students grasp what sustainable design “is” or “should look like.”IntroductionThe first canon of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ code of ethics reminds students,professors, and practicing engineers of the professional responsibility to hold paramount publicsafety and welfare and “strive to comply with the principles of sustainable development in theperformance of their professional duties” [1]. Accordingly, engineering graduates are expected todemonstrate knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will position them to design sustainablesystems. ABET reinforced this expectation with a special issue brief released in November 2018and titled “Sustainable Education: Readying Today’s Higher Ed Students to Tackle the World’sGrand Challenges.” The
Paper ID #31555Switching Modalities: Implications of Online Education in BiomedicalEngineeringDr. Vignesh Subbian, University of Arizona Vignesh Subbian is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Systems and Industrial Engineer- ing, member of the BIO5 Institute, 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 in engineering and computing. Subbian’s educational research is focused on ethical decision-making and formation of
, academician of the Chinese Academy ofEngineering, mentioned in his speech that China's engineering education shouldlearn from Germany and cultivate senior technical engineering talents withcraftsman spirit.[12] “Tianjin University Action” emphasizes that engineeringstudents should strengthen their patriotism, global vision, legal awareness andecological awareness, cultivate design thinking, engineering thinking, criticalthinking, and digital thinking, and improve innovation and entrepreneurship,interdisciplinary integration, independent lifelong learning, communication ability,and engineering leadership.[13] “Beijing Guidance” stresses the importance ofcultivating people with morality and ethics, and strengthens engineering students'sense of
industry. Such courses are bringing to the forefront many of the AccreditationBoard for Engineering Education (ABET) outcomes, e.g. project management, lifelong learning,design, teamwork, communication, problem solving, economics, ethics and contemporary issues[]. Even the sustainability is included in ABET design considerations, it is not very often fullydiscussed in student projects. However, students have often expressed the desire for the inclusionof renewable energy projects and sustainability concepts in senior design course sequence [6-10]. Such projects are providing multi-disciplinary collaboration, valuable hands-on experience, aswell as a working demonstration of green energy and design. Senior design projects are alsointended to
assessed.The dictionary meaning of Skill refers to expertise or the “ability to do something well”. AWorkplace Skill would then be one that provides expertise for success at completing tasksrelevant to an employee’s the area of work. For engineers, this at its highest level can bedescribed as technical problem solving. This has aptly focused engineering degree programs ondeveloping Problem Solving Skills in their curricula. At the same time, it’s been well recognizedthat engineers do not problem solve by themselves. This has led to a complimentary category ofskills commonly referred to as the Professional or Soft Skills. These include developing expertisein communication, teamwork, ethical practice and lifelong learning. This category of skills isalso
Junior 2nd Year 4 Environmental Health Sophomore 1st Year 5 Computer Engineering Junior 2nd Year 6 Computer Engineering Junior 2nd Year 7 Mathematics Junior 1st Year3.1 ExploreDuring the 2018 REU, the students engaged in a set of four structured learning activities designedto help them develop a number of technical and conceptual skills. In addition, they participated inregular workshops with topics including research and ethics, effective poster presentationpreparation, reflecting on the research experience, and graduate school application preparation.The students also participated in a
. 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 critical to our adoption of ERSP, especially in ENG 294, waslogging because it helped us to identify team issues and determine proposal progress. Anothercritical aspect of the course was allocating time during class to check-in with each of the teams.Check-ins were done by the faculty and the graduate student.ConclusionOverall, the changes made to the ERSP model were
affect change locally and/or globally? What did you learn about the community, the needs, and/or the quality of the service provided? c) Academic Enhancement: What did you learn related to your discipline and how was that enhanced by the service-learning context? What did you learn about Human-Centered Design? d) Ethics: What you have learned about professional ethics, the ethical issues you encountered in your team and your project, and how decisions regarding ethical issues are made individually and as a team?The reflections offer a rich opportunity for data analysis to see what students are taking awayfrom their experience and believe is important each week. For this study, the student reflectionswere analyzed
into the self study. One institution was scheduled tomeet with the committee, but was cancelled due to time constraints. Respondents indicated that,in the Library Services section, they included library facilities, collections (including budgets andimportant resources), services (instruction, reference help availability, and LibGuides).Learning outcomes addressed by librarians beside 3.g, included 3.i: an understanding of andcommitment to address professional and ethical responsibilities including a respect for diversity,and 3.k: a commitment to quality, timeliness, and continuous improvement. Additionally, thereare program criteria specific to Mechanical Engineering Technology, which include, startingwith the 2018-2019 criteria [21], e) Basic
to learn. She also studies organizational learning in higher education systems.Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University Michelle Bothwell is a Professor of Bioengineering at Oregon State University. Her teaching and research bridge ethics, social justice and engineering with the aim of cultivating an inclusive and socially just engineering profession.Dr. Susannah C. Davis, Oregon State University Susannah C. Davis is a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Chemical, Biological and Envi- ronmental Engineering at Oregon State University. She received her Ph.D. and M.Ed. from the University of Washington, and her B.A. from Smith College. She is currently working on the NSF-funded REvolu
