

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carole Goodson, University of Houston; Susan Miertschin, University of Houston; Barbara Stewart, University of Houston; Luces Faulkenberry, University of Houston; Curtis Johnson, University of Houston

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Liberal Education

devices thatgo into creating and operating technological artifacts as well as the artifacts themselves.”1 Thereport documents that people today eagerly participate in new technologies through their role asconsumer; however, they often have less of the hands-on experience which led prior generationsto a certain level of intuition about how the technology worked. Today we have many individualswho can use various technologies in fairly sophisticated ways, but they do not know enough totinker, alter or repair. They also do not know enough about the technologies to think criticallyabout them in the context of their impact on society and culture. The report calls for educators toembrace this problem and take action to develop greater levels of

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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

AC 2010-1737: USING THE COLLEGE SCIENCE FICTION CLASS TO TEACHTECHNOLOGY AND ETHICS: THEMES AND METHODSDavid Layton, DeVry University Page 15.1341.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010Using the College Science Fiction Class to Teach Technology and Ethics: Themes and MethodsAbstractThis paper proposes that one educational opportunity to enhance understanding of technologycomes from the liberal arts. This opportunity is the teaching of ethics related to technology,science, and technological change, using science fiction for these themes. The course is proposedas part of a general education program in colleges and universities, given

Conference Session

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

2006-2360: IMPACT OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES ON SOCIETY: FROMAQUEDUCTS TO NANOTECHNOLOGYM. Pinar Menguc, University of KentuckyEllie Hawes, University of KentuckyJane Jensen, University of KentuckyIngrid St. Omer, University of Kentucky Page 11.717.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 IMPACT OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES ON SOCIETY: FROM AQUEDUCTS TO NANOTECHNOLOGY M. P. Mengüç1, E. Hawes1,2, J. Jensen3, I. StOmer4 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering 2 Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering 3

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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

AC 2010-1277: WHAT IS GLOBAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION FOR?: THEMAKING OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATORSGary Downey, Virginia Tech Gary Downey is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Affiliated Professor of Engineering Education, Women and Gender Studies, and Sociology at Virginia Tech. He teaches the undergraduate course Engineering Cultures, an approach to international education for engineers at home. It is designed to help engineering students learn to work more effectively with people who define problems differently than they do, including non-engineers, by critically examining their own identities and predispositions. Current Chair of the ASEE Liberal Education

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Approaches to Learning Outcomes Assessment in Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kyle Oliver, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Traci Nathans-Kelly; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Laura Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Liberal Education

. Laura Grossenbacher is the Director of Technical Communications in the Department of Engineering Professional Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Page 12.743.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Finding a “place” for reading and discussion courses: Design and assessment of “Social and Ethical Impacts of Technology”AbstractThis paper discusses the development and assessment of a reading and discussion course entitled“Social and Ethical Impacts of Technology.” Taught in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’sDepartment of Engineering Professional Development by members of the

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

different in 2010 and beyond. While we havebeen responsive to, and the subject of, events and forces requiring change in the past, it appearsthat now a variety of factors will truly change the way that engineering education is carried in theUnited States in the future (cf. The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Centuryand Retooling.) The key questions for us then become “How will the faculty, staff, and studentsof the College of Engineering (COE) of the University of Wisconsin-Madison respond to currentchallenges such as changes in demographics, scarce resources and globalization?” and “Will thecollege make the optimum use of the available people, skills, and resources to not only meetthese challenges, but at the same time, become

Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Schreier, University of Dayton; Carl Eger, University of Dayton; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton

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Liberal Education

interest include sustainability, mechanical design, appropriate technology and service-learning.Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton Margaret Pinnell is the director for the ETHOS program and assistant professor for the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Dayton. Her areas of interest include materials, materials characterization and service-learning. Page 11.1164.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 STUDENT PERSPECTIVES OF CURRICULUM-INTEGRATED INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL IMMERSIONSabstract: The Engineers in Technical, Humanitarian

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Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Betty Harper, Pennsylvania State University; Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University; Alexander Yin, Penn State University; Patrick Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University

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Liberal Education

Education for a Changing World, commonly referred to as theGreen Report.3 The Green Report argued that “with the end of the Cold War, engineeringeducation needed a new set of guiding principles to replace those that had been developedfollowing World War II. Rather than a world based largely on superpower competition andnational security, engineers now faced a world of intense international economic competition andwidespread public uncertainty about the uses of technology” (Preface, paragraph 1) The reportcalled for an increased focus on skills and activities such as teamwork, communication,appreciation for diversity, multidisciplinarity, and understanding of societal contexts and largelyforeshadowed the changes to ABET’s (Accreditation Board for

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Endeavor

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Brocato, Mississippi State University

