2011 Symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education
Hosted By Union College, June 3-4, 2011
(click on presentation or poster title to view abstract and slides;
click here to download the 2011 Proceedings)
Schedule
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Thursday, June 2, 2011 |
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7:00 pm Registration and Informal Reception |
Everest Lounge |
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Friday, June 3, 2011 |
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7:30 am Registration and Breakfast |
Hale House |
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8:30 Welcome |
Nott Memorial |
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8:45 Keynote Address: Building Watson: An Overview of DeepQA for the Jeopardy! Challenge Dr. David Ferrucci, IBM Fellow, IBM Watson Research Center click to view slides |
Nott Memorial |
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9:45 Keynote Discussion and Questions |
Nott Memorial |
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10:45 Break |
Nott Memorial |
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11:00 Presentations: Integration, Innovation, and Leadership Creative Innovation: Tautology or Opportunity? How Can I Know What to Innovate until I Know How I have Learned? Integrating Learning and Innovating Processes in Situated Learning Environments Understanding Engineering Systems Futures: Using Scenario Analysis and Planning to Develop Engineering Systems Leadership Analysis of Engineering Capstone Design Student Reflective Memos: What Students Say and What They Don't Say
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Nott Memorial |
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12:00 Discussion of Presentations |
Nott Memorial |
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12:30 Lunch |
Hale House |
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1:30 Integration in Action: Views from the Outside (Industry and Government panel) Sarah Bittleman is Senior Advisor to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack |
Nott Memorial |
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2:30 Panel Discussion: Integrative Programs Bachelor of Arts in Engineering - A Proposal Flying in the Face of Adversity: The Struggle to Commingle Liberal Arts with Engineering at a Public Polytechnic Integrating Multiple Perspectives in Engineering Education Rensselaer's Programs in Design and Innovation: Curricular and Pedagogical Dimensions of E&LE Integration |
Nott Memorial |
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3:10 Discussion |
Nott Memorial |
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3:30 Poster Session Computer-assisted Language Learning and Computer-assisted Text Exploration Today E 4 E: Engineering for Educators Measuring Student Learning Gains in Engineering and Humanities Integration Employing Second Life Modeling to Explore Life After Death Going Boldly – Creating the New Engineering Education A Case for Integration: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Teaching With GarageBand Integrating Legal Education into the Engineering Curriculum A Writing Intensive Cornerstone Course for STEM Students Collaborative Work between Music and Electrical Engineering at Union College Literature and Science: Designing Courses to Appeal to Science and Engineering Majors "Smarter Planet" (IBM) Sophomore Research Seminars at Union College |
Nott Memorial |
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4:30 Interactive Sessions: Practicing Integration (parallel sessions; choose one) Toward Routine, Low-Cost Intrinsic Motivation Course Conversion Critical Thinking for Early Engineering Students: From Project Reports to Reflections to Journaling Can Students Be Taught To Be Creative? |
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6:00 Reception |
Everest Lounge |
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6:45 Dinner |
Hale House |
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Saturday, June 4, 2011 |
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8:00 am Breakfast |
Olin Atrium |
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8:30 Panel Discussion: Oh! The Humanity Bridging the Gap Between Engineers and Society: Learning to Listen What Does It Mean to Be Human? Tools to Craft Ethical Behavior |
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9:00 Discussion |
Olin 115 |
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9:15 Panel Discussion: Integrated Courses A First-year Learning Community that Integrates Science, Engineering and the Traditional Liberal Arts Engineering & Liberal Arts Entrepreneurship Seminar Enhancing Student Engagement and Professional Identification and Development through Entrepreneurial Simulation as Applied to a First Year IT & Web Science Course |
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9:45 Discussion |
Olin 115 |
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10:00 Break |
Olin Atrium |
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10:15 Panel Discussion: Technological Literacy Overview of Science, Engineering, and Technology Engineering Minors as a Means of Integrating Engineering and Liberal Arts Engineering as a Second Language |
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10:45 Discussion |
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11:00 Panel Discussion: History and Engineering History and Engineering History and Engineering Combined to Learn About Water-Powered Gristmills Engineering in Ancient Rome |
