Liberal Education: A Survey Of Goals

Valenzuela, Mark; Allen, Judith; Swenty, Brian

doi:10.18260/1-2--3604

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“…They concluded that administrators view liberal learning as a path to prepare students to become productive professionals, community citizens, and leaders in a diverse and socially dynamic world. Further, there is ample evidence that liberal learning outcomes are most effectively achieved when undertaken as a partnership between the often separated curricular spheres of general education and the major (Valenzuela, Allen, & Swenty, 2008).…”

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Towards Liberal Education Assessment In Engineering And Technology Programs

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Milanović²,

Sweitzer³

2012

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2012

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“…Many educators also believe that the inclusion of liberal arts education within an engineering degree is critical to help our students become better people and better community members, not just better engineers (e.g., [38], [39] ). Our work on integrated education has the potential to equally address this goal and the goal of educating more competent professionals.…”

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Work in Progress: Transformation through Liberal Arts-Focused Grand Challenges Scholars Programs

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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She is a researcher in the fields of both water and sanitation, as well as a researcher and practitioner in using interdisciplinary thinking and approaches to solving environmental and sustainability problems. Dr. Wood is also pursuing her interests in the areas of equity and justice through education and engagement with context and values.In addition to her teaching and advising duties at Olin, Dr. Wood serves as the Director of the Babson-Olin-Wellesley Three College Sustainability Certificate Program, the Director of Olin's Grand Challenges Scholars Program, on the Catalyst Board of the open source journal Murmurations, and as a member of Olin's Context and Ethics in Engineering Education Working Group.After graduating from Harvard University with a B.A. in Dramatic Literature, Dr. Wood worked professionally in theater and wrote and recorded two musical albums. She then returned to school to study engineering, earning a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Rutgers University. Dr. Wood then went on to earn a Master of Science in Engineering in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, while working with the Austin chapter of Engineers Without Borders as a volunteer and project lead for a project in Peru.She has published and presented on incentivizing decentralized sanitation and wastewater treatment, on sustainability of coastal community water and sanitation service options, as well as on integrating liberal arts and STEM education, currently through the vehicle of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program. She has co-designed workshops oriented toward educational change for Olin's Summer Institute and the joint Olin College-Emerson College event: Remaking Education.

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Liberal Education: A Survey Of Goals

Abstract: and chair of its Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering. He received both his PhD and BS degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri Rolla and his MS degree from the University of Florida. He is a registered professional engineer in several states.

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Towards Liberal Education Assessment In Engineering And Technology Programs

Towards Liberal Education Assessment In Engineering And Technology Programs

Work in Progress: Transformation through Liberal Arts-Focused Grand Challenges Scholars Programs

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