outcome. Table 1 lists the learning outcomes for which a statistically significantimprovement ( α = 0.05 ) was observed.Table 1: Competencies for which students reported statistically significant increase inpercentage of “often” or “always” after having taken the Grand Challenges course. Category Learning OutcomeTeamwork ● Respond to conflicts in a helpful way ● Listen and consider different points of view and perspectivesEthics ● Identify a potential position on an issue and consider the ethical implication(s)Writing ● Revise a written piece to make improvements ● Integrate evidence from and cite or document sources ● Organize and synthesize information from sources to
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careers improve society. This could thentranslate to an engineering profession that places overall societal benefits above the needs ofindividual clients and corporations.AcknowledgmentsSome of this material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation underGrant #1158863. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.Works Cited1. Layton Jr, E. T. The Revolt of the Engineers. Social Responsibility and the American Engineering Profession. (ERIC, 1986).2. Wisnioski, M. Engineers for change: Competing visions of technology in 1960s America. (MIT Press, 2012).3. Vesilind, P. A. Evolution of
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lead women to think that they are not a fit forcareers in engineering. The authors describe several ways in which women have differentexperiences from men, particularly in confronting sexist environments or supervisors. Inaddition, particularly for women, the authors write, a boring or mundane internship can leadstudents to question whether they belong in engineering at all.The accounts presented in this paper add to this story by highlighting the experiences of studentsat and after graduation. One caveat, however—our sample is somewhat different from Seron etal.’s in that they followed engineers through their undergraduate experience whereas we selectedengineers at career launch (the end of or shortly after their undergraduate experience). In
through a “quality assurance” regime. To provide a flavor of thecurrent approach, faculty are required to specify the number of hours students need to spend tolearn specific content; academic credit as well as faculty course loads are then assigned usingthis measure, even as the specified learning outcomes provides the basis for determining whatdegree programs students are qualified to enter at the start of the second cycle. This means thatEurope has embraced a learning outcomes regime far more extensive than anything required byABET EC 2000’s accreditation protocols.6As an institutional historian and an ethnographer of educational institutions, we have reason tobelieve that the changes brought about by the Bologna Process will not occur all
entrepreneurship projects are constructed primarily in polysemous, contradictory terms. Students largely perceive empirical reality from secondary sources and superficial immersions in “local culture” that average four to eight weeks at a time. As an initial step in the reproduction of the ideology of humanitarian engineering/service learning, a series of markers are argued to constitute certain “facts” about the “third world” (a term used by engineering educators as recently as 2008). Subsequently the third world denizen(s) appears to stand as an abbreviation or, shorthand for a disparate constellation of attributes identified by outsiders visiting from the developed world. This results from a series of markers that apparently speak of
urges practitioners to avoid causing harm. 3Indeed, responsibility to hold an ideal paramount is substantively different from responsibility topromote the same ideal. For example, teachers, pilots, and doctors must all hold paramount thehealth and safety of the individuals in their charge, but among them only doctors must dedicatetheir work to the promotion of these individuals’ health and safety. The American MedicalAssociation’s (AMA) Code of Medical Ethics states that physicians are obliged to provide“competent medical care, with compassion and respect for human dignity and rights.”4 TheAmerican Bar Association’s (ABA) Model Rules of Professional Conduct urge lawyers tofunction as “representative[s] of clients, [officers] of the legal system
of engineering design teams reveals the limited range of engineering identities available tofemale engineering students [10], Dryburgh’s study of professional socialization highlights thedifficult trade off faced by female engineering students adapting to a sexist “work hard/playhard” culture [27], and Seron et al.’s document analysis of female engineering students’ journalentries points to four ideologies—gender essentialism, meritocracy, individualism andexceptionalism—all of which constrained participants’ capacity to engage in a feminist analysisof the normative, masculine engineering culture [13].While this final group of studies is limited by authors’ overwhelming focus on gender as the soledimension of privilege, it does provide us
, superficial preparation assigned material observations, questions Quality of Comments are relevant and Comments sometimes Comments reflect little Contributions reflect understanding of: irrelevant, betray lack of understanding of either the assigned text(s) or preparation, or indicate lack assignment or previous remarks assignments; previous of attention to previous in seminar remarks of other students; remarks of other students and insights about assigned materials Impact on Class Comments frequently help
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DefinitionAn engineering way of thinking The kinds of knowledge that are valued and the prevalent way of thinking within engineeringAn engineering way of doing Shared beliefs about how teaching and learning should be done within engineeringBeing an Engineer “Beliefs and assumptions around the attributes and qualities inherent in being an engineer” [1, p. 14]; engineering identity and enculturation into engineeringAcceptance of Difference Issues of diversity and homogeneity in engineering; values and norms associated with the dominant group(s
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identitydevelopment as engineers?Literature Review: Students’ Involvement in Outreach Programs Engineering students’ desire to be involved in outreach. A sense of purpose is amotivating factor that describes an individual’s goal(s) for their actions [5] . Students may be 4attracted to organizations that convey values aligned with their personal and professional goals [6-9] . For some students the messages that engineering outreach programs convey, such as theapplication of engineering to solving the world’s problems [10], the need for diversity amongengineers [11] and the fact that engineering involves problem solving, [12] are congruent with theirown
each competency, but we encouraged students to be creativeand make it their own. Question prompts guided students to define thecompetency, identify at least one experience and artifact that best exemplifiedtheir competency in each of the five areas, and then to reflect either in a writtenstatement or with multiple media on how that competency was developed throughthe experience(s), showing links between experience and learning.Students earned the distinction of Grand Challenge Scholar if they completed anePortfolio by April of 2018 that drew upon at least five experiences to showevidence of the five program competencies. Those who completed portfolios wererecognized at an academic awards ceremony, received a special cord to wear atcommencement
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problem in its simplest terms and “fix” it without understanding what the issue really is or if it [i]s an issue at all. I think deep listening is an essential tool for being an engineer. We have to learn to listen, to understand things deeply and from multiple perspectives, and then approach the problem with all these things in mind. 7Another student expressed similar sentiments about the need for empathy and perspective takingfor engineering to have positive impacts: Engineers need to be more than tech-smart, we need to be able to empathize and connect with the world, see it for what it truly is and
what types ofknowledge, skills or attitudinal sets are needed to become an effective ‘life-long learner.’” (p.105)12 Thus, despite McGourty et al.’s call for operational clarification, 1 outcome (i) still appearsto confound many engineering programs.Our research was guided by the question, “How do engineering programs address ABET studentoutcomes as reported within their program self-study documents?” Our research goal was to helpeducators interpret the breadth and specificity of ABET student outcomes by offering a structuraltechnique to interpret outcomes and to plan, implement, and evaluate curricula. This paperpresents our research process—a curriculum design framework to map the components ofstudent outcomes. To illustrate its
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