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

of leadership are many and varied. It was not our intent to summarize all models or evenset forth a model for general consumption or dissemination. The model was and is intended tofocus the efforts of our college to define and meet leadership outcomes. For example, as will bediscussed in a later section, the model serves as a visual outline for a class that is being taught inthe college that includes the dimensions of leadership shown in the model. Page 14.11.4The model, shown in Figure 1, emerges from three critical dimensions of leadership: (a) theleader as person, (b) the leader in organizational systems, and (c) the leader in global

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

). B. The paper provides a level of analysis that elevates the reader’s understanding of the film. (The reader learns something that was not obvious). C. The paper includes any summary of the film as a springboard to making an analytical point. (Summary must serve an analytical purpose/goal within the structure of the paper).2. Goal-Driven and Structured A. The paper has a clearly stated goal (thesis). B. The paper has a logical structure governed by the information the writer wants to convey. (The goal governs the organizational structure of the paper). C. The paper consistently orients the reader in relation to the writer’s goal (introductory “road map,” topic sentences, transitions). i. The

Conference Session

Communication and Collaboration

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sally Blomstrom, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Hak Tam, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Liberal Education

or reports that describe the results. These learning outcomes align well with the ABET 3(d) and 3(g) objectives. Somesections of this course have a service-learning component. Bringle and Hatcher (1995) definedservice-learning as a: credit-bearing educational experience in which students (a) participate in an organized service activity in such a way that meets identified community needs, and (b) reflect on the service activity in such a way to gain further understanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of civic responsibility (p. 112) [10]. Service-learning pedagogy has theoretical underpinning in experiential learning.Experiential learning is a

Conference Session

Liberal Education and Leadership

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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

Conference Session

Writing Is Fundamental

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beth Richards, University of Hartford; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz; Hisham Alnajjar, Computer and Electrical

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Liberal Education

Street. Turn right and walk two and a half blocks. What’s on your left?Now walk east on First Street to University Avenue. Turn right and walk half a block. What’sacross the street?Analysis: (10 sentences)Flesch Reading Ease: 93.9*Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 1.9**Sample B: Reading sample, Introduction to Engineering text (prepared by Engineer Noor)Everything we know about the physical world and the principles that govern its behavior hasbeen learned through experiment (observation of phenomena). The ultimate test of any physicaltheory is its agreement with experimental observations. These observations involvemeasurement. Some quantities are measured directly and some are found by mathematicalrelationship.Analysis: (4 sentences)Flesch Reading

Conference Session

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

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2009 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

': money, negative freedom or freedom from coercion, and happiness, on theother. Monetary income alone cannot be used as a reliable indicator of substantial freedom.An increase in income might be converted into an increase in substantial freedom, but theconversion is not automatic or equally easy for everybody. A sick person is normally lessable than a healthy one to convert a given increase in income into a wider range of realopportunities, i.e., into greater substantial freedom. The same might be said of a personwho lives in a dangerous neighborhood that makes him/her fearful to go outside ascompared to a person who lives in a safer neighborhood."14 B. Ethics of Freedom: CapabilitiesNussbaum15 has continued to develop the notion of

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

assessment 1; a plan for the incremental implementationof writing skills instruction in Engineering courses 2; an outcomes assessment 3; the use ofwritten workplace materials in Engineering courses 4,5 ; a review of shared assumptions aboutwriting skills among Engineering faculty 6; a multiple-trait scoring guide 7; and the first threeiterations of this longitudinal study 8,9,10. To date, there is no other longitudinal study ofEngineering students’ writing skills on record. Our four years of work therefore begins toaddress this gap in knowledge, and it is hoped that this project will be understood as (a) adescription and analysis of trends observed within a single cohort of subjects; and (b) aninvitation for other researchers to begin contributing

Conference Session

Writing Is Fundamental

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Murali Krishnamurthi, Northern Illinois University

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Liberal Education

Peters, AssociateProfessor of English and Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program, for hisencouragement of this effort, and the staff of the University Writing Center at Northern IllinoisUniversity for their assistance. This effort would not have been possible without the support ofthe chair and faculty members of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering atNorthern Illinois University.References1. Bean, J.C. (1996). Engaging ideas: The professor’s guide to integrating writing, critical thinking, and active learning in the classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.2. Benson, B. K. (1997). Coming to Terms: Scaffolding. The English Journal. 86, 7, 126-127.3. College Board (2004). Writing: A Ticket to Work … or a Ticket Out

Conference Session

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

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erin Cech, University of California, San Diego; Tom Waidzunas, University of California, San Diego

