Conference Session

Writing Is Fundamental

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Murali Krishnamurthi, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

following scaffolds in his courses:≠ Developed a brief handout on the literature review process and discussed it in class.≠ Modeled in class the process of finding literature quickly on a particular topic using engineering databases compared to sorting through thousands of links found on the web.≠ Provided a sample analysis of literature collected for a research topic in engineering to illustrate how the review could be organized and presented.≠ Required students to create an account on a social bookmarking tool such as del.icio.us or Scholar, and use it for literature review purposes.≠ Required students to prepare a Venn diagram or concept map to focus their literature search and present the analysis of the literature in the form of a

Conference Session

Approaches to Learning Outcomes Assessment in Liberal Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Lappenbusch, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

associated with taking charge of the discourseassociated with one’s own professional identity. Page 12.1608.6The issue of agency and the discomfort it can create is latent in the above passage, in that thestudent is finding she needs to make a choice about how to best represent the strength of heraffiliation with engineering. The passage below suggests a different type of discomfort, adiscomfort that stems from asking a difficult question.Q. Just generally how did you make your portfolio? I meanyou've got a concept map there about processes, what was theprocess that you went through in making your portfolio?A. Uh, I I started with, um, what

Conference Session

Philosophy of Engineering Education: Epistemology and Ethics

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

education a discipline? In this respectthe nineteen sixties debate between Phenix (an American) and Hirst (an Englishman) are ofparticular interest.40 One thing they are both agreed about is the importance of concepts and itis for this reason that key concept maps are important in determining the curriculum providedthey take into account what engineers do.41Thus, what we think about knowledge and knowing clearly influences the aims of educationwe have and in turn the curriculum, the mode(s) of instruction, and assessment. We have to beclear about what we mean when we talk about knowledge and knowing.In another analysis of important terms Wringe insists that aims are not objectives even thoughthe terms may be more or less synonymous.42 There has