(overwhelmingly negative) state of the students’ mental health in general. Workload wasidentified as a major contributor to poor mental health, but, perhaps more importantly, thestudents identified a toxic attitude within the engineering community with respect to workload.As a student shared on the visioning board, they wished for a future in which “[they] don’t feellike [they are] not doing enough if [they are] not extremely stressed out all the time.” This pointsto an existing environment in which students have come to identify poor mental health as asignifier of good work ethic and react to not experiencing mental health issues with guilt.There was a shared understanding amongst the participants that professors’ actions wereexacerbating issues
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, thepeople that are core to the functioning of that system, that is violence. Our participants wereeager to talk about their practices, and were grateful to have been asked the question. It leads usto wonder just how much of the self is separated from the professional identity for theparticipants in our study? We understand and appreciate that people are complex and boundariesare important; however, in an industry that is clearly harming people as evidenced by the highrates of burnout, what is the ethical obligation to support and address this routine violence? In asociety that demands that we give so much of ourselves to a profession, we suggest that ourprofessional spaces should then be required to give something back to our humanity.While it is
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understanding that our work could provide a framework fornational-level data efforts.Establishing values a prioriEstablishing the values guiding data work a priori ensures that data practices are ethical,responsible, and aligned with the goals and values of the group [25], [26]. ECEP centers equityin all BPC work across the Alliance. This is also an explicit goal of the CMP project, intended toensure that data is not collected for the sake of gathering numbers but for the purpose ofdiscovering which students do not have access to, or are engaging in, high quality computing.State teams are asked to establish their state’s BPC goals as a condition of membership in theECEP alliance; however, the CMP encourages teams to bring new people to the team
: • People come first, are treated with dignity and respect, and are encouraged to achieve their full potential • Relationships are built on honesty, integrity, and trust • Diversity of people and thought is respected • Excellence is achieved through teamwork, leadership, creativity, and a strong work ethic • Efficiency is achieved through wise use of human and financial resources and • Commitment to intellectual achievement is embraced.This section of our paper will discuss the planning process and key highlights of the student trackday from the conference proceedings. The process of the planning and executing a three-day event can be arduous. While there areothers whom one can reach out to for planning, acumen, and
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student at Purdue University looking to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering. He is a part of the First Time Researcher program at Purdue, currently completing research in the School of Engineering Education and Science and Ethics of Educational Data lab under Dr. Kerrie Douglas. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work In Progress: Evaluating the Cultural Context of Engineering and Engineering-Related Concept Inventory Assessment ItemsThere is very little understood about how the context of engineering assessment questions canserve to unnecessarily confuse, distract, or indirectly communicate who belongs (and who doesnot) in engineering classrooms. Globally concept
accreditation and first-year course design.Dr. Karl Brakora, Grand Valley State University Karl Brakora is an Assistant Professor in the area of electrical engineering at Grand Valley State Uni- versity. He previously worked for small companies and as an independent defense contractor to develop advanced ceramic materials, radar, and novel electronic fabrication methods applied to the development of guided munitions, electro-optic imaging systems, and medical devices. At GVSU he maintains electronic prototyping courses and co-created the School of Engineering’s professional ethics curriculum, which has become his primary academic focus. Karl received his Ph.D. in Applied Electromagnetics from the University of Michigan
inundergraduate engineering programs in North America. In Canada, the Canadian EngineeringAccreditation Board has been emphasizing that equity and ethics be embedded in the curriculumthrough their accreditation visits. This required several programs within our institution to work onmethods that can be included to make students more aware of equity issues and assess theirunderstanding on the above subjects.This paper discusses how courses were changed to include equity as part of the curriculum. Equitydiscussions were focused through the introduction of universal design as applied in buildingdesign- making students experience first-hand what the implications of design choices are on adiverse (age, physical / cognitive ability, race, gender) user group
framework for all theprojects we undertake [13]. The ExSJ supports the connection between engineering and socialjustice by providing a system whereby communities are supported to submit project ideas, whichare then developed and channeled through professionals and academics to create suitable projectsfor students through a variety of mechanisms also described in a later section of this paper.BackgroundThe campus context for the ExSJ is uniquely supportive of initiatives that advance social andenvironmental justice and socio-technical engineering. USD is an independent, private CatholicUniversity known for its commitment to the formation of values, community involvement, andpreparing leaders dedicated to ethical conduct and compassionate service.In
global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors. 5) 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. 8) an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.Riley’s text uses a modular format that engages students in a four-step process (Engage, Analyze,Reflect, and Change). Figure 1: Learning Process for ModulesThe modules presented in Riley’s text can be integrated “as-is” into typical thermodynamicscourses. However, as the modules are not
are presented with practical applications, together with societal, global, environmental or economic impacts.Q43. What kinds of problems are used in your course(s)? • Level 1. Problems usually require focus on technical detail only. • Level 2. Between 1 and 3 • Level 3. Problems acknowledge societal needs but are still primarily technically focused. • Level 4. Between 3 and 5 • Level 5. Problems are open ended and focus on both societal and technical needs in their solution.Q44. Are problems approached in a multidisciplinary manner (e.g. do they draw upon orlink to a range of other academic areas such as ethics, social justice, or politics?) • Level 1. Strictly single-discipline approach • Level 2
inequities and injustice when we encounter them. How an actor moves through the 4Rs depends on their margin of maneuverability.Call to Action ● All academic reviewing processes, from conference reviews to program reviews to Tenure and Promotion reviews, have the potential to enact inequities and injustice and to harm those with less power through epistemic and other forms of violence. As members of this community, we should commit to anti-racist, inclusive approaches to review that inhere an ethic of care and hold one another accountable [19], [28]Limitations and Further ResearchAs is obvious by now, this is not the paper we thought we were going to write; much more workcan, will, and has been done to illustrate
