and resultant student learning outcomes were created with the intention of trainingstudents with the skill sets required to address complex societal challenges built from theexperiences working within the Engineering for Sustainable Development (ESD) realm.The ideals that have emerged from this domain focus on considering political dimensions,structural conditions, ethical considerations, as well as stakeholder understanding, values anddynamics; these considerations are aimed at addressing the problematic engagements and pitfallsseen historically within the HE domain. “Humanitarian Engineering” effectively and cohesivelyintegrates these skill sets and linkages to address issues far beyond what we have historically andethnocentrically
organizational and leadership issues that span across an ecosystem of partners within the following areas: defense, government, industry, community colleges, and universities. Dr. Linvill’s research is strategically designed to address organizational challenges and create novel solutions to those challenges. Her work has been presented at national and international conferences and has been published in The Routledge Handbook of Communication and Bullying and in Communication, relationships, and practices in virtual work (IGI Global). Dr. Linvill applies an or- ganizational communication lens to her classes on Business Principles, Ethics, Negotiation and Decision Making, Organizational Behavior, and Organizational Leadership
. 4 I consider different disciplinary, environmental, local and global perspectives to understand natural and human systems. 5 I examine the influence of power structures Cultural Diversity in society to understand inequalities among different groups. 6 I ask questions without making judgments about people from other cultures Personal and Social 7 I discuss the importance of ethics and moral Responsibility
differences draws attention to how engineered systems become part of moraleconomies in various contexts. As Arctic scholar Frank Sejersen writes, the introduction of neweconomies of practice will not only generate “new moral expectations between people but [...]also create new agencies, resource conceptualizations, imagined communities, conflicts andproblems” (2022: 164). Consequently, describing the design of integrated trusses as beingembedded in wider moral debates allows researchers to attend to the plasticity through whichknowledge on home construction in this region is currently emerging in response to wider socio-economic and environmental factors (Biehl and Locke 2017).Returning to the larger question about ethics in engineering, particularly
urbanplanning method. These approaches shift the power relationships traditionally established ininterview settings and allowed student participants to shape the direction of their interviews andstorytelling.In this paper, we first describe the central ethical and justice challenges to soliciting andengaging BIPOC students in research about their experiences. After describing the goals of thestudy, we explain two key strategies that allowed us to address these challenges in our datacollection: 1) Use of boundary objects to elicit participants narratives, and 2) the integration ofparticipatory urban planning methods.We show sample data sets to explain the ways our methods provided opportunities to learn morefrom students, to gain a comprehensive
humankind unique, both individually and as a species, remains unclear. Advances in neuroscience and computer science, as well as ethics, generate questions about the nature of intelligence, consciousness, and personhood and the rights and protections associated with being human. In this course students tackle classic readings from Descartes to modern ruminations on artificial intelligence, examine our relation to our creations and pets, and the way our various identities affect how our personhood is perceived and protected.Some basic information from the course syllabus is described below.Broad Topics covered 1. Basic neuroscience 2. Distinctions between humans and nonhumans 3. Emotional connection and dependencies between
. Engineers with an eye toward value creation understand stakeholder needs, learn from failure, and habitually work to provide benefits while understanding the consequences of their actions.” (Melton & Kline, n.d.) “Human value is defined as ‘What is important to people in their lives, with a focus on ethics and morality.’” (Friedman & Hendry, 2019)The instructors selected four of the stakeholders identified by the class as examples. On a newJamboard, students listed possible values specific to those selected stakeholders. The next step was to discuss how societal norms are the way values are implemented orexpressed in a particular society. They can vary based on many factors such as the culture of theparticular
purpose of plans and how to assemblethem. Structural Steel Design is a required course for fourth-year students in the CivilEngineering Technology program. It involves the design of structural members and frames andtheir connections in steel structures. Topics include principles of structural design and the codeof ethics in engineering practices, structural loads and systems, steel grade and shapes, steelframing and deck design, tension members, compression members, non-composite beams, beam-columns, column base plates, bolted connections and welded connections.The EOP framework provides guiding principles for engineering educators to incorporatesustainability concepts into their courses. The aim of this study is to integrate the EOPframework
