following student outcomes included in ABETGeneral Criterion 3 for Engineering Technology Programs [8]: (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 realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability; (e) An ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems; (f) An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility; (k) An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for
from ‘strongly disagree’ to ‘strongly agree’, or from ‘very unimportant’to ‘very important’, depending on the particular wording of the question. Sample items arelisted below in Table 2. Underlined items are scored in reverse as they are negatively worded.Table 2: Representative questionnaire items from the different dimensions Dimensions Sample item Awareness Community groups need our help Ability I can make a difference in my community Connectedness I feel an obligation to contribute to society Base skills How important is ethics for a professional engineer Professional Engineering skills are not useful in making the community a better place ability Analyze I would not change my
and environmental contexts and demonstrate knowledge of and need for sustainable development. GA8 Ethics Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of engineering practice. GA9 Individual and Team Work An ability to work effectively, as an individual or in a team, on multifaceted and /or multidisciplinary settings. GA10 Communication An ability to communicate effectively—orally and in writing—on complex engineer- ing activities with the engineering community
programmesbased around problem-based learning9.Portfolio assessment is tutor-intensive, and after some 12 years of operation, in the face ofdiminishing Government funding for technical degree courses, the IEDP closed at SheffieldHallam, although leaving a truly positive legacy in terms of PDP and associated studentsupport mechanisms.In the USA, ABET10, in moving to an outcomes base, now requires engineering programmesto demonstrate that students, amongst other technical skills, attain:• an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data• an ability to engage in engineering design to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety
address issues of sustainability and international development is to introduce newrequirements/outcomes into the curriculum. Or they can take existing outcomes and mold theeducational methods used to achieve these outcomes, in such a manner so that sustainability andinternational development engineering problems are addressed. ABET has established a list ofprogram outcomes under Criterion 3: Program Outcomes and Assessment for accreditingengineering programs. Outcomes “3c,” “3f,” “3h,” and “3j” c. an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability
strong appreciation for other cultures and their diversity4. Additional skills cited include acommitment to team work, good communication skills, ethical standards, ability to thinkcritically, and flexibility that allows for accommodating rapid change4. Professional organizations such as National Academy of Engineering (NAE) suggest theundergraduate curriculum should be amended so that international experiences, development ofcultural competencies, and foreign language skills become integral components2 and would leadto the development of a global engineer who possesses appropriate competencies for practice in aprofessional setting with a global reach. Foreign travel experiences and courses tailored to teachthese skills have been
capabilities in global competence and leadership. His research and teaching interests include developing global agility, globalization, leadership, project management, ethics, and manufac- turing processes. Gregg has lived in numerous locations within the USA and Europe and has worked in many places including North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Prior to joining BYU, Gregg worked for Becton Dickinson, a Global Medical Technology fortune 500 Company. In this capacity he worked as a product development engineer, quality engineer, technical lead, business leader and pro- gram/project manager managing many different global projects. Gregg received his PhD in Educational Leadership and Higher Education from
what is called CIB – CulturalImmersion in Brazil: It is a project that brings to Brazil students from abroad in a program of 15days (can be more or less) when they have academic, technical, social and cultural activities. It isvery intensive period when the students visit 5 of the 9 cities of Atlantic Forest Region at the seashore of Sao Paulo state, as well as visit to different industries and universities.The program is designed in order to provide engineering students the opportunity to reflect aboutengineering social responsibility and ethical dilemmas when developing projects. This awarenessis becoming more and more necessary due to the environmental/ethical/economical crises thathumanity is facing and that impacts not only the society
AC 2010-500: IMPLEMENTING SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS IN THEDEVELOPING WORLDWilliam Jordan, Baylor University WILLIAM JORDAN is the Mechanical Engineering Department Chair at Baylor University. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, an M.A. degree in Theology from Denver Seminary, and a Ph.D. in mechanics and materials from Texas A & M University. He teaches materials related courses. He does research in appropriate technology applications, engineering ethics, and entrepreneurship. Page 15.686.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010
