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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Pennsylvania State University, where she has been teaching since 2004. She has taught workshops on scientific presentations at the University of Illinois, Cornell University, the Center for Disease Control, and Laval University (in Quebec). For this Norwegian national workshop, she served as a lecturer for the formal classes and a principal instructor for the parallel critique sessions.Marianne M. Sundet, Simula Research Laboratory Marianne M. Sundet holds a Master of Philosophy in Literature Studies and works as an advisor at Simula Research Laboratory. For the Norwegian national workshop discussed in this paper, she was instrumental in organizing the event, including design and dissemination of

Conference Session

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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cooperation between the fields on engineering and criminology – two fieldsthat have traditionally been almost completely independent.Students enrolled in the program at IUP have science and math backgrounds appropriate forstudents in analytical social sciences, including algebra and statistics, as well as basic courses inthe natural sciences. The challenge is not to teach traditional engineering courses to thesestudents, but rather to develop and deliver these materials in a manner consistent with theirbackgrounds. The educational model that will be followed is closely aligned with the problembased learning approach utilized by Sandia National Laboratories for delivery of physicalsecurity courses to a range of audiences, both within the federal

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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communication and laboratory classes. Her research interests include methods of teaching engineering ethics, argumentation, and graduate-level writing.Hillary Hart, University of Texas, Austin Hillary Hart is Distinguished Sr. Lecturer in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, where she created and directs the program in engineering communication. She has published one book (two editions) and over 20 technical articles on environmental and risk communication, engineering ethics, and technical communication. A Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication, Hillary also works with companies, such as BP-Amoco, and public agencies to develop strategies for socially

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

: anadventure. Analysis of this genre summons the talents of literature faculty. Here we drawupon English professor Thomas Foster and his intriguing book How to Read LiteratureLike a Professor4, and its more enticing subtitle “ A Lively and Entertaining Guide toReading Between the Lines.” His opening salvo, “Every trip is a quest”, argues that eachadventure story posses five characteristics: A quester A place to go A state reason to go there Challenges and trials en route, and A real reason to go there. In the context of teaching technological literacy, the quester is the instructor whosets out to construct and teach such a course, the place to go (physically) is the lecturehall and laboratory and (intellectually

Conference Session

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

by examining the nature and practices of creativecommunities. Why? Creative communities provide a synergistic environment thatencourages ongoing, informal (non-certified) learning experiences out of whichinnovation emerges predictably and organically. This conference paper examines severalcreative communities in a variety of fields, both historical and present-day, to learn whatthey can teach us about self-directed, lifelong learning. The specific communitiesdiscussed within this paper include the following: 1. Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey Page 15.1189.4 2. Silicon Valley 3. Paris, France (the Impressionists and Hemingway’s

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

corroboratemuch of what is known through widespread WAC (writing-across-the-curriculum) practice.Writing proficiency within a given discipline is created by writing within that discipline.Participants reported that they learned and are learning to write like engineers by makingmistakes; by following outlines and formats; and by using specific style guides. To the follow-up question of what engineering professors might do to improve the teaching and learning ofwriting, participants unanimously agreed that standards for good writing must be clearlyarticulated. Asked if courses in other disciplines might have prepared them to write forEngineering classes, participants were in general agreement that such writing had little bearingon their coursework. This

Conference Session

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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transition from first-year writing of chemistry laboratory reports to second-year writing ofengineering laboratory reports.Bibliography[1] Mullin, Joan A. “Writing Center and WAC.“ in Susan H. McLeod, et. al. WAC for the New Millennium. Urbana, Illinois: NCTE, pp. 184-7, 2001.[2] McLeod, Susan H. and Eric Miraglia. “Writing Across the Curriculum in a Time of Change,” in Susan H. McLeod, et. al. WAC for the New Millennium. Urbana, Illinois: NCTE, pp. 84-87, 2001.[3] Jernquist, Kathleen. “Guiding Instructors and Tutors to Teach a Language for Assessment to First-Year Writers.” Writing Program Administrators Conference. Anchorage, July 2005.[4] Townsend, Martha. “Writing Intensive Courses and WAC.” in Susan H. McLeod, et. al. WAC for the New

Conference Session

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

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Ollis, North Carolina State University; Anthony Smith, CPE-LYON FRANCE

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chemical engineering or chemistry, who have completed oneor two years of university study.WHAT DOES THE PROGRAM CONTAIN ?• A course of French as a foreign language.• An undergraduate practical course in Chemistry and/or Chemical Engineering. You willcarry out at least 8 experiments in the teaching laboratories of CPE Lyon. At least 40hours will be spent in the laboratory. Examples of experiments to be carried out: • Fluid flow: Determination of the general expression for pressure drop in a linear tube. • Mixing: The determination of the relationship between the power number Np and the Reynolds number Re. • Ebulliometry: Liquid-vapor equilibrium. • Stephan’s tube: Mass transfer

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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similar work to the field of Engineering Page 14.672.2education.Our work brings together the disciplinary expertise of an Electrical Engineering faculty memberwith a Writing Center director’s experience in writing instruction and evaluation. Dr. Beams hashad over 16 years’ experience in industry and 12 years’ experience in academia, and he currentlyteaches (or has taught) Electronic Circuit Analysis I and II (including laboratories),Instrumentation Systems, Senior Design (a two-semester capstone design sequence), and ElectricCircuit Analysis I (with laboratory) and II. Dr. Niiler has taught writing at the university levelfor over 20 years, and

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

occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. The programtemporary relocated to Pakistan in the 1990s. Although the university was officially open inHerat City between 1995 and 2001, programming and resources were extremely limited. Women(and some men) were barred from teaching or attending classes, and significant pressure wasexerted on faculty and students to study “appropriate” subjects (that is, Islamic studies).Even after the change of government in 2001, many constraints remained, including insufficientinfrastructure, outdated and poorly integrated curricula (a burdensome mixture of pre- and post-Soviet systems), minimal access to updated texts, and a pedagogical approach not geared tocritical or independent thinking.As the Afghan government seeks

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luke Niiler; David Beams, University of Texas-Tyler

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Liberal Education

that the faculty has determined to be important.” 7 And in a pithyassessment of the value of clear written communication for the engineer, Forsyth (2004) notesthat “the effort involved” in careful drafting “will pay dividends.” 8 The authors of this study Page 11.694.2understand the value of writing within engineering practice. The University of Texas at Tylerfounded its School of Engineering (now the College of Engineering and Computer Science) in1997, and industrial experience was required in all founding faculty, including Dr. Beams whowrote numerous laboratory reports, letters to vendors and customers, memoranda, testinstructions, failure

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

the world. He recently edited two volumes: Technology & Society: Building Our Sociotechnical Future (MIT Press) and the Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society, Volume 1: Presenting Futures (Springer).Heather Canary, Arizona State University Polytechnic Heather E. Canary (PhD, Arizona State University, 2007) is assistant professor of communication at Arizona State University. Her primary research areas include organizational communication and family communication in contexts of disability and public policy. She teaches courses across the communication discipline, particularly in organizational and family communication. In her courses, Dr. Canary emphasizes ethical implications of

Conference Session

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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in Education conference. Her teaching interests are in the Computer Engineering area including Digital Design, Embedded Systems, and VLSI. She has co-taught international project courses in Turkey and in Spain. Her research has been focused on timing issues in digital systems. She has directed local and national outreach programs,including Robot Camp and the P. O. Pistilli Scholarship.J. Douglas Klein, Union College J. Douglass Klein is Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies and Special Programs and Professor of Economics at Union College. Klein joined the Union faculty in 1979, after earning a BA in Mathematics at Grinnell College, and a PhD in Economics at the University of Wisconsin

Conference Session

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

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

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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Annual Conference and Exposition. 2005. Portland, OR.32. Scoles, K. and H.L. Millan. "Bringing Writing into the ECE Laboratory". In Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. 2005. Portland, OR.33. Seat, E., J.R. Parsons, and W.A. Poppen, "Enabling Engineering Performance Skills: A Program To Teach Communication, Leadership, and Teamwork". Journal of Engineering Education, 2001. 90(1): p. 1-12.34. Sharp, J. "Using Alumni Networking to Teach Technical Communication". In Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. 2004. Salt Lake City, UT.35. Shwom, B., et al., "Engineering Design and Communication: A Foundational Course for

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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and clubs.Joellen Easton, American Public Media JOELLEN EASTON works as public insight analyst at the public radio program "Marketplace," from American Public Media. She came to Los Angeles from Boston, where she had worked in public radio since 1998, most recently at Public Radio International's Global Resources Desk at the program "The World." She holds an M.S. from the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT, where she helped to develop Terrascope Radio and served as a Teaching Assistant for the class.Rekha Murthy, Public Radio Exchange REKHA MURTHY is Director of Projects + Partnerships at the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), an online marketplace for the distribution of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education

2006-1822: FRESHMAN COURSE ON SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETYHilkat Soysal, Frostburg State University Hilkat S. Soysal received a law degree from University of Istanbul, Turkey. She practiced law in private companies and two state universities as a counselor. In 1993, she joined Istanbul University College of Engineering as a Lecturer. While teaching law courses for undergraduate engineering students, she did a graduate study in the Marine Engineering Program and received her M.Sc. degree in 1996. She continued to take graduate courses in marine engineering until she moved to the USA. Between 1997 and 2000, she took various courses in MBA and Computer Science, and engineering at

Conference Session

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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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

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

AC 2008-2041: DEVELOPING A WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES PROGRAM INAN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY COLLEGELaura Wilson, University of CIncinnati Laura Wilson, University of Cincinnati Laura Wilson is a Field Service Instructor at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Applied Science (CAS). Her main focus is Humanities, specifically English Composition and Technical Writing. She began co-teaching the Senior Design sequence in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department in Fall 2006. She holds a Masters of Arts from Bowling Green State University in Scientific and Technical Communication.Teresa Cook, University of Cincinnati Teresa Cook, University of Cincinnati Teresa Cook is a

Conference Session

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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, representing all five major branches of engineering offered atSchulich (Mechanical, Chemical and Petroleum, Civil, Electrical and Computer, andGeomatics), who supervise the individual lab sections; a fine arts instructor and acommunications instructor; in addition, the course also has a full time technician, 20-24engineering teaching assistants, 4-8 fine arts/industrial design teaching assistants and 4-6communications teaching assistants.Communications instructor as Solo InstructorThe primary role of the communications instructor in ENGG 251/253 is that of sololecture instructor. As one of the two lecture instructors, the communications instructor isresponsible for half the lectures each semester, as well as at least two laboratory periodsof

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

national speaker, she has published numerous articles, a book on creativity research, and teaches classes on giftedness and creativity. Page 15.776.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Integrating the Environmental Engineering Curriculum through Crossdisciplinary StudiosAbstractTraditional curricular approaches within and beyond engineering education tend to befragmented, with opportunities for synthesis being predominately limited to freshmen and senioryear design courses. In this paper, we are proposing a curricular model, the Synthesis and DesignStudio, as an example

Conference Session

Recent Developments in Engineering Ethics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

different companies and each player has a specific role within the virtual firms.A wrong decision could result in disaster. In one scenario, for example, a firm’s ethics officeravatar “killed” 350 employees after making the decision to continue production at a virtual plantin Indonesia, which had been repeatedly threatened with terrorist actions. Notes game developerAllen Varney, “The game is all about temptation.”26Quick TakesNot all ethics games are time-consuming. Abbott Laboratories has implemented “Rocked orShocked,” a touch-screen game played at kiosks set up during training sessions or corporatemeetings.27 Players have a minute to answer six questions, such as “When it is appropriate toaccept baseball tickets from clients” from a rotating

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education

its first few years, the engineeringfaculty operated out of classrooms and laboratory spaces borrowed from across UCLA‟s stilllimited campus.14The postwar enrollment boom, and the special interest that students expressed in technicalsubjects, ensured that Boelter would receive the appropriations necessary for expanding hisfaculty and facilities. However, in terms of the College‟s early postwar growth, a more rapid, and Page 15.474.4exciting expansion occurred in the area of off-campus graduate instruction.From the standpoint of the industrial recruiters, who were given the resources to draw from anational labor pool, there was little to be

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Tonkay, Lehigh University; E. Zimmers, Lehigh University