effective teaching ● Peer and Instructor Feedback ● Bring An Inclusive Mindset to Your Teaching ● Active Learning ● Ethical/Social Responsibility in the classroom ● How do we assess learning? ● Graduate Student lead Workshop - Peer Assessment ● Writing a Effective Teaching PhilosophyEngineering 397 (ENES 397): Advanced Topics of Teaching Fellow ScholarshipThis course is designed to continue to elevate the undergraduate teaching assistant knowledgeand understanding of the scholarly practices of teaching, learning and research. Throughout thesemester, students attend workshops and seminars that focus on the researched and applied bestpractices in the field of Engineering and Computing education.As more of a practitioner course, students
and considering global and environmental context in engineeringproblems. Specifically, this is stated in Student Outcome 2 (“an ability to apply engineeringdesign to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety,and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors”) andStudent Outcome 4 (“an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities inengineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact ofengineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts”)[5]. However,this emerging focus on sustainability poses a challenge to higher education institutions (HEIs). Ifengineers are expected to make large
advantage of their participation is due to having returning students as peer mentors.Faculty and staff are important elements of collaboration infrastructure, with a high factor ofinfluence in not only the students’ outcomes and guidance, but also to the partnerships. By havinga shared dedication to community work, they contribute by guiding students to maintain highstandards, helping to ensure continuity with ethical and functional designs. The faculty are alsocommitted to understanding each other’s long-term institutional goals. Rather than seeing them asexternal objectives, the willingness to support looks like integrating those visions into their ownsystems and goals, with joint initiatives. Each of the IIT professors understands the excitement
to have all its undergraduate engineering, computer science, and cybersecurity degrees to be accredited by ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology). Pursuant to this goal, a capstone project course was added to the updatedcurriculum of the BSCS degree. Even though the six Educational Student Outcomes (ESOs)prescribed by ABET [6] are addressed by the core courses in the curriculum, adding a capstoneproject course to the core curriculum brings together all the six ESOs in one course in a polishedand refined manner for students to see the relationship among all six ESOs. The capstonespecifically focuses on ESO #3 (communication skills), ESO #4 (legal and ethical principles), andESO #5 (teamwork). The foundational block in the
retention in undergraduate and graduate curriculum through applied energy conversion course Anveeksh Koneru Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Texas Permian BasinAbstractTo increase student interest in the graduate program, and to increase retention in the undergraduateprogram of mechanical engineering, energy conversion course was incorporated to provide anavenue to apply fundamental concepts to practical scenarios and provide design solutions for ministeam power plants. This strategy improved the fundamental grasp, confidence, ethics, andresponsibility of engineering students. Towards the middle of this course, local
Profession,” in Proc. Summit on the Future of Civil Engineering, August 2009, doi: 10.1061/9780784478868.002.[2] ASCE, Code of Ethics, 2020. Accessed: July 7th 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.asce.org/career-growth/ethics/code-of-ethics[3] D. E. Armanios et al., “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Civil and Environmental Engineering Education: Social Justice in a Changing Climate,” presented at the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference. Jul. 2021. https://peer.asee.org/36988[4] A.-K. Winkens and C. Leicht-Scholten, “Does engineering education research address resilience and if so, how? – a systematic literature review,” European Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 1–19, Feb. 2023, doi: 10.1080
broad, globallyminded, ethical, innovative, excellent collaborators, and visionary leaders that excel at deliveringimpact with social consciousness.This paper discusses the development of the MELP residential program aimed to providegraduates with a competitive advantage when seeking employment at the nexus of science andtechnology policy, policy analysis, complex systems design, and regulatory compliance withinan engineering systems framework. Qualitative student feedback is also discussed, showing thepositive impact of the new MELP courses developed.IntroductionThe National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has recognized the need for engineers to work oninterdisciplinary teams. Rapid advances in technology and globalization have spotlighted