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Liberal Education

AC 2009-1862: “ENGINEERS WHO HAPPEN TO BE GAY”: LESBIAN, GAY, ANDBISEXUAL STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES IN ENGINEERINGErin Cech, University of California, San Diego Erin Cech is a doctoral student in Sociology at the University of California, San Diego and received bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Sociology from Montana State University. Her research examines the role of gender schemas in the reproduction of labor market gender inequality, the intersection of technology and social justice, and inequalities in science and engineering.Tom Waidzunas, University of California, San Diego Tom Waidzunas is a doctoral student in Sociology and Science Studies at the University of

Conference Session

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

. Newberry, B. (2004). The dilemma of ethics in engineering education. Science and Engineering Ethics, 10(2),343-351.7. Herkert, J. R. (2001). Future directions in engineering ethics research: Microethics, macroethics and the role ofprofessional societies. Science and Engineering Ethics, 7(3), 403- 414.8. Wulf, W. A. (2004). Keynote address. In National Academy of Engineering, Emerging Technologies and EthicalIssues in Engineering (pp. 1-6). Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press.9. Luegenbiehl, H.C. (2007). Disasters as object lessons in ethics: Hurricane Katrina. IEEE Technology and Society,26(4), 10-15.10. Johnson, D. G., & Wetmore, J. M. (2007). STS and ethics: Implications for engineering ethics. In E. Hackett, O.Amsterdamska, M

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

isdescribed in detail in an earlier paper9. Figure 4 shows the metric our departments use to gaugestudent outcomes in these areas (data relevant to this paper is highlighted in yellow):METRIC: 80% of students will earn a grade of 80 (B) or higher on GE 3513 presentations and writing assignments. • 52 out of 54 students (96%) earned an 80 or above on all presentations. • 47 out of 54 students (87%) earned an 80 or above average on the major writing assignments. • 49 out of 54 students (91%) earned an 80 or above on the collaborative/multidisciplinary research/professional ethics assignment. • 44 out of 54 students (81%) earned an 80 or above on the final-exam document.Detailed information on all assignments is available

Conference Session

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

integrating sustainability into engineering education at RensselaerPolytechnic Institute. The first model entails a single course on the social analysis of sustainabledesign, taught as a social sciences course but attempting to connect to and leverage (primarilyengineering) students’ disciplinary expertise and interests. The second model is a newlyinstituted undergraduate minor in “sustainability studies” that is offered in Science andTechnology Studies (STS). This minor is targeted to students across campus and, hence, isdesigned to complement a variety of majors, including engineering majors. The third model is apilot collaboration among three courses, each with a different lens on sustainable design. Thefourth and final model is an effort to

Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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

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 and Collaboration

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University; Marilyn Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

AC 2009-420: TWO PERSPECTIVES ON PEER REVIEWJulie Sharp, Vanderbilt University Julie E. Sharp is Associate Professor of the Practice of Technical Communication in the Vanderbilt University Engineering School. She designs and instructs combined engineering lab/technical communication courses and a technical communication course for engineering majors. A communication consultant, she has clients in industry and educational and professional organizations. She has published and presented numerous articles on communication and learning styles, including for ASEE and FIE conferences. In 2004, she earned ASEE Southeastern Section's Thomas C. Evans Award for "The Most Outstanding Paper

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Endeavor

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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Liberal Education

AC 2009-1719: PERSONAL VS. PROFESSIONAL E-MAIL: THE PALIN CASEEdward Gehringer, North Carolina State University Ed Gehringer is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. He has been a frequent presenter at education-based workshops in the areas of computer architecture and object-oriented systems. His research interests include architectural support for memory management, garbage collection, and computer-supported collaborative learning. He received a B.S. from the University of Detroit(-Mercy) in 1972, a B.A. from Wayne State University, also in 1972, and the Ph.D. from Purdue

Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Genereux, Kansas State University, Salina; Elena Mangione-Lora, University of Notre Dame

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Liberal Education

AC 2009-2124: ENHANCING STUDENT LEARNING WITH VIDEO PROJECTSBill Genereux, Kansas State University, SalinaElena Mangione-Lora, University of Notre Dame Page 14.572.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Enhancing Student Learning with Video ProjectsAbstractThis paper will explore the use of digital video as a teaching tool in college courses. Two verydifferent courses of potential interest to engineering educators are cited as examples. The first isa foreign language course offered at the University of Notre Dame which uses video technologyto encourage students to write, produce, and star in original Spanish language "telenovelas" orday-time dramas

Conference Session

Liberal Education and Leadership

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

AC 2009-1676: DEVELOPING STUDENTS' ABILITIES IN TECHNICALLEADERSHIP: THE ROSE-HULMAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMYJames Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology James Hanson is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Rose-Hulman where he has been teaching since 2002. Among the courses he teaches is the capstone design course where he mentors team leaders. He has received several teaching awards including the ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Outstanding Teaching Award and the ASEE Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award. He has four years experience as a US Army officer where he led combat ready units. Recently he helped initiate the Rose-Hulman Leadership Academy.Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute