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Innovations In Composition Programs That Educate Engineers: Drivers, Opportunities, And Challenges, Jon A. Leydens, Jen Schneider
Innovations In Composition Programs That Educate Engineers: Drivers, Opportunities, And Challenges, Jon A. Leydens, Jen Schneider
Jen Schneider
Recent developments in engineering education have shaped the nature of composition programs at institutions or programs that emphasize engineering and science. Among these developments are revised accreditation guidelines and a curricular debate with a long history. Such developments highlight collaborative opportunities between technical and humanities/social sciences faculty. This multi-case study investigates how composition programs have responded to such drivers, opportunities, and challenges. The study draws from historical, observation, document, and interview data, and particularly interviews with composition program administrators at six institutions with significant technical emphases. Findings indicate shifts in historical emphasis on culture and utility, and three contemporary responses. …
The Development And Implementation Of A Nanotechnology Module Into A Large, Freshman Engineering Course, Vinod Lohani, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Ishwar Puri, Scott Case, Roop Mahajan
The Development And Implementation Of A Nanotechnology Module Into A Large, Freshman Engineering Course, Vinod Lohani, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Ishwar Puri, Scott Case, Roop Mahajan
Ganesh Balasubramanian
The development and implementation of a nanotechnology learning module into a freshman engineering course in Virginia Tech’s large engineering program is discussed. This module, a part of a spiral theory based nanotechnology option that will be implemented in the curriculum of the Engineering Science Mechanics (ESM) department at Virginia Tech, was piloted with ~180 freshmen in Spring ’08. The pilot included a prior knowledge survey, a 40-minute in-class presentation on nanotechnology, a hands-on module involving analysis of nanoscale images, plotting of force functions at atomic scale using LABVIEW, and a post-module survey. Students’ misconceptions, observed through the prior knowledge survey, …
Engineering To Help: The Value Of Critique In Engineering Service, Jen Schneider, Juan Lucena, Jon A. Leydens
Engineering To Help: The Value Of Critique In Engineering Service, Jen Schneider, Juan Lucena, Jon A. Leydens
Jen Schneider
Given the fairly recent and dramatic increase in the number of "engineering to help" (ETH) programs in the developed world, we seem to be observing a theme that resonates with engineering students and faculty. Within this context, this article has two goals: first, it positions ETH programs within a history of the U.S. engineering profession generally. We argue that the emergence of ETH programs represents a shift in how some engineers and engineering educators are re-imagining and re-framing their profession and engineering education from a constraining concept of "service" to include a broader notion of "helping." Second, we want to …
Guiding Principles In Engineering Writing Assessment: Context, Collaboration, And Ownership, Jen Schneider, Jon A. Leydens, Barbara M. Olds, Ronald Miller
Guiding Principles In Engineering Writing Assessment: Context, Collaboration, And Ownership, Jen Schneider, Jon A. Leydens, Barbara M. Olds, Ronald Miller
Jen Schneider
Several years ago, one of the authors of this chapter was privy to details of a large-scale writing assessment of junior high students. The students had been given a brief prompt asking them to think through how watching television affects people's thinking styles. One of the students involved in the assessment had approached the task creatively, beginning his essay as one would a television commercial and echoing that tone, complete with channel changes and other fragmenting interruptions. He began his essay this way: "Hi there! Television has not affected my mind ... " and then proceeded to show, in a …