AC 2007-566: ENGAGING FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS IN ETHICAL ISSUES VIASTAR TREKAndrew Lau, Pennsylvania State University Page 12.614.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Engaging First-Year Students in Ethical Issues via Star TrekIntroductionThis paper describes the First-Year Seminar (FYS), The Ethics of Star Trek, inspired by the bookof the same name by Judith Barad and Ed Robertson. It has been taught for the past four years asone of about sixty different FYS’s offered by the College of Engineering. Since 1999, all newstudents must complete one of these one-credit courses as part of the university generaleducation requirement. This specific course is
Paper ID #33866”Mapping” the Landscape of First-Year Engineering Students’Conceptualizations of Ethical Decision MakingJoshua Bourne Reed, Rowan University Josh Reed is an engineering masters student at Rowan University working for the Experiential Engineering Education department. He has graduated with a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from Rowan University. Josh is very passionate about education as well as the social issues in both the engineering and education systems. He hopes to further his understanding in both of these fields.Dr. Scott Streiner, Rowan University Dr. Scott Streiner is an assistant
Paper ID #18125Incorporation of Ethics and Societal Impact Issues into First-Year Engineer-ing Course:: Results of a National SurveyDr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the ABET assessment coordinator for her department since 2008. Professor Bielefeldt is the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice
department, we have more students in ME thanin EE. However, it is imperative for all students to have the basics of EE in order to work on therobotic projects. In this case, we mix students from two programs together in the engineeringorientation course. “What topics should be covered in this course?” is always a question and achallenge for the instructors. After 3-year practices and continuous improvements, we decide tocover not only the basics of ME and EE but also diverse soft skills trainings especially theproject management trainings. Three teaching assistants (two juniors from EE and one juniorfrom ME) are assisting a professor in the lab sections. This paper studies the outcomes of severalactivities such as the ethics debates, self-identities
society is shaped by technology, theconverse relationship is less apparent. It is a goal of the course for students to gain a broadunderstanding of the complex relationships among engineering, technology, and societyincluding the variety of ways that society does influence the development of technology,including its adoption or rejection. The course also emphasizes the importance of ethics in allaspects of engineering decision-making from design decisions to project management. Thecourse design departs from the more common first year engineering course consisting of design,engineering ethics, engineering problem solving and engineering topics, by fusing a scaled-backversion of such content with content addressing concepts and knowledge associated
Chair in Ethics and Acting Director, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Student Perceptions of First-Year Engineering Justice CurriculumAbstractThis complete research paper will describe our qualitative analysis of the impacts of a first-yearengineering course which includes curricular elements of social justice, social responsibility, andethics. We present our interpretation of four interesting results that came out of our mixed-methods study (n=231) in which we surveyed students taking a first-year engineering course ontheir perceptions of the role of engineering in society and the world. We find that while a
in two different disciplines. Overall, the project aims to demonstrate student competencein four areas of particular interest including audience, ethics, summary and design. We willassess student knowledge using survey questions in each of our targeted areas along with qualityassessment of the assignment using a shared rubric. Additionally, we hope that we can capturemore longitudinal student information in comparison with first-year and senior students overtime. Preliminary results presented in this work in progress report will include examples ofstudent created infographics analyzed in our four assessment areas from both courses and surveydata from our initial student cohorts.Introduction:There are a number of concepts and skills that are
research related to learning through service (LTS), social responsibility, sustainability, ethics, and globalization.Dr. Nathan E Canney PE, Seattle University Nathan is currently an instructor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Seattle Univer- sity, teaching courses in mechanics and structural design. His research focuses on engineering education, specifically the development of social responsibility in engineering students. As part of that research focus, engineering based service experiences, such as service-learning or Engineers Without Borders, are being examined as potential educational interventions that could be used to promote increased views of social responsibility in engineering
2006-982: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW FORMAT FOR FRESHMANENGINEERING COURSE AT VIRGINIA TECHJenny Lo, Virginia Tech Jenny Lo is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She is the co-coordinator of the first semester engineering course and has been involved with educational projects related to freshmen programs, engineering ethics, and undergraduate research.Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech Vinod Lohani is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He is the co-coordinator of the first semester engineering course and has been involved in many educational research projects including a departmental level reform
frequent in higher education,especially in engineering [1], [2]. Engineering is a profession guided by a code of ethics, yet theincidences of academic dishonesty in engineering students indicate that students are notpracticing the values that, per the code of ethics, practicing engineers ought to uphold. Previousresearch, such as [3], has also shown that there are differences in how cheating is defined, bothwithin a group of students, and when comparing faculty definitions to student definitions.Additionally, ongoing (though yet unpublished) research by the author and a colleague hasshown that student perceptions of and experiences with academic integrity change their first yearof engineering, with more lax definitions of what behaviors constitute
