41% Figure 1. Student Location Survey Results Unknown 11%This survey data was used to inform the development of the studio exercises and projects, as well asproactively address student mental and physical health during their studies. Details will be providedlater in this paper.Modular Curriculum StructureWork to shift ENGR 112/121 to a flipped-classroom model was accelerated, and, inspired by priorwork at the University of British Columbia [10], the curriculum was re-structured into seven distinctmodules. Three modules were part of ENGR 112, while four modules were part of ENGR 121 (Table3). Each module had a duration of three or four weeks, with the exception of the Ethics
path.Workshops provide students in our learning communities the tools to manage challenges thatimpact their performance as engineers. By engaging new student engineers in active workshopsas part of an intentional onboarding process, we introduce them to many of the supportsavailable. Each program also has workshops throughout the semester which connect to variousprofessional aspects of engineering including but not limited to inclusivity, communityconnection, and work-life balance. For example, students attend a workshop titled “ActingEthically.” Through framing the session with the example of the 2007 I-35W MN BridgeCollapse, students are able to use a “real-life” example of a local catastrophe to learn theprinciples of ethics. Group discussions are
outcomes used by ABET to evaluate engineering programs. Specifically, outcomes2, 3 and 4 can be found below: an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs withconsideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social,environmental, and economic factors an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations andmake informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global,economic, environmental, and societal contextsFinally, the project seeks to provide a systematic approach that can be institutionalized thusoffering academic institutions an option
. All of these changes weremade in consultation with the larger ERSP team including Dr. Alvarado at UCSD. In the ERSPmodel, grading is based on several items including the final report; however, for ourimplementation of a 1-credit course, we found that the final report was the primary deliverablefor the semester and thus the grading was based only on the final report. The course topics thatwere not covered in ERSP at UIC due to time restrictions included: ethics in research, oralcommunication, peer-review (reduced time from 3 classes to 2 classes), and basic statistics andhypothesis testing. We also had to remove the following in-class exercises due to timerestrictions: final proposal presentation and reflections.One of the components that was
engineering design process; importance of mathematics,chemistry and computers in engineering; engineering mechanics; data analysis; publicsafety; ethics; professional licensure; and career searches. Content varied from material thatwould be included in freshmen engineering courses to material that introduced advanced(upper-level) engineering courses. The portion of the SBP program involving industryprofessionals as guest speakers consisted of three panel discussions and three stand-alonepresentations. The three panel discussions invited guests from different career stages asfollows: (a) early career professionals, (b) a recent winning senior design team fromComputer Science in TAMUK’s COE, and (c) seasoned engineers. Each panel had four tofive
increase in the rating ofknowledge. Knowledge in the role of an engineer, engineering ethics, international issues, anddesign thinking were among the highest ranking (Figure 6). By the end of the design challenge,more than 75% of students agreed that engineers should have some or a lot of responsibility intackling global challenges (Figure 7). Responsibility in resource consumption, climate change,and meeting SDGs were among the highest ranking. The endline survey results show a clear shiftin student mindset after participating in the design challenge. Figure 5: Student self-evaluation of their skills before-and-after the design challenge, from the endline survey.Figure 6: Student self-evaluation of their knowledge before-and-after the design
. Introduction to Legal and Ethical Issues in Cybersecurity,5. Special Topics in Cybersecurity,6. Senior (Capstone) project in CybersecurityWe offered two cybersecurity courses for all non-Computer Science (CS) majors at the university during2020-21 academic year with very low enrollment. At this moment, we have only three students pursuingthis Cybersecurity for All minor. We are working with various department chairs and college deans andwe expect this enrollment to grow. Also, we offered all courses for our cybersecurity concentration forCS majors, and currently approximately 30 students pursuing the Cybersecurity concentration. Also, wehave graduated 15 students from this concentration.Goal 3: Conduct Cybersecurity professional development activities
