Presidential Profiles: Karen W. Morse Western Washington University

In this, the penultimate issue of the Howell/Loewe editorship, we pause to welcome Professor Anita Puckett of Virginia Tech as the incoming editor of Practicing Anthropology. Dr. Puckett will assist us in the production of our final issue and will assume the helm of Practicing Anthropology for the Spring 2012 issue. Our next and final issue will be a themed issue focusing on Mayas living in the Diaspora. It will be guest edited by James Loucky, a professor of anthropology at Western Washington University at Bellingham, and Alan LeBaron, a professor of Latin American History at Kennesaw State University.

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Developing and Integrating CAE Tools in Engineering Technology

13th Computers in Engineering Conference ◽

10.1115/cie1993-0065 ◽

1993 ◽

Author(s):

Kathleen L. Kitto

Keyword(s):

The United States ◽

Global Market ◽

Product Cycle ◽

Market Place ◽

Engineering Technology ◽

Cycle Times ◽

Western Washington ◽

Interdisciplinary Projects ◽

Washington University ◽

Academic Year

Abstract Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) Tools are being used extensively by companies in the United States to compete in an increasingly demanding global market place. Product cycle times are being reduced while quality requirements are being increased. The students enrolled in engineering and engineering technology today will be faced with competing in these competitive markets after graduation and must acquire the skills they need for that competition before graduation. In order to help make our students more competitive in that global market place, a CAE Tools course and interdisciplinary projects are being integrated into the manufacturing, plastics and electronics engineering technology programs at Western Washington University. This paper describes the new CAE Tools course at Western and decribes specific examples of interdisciplinary projects during the past academic year.

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A cross-university initiative to enhance SOTL through a students as partners approach

The Journal of Educational Innovation Partnership and Change ◽

10.21100/jeipc.v3i1.578 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 218

Author(s):

Colin Bryson

Keyword(s):

International Students ◽

Action Research ◽

Participatory Action Research ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Research Projects ◽

Participatory Action ◽

Western Washington ◽

Traditional Structures ◽

Washington University

This case study evaluates a new initiative to establish a cross-disciplinary forum focusing on enhancing learning, teaching and the student experience. All staff and students are welcome to participate and participants set the agenda themselves. The intention is to have open and informal dialogue and to work in partnership towards setting up collective participatory action-research projects. This is modelled on the Teaching and Learning Academy at Western Washington University (Werder and Otis, 2010). An important aim was to create a space to give voice for those - the so-called ‘hard to reach’- who do not get such opportunities in traditional structures. There have been many challenges to creating a sustainable and successful working model, not least such barriers as communications, creating time and opportunity and working against current dominant cultures. Nonetheless, staff and students, including many international students, have participated and found legitimacy to discuss their own priorities.

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Blake M. Hausman

Writing Appalachia ◽

10.5810/kentucky/9780813178790.003.0089 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 585-591

Keyword(s):

North Carolina ◽

Native American ◽

Creative Writing ◽

University Of California ◽

Cherokee Nation ◽

University Of Georgia ◽

Western Washington ◽

The University ◽

Washington University

Blake Hausman, an author, professor, and citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, was born in Michigan and grew up in North Carolina and Georgia. His mother is Cherokee and his father is Jewish. After earning a BA from the University of Georgia, Hausman earned an MA at Western Washington University and a PhD at the University of California–Berkeley, where he studied creative writing and Native American literatures....

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