Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies

Barbara M. Olds

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Professor

Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies

Colorado School of Mines

Golden, CO 80401

Voice: (303) 273-3991

Fax: (303) 384-2120

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Education:

B.A. Stanford University, English, 1969

M.A. University of Denver, English, 1972

Ph.D. University of Denver, English, 1984

Employment History:

Professor, Division of Liberal Arts & International Studies, Colorado School of Mines, August 1995-present.

Principal Tutor of the Guy T. McBride, Jr. Honors Program in Public Affairs for Engineers, Colorado School of Mines, August 1992-present.

Director of EPICS (Engineering Practices Introductory Course Sequence) Program, Colorado School of Mines, 1988-1992.

Associate Professor, Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies, Colorado School of Mines, August 1989- 1995. [The unit name changed from Department of Humanities and Social Sciences to Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies in 1991.]

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, August 1984-July 1989.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, 1982-1984.

Assistant Professor, Literature and Composition, St. Thomas Theological Seminary, Denver, CO, 1978-79.

Lecturer, Literature and Composition, St. Thomas Theological Seminary, Denver, CO, 1974-1978, 1979-1982.

Consulting Experience:

Consultant in Business and Technical Writing to several major corporations including Great West Life Assurance Co., former United Banks of Colorado, Colorado Department of Corrections, and Information Handling Services, Inc. Consultant on assessment to a variety of educational organizations.

Professional Affiliations:

National Council of Teachers of English

Conference on College Composition and Communication

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing

Association of Writing Program Administrators

American Society for Engineering Education

American Association for Higher Education

Awards:

• William H. Corcoran Award for best paper published in the previous calendar year in Chemical Engineering Education, for "Using Portfolios to Assess a ChE Program" (1999, co-authored with Ronald L. Miller).

• Fulbright Visiting Lecturer/Research Scholar, Sweden, Spring 1999.

• Sterling Olmsted Award for “making significant contributions in the teaching and administering of Liberal Education in Engineering Education,” from Liberal Education Division of American Society for Engineering Education, June 1997.

• CSM Senate Distinguished Lecturer, Fall 1993.

• Centennial Certificate, American Society for Engineering Education, 1993.

• Frontiers in Education Conference Helen Plants Award for Best Workshop at the1992 Frontiers in Education Conference, November 1993 (with Ronald L. Miller and Michael J. Pavelich).

• American Society for Engineering Education Rocky Mountain Region Outstanding Campus Engineering Educator, 1992.

• Amoco Outstanding Teacher Award, CSM, 1988.

• Colorado Women in Higher Education Academic Management Institute, 1987-88.

Grants Received:

“Research Experience for Undergraduates: Engineering Education: Assessment Methodologies and Curricular Innovations,” funded by the National Science Foundation, $60,000 (November 1, 1998-April 30, 2001), Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller, PIs.

“Engineering Education: Assessment Methodologies and Curricular Innovations,” funded by the National Science Foundation (subcontract from the University of Pittsburgh), $94,399 (November 1, 1998-April 30, 2001), Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller, PIs.

“Programs, Pedagogy, and Process: Institution-Wide Improvement of Undergraduate Education at the Colorado School of Mines,” funded by the National Science Foundation, $173,641 (January 1, 1997-December 31, 1999), John U. Trefny, P.I.; Barbara M. Olds et al co-PIs.

“Best Processes for Assessment in Engineering Education,” National Science Foundation, subcontract from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, $11,543 (September 1996-February 1998), Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller, Co-PIs.

“A Computer-Based Expert System to Measure Intellectual Development in College Students,” funded by FIPSE, $212,199 (September 1997-August 2000), Ronald L. Miller, Barbara M. Olds, and Michael J. Pavelich, Co-PIs.

“NSF Assessment Workshop Development,” funded by the National Science Foundation, $17,061 (July 1997-June 1998), Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller, PIs.

“Writing Across the Curriculum: A Joint Effort by the Colorado School of Mines and Jefferson County R-1 Schools,” funded by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, $100,000 (July 1996-June 1998), Barbara M. Olds, project director, Arthur B. Sacks and Jon Leydens, co-project directors.

“Collaborative Projects in English/Language Arts: A Conference and Workshop,” Colorado Commission on Higher Education, $6,675 (September 1997-June 1998), Barbara M. Olds, project director, Arthur B. Sacks and Jon Leydens, co-project directors.

"A Partnership to Develop Language Arts Competencies for Engineering and Applied Science Students at Colorado School of Mines," funded by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, $20,000 (February - June, 1996), Barbara M. Olds, project director.