the challenges faced bya typical faculty, as they are few in number. The following paragraphs discuss the variouschallenges faced by faculty.Faculty experience high levels of stress during their probationary years, working towards theirtenure [2], [3]. Of the many requirements for tenure, the requirement of sufficient publications isa tough one to achieve given all the new teaching assignments, student advising, service,research and more. One of the hurdles faced by new faculty is to publish, hence knowledge ofmechanisms to improve scholarship of publications will aid in achieving their goal to securetenure. In addition, ethical considerations of scholarship of publications has to be taken intoaccount when discussing scholarship of publishing
; economics fluency 4. Communication Automation/robotics Business cycles 5. Computational thinking Business continuity Communication 6. Data analysis Cloud computing Company’s “brand” 7. Data backup and restoration College algebra Confidentiality 8. Data ethics Communication Continuous improvement 9. Data flow: origin to end user Controls Decision making 10. Data fluency/vocabulary Cyber-physical systems Entrepreneurship 11. Data management & storage Digital fluency/vocabulary Ethics 12. Data modeling Digital twins
fulfill their obligation to work sustainably and ethically within the diverse communities of Canada and the world.Ms. Stephanie Diane Shaw, University of Guelph - School of Engineering Stephanie is a Professional Engineer and Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph. Her research is focusing on product development of air quality purification technologies for urban environments. Her current degree is in Environmental Engineering, and she previous education includes an M.A.Sc. in Environmental Engineering (renewable energy), from the University of Guelph, and her B.Eng. in Materials Science and Engineering, from McMaster University. Stephanie has been involved with engineering leadership
additional unit on “inclusion” that remains separate from quantitative work.The gap of awareness regarding bias in engineering processesEngineers must be aware of biases and assumptions that shape the products they create, as thishas engineering ethics implications on how their work impacts the world (Dyrud, 2017; Feister,et. al., 2016). Within our own subfield of biomedical engineering, unaddressed biases have led tosituations such as left-handed surgeons not receiving appropriate equipment during training(Adusumilli et. al, 2004), facial recognition systems not registering the pain expressions ofdementia patients (Taati et. al., 2019), and smartphone-based conversational agents havinginappropriate responses to questions about sexual or domestic
: student-centered teaching and learning, pedagogy in design, honors pedagogy and scholarship, diversity and inclusion in higher educa- tion, and ethics in engineering. In the classroom, Mirna strives to encourage students’ intrinsic motivation to learn through modeling authenticity in teaching and learning. Recent scholarships: Nickoloff Scholar in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Daniels Fund Scholar in Engineering Ethics Recent accolade: University Innovation Fellows (UIF) Mines Faculty ChampionDr. Megan Sanders, Colorado School of Mines Megan Sanders is the Senior Assessment Associate at the Trefny Innovative Instruction Center at the Colorado School of Mines. Using her background in educational psychology, she
, engineering ethics, and environmental justice.Erica D. McCray, University of Florida Dr. Erica D. McCray is an Associate Professor of Special Education at the University of Florida. Prior to joining the faculty, she served as a special educator for students with behavioral and learning disabilities in Title I elementary and middle school settings. Dr. McCray has been recognized on multiple levels for her teaching and research, which focuses on diversity issues. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: An Exploration of the In/Authentic Experiences of EngineersAbstractThis paper is a work in progress
section of the paper provides detail on the experimental design comparing cybersecurityeducation provided in the intensive ‘boot camp’ format to traditional academic semester courseformat and how both qualitative and quantitative data is collected and analyzed.Instructional staff will offer the same cybersecurity curriculum via the traditional academicsemester three credit hour format and an intensive two-week boot camp to provide a directcomparison of strengths and weaknesses of the two course delivery models.Instructional staff will offer cybersecurity boot camps teaching both defensive network securityand ethical hacking. The boot camp cohort will study a minimum of forty hours per week overtwo weeks per subject; defensive network security
aspect of human dimension (both self and others) in a science/engineering course like MS can be a daunting task. Learning outcomes could be “activelyparticipate in class discussions; avoid plagiarism in report writing and properly cite publishedsources; work in teams on mini-project, swapping roles as team member and leader; andconduct peer assessment of project team members.” Learning activities could be lecture andclass discussion on team work, and professional and ethical responsibility (includingplagiarism, citation and referencing); and project presentations and discussions. Assessmentmethods could be keeping records of active class participation (individual and group); recordsof meetings with project teams for individual and team work
working.Specifically, outcome 2 is that they would demonstrate “an ability to apply engineering design toproduce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, andwelfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors [1].” Outcome 4requires “an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situationsand make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions inglobal, economic, environmental, and societal contexts.” Arguably outcomes 3 and 5, whichexpect that engineering graduates demonstrate the abilities to communicate with a range ofaudiences and to work effectively as team members, also require a working understanding ofmulticultural