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Liberal Education

. Page 14.1288.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Two Ways of Using Case Studies to Teach EthicsIntroductionProfessional ethics, like many other areas of academic study, is best taught through synthesis andapplication. Exposing students to the importance of ethics via, for example, a lecture on theNSPE Code of Ethics or a reading assignment on plagiarism may accomplish something on itsown, but such relatively low-stakes activities do little to put students in the position ofcontemplating and then making ethics-related decisions – they do little, in other words, to bringthe subject to life for students.One simple way to engage students more fully in the experience of professional ethics is the useof case studies

Conference Session

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

Mary Ebeling is assistant professor of sociology in the Department of Culture and Communication at Drexel University. Her scholarly work is concerned with the socio-political implications of the development of new markets in emerging technologies, including nanotechnologies and bioengineered technologies. Currently she is researching the construction of a nanotechnologies-based sector within the Philadelphia region and the associated consequences for workforce development, poverty reduction, global competitiveness, and distributive justice. Page 15.1284.1© American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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George Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton; Caroline Baillie, Queens University-Kingston

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Liberal Education

attachment will result inevitably in movement away from our stated goals.Rather, we hope to offer an alternative to the present conceptualization of engineeringand engineering education and ask that each of us choose freely from the alternativesconsistent with our values.It is the ultimate irony of our times that the scores of technological advances that serve uswell and enrich us can equally impoverish, diminish, and destroy our lives. Many of thecreations of modern engineering which instead of serving people, enslave them; insteadof helping them develop their identities, take them away. As we have seen in the attackson the Twin Towers in New York City, and on the mass transit systems in London andMadrid, potential terrorists have much more

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Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Liberal Education

the University of Toronto. From 1993 to 1997 he was with Istanbul University, Turkey, and Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA. He joined Frostburg State University in fall 1998. At present Dr. Soysal is Chair of the Physics and Engineering Department and he is teaching electrical engineering courses. Page 11.651.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Section: 1822 FRESHMAN COURSE ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETYAbstractThe paper describes an interdisciplinary freshman course

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Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Grondin, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University

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Liberal Education

secondary focus); • A student who used their experience as a student in our program as part of the data for their Ph. D. dissertation in Education; • A student who seriously explored a dual major in engineering and history. They decided not to pursue it but found that only 8 to 10 additional credits would have been required; • Several students who switched in from other engineering programs; • A student whose secondary focus area was Swedish; • A student who spent their first semester at ASU as an “exploratory” student and joined our program in their second semester.So, while we lack statistics, we have a reasonable number of interesting anecdotal datapoints.When we ask our students why they selected our

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Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Liberal Education

incentives.The three types of integration implemented were guest lectures, course modules, and pairedcourses. These interactions varied in duration and intensity, but all involved both faculty andstudents working together across disciplines to learn about the relationship between some aspectof engineering and technology and a related humanities, science, or social science topic. Thepaper will describe the process for launching the initiative, the incentives used, some specificexamples, and a qualitative assessment of the resulting integration.BackgroundThe world outside academia increasingly values people who can see and communicate beyondtheir own specialty. For example in discussing sources of innovation, Hargadon and Suttonobserve that “the

Conference Session

A Century of Development, Promotion, and Reform: ASEE and Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carol Johnson, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

AC 2008-58: THE EVOLUTION OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS,ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND INFORMATION LITERACYCarol Johnson, New Jersey Institute of Technology Carol Siri Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her undergraduate degree is from Mount Holyoke College and her Ph.D. is from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research areas include technical communication in the American iron and steel industry and educational assessment. Page 13.1226.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 The Evolution of the Professional

Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christy Moore, University of Texas, Austin; D'Arcy Randall, University of Texas, Austin; Hillary Hart, University of Texas, Austin

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Liberal Education

AC 2009-1879: THE BIG PICTURE: USING THE UNFORESEEN TO TEACHCRITICAL THINKINGChristy Moore, University of Texas, Austin CHRISTY MOORE is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches engineering communication courses and a signature course on “Society, Technology, and the Environment.” Her pedagological and research interests include service-learning projects, engineering ethics and professional responsibility, research ethics, and strategies for advancing students' analytical and rhetorical skills. She is co-PI on an NSF project, The Foundations of Research Ethics for Engineers (FREE) and collaborated on the

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Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Liberal Education

how persons are given meaning or made senseof in context, that is how individuals come to be considered engineers, or not, when positionedagainst a sociocultural notion about engineers taken for granted in society.13 This paper is part ofa larger project, that of understanding how historical representations of engineering continue tohave power in contemporary representations. Using historical sources, including newspaperclippings, oral histories of women engineers, and organizational documentation from the Societyof Women Engineers National Archives, we have characterized three themes of interest to anengineering education audience: representations of women engineers as strange, representationsof women engineers as normal when put into