the program, 2) the associated learningoutcomes (LOs) are very high-level (versus the specific LOs associated with discipline-specificcourses, such as Circuit Analysis, Statics, and Dynamics), and are thus more easily satisfied usinggeneral project-based assessments. To initiate the CURES development process, course learning outcomes were assessed toidentify the subset of outcomes which did not easily integrate within a research-based project.Course LOs are provided below: 1. Describe the engineering majors, engineering profession, roles, organization, engineering ethics, and careers; investigate professional societies and licensing as a professional engineer; create an initial career development plan and understand the
in the Department of Engineering Education and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Science, Technology & Society and the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech. Dr. Zhu is also serving as Associate Editor for Science and Engineering Ethics, Associate Editor for Studies in Engineering Education, Editor for International Perspectives at the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science, and Executive Committee Member of the International Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum. Dr. Zhu’s research interests include engineering ethics, global and inter- national engineering education, the ethics of human-robot interaction and artificial intelligence, and more recently Asian American students
attention to diverse stakeholders, • creating more reflexive and ethical engineers, and • preparing engineers to collaborate better across disciplinary and cultural differences.Interest in these promises often derives from sociopolitical critiques of engineering, whichrespond to engineering’s close alignment with contemporary configurations of capital andmilitarism [10, 11, 12], interrogate the distribution of agency and responsibility withinengineering [13, 14], and produce engineering educational spaces that can reproduce inequitieswhile purportedly operating as “unbiased,” “apolitical,” and “rigorous” [15]—all while animatedby particular environmental, social, and technical conditions constraining the world in whichengineers hope to
graduate students (e.g. when they would consider departure, when they wouldchoose to depart) and put through various graduate school experiences. Based on these attributesprogrammed agents can respond to positive or negative examples of the attrition themes identifiedwith the same logic as humans and provide researchers greater insight into different attritionphenomena. ABM also allows for a larger scale of students to be studied in a shorter amount oftime as well as preventing any negative ethical ramifications on human subjects. In this paper, we use two different programming languages to apply ABM to qualitative-focused research data to demonstrate the efficacy of ABM in qualitative research. To achieve thisgoal, we aim to create agent
multi-year grant that supports thedevelopment of the curriculum, as well as the assessment of the student participants. Thispresentation will review the theoretical framework used for the curriculum and mixed-methodsresearch, as well as present the process of obtaining grant funding for this collaborative effort.The creation of the multidisciplinary advisory board and the program mechanisms for blendingengineering and non-engineering students will also be discussed.IntroductionThe professional formation of engineers has long included the social skills of teamwork,communication, and recognition of the ethical impact of engineering on society at large. Whenreviewing the history of formal evaluation of social competencies in engineering, a
with a specific audience, both Communication orally and in writing, at levels ranging from executive summaries to comprehensive technical reports 4 Objective 11: Work effectively in teams, including individual and joint accountability; Teamwork assign roles, responsibilities, and tasks; monitor progress; meet deadlines; and integrate individual contributions into a final deliverable Objective 12: Behave with the highest ethical standards, including reporting information Ethics in the objectively and interacting with integrity Laboratory Objective 13: Use the human senses to gather information
where the learning is a perception, opinion, or attitude of the student or others.Table 1 below shows each of the twenty SLOs and their definitions [2]:Table 1ACCE Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) Slo # Student learning outcome 1. Create written communications appropriate to the construction discipline. 2. Create oral presentations appropriate to the construction discipline. 3. Create a construction project safety plan. 4. Create construction project cost estimates. 5. Create construction project schedules. 6. Analyze professional decisions based on ethical principles. 7. Analyze construction documents for planning and management of construction processes. 8. Analyze methods, materials, and