"The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination at the Colorado School of Mines," funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, $26,801 (1995-1996), Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller, project directors.

"Connections: A Model for Integrated Freshman Year Engineering Studies," funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE), $211,074 (1993-1996), Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller, project directors.

"A Multidisciplinary Model for Teaching Undergraduate Engineering Design,” funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE), $207,663 (1989-1992), Barbara M. Olds and R.L Miller, project directors.

“Quality Engineering Education in the 21st Century: TQM Across the Curriculum at the Colorado School of Mines," funded by the Procter & Gamble Fund, $150,000 (1993-1996), Barbara M. Olds and Robert M. Baldwin, project directors.

Colorado Commission on Higher Education Programs of Excellence Award to EPICS, 1989-1994, $150,000 per year for five years ($750,000 total).

"Integrating Humanities Studies into Undergraduate Engineering Education,” funded by National Endowment for the Humanities, $105,536 (1988-90), Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller, project directors.

"Computer Communication with Remote Project Clients,” funded by National Science Foundation, $76,000 (1986) co-principal investigator; Michael J. Pavelich, principal investigator.

"The CSM Communications Center: A New Beginning," Brown Innovative Teaching Grant, $5,000, 1986-87.

Publications:

Refereed Papers:

Barbara M. Olds, Ronald L. Miller, and Michael J. Pavelich, "Measuring Intellectual Development Using Reflective Portfolios and Software: A Triangulation Experiment," Proceedings of theFrontiers in Education Conference (electronic), Kansas City, MO, November 2000.

Larry Shuman, Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Harvey Wolfe, Cindy Atman, Jack McGourty, Ronald L. Miller, Barbara M. Olds, and Gloria M. Rogers, "Matching Assessment Methods to Outcomes: Definitions and Research Questions." Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference (electronic), St. Louis, Missouri, June 18-21, 2000.

Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Larry Shuman, Harvey Wolfe, Cindy Atman, Jack McGourty, Ronald L. Miller, Barbara M. Olds, and Gloria M. Rogers, "Defining the Outcomes: A Framework for EC 2000. IEEE Transactions on Education, 43, 2, 100-110, 2000.

Barbara M. Olds, John A. Leydens, and Ronald L. Miller ,“A Flexible Model for Assessing WAC Programs,” Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, 3, 2, 123-129, 1999.

Ronald L. Miller, Barbara M. Olds, and Michael J. Pavelich “Using Computer Software to Assess the Intellectual Development of Engineering Students,” Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education (electronic), San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 10-13, 1999.

Ronald L. Miller and Barbara M. Olds, “Performance Assessment of EC-2000 Student Outcomes in the Unit Operations Laboratory,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference (electronic), Charlotte, North Carolina, June 20-23, 1999.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller , “Assessing the Performance of Student Teams and Team Members,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference (electronic), Charlotte, North Carolina, June 20-23, 1999.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller , “Using Portfolios to Assess a Chemical Engineering Program,” Chemical Engineering Education, 33, 2, 110-114, 1999.

Julie E. Sharp, Barbara M. Olds, Ronald L. Miller, and Marilyn Dyrud “Four Effective Writing Strategies for Engineering Classes,” Journal of Engineering Education, , 88, 1, 53-57, 1999.

Ronald L. Miller, Barbara M. Olds, and Michael J. Pavelich, “Using Intelligent Computer Technology to Measure the Intellectual Development of Engineering Students,” Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education (electronic), Tempe, Arizona, November 4-7, 1998.

Barbara M. Olds, “Technical Writing Across the Curriculum: Process, Problems, and Progress,” Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education (electronic), Tempe, Arizona, November 4-7, 1998.

Barbara M. Olds, Nigel T. Middleton, John U. Trefny, “A New Core Curriculum for Engineering and Science Programs at the Colorado School of Mines,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 15-21, 1998.

Ronald L. Miller, Barbara M. Olds, and Michael J. Pavelich , “Measuring Engineering Students’ Intellectual Development Using Neural Network and Expert System Technology,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference (electronic), Seattle, Washington, June 28-July 1, 1998.

Barbara M. Olds, “How Are We Doing? Assessing a Writing-Intensive Introductory Humanities and Social Sciences Course,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference (electronic), Seattle, Washington, June 28-July 1, 1998.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller , “An Assessment Matrix for Evaluating Engineering Programs,” Journal of Engineering Education, 87, 2, 173-178, 1998.