to address important ethical considerations that are not frequently addressed intraditional engineering curricula (including within traditional engineering ethics curricula), andwhich center issues of particular importance to our nation’s increasingly diverse body ofengineering students.As a growing number of departments begin to undertake these attempts at curricular reform,there will be (and in fact already is) significant backlash from pedagogical traditionalists, whomay perceive these efforts as “watering down” the technical rigor of a traditional engineeringeducation with elements (e.g., “storytelling”) typically reserved for the humanities or socialsciences. Although the author is not aware of a specific study detailing the prevalence
orally or in writing 9. Learning how to find, evaluate, and use resources to explore a topic in-depth 10. Developing ethical reasoning and ethical decision making 11. Learning to analyze and critically evaluate ideas, arguments, and points of view 12. Learning to apply knowledge and skills to benefit others or serve the public good 13. Learning appropriate methods for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting numerical informationTable 1 shows the distribution of students' self-assessments. The scores range from 1.0 to 5.0 with1.0 intervals for the listed 'No Apparent Progress,' 'Slight Progress,' 'Moderate Progress,''Substantial Progress,' and 'Exceptional Progress' correspondently, and the mean scores of thesurvey results
support ofundergraduate research, the university developed the following six student learning outcomes(SLOs), relative to undergraduate research: 1. Define and/or articulate a research problem 2. Design a course of action to solve a research problem using as appropriate, multidisciplinary approaches 3. Apply ethical principles in research 4. Conduct research independently and/or collaboratively 5. Research decisions or conclusions based on the analysis and synthesis of evidence 6. Communicate research resultsAs part of this project at the Worldwide campus, these SLOs were used to structure the supportnetwork of the Research Scholars Program (Fig. 1): mentoring, workshops, and the independentstudy course.The support network discussed
engineer” QuestionIn a mechanical engineering lab course, students were asked to list the critical characteristics ofengineering professionals. The data collected from Spring 2019 to Spring 2021 were coded toidentify ethical, social, or environmental aspects, and the results are presented in Figure 3.Ethical items have some prevalence of reporting, but environmental and social aspects rarelyappear within the self identification of professional characteristics. The course where thisquestion was administered in, does not specifically cover content that addresses social justiceissues, or more broad social impacts or environmental impacts. A higher prevalence of social andenvironmental professional responsibility would be expected within a course
knowledge to people-oriented challenges in global settings; theseprograms have many names but are known as, Community Engaged Learning, Global ServiceLearning (GSL) [5] or Engineering for Community Development (ECD) [6].The student and community impacts of these types of programs have been widely assessed asprojects have seen success through incorporation of principles such as ethics, social justice, localexpertise and resources, and building trusting relationships with shared goals [7]. There has beenextensive analysis on the use of ECD to develop global sociotechnical competency skills andpositive student learning outcomes [8], [9].However, historically, well-intentioned university-forged relationships with partner communitiesand resultant
represents a vast untapped potential to exponentially increasethe impact of EEC funding and transform engineering education. But tapping this potential hasthus far been an intractable problem, despite ongoing calls for data sharing by public funders ofresearch. Changing the paradigm of single-use data collection requires actionable, provenpractices for effective, ethical data sharing, coupled with sufficient incentives to both share anduse existing data. To that end, this project draws together a team of experts to overcomesubstantial obstacles in qualitative data sharing by building a framework to guide secondaryanalysis in engineering education research (EER), and to test this framework using pioneeringdata sets. Herein, we report on
apply them to solve biomedical problems.(3) enhance oral and written scientific communication skills to facilitate collaboration acrossdiscipline boundaries.(4) instruct students how to conduct research ethically and responsibly.(5) prepare participants to pursue graduate studies and careers in a STEM field.In this paper, we describe our first-year experience running this program, lessons learned, and newpractices we will implement going forward.MethodsRecruitment Targets: All undergraduate applications were considered, with priority given torecruitment of rising sophomore and junior women and URM students, and from institutions withlimited research opportunities. Program targets are ≥ 50% women, ≥ 40% URM, and ≥ 60% fromschools with limited
two campuses to ensure that students have the pre-requisite knowledge to succeed in either program.Table 1 shows the core courses students from Kelowna take on the Vancouver campus whenthey follow the mobility path. In addition to these core courses, these students would take threetechnical electives. As one can observe from the course titles, the focus is on productionmanagement.Table 1: Core courses in fourth year curriculum on the Kelowna campus for Vancouver students Course: Title: MANF 370 Production Management II ENGR 413 Law and Ethics for Engineers MANF 430 Manufacturing Capstone Design Project