for the changing nature of the job. Perhaps firefighters are prepared for the variety ofproblems in the field, but they do not have the capability to react at the moment and respondappropriately.Simulation (e.g. virtual reality simulation) can provide a safe, ethical, and cost-effectivealternative to practice in certain real fire scenes. This can serve in two ways: it can give a betterunderstanding of new trainees’ behavior and how can be shifted to safe behavior and offertrainees the opportunity to have effective and component training. By using simulations ofvirtual buildings with virtual fire environments, trainees can interact with a changingenvironment simulate various work-related procedures and/or judge whether a building design
audiences 4. an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts 5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives 6. an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions 7. an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning
engineer- ing. She is also staffing the Roundtable on Linking Academic Engineering Research and Defense Basic Science. She also co-edited a resource collection translating research on women in science and engineer- ing into practical tips for faculty members and worked on LinkEngineering, an online toolkit to support PreK-12 engineering education, and the Online Ethics Center, a website that supports ethics education and science and engineering. She earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Cognitive and Human Factors Psychology from Kansas State University and a B.A. in psychobiology and political science from Wheaton College in Massachusetts.Mr. Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering Greg Pearson is a Scholar (ret
Paper ID #28693Defining Workforce Development: Launching a Career from CAREERDr. Madeline Polmear, University of Florida Madeline Polmear is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida. Her research interests include workforce development and engineering ethics education.Dr. Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida Denise R. Simmons, Ph.D., PE, LEED-AP, is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. She holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in
course, as is technical and plane stress. The realistic constraints reading related to laboratory experience such as economic lifelong learning and will include material factors, safety, ethical responsibility. testing, analyzing, and reliability, aesthetics, troubleshooting. ethics, and social impact. How Design Courses ProgressSurvey MethodIn order to quantitively measure the success and achievements of the implementation of adesigned-based project that challenges freshman students to
understanding of howinformation is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge andparticipating ethically in communities of learning.There are a number of scholarly works that discuss using PBL pedagogies in higher education.Barron, et al (1998) provide a 40-page primer on PBL as a general pedagogical method. Whilenot dealing specifically with engineering courses, it will provide an overview for those new tothe subject. Another article, this one by Smith Macklin (2001), discusses how to integrateinformation literacy into a one-shot course session using PBL. While not aimed specifically atengineering courses the article provides guidance that could be applicable to any subject area.Guerra, Ulseth and Kolmos (2017) edited a
an HSI”, Proceedings of the 2020ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Canada, June 21-24, 2020.[8] American Society of Civil Engineers, “Code of Ethics,” ASCE, https://www.asce.org/code-of-ethics/ [Accessed February 4, 2020].
the health and safety of our society. This emphasizes that anunderstanding of the cultural, ideological, political, and historical contexts in whichenvironmental problems occur is essential to solving our society’s most pressing environmentalproblems [2-3].Over the past decade, there has been increased interest in the academic field of the environmentalhumanities, along with a push to abandon the narrow disciplinary tradition of solving problems[2]. According to Criteria 3, Student Outcome 4 of ABET, the engineering accreditation body,programs should ensure that graduating students have “an ability to recognize ethical andprofessional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which mustconsider the impact of
, and itcan be the process of questioning and keeping an open mind to evolving circumstances that ismostly highly valued sometimes.” Because Rachael’s training is in the humanities and socialsciences, it is perhaps unsurprising that her response focuses more on holistic abilities such ascritical thinking and ethical responsibility. She notes values that inform her work are “Criticalawareness of situations that enable learners to make ethical decisions about their own practicesand also to take a holistic perspective.”Rachael’s background as a qualitative educational researcher and interpretive cultural studiesanalyst causes her to focus her response on the impossibility of “true objectivity” in research,even when that research includes
in engineering practice, is selected as amentor and is given three (3) credit hours of release time per semester for helping the students intechnical as well as ethical issues related to engineering profession. More senior professors areencouraged to lead this role. The ME department at the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville iscomparable in size with that of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) in the sense of boththe undergraduate student population as well as the faculty strength. Hence, some similarities can beobserved and inferred. Qualitative results of educational research in both the institutions suggestsatisfactory implementation of mentoring by the dedicated senior faculty members [5]. Also, in both theME
skills and professional skills goals, including building a set of hands-onengineering skills for prototyping and manufacturing and understanding the role of analysis in thedesign process as well as learning and practicing effective teamwork skills and understanding theimportance of an ethical code for the practice of engineering. The authors reveal specific examplesof client projects, lessons on how to pair students with clients, lessons learned after several offeringsof the course, transferability to other settings, and opportunities for future improvements to thecourse. This course description adds to the growing base of available offerings for service-based,active learning courses.IntroductionDuring spring 2014, the Engineering Plus