undergraduate students to learn through research, and in developing active and place-based teaching methods for environmental engineering courses. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Concerning Professional Licensure for Civil Engineering Faculty: A Matter of Best PracticeAbstractProfessional licensure is expected in some engineering fields (civil engineering), but is superfluousin some other engineering fields. Professors may describe the importance of taking theFundamentals of Engineering exam before students graduate as the first step towards the goal oflicensure, but then describe how licensure is not useful to professors. As a result, engineeringstudents may receive
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Preparing Ethical Leaders in Engineering Research and Practice: Designing an Ethical Leadership ModuleAbstractRecent occurrences of high-profile ethical scandals in industry and the academy attest to the needfor strong leadership in upholding ethical standards and cultures in business and academicorganizations. Many engineering graduate students become leaders of research groups orindustry projects after finishing their education. While many institutions train their graduatestudents in research and professional ethics, such training tends to focus on students’ individualconduct. To date, few programs have explicitly sought to improve graduate engineering
-learning community where students learned about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in en- gineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Health Stress and Support System Narratives of Engineering StudentsAbstractAcross the country and the world, health of college students is gaining more deserved attention.In particular, mental and physical health shocks and stresses weigh heavily on engineeringstudents. This work highlights, in their own words, the ways that undergraduate engineeringstudents managed physical
, approximately 170 are majoring in one ofthe engineering disciplines. Mechanical engineering students are required to take a two-semestercapstone sequence during their final academic year. Each week, students are required to meet fora lecture as a full cohort (105 min) and for progress meetings with their advisors as individualproject teams (60 min). Specific project-related questions are addressed during the team progressmeetings. The course lecture addresses a handful of topics related to engineering includingprofessional practice, designing for sustainability, entrepreneurship, and engineering ethics. Thecapstone sequence is used to evaluate all seven ABET student outcomes.ABET Student Outcome 4 has been addressed in the capstone course through a
,discoveries, and products is crucial for ethical practice. It contends that listening canfacilitate transformational engagement between engineers and the public by a)challenging stereotypes on both sides, b) foregrounding the technical and ethicalrelevance of diverse knowledges, c) exposing relationships of structural inequality thatprivilege technical expertise, and d) replacing such relationships with partnerships oftrust that generate meaningful and effective solutions.Transformational listening lies at the heart of a graduate engineering ethics course atVirginia Tech and future online teaching modules, funded by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF). The goal is for students to experience the cognitive leap thatethnographic research methods can
graduate attribute of a University e.g.UWA aims for students to develop: mature judgement and responsibility in moral, social, andpractical, as well as academic matters. However, whereas environmental impact issues have beenaddressed to a certain extent within engineering programs (and possibly others), environmentaland social justice have largely been ignored. The Engineers Australia accreditation board statesthat the curriculum should provide students the opportunity to develop the ‘ability to undertakeproblem solving, design and project work within a broad, contextual framework accommodatingsocial, cultural, ethical, legal, political, economic and environmental responsibilities as well aswithin the principles of sustainable development and
2006-640: A GRADUATE LEVEL COURSE: “SOCIETAL AND ETHICALIMPLICATIONS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY"Kirsty Mills, University of New Mexico Professor Kirsty Mills received her B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 1974, and her PhD in 1979, both from the University of Nottingham in the UK. She developed III-V devices and integrated circuits at Plessey Research (UK) from 1979 to 1980, Thomson CSF (France) from 1980 to 1986 and General Electric (Syracuse) from 1986 to 1991. A professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of New Mexico, she is the Associate Director of the Center for High Technology Materials. Her research interests, originally in the area of
Computer Science and Engineering to address further topics on responsibilities andexpectations for students in computing. The two-semester capstone senior design sequence(4316/4317) emphasizes an extended design experience in a team setting, but had the additionalresponsibility for delivering substantial knowledge and assessing student achievement on non-technical student outcomes.This situation often led to uneven coverage of the non-technical topics from semester to semesterdepending upon the instructor. Students also found it very challenging to balance betweenlearning the technical topics and soft topics simultaneously. The topics covered in theprofessional practices course provide a just-in-time coverage of the topics most needed at thisstage