available (http://www.laccei.org/index.php/initiatives/accreditation).The LACCEI Par Amigo training is modular and contains a module (Module A) coveringgeneral accreditation information and a second module (Module B) specific to particularaccreditation agencies. Module A can be completed online or at LACCEI annual conferencesand events or other educational conferences. Module B is delivered in collaboration withaccreditation agencies at LACCEI annual conferences and events.Individuals certified and registered in the Par Amigo Registry through LACCEI need to be experienced faculty/engineers knowledgeable in the relevant accreditation process requirements ethical and diplomatic with a clear understanding of and respect for the
3 IET-317 Industrial Economic Analysis 3MFG-431 Controls for Industrial Automation 3 MFG-427 CIM & Global Manufacturing 3ECT-490 Senior Project 3 MFG-490 Senior Project 3PHL-316 PHL-316 Engineering Ethics 3 PHL-316 PHL-316 Engineering Ethics 3 Spring 2013 Total 18 Spring 2013 Total 18* ENG-270 + 271 will fulfill the University of Dayton requirements for ENG-101 + 102.Shanghai Normal University
AC 2008-1421: USING TECHNICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SERVICELEARNING TO PROMOTE AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE IN ANUNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING PROGRAMWilliam Jordan, Baylor University WILLIAM JORDAN is the Mechanical Engineering Department Chair at Baylor University. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, an M.A. degree in Theology from Denver Seminary, and a Ph.D. in mechanics and materials from Texas A & M University. He teaches materials related courses and does research concerning appropriate technology in developing countries. He also writes and does research in the areas of engineering ethics and engineering education.Glenn Blalock
M. Warnick is the Director of the Weidman Center for Global Leadership and Associate Teaching Professor of Engineering Leadership within the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology at Brigham Young University (BYU). The center provides oversight for leadership development and inter- national activities within the college and he works actively with students, faculty and staff to promote and develop increased capabilities in global agility and leadership. His research and teaching interests in- clude developing global agility, globalization, leadership, project management, ethics, and manufacturing processes. Gregg has lived in numerous locations within the USA and Europe and has worked in many places
cultures; have had a chance to practice engineering in a global context, whether through an international internship, a servicelearning opportunity, a virtual global engineering project or some other form of experience; and can effectively deal with ethical issues arising from cultural or national differences. We present evidence of the efficacy of the peertopeer collaboration model at achieving these competencies. The most important aspect of global competency for engineers as ranked by the Parkinson survey was that engineering graduates can appreciate other cultures. In the university setting this is often achieved by language and culture classes or through other exchanges [8]. One of the ways the program achieved it was by housing all
institutions in developing countries with the goal of promoting international bridge-building and understanding by bringing together students and faculty in an intense teachingand societal experience. The objectives are to place nanoscience in the context of thedeveloping world and demonstrate the societal and ethical dimensions of nanotechnology. Inaddition, we hope to establish relationships with foreign researchers while providing anintense course on select NSE topics.Each year, approximately 10-15 U.S. graduate students and 5-7 U.S. faculty participate in arigorous course in an emerging and research-intensive interdisciplinary NSE topic at a hostinstitution in a developing country. Host country faculty also participate in the courseoffering. The
, equally at home with societal concerns as they are with technical issues.It can be argued that traditional engineering curricula quite often do not afford the opportunityfor students to develop expertise in these “soft skill” areas other than on a piecemeal, randombasis. For example, many curricula currently do not weave and integrate concepts such aspersonal development, social awareness, global contextualization, complexity, ethics, culturalsensitivity, multidisciplinary teamwork and public scholarship into the fabric of the engineeringcurriculum. This issue is not constrained to engineering; most colleges face similar challengeswith preparing students to become well-rounded professionals.In attempts to attain these objectives, a common
engineering education Focus Possible ImpactsStudent Knowledge Facts, procedures, connections, metacognitionStudent Skills Design (application, invention, creation), communication (speaking, writing, listening, visual), observing, needs assessment, resource assessment, problem definition and analysis, collaboration, interpersonal, intercultural, project management, impact analysis, feasibility, foreign languageStudent Attitudes and Identity Confidence, empowerment, engineer as citizen, ethics
Traffic & Transportation 3 Engg Semester 8CES 4702 Reinforced Concrete 4 Islamic/Christian Culture 2 IVTTE 4004 Transportation Engg 3 Engineering Management 3SUR 4201 Route Geometrics 3 Seminar 3ENV 4514 Water and Wastewater 3 Hydrology 3 Page 14.324.6 Treatment EGN 4034 Ethics 1 R.C. Design II 3
engineeringgraduate, he or she may immigrate to a developed country for employment – attracted bystimulating jobs and higher compensation. Such mobility is inevitable due to economicpressures, and to the lack of challenging and rewarding jobs in the native countries. Itlikely cannot be stopped by ethical and patriotic arguments, by requirements that thegraduate work in the home country, or by a tax to recoup the costs of the engineeringeducation in the native land. Such attempts would simply provide a driving force forstudents who want to study engineering to go abroad even earlier, making it even lesslikely that they will ever return to their country of origin.Trying to stem brain drain by legal action should be evaluated in the light of recentexperience
