data on these intersecting identities. Interview data were coded infour passes. We identified how the student’s unique values and experiences, mainly related to hiswork ethic, took priority over connecting with others or engaging in departmental or universityprograms. Themes that emerged from the interview data were familiar experiences (seekinghands-on experiences), motivation for engineering degree attainment (familial expectations anddesire for job security), degree attainment resources (strong sense of self-reliance, lack ofreaching out to other sources of support), and strategic gaps (limited understanding of what anengineer does or how to get an engineering job). Understanding this student’s experienceprovides insights into underlying
the world. Developments overthe past decade have focused on sustainable long-distance aviation technologies, urban airmobility, low-cost access to space, and the commercialization of human spaceflight, to name buta few. These and other projects continue to demand talented engineers to support their researchand development. The NSF REDO-E grant supporting this study identifies several ways in whichdiversity in engineering consistently yields improvements across many facets of the discipline.Groups with higher diversity consistently demonstrate improved overall performance [1] as wellas improved understanding of relevant subject matter [2]. Such groups are also more adept atmaking ethical decisions [3], which is of especially critical
asked about satisfaction with their degree, their overallcareer progress, perceptions of the factors contributing to their employment, competencesrequired in their work, and the development of those competences during their universitystudies [19]. The process follows the ethical principles of Finnish universities’ feedbacksurveys [20], established by the Finnish Council of University Rectors.The questions used in this study consisted of closed questions, with alternatives to choosefrom or statements to be evaluated with a 6-point Likert scale. In addition to these, therespondents were asked to report their monthly income in euros as well as the duration oftheir possible unemployment in years and months. The exact questions and their
(2021). He is currently working with Dr. Brent Jesiek with aspirations to study undergraduate engineering students’ ethical development.Russell Korte, The George Washington University Russell Korte, PhD. studies the social, cultural, and professional systems in organizations and higher education, along with their effects on learning and performance. This work focuses on the professional education and socialization of engineering students, the work of practicing engineers, as well as the prepa- ration of professionals for their future careers. Dr. Korte is an Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Learning at The George Washington University where he combines his practical experiences of work in education
assurance, development of critical thinking, programming, and systems thinking skills.Mrs. Patricia Jimenez, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso I am an industrial engineer. Currently finishing my PhD thesis in education. I work as a lecturer at the School of Industrial Engineering of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso in Chile. My research interests are engineering ethics, engineering education, engineering diversity, and social justice.Prof. Nancy Zamorano, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso Teacher with expertise in learning, emotions and neuroscienceJimena Pascual ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Impacting engineering students’ academic
following sections.The challenge is solved by teams formed of 4 students; from now on, the teams will becalled Kaizen-teams, Kaizen is a Japanese word referring to continuous improvement. The Figure 1: Kaizen i-Semester Modelcourses in the Kaizen i-Semester are Systems Engineering Laboratory, Analysis and En-hancement of Manufacturing Systems, Facilities Design and Material Management, In-ventory Management, Production Management, Ethics and Citizenship, and OperationalDesign and Optimization Laboratory.The essence of the Kaizen i-Semester is the challenge, composed of ten steps divided intofour stages as shown in Figure 2. Highlighting students’ feedback in each stage is essentialto guide them toward better performance
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. An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified 2 needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors 3 An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of 4 engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide 5
fewer than 5 minutes. For the second phase of the project, subjective questions were added after each section. 3. Survey Development: The survey was built on Google Surveys, using the question bank created. The format of the questions was tailored according to the level of specificity that was needed. The survey was reviewed and approved by our institution’s human research ethics committee. 4. Validation: The final survey was reviewed internally and then tested with a sample audience of 3 students. Feedback collected from the test audience was reviewed, analysed, and used to revise the survey. 5. Rollout: The survey was initially taken by a third-year chemical engineering class and
-constructed with Validation with participants to ensure that research communities to build upon data represent participants’ existing work while remaining social realities on their own authentic to research participants? terms? Pragmatic Is the selected theoretical How meaningful are the study’s Validation framework a good fit for the results to the social reality under social reality under investigation (and other similar social investigation? realities?) Ethical Validation Is the study conducted Do the findings do justice to the social