assistance to the campus and community, and maintains the collec- tion in assigned subject areas. Her current research interests include information literacy instruction and assessment, the impact of student affect on learning, data literacy, and data management planning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Training Graduate Engineering Students in EthicsAbstractThe Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegasembarked on providing ethics instruction to incoming graduate students in the form of amandatory workshop. The College has a diverse graduate student population, including asizable international component, who are enrolled in several M.S. and
AC 2011-71: TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT OF ”ETHICS IN ENGI-NEERING PRACTICE”Rodney W Trice, Purdue University, West Lafayette Rodney W. Trice joined the faculty of Purdue University as an Assistant Professor in August 2000 after completing a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at Northwestern University. His research there focused on investigating the processingstructureproperty relationships of plasmasprayed coatings using mechanical testing and transmission electron microscopy. Prior to Northwestern, Rodney received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (1997) where he studied the high temperature properties of a ceramic composite made via ceramic-loaded polymer extrusion methods. From 1989 through 1995, he
AC 2011-146: TEACHING ETHICS FOR PREPARING TRANSPORTA-TION SYSTEMS AND MANAGEMENT STUDENTS FOR PROFESSIONALPRACTICERobert M. Brooks, Temple University Dr. Robert M. Brooks is an associate professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Temple University. He is a registered professional engineer in PA and a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. His research interests are Civil Engineering Materials, Transportation Engineering, and Engineering Education.Jyothsna K S, Department of English, St.Joseph’s College, Bangalore Secured a gold Medal for the highest aggregate marks in the Post Graduate English Literature Course at St.Joseph’s College (Autonomous). Working for the Department of
taught chemical engineering courses for a few years in his home country, Iran, and first-year engineering courses for several semesters at Virginia Tech. He has provided service and leadership in different capacities at Lehigh University and Virginia Tech.Dr. Christian Matheis, Guilford College I serve as a visiting assistant professor of Community and Justice Studies in the Department of Justice and Policy Studies at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. My research and teaching specializations bridge theoretical, empirical, and practical subjects informed by social and political philosophy, ethics, public policy, and direct-action organizing. In particular, my work emphasizes how both philosophy of liberation and
impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context."And, Criterion 4 requires that program graduates have design experience…that includes most ofthe following considerations: economic, environmental, sustainability, manufacturability, ethical,health and safety, social, and political" 1, 2. Notwithstanding ABET requirements, a recentsurvey indicates that 80% of engineering graduates attend schools that have no ethics-relatedcourse requirements. Even at schools that have courses with ethics-related content, the coursesare usually in philosophy or religion and have no specific engineering ethics component 3.Notwithstanding these deficiencies, the American Society for Engineering Education’s (ASEE)Statement on Engineering Ethics
RCR. One of the significant hurdlesfaced by those wishing to develop such an instrument is that STEM researchers, even thoseresiding and working in the U.S., represent a distinctly diverse group. Possible confoundingvariables include native language, education, or literacy. For example, one important issue inthis regard is that STEM researchers’ fluency in English can vary widely. This is crucial intesting for ethical sensitivity given that these tests typically rely on an individual's ability to read,interpret and respond to a vignette. We have designed an ethical sensitivity instrument thatattempts to mitigate some of these factors, thus giving us a more accurate assessment of anindividual's ethical sensitivity to RCR
point toward other possible, heretofore unknown,elements of the role concept of STEM researchers.In this paper, we describe the design of our instrument and examine the results of our pilot study Page 15.204.4among a multi-national body of STEM graduate students. We also discuss possible applicationsof our instrument to the study of research integrity and for the assessment of pedagogicalapproaches to responsible conduct of research.II. MethodInventory DevelopmentOur multidisciplinary team of researchers utilized a modified Delphi approach to identifystatements that could be used to measure the constructs of authority, responsibility, autonomy
