Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #11982Serendipitous Advantages of a Multi-Disciplinary Senior Seminar Course forEngineering StudentsProf. Bijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey Bijan Sepahpour is a registered Professional Engineer and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the College of New Jersey (TCNJ). He is currently serving as the chairman of the ME department at TCNJ. Prof. Sepahpour has been actively involved in the generation of design-oriented exercises and development of laboratory apparatus and experiments in the areas of mechanics of materials and dynamics of machinery for undergraduate engineering programs. He has advised on

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shiyu Liu, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Irene B. Mena, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Kirsten S Hochstedt, Penn State University; Tricia Bertram Gallant, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

their teaching. The changes coveredfour aspects: course syllabus, classroom discussion, assignments, and exams, which arediscussed in detail below.Course syllabus.Compared to their pre-workshop syllabi, participants’ revised syllabi were more focused ondetails related to the importance of academic integrity and university rules. Doug explained howhe modified his syllabus to clarify expectations for specific aspects of his course: I went from one line to a whole page, very, very clearly spelling out for the different aspects of the courses. And these courses that I teach have laboratory work, they have lectures, they have homework, they have exams, they have everything. I carefully spelled out what the expectations were

Conference Session

Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

socialimplications in terms of diversity (an overly used, minimalist justification) or some form ofdissemination into K-12. Yet they rarely find a way to connect course content with socialproblems, particularly those related to SJ. For example, and existing REU Site grant titled “FluidMechanics with Analysis using Computations and Experiments” is aimed at mentoringundergraduate students in “the current need for basic and applied research in fluid mechanicsacross a range of engineering disciplines as well as the training of undergraduate students instate-of-the-art laboratory environments.” And in traditional fashion, the grant justifies meetingCriterion 2 “by enhancing and diversifying the pool of students considering a research career inengineering