complexity of navigating racialidentity and how societal perceptions can impact individuals both positively and negatively.Our study of environmental nonprofit websites in Buffalo seeks to explore how the intricatelayers of racial and ethnic identification manifest within organizations’ public representations ofthemselves. Utilizing the Fitzpatrick skin type scale in this [25] study, we classified individualsas people of color (darker than olive) or not. However, we recognize individuals may bemiscategorized due to the inability to self-identify as people of color in our study. Self-identification is the most accurate and ethical method of racial and ethnic classification [24]. Asan equity-focused and racially diverse research team committed to
combining them into brand marketing, developing them into fineboutique products. This idea-to-3D print project tasks the student designer with leaning into theirown culture to design home décor items inspired by their personal background. Students areencouraged to embrace cultural traits in their design, such as nationality, family structures,community, aesthetics (art, architecture, music, dance), cuisine, mythology, ethics, manners,festivals and holidays, and fashion. Cultural aspects should be meticulously used to influence thedesign, usage, and purpose of the product from the conceptual stage of design, rather than assuperficial or last-minute additions. This individual project consists of three parts (creativeideation and sketching, 3D CAD
Knowledge creation and synthesis are the core of research. How we engage in research orknowledge creation is deeply intertwined with our experiences and the language we use to makesense of the world around us. For us, the co-authors of this paper, the triad concept of Kaya(Body), Vacha (Speech), and Manas (Mind) in the Indian philosophy of ethics and spiritualitypoints to the interdependence of experience, language, and knowledge. Lakoff and Johnson [1]present the same idea as the core motivation for their germinal book Metaphors We Live By; theysuggest that dominant views on meaning-making in Western philosophy and linguistics areinadequate for the way we understand our world and ourselves. They propose that our languageshapes the way we think
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approaches/shifting to practical 5 approaches 8% Teamwork 8% 6 Being creative/innovative enough 7% Stress/working under pressure 6% 7 Fear of failure 7% Acting ethically 4% TABLE 6. Top challenges students expect to face in engineering 3- “Describe your personal experience working on the drone project.”Finally, the most frequent coded responses to the open-ended prompt for students to describetheir personal experience working throughout the project are shown in Table 7. These aregrouped into three categories: self-perception, emotion, and lessons. Nearly a third (28%) of thestudents
discussions the students could test each other’sunderstanding of the course content, through the group debate the students could developawareness regarding their social and ethical responsibilities as engineers. Through the debates, thestudents learned to consider the pros and cons of controversial topics like gene editing, human-animal chimera, brain organoids, and so on, and got the opportunity to learn how to be respectfulto those with different perspectives. Before beginning the group activities, the students submitteda teamwork contract. The students read online articles and watched a YouTube video on effectiveteamwork before filling out the contract, where they discussed their individual roles in the team,preferred methods of communication
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women students’ sense of belonging in engineering. In addition to hiringmore women faculty, Ethiopian universities may want to infuse professional development effortsthat enhance ethics, professionalism, and democratic culture (especially for men students andmen faculty), this implies creating a harassment-free culture. Thus, the engineering college, theuniversity, and the government of Ethiopia may listen to the women students’ advice andrecommendations to improve women students’ sense of belonging to make engineering a saferand more inclusive space for all students.AcknowledgmentsMany thanks to the faculty: Drs. Brooke Coley, Debalina Maitra, and a graduate student, BalaVignesh Sundaram for insightful feedback that helps us to improve the
, Dr. Hughes Miller works to improve diversity in STEM, analyzes the problem of gendered violence, and deconstructs policy representations of bad mothers. She has pub- lished three co-edited books: Addressing Violence Against Women on College Campuses (Temple, 2017), Bad Mothers: Representations, Regulations and Resistance (Demeter, 2017), and Alliances for Advanc- ing Academic Women: Guidelines for Collaborating in STEM (Sense, 2014). Her current collaborative project is to learn more about the development of STEM students’ ethical identities (NSF, PI=Centeno and Reeves). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023
process named life-cycle assessment. Sylvia Wynter’s articulation and historicaltracing of Man as homo oeconomicus, the overrepresented white Western Bourgeois man fixated onmaterial accumulation, as the present dominant and referent construction (genus) of human being inGlobal Racial Empire gives insight into these death-making distortions [3, 4]. LCAs are highly valued inhomo oeconomicus social infrastructures owing to symbolic life being understood as materialaccumulation. This representation is legitimized through quantification of energy and material flows in LCA.Quantification is used as a data interpretation strategy to remove an emphasis on ethical thinking andfocus on the correctness of a measurement, see Figure 1a. Figure 1a
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focused on developing higher reliability Technical Language Models (TLMs) which are essentially knowledge-graph backed LLMs that can pinpoint where information was drawn from within a complex information environment. He also works toward improving CS education, broadening participation in computing, and incorporating ethics into CS education.Christopher Isaac Fulton ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 An Experience Report on Reducing Barriers by Removing Prerequisites for a CS 1 Introductory Programming Course Udayan Das† Chris Fulton Mathematics and Computer Science School of Continuing and Professional
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athriving individual in 2004, there is much more to consider amidst a global pandemic. Studentresponses detailed what thriving might look like during more difficult times.There was a large occurrence of students whose stories resonated with the dimension of “InternalAlignment” which Tobias defines as; “Is internally aligned, personally integrated, genuine,authentic, transparent; has a well-developed and well-articulated self-concept and value systemthat are consistent with feelings and behavior; stands for something; has a unifying philosophy andsense of purpose/mission; has vitality, zest/appreciation for life; has integrity and an ethical sense;is self-aware, insightful; is able to resolve internal conflicts; has humility and self-esteem