students in research groups. This paper presents a user-oriented approach to building a community of ethicseducators in graduate engineering education. We begin the paper by reporting our “userstudy” of engineering faculty’s current approaches, challenges, and needs for teachingethics to graduate students at a large, public research university. Findings of the userstudy guided our design of a workshop on “Ethical Literacy and Ethical DataManagement” that helped engineering faculty members develop conceptualunderstanding and instructional skills for teaching ethical inquiry that are related toparticular areas of engineering research. Design of the workshop sought to meet three objectives: 1) helping participatingfaculty members develop basic
Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living- learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service- learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.Dr. Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder Daniel W. Knight is the Program Assessment and Research Associate at Design Center (DC) Colorado in CU’s Department
. Unlike the prevailing curricular model inengineering education—in which introductory courses teach basic science and mathematics,prior to the intense disciplinary specialization and professionalism of upper-level courses—thescholarship on sustainability education25, 26, 27, 28 points to the need for “learning for sustainabledevelopment [to be] embedded in the whole curriculum, not as a separate subject.”29 Authentic,transformative impact is only possible when the concerns of sustainability transcend theperiphery of a curriculum to pervade student skill development.The HERE (Home for Environmentally Responsible Engineering) program, a first-yearliving-learning community at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, was designed to introducestudents
for oneblock or neighborhood is not directly replicable at another. Sustainable housing is tied with manyother wicked problems such as issues of poverty, equitable education, resource conservation, andclimate change. As a result, any response to this wicked problem will impact the others. Withinthe participating WPSI courses, student teams were tasked to develop viable responses to thiswicked problem through staged design reviews, while being exposed to its overall complexityand interconnectedness of sustainable housing with other wicked problems.Our MotivationWPSI is organized through Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW). As an organization, ourvision is for a world of environmental, social, and economic prosperity created and sustained
Paper ID #29719Science Fiction as an Entry Point for Ethical Frameworks in Engineeringand Computer Science EducationDr. Valerie H. Summet, Rollins College Dr. Valerie Summet is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Rollins College, a liberal-arts school located in Winter Park, FL. Her research interests include human-computer interaction and CS education. She earned a BS in Computer Science from Duke University and an MS and PhD in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.Prof. Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato Rebecca A. Bates received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering
addition to ASEE, she is active in the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics and the Association for Business Communication. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Plastics: Floating Ethical FlotsamIntroduction“I just want to say one word to you. Just one word,” confides family friend Mr. McGuire tonewly minted graduate Benjamin Braddock. “Plastics. There’s a great future in plastics.”“Think about it,” he intones to a bewildered Ben. “Will you think about it?” [1].Plastics have come a long way since The Graduate and a confused Dustin Hoffman. From itsinitial days to current times, plastic has become indispensable, interwoven into the very fabric ofour lives. It is
college impacted their ethical knowledge, reasoning, and/or behavior? RQ2. How and why do engineering alumni perceive that extracurricular activities during college impacted their ethical knowledge, reasoning, and/or behavior?MethodsTo answer the two research questions, this research used a mixed method approach, combiningquantitative data from survey items with qualitative information from semi-structured interviews.The research reported in this paper was embedded within a larger study [5]. This research wasreviewed by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) for human subjects research and deemedexempt (Protocol #15-0326).A survey instrument was developed to answer RQ1, using many of the best practices suggestedin [39]. The survey
research lab will serve as the training site on health and safety issues of nanomaterials. Dr. Tate is a mechanical engineer by training and has 16-plus years of academic and two years of industry experience. His research areas include developing, manufacturing; and characterizing the high-performance polymeric nanocomposites for rocket ablatives, fire-retardant interior structures of mass transit and aircraft, lighter and damage-tolerant wind turbine blades, and replacement of traditional composites using bio-based materials. He has mentored under- graduate African-American students under NASA-PAIR at NC A&T University, an HBCU, and Hispanic students under H-LSAMP at Texas State. He is a member of AIAA, ASME, ACMA