Conference Session

Philosophy of Engineering Education: Epistemology and Ethics

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

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Liberal Education

irrespective ofparticularised uses of the term, extends into higher education and the province of engineering.6In the UK this was in part forced on those concerned to develop technology and/or engineeringin schools by scientists who argued that science teaching7 obtained all the goals that technologytranspired to achieve. In the late nineteen-sixties some argued that the pursuits of science andengineering required different modes of thinking. For this reason engineering should be taughtin schools.8 The proposition that ‘ modes of thinking’ differ between subjects (e.g. subjects inthe humanities versus subjects in the sciences) has re-surfaced. For example, IBM holds that ifit is to help the service industries better it needs to know how the different

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Philosophy of Engineering Education: Epistemology and Ethics

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Valenzuela, University of Evansville; James Allen, University of Evansville; Brian Swenty, University of Evansville

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Liberal Education

profession1 as well as outside of theprofession2 focus on outcomes, identifying cognitive skills that are required for an educatedperson in general or for an educated engineer in particular. Consequently, this study focuses onthe stated outcomes and goals of colleges and universities with programs accredited by theEngineering Accreditation Commission-Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(or EAC-ABET). Because the original motivation for this study was for the design of a newgeneral education program at the University of Evansville, the study focused on masters andbachelors schools, excluding large, national research universities. However, it is hoped that thedata gathered may prove useful to other engineering departments who are involved

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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

emphasis on writing and communication skills. Also,the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) department, together with the Humanitiesdepartment, provided students with more writing instruction during their mid-level courses.Working within the framework of already-established mid-level major courses, faculty jointlycreated more-detailed assignment sheets for a sophomore-level Mechanisms course andresponded to junior-level lab reports for Fluid Mechanics. Ultimately, each faculty memberinvolved in the writing-in-the-disciplines initiative created a personal e-portfolio in order tobetter understand how students use e-portfolios to reflect and make connections throughouttheir education. Students react positively to diverse faculty members agreeing

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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

own and others' works • Learn to balance the advantages of relying on others with the responsibility of doing their part • Use a variety of technologies to address a range of audiences Knowledge of Conventions By the end of first year composition, students should • Learn common formats for different kinds of texts • Develop knowledge of genre conventions ranging from structure and paragraphing to tone and mechanics • Practice appropriate means of documenting their work • Control such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.Clearly, these outcomes include the kind of grammatical and structural competence manyengineering faculty hope to emphasize, particularly under “Knowledge of

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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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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

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Thinking around the Bachelor of Arts in Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sharon Jones, Lafayette College

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Liberal Education

subject call for a different approach toundergraduate engineering education. Such statements emphasize the need for engineers who candefine problems as well as solve them as they deal with economic, environmental, political, andsocial considerations. In particular, the current sustainability and service-learning themes capturemany of these contextual considerations for engineering education. These national policydiscussions also suggest that such an approach to undergraduate engineering education may leadto more women and minorities entering the profession, provide US engineers with a competitiveadvantage in the global engineering workforce, and help to develop leaders throughout societywho are equipped with a technological foundation. In other

Conference Session

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

Page 14.392.6 and societal issues in the classroom,” Proc. ASEE Conf., Pittsburgh, PA, 2008.7. S. M. Lord, “Fabulous Fridays: Satisfying ABET 2000 criterion I and J in an optoelectronics elective,” Proc. ASEE Conf., pp. 6315-6322, 2005.8. P. Benkeser and W. Newsletter, “Integrating soft skills in a BME curriculum,” Proc. ASEE Conf., Salt Lake City, UT, pp. 7823-7830, 2004.9. L. J. Shuman, M. Besterfield-Sacre, J. McGourty, “The ABET "professional skills" - Can they be taught? Can they be assessed?,” J. Engineering Education, Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 41-55, 2005.10. D. Carpenter, “Using a hybrid classroom environment for the instruction of ethics and contemporary civil engineering issues,” Proc. ASEE Conf., Honolulu

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Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel Maines, Cornell University

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Liberal Education

AC 2010-605: ENGINEERING AS LAW: INJURY EPIDEMIOLOGY ANDCONSENSUS CODESRachel Maines, Cornell University Page 15.477.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 1 Engineering as Law: Injury Epidemiology and Consensus CodesAbstract British Field Marshal John Slessor observed during World War II that the first socialservice a nation can provide for its people is to keep them alive.1 As the recent experience of theHaiti earthquake has forcefully brought home to us, engineering safety codes and standards playa major role in this vital function of government.2 ,3 From the point of view of keeping citizensalive, the