/model/test process in ENG1100. The course topics (statistics, ethics,communication, etc) are often tied into the design project to create continuity in the courses. Page 25.129.3 Enter Michigan Tech First-Year Engineering Program Pre-Calculus-Ready Engineering Track Calculus-Ready Engineering Track ENG1001 Topics ENG1101 Topics Technical Communication Technical Communication Engineering Design (Project
student involvement, and ethics. However, students tend to see the informationtaught in either course as mutually exclusive and do not always see the information astransferable.This student mindset lead the authors to discuss opportunities for collaboration between the twocourses. The following sections describe this collaborative effort in greater detail. Section 2covers a brief review of previous literature. Section 3 describes the methodologies used in thisstudy. Discussions of the study’s results are included in Section 4, with conclusions beingpresented in Section 5.Section 2: Literature ReviewSeamless Learning Environments and Successful CollaborationWith any effective partnership, the institution’s unique culture, environment, and
topicscovered and the variety between them caused a great deal of discontinuity in the course material.Therefore, the new structure emphasizes subjects where engineering tools are used to solve ordisseminate the course material in modules that are interrelated and reinforced throughout thecourse. In the first course, three subject modules were created for this purpose: • Engineering Design and Analysis • Engineering Ethics • Engineering SustainabilityIn the first course, students will use engineering skills such as the problem solving method andstatistical analyses while completing design activities. They will analyze and communicate theirresults in a technical poster competition. The second course builds on previously learned skillswith the
projects can support diversestudents to begin developing an understanding of professional ethics and empathy as central tothe work of designers. Our purpose is to examine student learning connected to a designchallenge in two first-year courses: one in the chemical & biological engineering department andone in community & regional planning program within the school of architecture and planningdepartment; both courses were taught in the same research university in the southwestern US,which serves a very diverse population. We conducted two iterations in a design-based researchprocess. Design-based research involves testing both theory of and designs for learning underreal world conditions. Our learning theory is that diverse populations
their academic and industrial training and meeting this need is the objective ofthis paper. Based on this perspective, we will examine the full range of engineeringfundamentals (i.e., ethics, problem solving, modeling, analysis, design, economics andcommunications) in an effort to layout an approach that prepares first-year students fortheir future careers in a manner that is consistent with their current knowledge andexperience (i.e. high school math and science). That is, in a general sense engineeringreduces to either engineering analysis or engineering design both of which rely onproblem solving and modeling. Engineering economics provides a means to consistentlyevaluate the performance of an engineering project by using optimization
31 146 53% 2.0 MATH 2554H 13 10 9 3 4 8 47 68% 2.6 MATH 2564 13 15 10 2 1 6 47 81% 2.9 MATH 2574 3 2 2 0 1 0 8 88% 2.8 CHEM 1103 64 65 67 34 43 34 307 75% 2.3 PHYS 2054 65 69 19 5 2 4 164 96% 3.2 Table 4. Fall Semester 2007 Academic Performance of the FY07 CohortAs mentioned previously, the FEP faculty and staff believe that the grade in GNEG 1111 is anaccurate measures of a student’s work ethic. Specifically, they feel that a grade of A
EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF A SERVICE LEARNING PROJECT IN A REQUIRED FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING COURSEAbstractIn Fall 2004, a service-learning curriculum was introduced in one section of Engineering 100:Introduction to Engineering, at the University of Michigan. Engineering 100 is a required coursefor all first year students and comprises a team project coupled with an introduction to technicalcommunication. The course also includes threads of environmental sustainability, ethics and therole of the engineer in society. As a required course, Engineering 100 has suffered from lowteaching evaluations, despite the efforts of many faculty to actively engage students in thelearning process. Thus, one of the goals of this project
consistent with criteria set forth by EngineersAustralia and ABET for engineering degree programs. Both organizations encourage arealistic understanding of professional practice, including project management and ethics, andrequire students to be able to work in multi-disciplinary groups and communicate effectively.Although universities have the entire duration of the degree program to meet theserequirements, students benefit greatly from early exposure. The purpose of this study was todiscuss best practices for introductory courses that focus on professional engineering skillsand practice. Through internet-based research, information was gathered about 82 courses atuniversities in Australia, the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Courses that
Knowledge 3 across specific contexts 2. Understanding and directing Self-Learner 3 oneself as a learner 3. Becoming a reflexive, RAR Learner 3 accountable, and rationale learner 4. Identifying and discerning Ethics & one’s own and others’ ethics and 3 Perspectives perspectives 5. Developing a professional Digital
on Engineering and Society for First-Year Engineering Students and Non-MajorsAbstractA course designed for first-year engineering students and non-majors was conceived, piloted andtaught over the course of two semesters. The course addresses the engineering design process,including a hands-on project, engineering ethics, and engineering and society content. This paperdescribes the course and the instructors’ experience teaching it, and reports on an initial study ofchanges in student perceptions in the course using a single group, pre-test/post-test design.Background and IntroductionClarkson University is a small, technologically-focused, research university comprised of threeschools – Engineering, Arts and
Ethically and Legally: Adopts multiple information use strategies (paraphrasing, summary, quoting), and distinguishes between common knowledge and ideas requiring attribution. Demonstrates a full understanding of the ethical and legal restrictions on the use of information by including both citations and references, and through consistent use of a citation style that provides sufficient information for references to be retrieved by a reader.Additionally, students’ citation patterns in their final assignments will be analyzed to measurethe extent of their information use, as well as the types of sources utilized. This citation analysiswill include basic descriptive statistics, such as average number of sources cited