research program. The research questions associated with the first-step in the researchprogram were best suited for qualitative methods of discovery. In turn, the findings of the firststep of this research program helped to inform and shape the research question related to thesecond step. The second-step research question was best suited for quantitative methods ofdiscovery.No testable theories related to ethics curriculum incorporation methods are known to presentlyexist. Thus, this research was conducted in an emergent manner that allows for the possibledevelopment of a curriculum-related theory as a result of the study. In addition, the investigationhas been designed with a pragmatic approach to addressing the research questions. As a result
professional world, as well as how faculty can be facilitated to engage students in engineering service more effectively.Dr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt, Ph.D., P.E., is a Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, & Architec- tural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has been on the faculty since 1996. She serves as the ABET Assessment Coordinator for the Department. Professor Bielefeldt teaches introduc- tory courses for first year engineering students, senior capstone design, and environmental engineering specialty courses. She conducts engineering education research related to learning through service (LTS), social responsibility, sustainability
unique perspectives that each author brings, in terms ofethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, and class [13], [14] also helps ensure that the datawas cross-checked amongst the team for rigor and trustworthiness of the findings.MethodsA qualitative case study design was used to explore the experiences and understanding of ethicalmentoring principles for eight graduate students and four faculty within science and engineeringusing research mentoring relationships as a developmental factor [15]. The ethical mentoringprinciples were used to inform selection of vignettes or ‘case studies’ from Johnson’s mentoringguide for higher education faculty [3]. This vignette technique was selected because it allowsparticipants explore the attitudes
courses ranging from Intro to Civil & Environmental Engineering for first year students to a seminar on Profes- sional Practices and Ethics to seniors. He is also heavily involved with the online graduate program. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Integrating Ethics into the Curriculum through Design CoursesAbstractTo address shortcomings in traditional engineering ethics curriculum a series of assignmentswere integrated into a senior level steel design course. The goal of the ethics component beingintroduced in a steel design course was to improve student internalization of ethics curriculumthrough assignments that were relevant to the design class material and everyday
the seminar vary from week to week as well as during each class where the MAX facultymentors regularly take turns serving as the lead instructor. The seminars include large and smallgroup discussion as well as guest presentations from other university faculty and staff, industrypartners, or alumni scholars. This adaptive structure is motivated by best practices, especiallyfor a diverse STEM community with four scholars participating as distance learners.4-10 Eachsemester, the seminar course is structured around a multidisciplinary group project addressing adifferent societal issue pertinent to STEM majors. For two recent semesters, these projects havefocused on ethical issues.Ethics AssignmentsThe first semester (spring 2013) focused on
engineering,technology, or a related field, 2) received BS degree more than 3 years ago (graduated beforeSeptember 2017), 3) currently working full time in industry as an engineer or other technicalprofessional (including management) or currently unemployed but worked full time in industry asan engineer or other technical professional recently, and 4) current country of residence is theUnited States. At the end of the survey, participants could optionally submit their contactinformation to be entered into a drawing for a $100 gift card (with a 1 in 20 odds of winning). A total 651 practicing engineers started the survey, and 518 of those engineers completedthe survey. Three of the 518 did not meet the inclusion criteria, so they were excluded
AC 2007-2114: AN EDUCATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR NURTURING ACULTURE OF ACADEMIC HONESTYDawn Bikowski, Ohio University Dawn Bikowski is the Director of the Graduate Writing Program at Ohio University. She teaches engineering graduate students about academic honesty within the context of developing a set of writing skills. She is also a doctoral student in Educational Studies. Her research interests include issues related to academic honesty and how technology can best be used in education.Melissa Broeckelman, Ohio University Melissa Broeckelman is a doctoral student in Communication Studies at Ohio University and is also the Academic Honesty Advisor for the Russ College of Engineering and Technology