,communication skills, computer application and professional and ethical practices.Conclusion and Further WorkThis project provided an opportunity to practice some technical outcomes of the IndustrialTechnology Program where students were exposed to a hands-on multidisciplinary technologysenior project. This approach culminated the student’s theoretical knowledge and experimentalexpertise where students were required to get involved in all phases of the project from design,fabrication, instrumentation, testing, data collection, final analysis and interpretation of results.All aspects of the project were documented along the way and finally were submitted in a reportformat and presented to faculty members and students at the end of the semester.Students
AC 2012-4823: STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING TECHNICAL COMMU-NICATION EFFECTIVENESS SKILLS IN A MIDDLE EAST ENGINEER-ING PROGRAMDr. Nicholas J. Dimmitt, Petroleum Institute Nicholas J. Dimmitt is an Assistant Professor of communications in the College of Arts & Science at the Petroleum Institute of the United Arab Emirates. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California and his master’s from San Francisco State University. He previously taught engineer- ing and management graduate students at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand for 16 years. He specializes in communication courses for engineers, business communication, corporate social respon- sibility, and business ethics. Dimmitt has
, 3) an ability to communicate across cultures, 4) experience practicing engineering in a global context, and 5) an ability to effectively deal with ethical issues arising from cultural or national differencesTraditionally, these skills are acquired through study abroad programs. Recently some courseshave been developed for undergraduate engineering students with some success demonstratingstudents’ increased global competencies even among students were are not able to travel, see forexample [5].This paper will report on the experience learned from a program that was developed to provideopportunities to practice engineering in a global context. The Engineering World Health VirtualExchange was developed and conducted in the
recentyears. The increasing fossil fuel usage around the globe has led to an increased level of carbondioxide in the atmosphere, thus leading to possible global warming 6. Dealing with theseenvironmental challenges calls for technological solutions to which our engineering students canrelate.Another broader issue that was identified is the social responsibility of the global corporation andthe individual citizen 7. An important issue for study program participants to explore is what itmeans to be a responsible global corporation or citizen and to determine if global corporations“take advantage” of lax environmental and labor laws in developing countries. It was decidedthat it was important to include this ethical dimension in the study program so
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and context of work ≠ An ability to work with complexity ≠ Use of a systems thinking approach ≠ Appreciation and understanding of culture and language ≠ An ability to use collaboration techniques and software ≠ Effective oral and written communication ≠ Knowledge of sustainability practices ≠ An ability to assess environmental and energy impact across diverse engineering projects ≠ A well-developed sense of social responsibility and ethics ≠ Entrepreneurial skills ≠ A preparation to work with varying levels of resources and in various types of ≠ organizations ≠ Strong critical thinking skillsThis paper focuses on the final competency, critical thinking, as a competency that isconsistently
andtechnological ventures may be determined by the ability/inability to overcome culturaldifferences. In “Cross-Cultural Business Negotiations,” Hendon et al writes: The way onesucceeds in cross-cultural negotiations is by fully understanding others, using that understandingto one’s own advantages to realize what each party wants from the negotiations, and to turn thenegotiations into a win-win situation from both sides.” Kale in “Universal Code of Ethics inIntercultural Communication” describes the ethical communicator as one “who address people ofother cultures with the same respect that they would like to receive” and as one “who encouragespeople of other cultures to express themselves in their uniqueness.” The ideal communicator is inessence one who
outcomesThe second motivation for the effort described in this paper is the new Engineering Criteria 2000(EC2000) of ABET which states that graduates must attain the following criteria (those thatapply directly to this effort are shown with **):a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineeringb) **an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret datac) **an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainabilityd) **an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teamse) **an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering
duration Page 11.1357.67 Selection of research topics Ü Student selection of research topics based on the joint (November) UST and TUM topic list8 Weekly preparatory team Ü Research support requirements meetings Ü Team ethics and team behavior (October – December) Ü Pairing for research and daily activity Ü Work product requirements ‚ Research summary reports ‚ Support documentation