) teachundergraduate students, (2) administer a degree program (i.e., Department Chairs), (3) serveas a top-level administrator over all engineering degree programs (i.e., Deans), and (4) workprofessionally in engineering. Survey items address areas including instructional strategies,instructional technologies, assessment strategies, curricula, evaluation of teaching, andpreparation of graduates. With over 2100 respondents, these survey results can informconversations about the future of ECE education. This paper focuses on responses from theover 600 academic respondents. When asked about teaching and assessing problem solving,moral/ethical reasoning, and design, respondents were most likely to teach problem solvingand design. This suggests that ethics may
has over 30 years’ experience in engineering practice and education, including industrial experience at the Tennessee Valley Authority and the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command. Her research inter- ests include Engineering Ethics, Image and Data Fusion, Automatic Target Recognition, Bioinformatics and issues of under-representation in STEM fields. She is a former member of the ABET Engineering Ac- creditation Commission, and is on the board of the ASEE Ethics Division and the Women in Engineering Division. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Can ABET Assessment Really Be This Simple?AbstractWith the hard roll-out of ABET’s new outcomes 1-7 in the 2019
was to keep the students fromhurting their own systems or putting themselves in danger of breaking a law (for example,hacking into a private or government system), while also ensuring that the students are operatingin a realistic and contemporary environment. This second point is especially difficult as studentsmust see cybersecurity outside of small exercises and apply their skills in a realistic manner.The authors will review the types of projects that students have completed in the last four years atWentworth Institute of Technology. These descriptions will include details of the projects and thetechnical and ethical challenges that accompanied each. These tips and best practices are intendedto provide instructors with a starting point as
design experience based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work and incorporating appropriate engineering standards and multiple realistic constraints. [2]We also considered the eleven student outcomes specified in General Criterion 3 of the GeneralCriteria for Baccalaureate Level Programs[3]. These outcomes are listed below:(a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering(b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data(c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realisticconstraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety,manufacturability, and sustainability(d
, initiative, continuous learning, and ethics”(Electrical Engineering Self-Study Report, p. 23). “Softer” skills, such as networking and careerpreparation, are developed outside the major’s curriculum in extracurricular workshops,advising, or in ENGR 101, a freshman-level course called Introduction to Engineering(Electrical Engineering Self-Study Report, p. 23). This focused is echoed in the computerengineering and software engineering majors (Computer Engineering Self-Study Report;Software Engineering Self-Study Report). The documents across the software, computer, and electrical engineering majors discussthe need to produce engineers who are well-rounded; that is, students who will have “an abilityto design a system, component, or process to
benefits ofinterventions. It is no surprise that a supportive learning environment would bring about student successand that historically underrepresented groups experience additional need for this support.Moreover, diversifying the gender and ethnic representation of ECpE graduates would yield amore diverse engineering work force more equipped to meet the challenges of tomorrow.Diverse teams are beneficial for an amalgam of moral, equitable, and innovative reasonsincluding improved problem solving and improved work outcomes [17]. This representation anddiversification is pertinent for professional and ethical advancement. Especially as the softwareand engineering (S&E) workforce continues to grow 3% faster than total employment growth
, orother students with sufficient programming backgrounds. We have two objectives: the firstis to introduce deep learning to undergraduate students as a modern topic, and the secondis to assess the students’ performance and find suitable RA candidates for our researchteam.2. Course SetupCPS4420 Software Engineering is a major required course that offers in the fall semesterevery year. This course teaches students design and implementation issues for softwaresystems, including software life cycle, requirements definition and specification,prototyping, verification, validation, testing, fault-tolerance, social and ethical issues ofcommercial software, and software management. The prerequisites for this course includeCPS 1191 Computer Science I
for the field of engineering education research, and she was part of a team that studied ethical decision-making in engineering students.Dr. Khalil Najafi, University of Michigan Khalil Najafi is the Schlumberger Professor of Engineering, and Peter and Evelyn Fuss Chair of Elec- trical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan since September 2008. He received the B.S., M.S., and the Ph.D. degrees in 1980, 1981, and 1986 respectively, all in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research interests include: micromachining technologies, micromachined sensors, actuators, and MEMS; analog integrated circuits; implantable biomedical mi- crosystems; hermetic and vacuum
Adjunct Faculty for the Transportation Systems and, the City & Regional Planning programs at MSU. Her research interests include engineering education, student success, online engineering pedagogy and program assessment solutions, transportation planning, transportation impact on quality of life issues, bicycle access, and ethics in engineering. She has several published works in engineering education and online learning. Dr. Petronella James earned her Doctor of Engineering (Transportation) and Masters of City & Regional Planning at Morgan State University (MSU), Baltimore, Maryland. She completed a B.S. Management Studies, at the University of the West Indies (Mona), Jamaica.Dr. Jumoke Oluwakemi Ladeji-Osias
academic year with a huge success [2]. Our two courses wereoffered as technical elective courses. The two courses are the only two project-based courses oncutting-edge computer technologies in our curriculum. These courses provided students with theopportunities to learn and practice real-world software engineering, and gain experiences insolving multidisciplinary practical problems. Furthermore, these courses help students to attainseveral ABET student outcomes that are difficult to accomplish via traditional lecture-based andlab-based courses, such as (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility, (i) arecognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning, and (j) a knowledge ofcontemporary issues.These
; Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah. https://peer.asee.org/30865 [8] Jack, H. (2010, June), A Risk Assessment Tool For Managing Student Design Projects Paper presented at 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition, Louisville, Kentucky. https://peer.asee.org/15672 [9] DeBartolo, E. A., & Robison, W. L. (2018, June), Board 86: Risk Management and Ethics in Capstone Design Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah. https://peer.asee.org/30123[10] Hoffman, T., & Zappe, C., & Shooter, S., & O'Donnell, M. (2002, June), A Study Of Risk Communication In Engineering And Management Curricula Paper presented at 2002 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. https
program structure andoverhauling the late freshman- and sophomore-level curriculum to better address today’s studentneeds. Over the past 18 months of the grant-based work, the grant PI and department facultyteams have collaborated to develop this vision through a base set of eight courses for all studentsto complete by the end of their second year. Consequently, the base courses must providestudents with a broad enough view of the field that they can make a satisfactory choice for theirpathway to a degree, while also providing them with basic knowledge that will be required ofany of those pathways.The program goals for the base courses are to 1) strengthen the integration of both electrical andcomputer engineering and ethics topics across the
coordinator for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She teaches at the graduate and undergraduate level, using both face-to-face and blended online learning instruction. She is an Adjunct Faculty for the Transportation Systems and, the City & Regional Planning programs at MSU. Her research interests include engineering education, student success, online engineering pedagogy and program assessment solutions, transportation planning, transportation impact on quality of life issues, bicycle access, and ethics in engineering. She has several published works in engineering education and online learning. Dr. Petronella James earned her Doctor of Engineering (Transportation) and Masters of City &