Ronald L. Miller, James F. Ely, Robert M. Baldwin, and Barbara M. Olds. “Higher-Order Thinking in the Unit Operations Laboratory.” Chemical Engineering Education, 32, 2 (Spring 1998), 146-151.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller. “An Assessment Matrix for Evaluating Engineering Programs.” Journal of Engineering Education, April 1998.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller. “Portfolio Assessment: Measuring Moving Targets at an Engineering School.” NCA Quarterly, 71, 4, 462-467, 1997.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller. “The Call of Stories: Reading and Writing in the Humanities with Engineering and Science Faculty.” Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference (electronic), Pittsburgh, PA, November 1997.

Barbara M. Olds. “The Use of Portfolios in Outcomes Assessment.” Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference (electronic), Pittsburgh, PA, November 1997.

Ronald L. Miller and Barbara. M. Olds. “Using Holistic Grading to Evaluate Writing in Engineering Classes.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference (electronic), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 15-18, 1997.

Barbara M. Olds. “Using Portfolios to Assess Student Writing.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference (electronic), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 15-18, 1997.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller. “Using Real-Life Projects to Teach Total Quality Management.” Assessment Update, 9, 3, 1, 1997.

Marcia Murawski, Barbara M. Olds, and Ronald R. Miller. “The Department of Energy’s Technical Leadership Development Program: Lessons Learned from Assessment and Evaluation.” Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference (electronic), Salt Lake City, Utah, November 6-9, 1996.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller. “A Liberal Education Model of Leadership Preparation: The McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs for Engineers.” Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference (electronic), Salt Lake City, Utah, November 6-9, 1996.

Barbara M. Olds. “Using the Staff Meeting Format to Teach Oral Communications.” Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference (electronic), Salt Lake City, Utah, November 6-9, 1996.

Ronald L. Miller and Barbara M. Olds. “Introducing Students to Total Quality Management Concepts in an Authentic Context.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference (electronic), Washington, DC, June 23-26, 1996.

Barbara M. Olds and Michael J. Pavelich. “A Portfolio-Based Assessment Program.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference (electronic), Washington, DC, June 23-26, 1996.

Barbara M. Olds. “A Portfolio Approach to Outcomes Assessment.” Proceedings of the 1996 Environmental Engineering Education Conference, Orono, Maine, August 3-6, 1996, pp. 119-125.

Ronald L. Miller and Barbara M. Olds. "Connections: Integrated First Year Engineering Education at the Colorado School of Mines." Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 1-5, 1995, pp. 4a1.5-9.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller. "A Faculty-Driven Quality Initiative at the Colorado School of Mines." Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 1-5, 1995, pp. 2a3.27-30.

Barbara M. Olds. "Developing Effective Assignments for Lengthy Technical Documents." Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 1-5, 1995, pp. 4b5.10-12.

Ronald L. Miller and Barbara M. Olds. "Connections: A New Approach to Integrated First-Year Engineering Education." Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 25-28, 1995, pp.1261-1264.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller. "Faculty as Students: What We Thought We Knew and What We Learned." 1995 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings. 2295-2299.

Michael J. Pavelich, Barbara M. Olds, and Ronald L. Miller. “Real-World Problem Solving in Freshman/ Sophomore Engineering.” New Directions in Teaching and Learning. Ed. J. Gainen and E. W. Willemsen. No. 61, pp. 45-54. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1995.

Ronald L. Miller and Barbara M. Olds. “A Curricular Model for Introducing Students to Multidisciplinary Senior Design.” Journal of Engineering Education 83 (1994): 311-316.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller. “A Model for Professional Education in the Twenty-First Century: Integrating Humanities and Engineering Through Writing.” Studies in Technical Communication. Ed. Brenda R. Sims. University of North Texas: Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, 1994: 105-121.

Ronald L. Miller and Barbara M. Olds. "Beyond the Cookbook: Fostering Critical Thinking in a Chemical Engineering Laboratory.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, June 26-29, 1994: 748-753.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller. “Ethnographic Research in Engineering Education.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. Champaign, Illinois, June 20-23, 1993: 2048-2053.

Jacob V. Gore and Barbara M. Olds. "Using Workstations in a Completely Paperless Course." Proceedings of the Second Annual Rocky Mountain Small College Computing Conference 9.4 (1993).

Jacob V. Gore and Barbara M. Olds. "Using Workstations to Make Introduction to Computers Easy and Painless." Proceedings of the 26th Annual Small College Computing Symposium, Cedar Falls, IA, 1993: 128-135.