number ofstudies investigate how to teach and learn decision-making skills in engineering. Weconducted an in-depth content analysis of 1) first-year engineering textbooks and 2)instructional decision-support tools published in ASEE proceedings in the last decade.We discussed our findings in the light of research and theoretical frameworks on decisionmaking. The examination of fourteen books that are commonly used as a textbook infirst-year engineering courses revealed that half of these books discussed decisionmaking usually very briefly or as one step in the design process. Twenty-nine percentlinked engineering decision making to social and ethical issues (e. g., examination ofengineering disasters and historical decisions that led to failures
development and engineering ethics education. His funded research explores the nature of global com- petency development by assessing how international experiences improve the global perspectives of en- gineering students. Dr. Streiner has published papers and given presentations in global engineering ed- ucation at several national conferences. Scott is an active member in the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) both locally and nationally, as well as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Examining the Connection Between Student
context that requires the learner to document notonly the solution to the problem, but also their process for solving it (Frank & Kaupp, 2012; Page 23.1364.4Shuman, Besterfield-Sacre, Bursic, Vidic, & Sieworiek, 2012). The situations described in theMEAs require students to create and use a mathematical model of a physical system usingMATLAB, and deal with professional issues including ethical dilemmas, conflicting information,and incorrect/missing information (Frank, Strong, Sellens, & Clapham, 2012).The module learning outcomes are such that open-text responses are desirable; the learningoutcomes are: 1. Apply a prescribed process
fruitful user experience [2], ethics and scrutiny on socialeffects [3], and communication and collaboration skills [4]. This initiative, a straightforwardreading assignment, reaching outside the obvious subject matter, fits into none of those categories.This paper suggests the benefits that it can confer in an introductory computing course.The SceneThe Computer Science First-Year Seminar (FYS) is one of about 60 such seminars acrosscampus. The university studies (general education) program requires incoming freshmen andother first-year students to take one from this selection of seminars on different subjects, notnecessariy in their major field if they are among the few who have chosen a major already. Theunderlying FYS goal, teaching these high
and curriculum to provide students with opportunitiesto conceive, design, and implement engineering solutions to complex global issues. This paper describes the development and assessment of a redesigned first yearcornerstone course called Engineering Opportunities. The motivation for the courseredesign was to both be a pathway into the engineering community and to equip studentsfor success in both the classroom and the engineering profession. The course is built on alearner-centered platform that is intended to create an inclusive environment for first yearstudents to successfully transition from high school to college. The course content covershuman-centered design, systems thinking, professionalism and ethics. The intention ofthis
, design projectassignments, engineering analysis, formal design process, teamwork, engineering ethics, writingskills, data estimation, and academic advising. The least frequently listed topics (though stillpresent) included stress management, academic integrity, interviewing, poster communication,brainstorming (design fundamental), social entrepreneurship, empirical math functions, clientinteractions, and qualitative research skills. These skills were only included in one or two courseseach2. The range in both number and categories of course content reflects the variability in firstyear course experiences for engineering students.A call was put forth several decades ago (i.e., the mid-1980’s) to postsecondary education tofocus on the first-year
presentation slides completed bystudent groups within the three eligible chemical engineering sections. We measured studentachievement of three learning outcomes, referred to as Criterion 1, 2, and 3, by customizing arubric previously developed for evaluating undergraduate research assignments [16]. Criterion 1,“Evaluate Information Sources Critically,” measures students’ ability to select a variety ofappropriate information sources as part of their projects. Criterion 2, “Use InformationEffectively,” measures students’ ability to synthesize multiple information sources within theirpresentations, as well as their use of in-text citations to bolster their claims with evidence.Criterion 3, “Use Information Ethically,” measures students’ ability to
Paying someone else to take an exam/write a paper for you Storing answers to a test in a calculator or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) Working in groups on Web-based quizzesOne issue with academic dishonesty is that students and instructors have different definitions ofcheating. Therefore, it is important for institutions to define what constitutes cheating tostudents. In general, it is believed that students who cheat in college are more likely to shoplift,cheat in income taxes, abuse harmful substances, and engage in un-ethical behavior in theworkspace. Students that cheat in high school also do it in college [1].Among the different disciplines, Business and Engineering students are among the most likely
Rippon et al. 2012.8The University requirements for this type of introductory class dictated that the curriculuminclude University values, critical thinking, and ethics. One class period and two homeworkassignments were dedicated to University values. The first homework assignment focused on thevalue of citizenship, with the goal of engaging students in the School’s engineering community.This assignment required students to attend a chapter meeting of an engineering studentorganization, then complete an online discussion board post about their experience. As Meyerset al. note, freshman are more apt to listen to the advice of other upperclassmen than facultymembers16 and such engagement could lead to a forum for soliciting this advice. The