Paper ID #38126Who identifies as an engineering leader? Exploring influencesof gender, race, and professional experienceAndrea Chan (Research Associate) Andrea Chan is a Research Associate at the Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering | University of TorontoCindy Rottmann (Associate Director Research) Cindy Rottmann is the Associate Director, Research at the Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering at the University of Toronto. She conducts research on engineering leadership, engineers' professional practice, and ethics and equity in engineering. She is currently the Program
Competency as “the confident, critical and responsive use of, and engagementwith digital technologies for learning, at work, and for participation in society”. It is listed amongcompetencies such as mathematical competency, civic competency, and literacy competency[20].Knowledge in digital competency is considered a sound understanding of the nature, role, andopportunity given by digital technologies. Skills in digital competency include a range ofapplicable uses of information technology systems. Finally, the attitude of digital competencyrequires a critical perspective, including being ethical and safe with technology applications. TheEuropean Digital Competence Framework for Citizens, (DigComp 2.0) further narrows theapplication of digital
solutionshave been previously addressed in the literature [24] and implementing some of theseinterventions may improve the project experience in core engineering courses such as these.Specifically, groups who develop team contracts agreeing on responsibilities and expectations ofteam members, independent of the project’s technical content, tend to work more efficiently as ateam and have a better experience (i.e. satisfaction).These comments about the course project can also be viewed within the context of Perry’s theoryof intellectual and ethical development [25]. Perry purports that intellectual development starts atdualism, where problems are clearly defined with right and wrong answers. These types ofproblems can typically be found in freshmen and
, analyze and interpretdata, design systems to meet needs, learn from failure, demonstrate creativity, select, modify andoperate tools, work safely, communicate effectively, work effectively in teams, behave ethically,and gather information with their senses.The number of objectives above indicates that laboratories are asked to do many things;however, laboratories represent a small portion of the engineering credit hours within mostprograms. Many programs have several four-credit engineering courses which include one labcredit hour, but the total lab time does not typically exceed four or five credit hours. This paperpresents integrated experiments as a way to make efficient use of scarce laboratory time.Integrated experiments are revisited in
spawned many projects worldwide. The advent oflow-cost, open-source hardware, such as the Raspberry Pi and Arduino platforms, and 3-Dprinters along with open-source software tools, such as the Android and Linux operatingsystems, are making prototyping of low-cost solutions to international development challengesmore ubiquitous to students all over the world [9,10].These types of projects are very motivating to engineering students in that they can use theirtechnical skills towards making a difference in the world. These projects are also rich in learningdimensions for engineering students in that they often involve communicating with communitiesof different cultures, considerations related to engineering ethics, as well as sustainabilityaspects
physically forcing Indigenous peoples from fertile lands.These environmental injustices contribute to longstanding, intersecting economic and healthdisparities when families in affected communities are more likely to develop health problemsthat affect quality of life and ability to work.3 Climate change is predicted to exacerbate theseinjustices.Although many disciplines offer approaches and tools for recognizing and redressingenvironmental injustices, we believe the disciplines of engineering are uniquely poised toadvance the ethical imperative of a more just and sustainable world. Through more equitableinfrastructures and technologies, and through processes and products that recognize people’sinterdependence within ecological systems, engineers
. Specifically, the course introducesengineering practice through experiences in problem formation, analysis, innovation, design, andimplementation by a team. The course includes computer aided design (CAD) and mostassessments are based on the completion of team-based projects. Learning outcomes include anability to describe the engineering profession in regards to an academic plan, accreditation,certification, disciplines, societies, ethical practice, and regional industries, which are introducedthrough professional engineers. Case studies spanning global, multicultural, environmental, andsocietal contexts, challenge the students to apply the NSPE code of ethics to engineeringsituations. As students engage with the topics, most select concentrations in