Barbara M. Olds, "Technical Writing: An Essential Component of the Engineering Design Process.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Toledo, Ohio, June 21-25, 1992: 1182-1186.

Ronald L. Miller, Glenda A. Buzbee, and Barbara M. Olds. "Teaching Problem Solving and Computer Programming Using Learning Style Theory." Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. Toledo, Ohio, June 21-25, 1992: 784-789.

Barbara M. Olds and Karen W. Wiley. "Public Policy and Technical Communication Across the Curriculum at the Colorado School of Mines." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 34.4 (1991): 240-246.

Ronald L. Miller and Barbara M. Olds. "Liberal Studies in the CSM Design Curriculum." Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA, June 16-19, 1991: 170-173.

Barbara M. Olds, Michael J. Pavelich, and F. Richard Yeatts. "Teaching the Design Process to Freshmen and Sophomores." Engineering Education. July/August 1990: 554-559.

Barbara M. Olds, "Does a Writing Program Make a Difference?" WPA: Writing Program Administration 14:1-2 (1990): 27-40.

Barbara M. Olds and R. L. Miller. "The 'Real World' in the Classroom: The Role of Industrial Clients in the Colorado School of Mines Design Sequence.” International Journal of Applied Engineering Education 6.5 (1990): 515-526.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller. "Meaningful Humanities Studies for Engineering Students: A New Approach." Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. Toronto, Ottowa, Canada, June 24-28, 1990: 1040-1043.

Michael J. Pavelich and Barbara M. Olds. "Computer Communications with Remote Project Clients, Part II." Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. Portland, Oregon. June 1988: 625-627.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller. "Integrating the Two Literacies: Humanities in the Engineering Curriculum." Bulletin of Science, Technology, & Society 7.5 & 6 (1987): 875-882.

Barbara M. Olds and Robert H. King. "Editing Engineering Student Documents Using Writing Analysis Software." Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. Portland, Oregon, June 1988: 642-646.

Barbara M. Olds, "Educating the Engineer of the Future: The Colorado School of Mines' McBride Honors Program." College Teaching, Winter 1988: 16-19.

Barbara M. Olds, "Beyond the Casebook: Teaching Technical Communication Through 'Real Life' Projects." Technical Writing Teacher. January 1987: 11-17.

Gregory Jember, Barbara M. Olds, et al. English-Old English, Old English-English Dictionary. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1975.

Nonrefereed Papers:

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller, “Assessment,” An International View on Engineering Education, ICEE White Paper, pp. 11-16, August 2000.

Barbara M. Olds, Ronald L. Miller and Michael J. Pavelich, "Measuring the Intellectual Development of Engineering Students Using Intelligent Assessment Software," Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2000.

Barbara M. Olds, “Integrated Engineering Education at the Colorado School of Mines,” Proceedings of Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems Workshop on Civil Infrastructure Systems Education, Brooklyn, NY, Polytechnic University, June 11-12, 1999.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller, “Using an Assessment Matrix to Develop an Effective Program Evaluation Plan,” Proceedings of the Best Assessment Processes in Engineering Education-II Conference, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana, October 16-17, 1998.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller, “Assessing a Course or Project,” in How Do You Measure Success? Designing Effective Processes for Assessing Engineering Education, American Society for Engineering Education, Washington, DC, pp. 35-43, 1998.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller, “Using an Assessment Process to Measure Educational Research Project Success,” Best Practices Summary Report of the Engineering Education Innovators’ Conference, NSF report 9892, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, July 10, 1998.

Barbara M. Olds, “The Colorado School of Mines: A `Laboratory’ for Innovation in Engineering Education,” Proceedings of the Engineering Foundation Conference on“Realizing the New Paradigm for Engineering Education,” Baltimore, MD, June 3-6, 1998.

Barbara M. Olds. “The McBride Honors Program: Educating the Compleat Engineer.” CSM Quarterly Review, 97, 3, 1997, 15-19.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller. “A Measure of Success: Here’s How to Design and Evaluation Plan for Your Next Educational Research Project.” ASEE Prism, December 1997, 24-29.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller. “A Tale of Two Programs: Integrating Humanities and Engineering.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference (electronic), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 15-18, 1997.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller. “Portfolio Assessment at an Engineering School: Lessons Learned Over a Decade.” Proceedings of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 19-22, 1997, pp. 11-115.

Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller. “Using an Assessment Process to Measure Educational Research Project Success.” Proceedings of the Engineering Education Innovators’ Conference. National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, April 1997.