Olin 115 |
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11:30 Discussion |
Olin 115 |
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11:45 Wrap-up Discussion click for wrap-up summary |
Olin 115 |
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12:30 Lunch |
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1:30-5:00 i2i Faculty Institute (Parallel Workshops, choose one) |
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Fostering Integration: Faculty Learning Communities Workshop Coordinators from Smith College: Complex societal challenges cannot be addressed nor even understood through the lens of a single discipline. Rather, innovative thinking and solutions require the integration of knowledge from multiple fields. How can faculty help foster a culture of integrative thinking? This interactive workshop will engage participants from a range of disciplines in exploring how to build such a culture with an eye to increasing capacity for innovation. The workshop will begin with results from a Faculty Learning Community piloted at Smith College in 2011-2012 and includes examples of how the Deepwater Horizon crisis has been incorporated in courses from comparative literature, engineering, economics, and the study of women and gender. All participants will then engage in an interactive session on other contemporaneous cases, identifying and articulating questions and ideas relevant to courses they teach. In this way, participants will gain insight to epistemologies and modes of inquiry from other disciplines. This will be followed by development of ideas for class exercises, assignments, and interactions based on generative and integrative thinking. The workshop will conclude with a meta-analysis of the structure and implementation of the Faculty Learning Community offered at Smith this past year and the associated advantages, disadvantages, and observations. |
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The Intellectual and Practical Challenges of Integrated Teaching David Goldberg, ThreeJoy Associates, Inc. This workshop examines the challenges of working with faculty from other disciplines and of initiating and implementing interdisciplinary courses, programs, and events. Many of these challenges revolve around perceptions and language that are so engrained in our existence that we fail to recognize the role they play in our interactions. Workshop participants will participate in exercises that reveal these subtle barriers and provide intellectual frameworks and practical techniques that enable new perspectives and possibilities. The workshop starts with an interactive group exercise with a scenario that exposes tensions and communication breakdowns. This is followed by an exploration of the philosophy of speech acts and the connections to the scenario. The session will conclude with a third interactive exercise that emphasizes deep listening and asking powerful questions. |
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Reaching Across the Disciplines: Facing the Ethical Issues of a Technologically Complex World George Catalano, Binghamton University We shall explore, in a highly interactive and experiential format, ethical dilemmas that often confront us in our ever more complex world as a mechanism whereby the liberal arts can be integrated into our classrooms. Using a course module approach, participants will first encounter existing case studies such as the tragedy of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Ideas presented in my new book, Tragedy in the Gulf: A Call for a New Engineering Ethic, will serve as a springboard for this workshop. Disciplines from both within engineering as well as the liberal arts offer perspectives that will be included in our exploration of this accident. Subsequently participants shall develop the framework for integrating a similar case into courses they will teach in the near future. Participants will leave the workshop with an identified course, a milestone schedule of required developments, a specific issue and an assessment strategy each will integrate into their respective course. |
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Pedagogies for Bridging the Engineering and Humanities Disciplines Tim Foutz, University of Georgia This workshop will present results from a 3-year project to help engineering faculty bridge the gap between the humanities and engineering. It will include
Project Background:A learning module entitled, The Water Module, was created to provide an instructional method of integrating the humanities into engineering courses. An Interdisciplinary Consultant Team was established to determine what skills students needed in order to make this integration. This Team established five guiding principles of essential skills, and the Water Module was created as a way to incorporate these principles into an engineering course. This module was implemented into a freshman engineering course. Interviews were used to gather students’ reactions to this module and to evaluate the module’s success in teaching students this integration. A control group was used to compare other instructional methods against the module. The results indicate that the treatment group had a clearer understanding of how the humanities are imbedded in engineering practice. Our workshop will present this learning module for integrating the humanities into engineering coursework. Learning Objectives
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