Lifelong Learning) ● Workplace Effectiveness (Teamwork; Client/Stakeholder Focus; Planning and Organizing; Creative Thinking; Problem Solving, Prevention and Decision Making; Seeking and Developing Opportunities; Working with Tools and Technology; Scheduling and Coordinating; Checking, Examining, and Recording; Business Fundamentals) ● Academic (Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science and Technology, Communication, Critical and Analytical Thinking, Computer Skills) ● Industry-wide Technical (Foundations of Engineering; Design; Manufacturing and Construction; Operations and Maintenance; Professional Ethics; Business, Legal and Public Policy; Sustainability and Societal and Environmental Impact; Engineering
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: The Effect of Summarizing a Research Article on Students’ Area of Robotics Interest1 BackgroundThe need for capable, ethical robotics engineers is growing with the industry valued at 32.32billion in 2021 with anticipated growth of 12.1% from 2022 to 2030 [1], and projected 17,900mechanical engineering job openings each year [2]. It is imperative that undergraduate andgraduate programs prepare engineers for industry positions in robotics, and that they includeand encourage diverse groups of students to enter the field.Additionally, diversity among engineers in general is limited, starting with bachelor’s andbeing further exacerbated when entering engineering professions. For example, 22% of engi-neering bachelor degrees in
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withwomen in the industry.43% of our male participants reported experiencing no efforts to promote awareness and mitigategender inequality in the classroom. The remaining 57% experienced the following efforts: (1)sexual assault training prior to attending college, (2) efforts to prevent sexual violence againstwomen, (3) posters in classrooms and buildings on campus, and (4) female empowerment speechesin class.4.4.3. Suggestions for Future Education Efforts (From Participants)Discussing topics in class that highlight gender equity was the most common response from ourfemale participants. It was suggested that professors discussing equity and ethics or discussingvaluable minorities and their contributions to the field is an excellent way to bring
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(e.g., Institutional ReviewBoard (IRB) to review the ethics around the research) that is necessary for doing research well.To this end, the purpose of this work-in-progress paper is to outline a plan for investigating thebarriers to conducting engineering education research from an industry viewpoint. The questionsguiding this study are: To what extent is it possible for industry professionals to conductengineering education research without an academic partner? What barriers exist for conductingthose engineering education research in education-adjacent industries? This paper aims to build upon the work done by Boden and Borrego [3] to advance ourunderstanding of the organizational barriers to conducting research in industries that
Paper ID #37922Pandemic or Profession? Factors Motivating Students to Pursue an OnlineBachelor’s DegreeDr. Carolyn Kusbit Dunn, East Carolina University Carolyn Kusbit Dunn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology Systems at East Carolina University. Dr. Dunn teaches Technical Writing and Technical Presentations, and centers her research on the pedagogy of technical writing, crisis and risk communication, and the the ethics of crisis and risk communication.Dr. David L. Batts, East Carolina University David Batts, Ed.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Technology Systems at East Carolina
community where students learned about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt served on the ASCE Body of Knowledge 3 committee and the Program Criteria Task Committee. Bielefeldt is a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include community engagement, sustainable engineering, so- cial responsibility, ethics, and diversity. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Future World Vision integrated into a First-Year Civil Engineering CourseAbstractCivil engineering (CE) has faced stagnant or declining enrollments in recent years, in contrast tomajors such as mechanical engineering that have been increasing
applications, three guest speakers were invited. All three were able to participate duringthe spring 2022 semester, while only one could attend during fall 2022 semester. Their talkswere related to entrepreneurship and innovation, ethics, HVAC systems, and economics ofheating and cooling.Examples of Problem-Based and Project-Based Learning Exercises with EML component(s)Pump Storage Hydropower (Project #1)The students were asked to design and select a pump, part of a hydropower storage system, ableto meet some specific parameters, such as flow rate, elevation differential between the tworeservoirs, and configuration, including suction and discharge pipeline, number of fittings, typeof valves, etc. [6]. They were asked to either work alone or as part
evidence-based teaching practices. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering education research, and she was part of a team that studied ethical decision-making in engineering students.Dr. Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University Dr. Michael Prince is a professor of chemical engineering at Bucknell University and co-director of the National Effective Teaching Institute. His research examines a range of engineering education topics, including how to assess and repair student miscoDr. Jenefer Husman, University of Oregon Jenefer Husman, Professor in the Education Studies department at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on students’ motivation for learning in engineering contexts