engineering education and practice. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Engineering Education (JIEE) and Director of the National Institute for Engineering Ethics (NIEE). © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Measuring Change in Students’ Development of Global Competency in Two Global Engineering CoursesIntroductionProfessional engineering work is increasingly global in nature, requiring engineering graduatesto work effectively across cultural boundaries. Engineering educators have been called upon toprovide opportunities for students to develop and practice these skills before
profession Influence of culture on the engineering design International trade process Appropriate technology International ethics Likely experiences in other cultures International relationsWednesday class periods are devoted to helping students learn about the culture that they will beworking in. If the country that they will be traveling to uses a language other than English, thesedays may focus on teaching basic conversational language skills. The language lessons arehighly interactive in that they rely on students speaking to each other rather than focusing onreading competence. These periods also include presentations, sometimes by guest speakers,about the history, people, food, customs, religion
opportunities to re-take assessments and demonstrate competency. With the shift infocus to attaining outcomes, the overall grade moves away from a what can be an arbitraryaveraging of scores from disparate parts of the course. Instead, the grade is based upon studentsmastering individual learning outcomes. These outcomes can be based on laboratory skills,problem-solving application, ethical considerations, or whatever else is deemed important for thecourse. In specs grading, students gain a clearer understanding of what is needed to pass thecourse, and they can also have the ability to select their own learning goals. In Fall 2020, theauthor converted a General Physics I section and an upper-division Electric & Magnetic Fieldscourse into a specs
National Endowment for the Humanities, and the British Academy. In 2016 the National Academy of Engineering recognized her Corporate Social Responsibility course as a national exemplar in teaching engineering ethics. Professor Smith holds a PhD in Anthropology and a certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan and bachelor’s degrees in International Studies, Anthropology and Latin American Studies from Macalester College.Thomas J Phelan (Associate Professor)Rosalie O'Brien© American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Teaching Students to Incorporate Community Perspective into Environmental Engineering Problem Definition through Iterative
half the criteria that aligned more closely withtheir subject matter expertise. The Mechanical Engineering faculty member rated the categories‘Determining the Extent of Information Needed’ and ‘Using Information Effectively toAccomplish a Specific Purpose’, since they are more content-oriented, and the EngineeringLibrarian rated ‘Evaluating Information and its Source Critically’ and ‘Access and UseInformation Ethically and Legally’ since they are more search and citation-oriented. This methodenabled both raters to narrow their focus as they worked through the reports, and thus movemuch more quickly. Since the raters had already established interrater reliability, and the rangeof total rubric scores was consistent with the previous method, this
have been created andstudied, but the next step is understanding how and where these interventions are implemented.For example, Bielefeldt et al. (2018) highlight the fact that courses on engineering ethics areoften not widely offered. Instead, the content is usually embedded within other courses, if at all.While ABET accreditation requires that students develop “an ability to recognize ethical andprofessional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which mustconsider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societalcontexts,” additional oversight of teaching these skills is not standard (ABET 2021). ABET doeshave another student outcome that touches on inclusion, which
your CAD 2 work) Iteration & Improving7 Engineering Communications & Ethics Engineering Ethics: Fabrication Memo Writing & Oral Communication Case studies Engineering Ethics & Intellectual Prop (Read cases before class)8 Design Review (DR) Presentations Presentation Day 2 DR Presentation slides (Business casual Attire) Memo 1 (Draft)9 Instrumentation Engineering Circuit tutorial DR Document Electronics & Sensors (Bring your project kit)10 Design Optimization Design Optimization Survey Circuit tutorial Engineering Data Analysis
. Hauser, Ph.D., Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky1. IntroductionEngineers in industry are trained to have the knowledge and skills to significantly impact society andhuman life [1]–[3]. National organizations and professional engineering societies have highlighted theimportance of working in collaborative and inclusive environments to better equip students to solvesociety's grand and complex challenges [1], [4], [5]. In 2020, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)reinforced its commitment to address social justice in engineering by increasing “engineering talentthrough a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion,” by instilling “a culture of ethical andenvironmental responsibility in engineering” and