1.86 2.86 -1.00 3.30 4.00 -0.70 Project management 2.63 3.13 -0.50 2.00 2.43 -0.43 2.00 3.00 -1.00 Ethics in science 2.88 3.13 -0.25 2.14 2.57 -0.43 1.90 2.60 -0.70Students felt they knew more about all items in Table 7 after their participation in the REU(based on all difference scores having a negative value). Reviewing all three cohorts, participantsfelt they learned the most about poster design, rating their knowledge after the REU more thantwo points better than before the REU. Students also felt they learned a lot about preparingresearch presentations, interpreting research findings, presenting research findings, the
ideologicalseparation of technical and social concepts thus reducing inequality in the field? Similarly,McGee and Bentley describe a desire in black and Latinx STEM students to practice equity andjustice within and outside their career and coined this concept as ‘equity ethic’ [12].Interestingly, Swan, Paterson, and Bielefeldt suggest that women and minorities tend to invest inand benefit from involvement in service-learning in engineering due to their potential for socialimpact [13]. Is it possible that student involvement in HEPs could create an equity ethic whichleads to more inclusive practices in their career? Lastly, Reynante details a connection betweenstudent involvement in community engagement, a field closely related to humanitarianengineering, and
] describes white feminism as “an active form of harm, not simply a by-product of self-absorption”; this harmful approach “liberates privileged women while keeping other structures ofinjustice intact” (p. 4). These are the harms we aim to prevent.Someone reading this may think the use of the word harm is an extreme choice in engineering education.After all, we, as engineers, are members of a privileged discipline highly esteemed in society. Ethics is atthe core of what we do because our actions protect and keep people safe. We engage in extensive trainingto prevent deaths in the air, sea, and land. Our disciplinary brand revolves around reliability, precision,and consistency. We are rational. Engineering departments, colleges, and professional
, Think Like an Adversary, and Keep it Simple. The six cybersecurity concepts and topicsabout online safety, cyber ethics, and digital ethics were reinforced in the curriculum activities, as shownin Table 1. 5 Common Sense, https://www.commonsensemedia.org 6 CYBER.ORG, https://cyber.org6 Table I Camp curriculum overview incorporating the GenCyber Concepts and additional related cyber topicsCATEGOR TOPICS EXAMPLE ACTIVITIESYC1: Defense T1: IoT Network Security: What are the varying levels of - Instructor Presentationin Depth security? How are firewalls, antivirus software, VPNs used to - PBS game
flow diagrams Process safety Process simulation Product design Figure 22. Coverage of technical topics in the capstone design experienceA similar question asked about the coverage of professional skills in the capstone designexperience (Figure 23). Only professional communication and teamwork skills are covered in-depth at 40% or more of responding institutions. Teamwork and ethics were both taught at amajority of institutions in 2012 [1], but most of these topics were not on the survey then. All ofthe topics listed are covered at least lightly in a majority of responding institutions exceptnegotiating skills, which was also low on the topics taught list in 2012
(REU) in Engineering Education Elizabeth Volpe, E.I.T., Denise R. Simmons, Ph.D., Sara RojasAbstractThe development of inclusive leaders is essential for the success of future engineering and ournation. Equipping students with vital leadership-enabling competencies is necessary to develop aworkforce that is prepared to act ethically, and responsibly, and tackle unforeseen challenges inthe future. Inclusive leaders, or leaders that are self-aware, empathetic, and prioritize diversity,equity, and inclusion in their decision-making, are essential for the forward progress ofengineering. A growing body of literature highlights the numerous ways in which students maydevelop leadership skills outside of the classroom through
clearlyapplicable to design project work. The Oral Communication rubric has items on having a“Central Message” and “Organization,” both of which are critical facets of technicalcommunication. For presentations only, we score the “Delivery” item drawn from the OralCommunication rubric. Presentations typically use slides with text; such writing, as well aswriting in reports, is reasonably scored with our “Style” dimension, the descriptors of which aretaken from the “Control of Syntax and Mechanics” Written Communication dimension.SO 4: Professional Decision-MakingABET Student Outcome 4: an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities inengineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact ofengineering solutions
Paper ID #39820Board 44A: Work in Progress: Unannounced Frequent Examinations tocontribute student learning and building academic integrityMr. John Mario Bonilla, USFQ John Bonilla is an undergraduate student in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering at Univer- sidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. John’s interests, in civil engineering include infrastructure develop- ment and transportation. Furthermore, John is interested in supporting the development of engineers who not only have strong technical and practical knowledge but also a strong ethical set of values. Currently John is working on his application to