Office: Stratton Hall, 420
Phone:
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Bio
Jon A. Leydens, Ph.D., has served as Writing Program Administrator in the Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies (LAIS) at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) since 1997 and is the chair of the CSM Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Committee. His background is in education and composition and rhetoric. Since 1989, Dr. Leydens has taught at the college level in Europe and the United States. He has taught language and writing courses to professionals at national and multinational corporations. Since 1998, he has held summer workshops for science and engineering faculty on writing in their disciplines. In addition to WAC and writing in the disciplines, his research interests include teaching, learning, and assessment issues. At present, he is researching the role of writing in the engineering workplace. Dr. Leydens has served on both departmental and institutional assessment committees. In addition to a graduate course in academic publishing, he also teaches courses in technical writing, rhetoric, and engineering design to undergraduates. As part of his involvement with the Humanitarian Engineering Program, which was launched with a grant from the Hewlett Foundation, Dr. Leydens is currently teaching a service learning course that is part of the Humanitarian Engineering and Humanitarian Studies and Technology minors. He is also a co-principle investigator (PI) on a National Science Foundation grant to explore humanitarian engineering ethics as an initiative for graduate students. To date, Dr. Leydens has been PI or co-PI on grants totaling over $400,000. In both 2002 and 2004, he was selected for inclusion in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.
Courses Taught
LAIS 601 Academic Publishing
LAIS 402 Writing Proposals
LAIS 398 Media Studies
LAIS 100 Nature and Human Values
EPICS151, EPICS I (Engineering Design Course)
Scholarship
Dr. Leydens’ work has been published in journals such as Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, Journal of Engineering Education, Academic Writing, Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, Journal of Geoscience Education, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Journal of Geoscience Education and in the edited collections What Teachers Need to Know about Assessment (National Education Association) and Understanding Scoring Rubrics: A Guide for Teachers (Educational Resources Information Center). He also has a forthcoming publication in the Assessment in the Disciplines Series (Association of Institutional Researchers).