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Liberal Education

AC 2007-2283: MIGRATION FROM A LEADERSHIP HONORS PROGRAM TOAN ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP MINORGregory Tonkay, Lehigh University Gregory L. Tonkay, Ph.D. is an associate professor and associate chairperson of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Lehigh University. He is also the director of the ISELP and the Electronics Manufacturing Laboratory. Tonkay has been actively involved in curriculum development for the college’s common freshman year and the department’s degree programs and minors.E. Zimmers, Lehigh University Emory W.Zimmers Jr. Ph.D is professor of Industrial Systems Engineering and Director of Enterprise Systems Center at Lehigh University. Zimmers has been responsible

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education

Page 13.570.5engineering that integrate a variety of ethical considerations that mean to address critiquesencountered throughout the course. Forms of resistance including dissent of individualexperts41,42, collective dissent of professional societies43, and citizen action44. New visions ofdoing and teaching science in response to macroethical concerns are presented45-49, along withdiscussions of teaching and doing engineering in ways that promote peace and social justice 50-52.Challenges posed by the content. It may be apparent that at least some of the readings presentedhere, particularly those that draw either on philosophy or critical theory (or both), may be quitechallenging for engineering students. If this material is important to their

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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was the first to fill up, evenbefore we made the presentation in the second Merit Weekend. We had 21 enthusiasticstudents, and all twenty-one eventually completed the course.The class was primarily taught by M. Pinar Mengüç, Professor of MechanicalEngineering, and by a dedicated TA, Eleanor Hawes. Hawes provided students withindividual attention on written assignments. Jane Jensen, an Associate Professor from theCollege of Education, attended the majority of the lectures and served as a soundingboard in and outside the class. Ingrid St. Omer, Assistant Professor of Electrical andComputer Engineering, joined us from time to time and established the bridge to the nextclass, which she will be teaching. The third class in the series will be

Conference Session

Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mieke Schuurman, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University; Christopher Johnstone, Pennsylvania State University

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Liberal Education

her work at annual conferences of ASEE, WEPAN, and CEIA, and published in the Journal of Engineering Education, the Journal of Language and Social Psychology, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, the European Journal of Social Psychology, and the European Review of Social Psychology.Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University Michael Alley is an associate professor of engineering communication in the College of Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer, 2003) and regularly gives workshops on engineering presentations for different institutions including Sandia National Laboratories, the SPIE, Los Alamos

Conference Session

Approaches to Learning Outcomes Assessment in Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zhiwei Guan, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

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Liberal Education

engineeringoverall). We also collected the students’ portfolios and conducted interviews with asubset of the students to gain insights on the survey results. The interviews wereconducted by a research associate not associated with the teaching of the class in order toprotect student confidentiality and minimize any risk of coercion. In our broad analysis,we have been focusing on how the students frame the experienced or potential learningbenefits of the assignment, the nature of the activity that would lead to the benefits andthe conditions under which such benefits did and/or could occur.This paper takes a case study approach and focuses on how three students (Paul, Nancy,and Dan) made sense of the portfolio assignment. These three cases were chosen

Conference Session

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

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Carol Barry, University Massachusetts Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; David Kazmer, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; William Moeller, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Cheryl West, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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the impacts of engineering solutionsin a societal context. Also, if S-L projects replace traditional analytical exercises in courses, theoverall workload will typically not increase for the students. If students are motivated to spendmore time on S-L projects, they are free to do so and should learn more in the process.The approach of S-L, with its roots in experiential learning, is consistent with the theories andempirical research of a number of leading educators and developmental psychologists, asdocumented by Brandenberger3 and Jacoby1. The approach is also consistent with the recentchange in paradigm in education from a focus on teaching to a focus on learning1,3. Astin et al.4found with longitudinal data of 22,000 students that service

Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education

laboratories, theystill can not provide the understanding gained through actually engaging with technology in itsworking environment. Taking fundamental theoretical concepts and applying them to real lifeengineering problems helped to solidify the students’ understanding of those fundamentals. Inmany ways this validation parallels the value attributed to undergraduate internship and coopprograms as well as other experiential learning experiences. The ETHOS experience providedthe participants with an increased awareness of how engineering impacts the daily lives of peoplein all societies.Another common outcome that the ETHOS experience provided to the participants was anunderstanding of another culture. Furthermore, most students indicated that the