HurricaneKatrina. Two readings covered: 1) the culmination of many decisions that led to segregation andinequity in New Orleans, and 2) the engineering failures of the levy system which lefthistorically black neighborhoods at risk. Class discussion began by acknowledging the sensitivityof these topics. The discussion focused on the convergence of the articles. This topic relates topower imbalances in both political institutions and engineering decision-making.Third, we asked students to select a scenario either local to the community the university is in ortheir hometowns that centered on public health, environmental, or ethical concerns related toinfrastructure or industry. Scenarios selected included historical sites, such as the Love Canal, tomodern
naturaldisasters and the impacts of agriculture on water resources. The series of seminars - thesociological perspective, research methodology and engineering research and ethics inengineering, and technical workshops on remote sensing guided students how to prepare scientificproject and posters. Three posters were presented at the 62nd Annual Geomatics EngineeringConference at California State University at Fresno focused on the Creek Fire, Flooding in ValleyCommunities, and Decrease of Farmland in the Central Valley.Spring 2022 were designed to expend value in understanding the world we live in, and share withothers, from many different perspectives so that cultural norms, as well as cultural bias, can bebetter understood. To make a connection to
combination with a pair of engineering scenarios in both the pre-SET and post-SETinterviews. Pre-SET means prior to taking a class that involved SET training and post-SETmeans after taking a class that involved SET training. It is possible students may haveexperienced SET or other non-SET socially engaged content prior to or during the semester butwe did not collect that information.The SET content covered in the capstone course consisted of self-directed online modules thatcovered the following content: a variety of design processes, problem definition, conceptexploration, identity and power in engineering design, environmental context assessment, socialcontext assessment, and ethical decision making. Each of these online modules consisted of
, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Center for University Education Scholarship at the University of Arizona. His professional areas of interest include medical informatics, healthcare systems engineering, and broadening participation and promoting servingness in engineering, biomedicine, and computing, particularly at land-grant and Hispanic Serving Institutions. Subbian’s ed- ucational research is focused on asset-based practices, ethics education, and formation of professional identities.Ann Shivers-McNairFrancesa Lopez ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Inclusive, asset-based instructional strategies in engineering design: empowering faculty with professional
CO-OP III Full Academic Term Full Academic Term *Summer Co-op (2020) was cancelled for the Class of 2022 studentsCo-op RequirementsPrior to registering for a co-op, students are required to complete a one-credit-hour course onengineer career training during the spring semester of their sophomore year. The learningobjectives of the course cover topics on communication, professionalism, and ethics. Studentsalso create resumes and cover letters, participate in mock interviews, and network with industryleaders from the various disciplines in civil engineering. While on co-op, students are assigned afaculty advisor who visits the student and the student’s co-op supervisor sometime during themiddle of the co-op
Industrial AdvisoryBoard, faculty, and industry representatives, in the projects.IntroductionA capstone design course is a major part of an engineering program. Students in the last year oftheir bachelor studies perform a team-based design project to show their ability to apply theknowledge obtained earlier to an engineering problem. This is important as students will facesimilar projects when they start working in the industry after graduation. In capstone experience,students are required to use engineering codes and standards and consider other constraints,including economic, environmental, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, sustainability,and social and political thoughts in a problem. According to ABET, the capstone course is
acceptable. Specifically, the emphasis is that Cornerstone is a lens by whichengineering learning can come together to develop practical applications to solving problems.The Cornerstone 1 course focuses on learning the principles of engineering and design; this isaccomplished through active learning in areas such as problem definition, conceptual design,preliminary and detailed design, design communication and implementation, engineering ethics,along with report writing and presentations in relation to projects that students produce in teams.There is a strong emphasis on applying technical knowledge, developing problem-solving anddecision-making skills, and using computer-aided design (CAD) to communicate graphically.Within this course, algorithmic
series ofquestions asking if they feel that they would do better, same, worse, or are undecided withregards to grade (Q5) and achieving the following individual ABET learning outcomes [37] dueto the current emergency online learning environment compared to a traditional in-person class: Q6.Gain an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems; Q7.Gain an ability to apply engineering design 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; Q8.Gain an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences; Q9.Gain an ability to recognize ethical and