instructional method was an exploratory studio journey of discovery with a graphicalemphasis. The student outcomes included spatial organizations (floor plans), visualizations(elevations), and basic detailing (sections). One observation was that BIM provided a logicalapplication to an otherwise unscientific design journey. The studio assessments werequalitative. This created some apprehension as the grading appeared subjective. The assessmentwas based on a qualitative relative grading system [27, pp. 434-435]. The course contributed todemonstrating the ABET performance criteria of “ability to design a system . . . within realisticconstraints;” (2) “ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessaryfor engineering practice
Surrounding IEEE’s 1974 Codeof Ethics.” ASEE Annual Conference.18 Burr, W. H. 1893. “The Ideal Engineering Education.” Engineering Education 1, 17-49, quoted in Bucciarelli, L.2011. “Bachelor of Arts in Engineering.” Op. cit.19 Kabo, J., Tang, X., Nieusma, D., Currie, J., Hu, W., and Baille, C. 2012. “Visions of Social Competence: ACross-cultural Comparison of Engineering Education Accreditation in Australia, China, Sweden, and the UnitedStates.” OP. cit.20 Li, M. and Shi, H. 2013. “The Impacts of Liberal Arts Education on Undergraduate Programs: Fulfillment orFrustration?.” Op. cit.21 Hu, X. and Cao, L. 2013. “Meaning and Methods: Some Thoughts on the Role of General Education andCurriculum Design.” Op. cit.22 “Educational Plan for Prominent
take other team members’ dissertation research intoaccount when planning their own dissertation research, even if it was on a different part of thesystem. For example, students whose focus was on the media aspects of the system needed toexplain to students from engineering why one kind of sensing mechanism would be preferable,more interesting or innovative than another kind, vis-à-vis the media fields in which theirresearch was situated. Inclusion artifacts were therefore used to suggest a certain design plan orfeature because the kind of sensing mechanism chosen would affect the work of everyone on theteam. In other words, students from the media fields could not make a choice of sensingmechanism without convincing the other team members to
example topics weresenior or capstone design, competition (e.g., steel bridge, concrete canoe, Formula SAE, solarcar, and robotics), outreach (such as Engineers without Borders), and student research projects.The poster sessions were organized as part of the regular conference planning. Page 24.964.3B. Poster Session ChallengesThe authors have seen prior attempts at encouraging student involvement in conferences. Often,these attempts had poor participation and were not sustaining. Key issues were identified duringthe organization of the student poster component. These issues and how they were addressed arelisted below.How can the content of posters
, andscience and technology studies. Faculty members took on increased responsibilities and becamemore integrated into the engineering faculty as a whole, alternately embracing and resisting the“service department” designation [5]. Faculty members were enthusiastic about working toimprove the practice of engineering and computer science students, but the unit’s lack ofindividual degree programs constrained research and mentorship opportunities. A 2008 facultyreport and five-year plan for the unit’s development identified these frustrations and emphasizedthat existing solely in a service role would be untenable for tenure-stream faculty [6]. In 2011, the General Studies Unit was renamed the Centre for Engineering in Society(CES). While CES
Experience Project,” at the University of Georgia (UGA).Through sharing our experiences with using this novel approach, the purpose of this paper is tostart a conversation1 about the affordances and limitations of using SenseMaker to investigateand transform cultures and practices of engineering education. To this end, we hope readers willfinish this paper with a working understanding of what SenseMaker is, what is involved indesigning and conducting a SenseMaker study, what the results look like, how this approach hasbeen used in the past, and questions we are currently reflecting on as we plan our next round ofdata collection.Recognizing the limitations of a conference paper, where appropriate we direct readers toadditional sources that describe
will remain a mainstay after their acceleratedadoption during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have undertaken a why-what-how approach tocall for needs-driven innovation in education, like why there is a need for change (the need),what is the recommendation (the solution) and how those could be implemented (the plan). Weintroduce a strategic framework for how engineering institutions, faculty, and students must startconsidering their options, experimenting with alternatives, and start planning now. A shift in themindset, leverage digital technologies, and change in the structure are taken as the central ideasleading to solutions to the identified problems themselves and affecting the long-term goals ofaccessible access to affordable, relevant, and
activities of the ambassador organization.Twelve of the eighteen program leaders cited leadership skill development as a major benefit toambassadors. In these programs, students take on a variety of leadership positions, includingcommittee leadership or other self-governance positions, as well as acting as the point of contactfor various avenues of activity including precollege visit or tour planning. Program leadersrelayed that the outcomes of leadership experience included confidence, interpersonalcommunication, problem-solving skills, and the development of professional identity.Sub-theme: Civic and community engagement. Three program leaders explicitly mentionedthat the opportunity to participate in the outreach program promoted students
solutionsby way of challenging their opponents. We plan to take advantage of this discovery next time,moving from a formal poster presentation to a managed debate.DiscussionOur use of theatre through role-playing brings together humanistic and engineering learning inthe context of a complex problem within the rapidly expanding, heterogeneous, nineteenth-century context of Worcester, Massachusetts: a city whose heterogeneity in many waysrepresents the challenges that contemporary engineers face. In some cases, students are naturallydrawn to the role-playing activities: some of them have performed in theatrical productions orhave immersed themselves in role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons. We have seenstudents who embrace the opportunity to
theappendix to this paper.) As the attached article demonstrates, cities around the country are considering whether equipping police officers with body cameras can restore trust between police and citizens and discourage police misconduct. Imagine that you are the lead engineer working with the city council of a mid-sized American city to develop a plan for integrating a network of body cameras into the city’s information technology networks. The city leadership has not purchased the body cameras yet, but they are clearly excited about the potential of body cameras to resolve disputes and restore trust between citizens and local police. The city leaders are looking to you to advise them because
,the students yet remained receptive to them. Dr. Giovannelli credits this to that firstunthreatening text on day one: to Augustine’s observation of a silent reader.The Course Reader (Giovannelli, 2016) also provided a list of cultural dimensions (from GeerteHofstede, 2005), i.e., of over-arching cultural characteristics. These include, for example, how aculture deals with time or space; how a culture regards honor, power, or identity; whether themembers of a culture operate as a collective or as individuals; and to what extent the culturepractices long-term or short-term planning. Each week featured one specific cultural dimension,strategically paired with that week’s content.For example, the week on the Industrial Revolution featured the
to analyzethe downstream effects of technologies on unknown or silent users (Casper & Clarke 1998).These efforts can also be understood as a way of organizing others’ work (Suchman 2000),particularly when the users come from inside one’s own organization.In this paper we describe and analyze how early career engineers learn about users and theirneeds in the engineering workplace. We draw special attention to how users are conceptualizedduring product development and how notions of how users might employ technologies can shapedesigners’ plans. These data are part of a larger project that examines the workplace learning ofearly career engineers, and so several of our examples highlight the orientations early careerengineers hold toward
institutions represented thelandscape of ~350 engineering schools in 2014 in terms of size and other institutional characteristicsrelated to the intent of the study. A total of 7,179 students responded to the survey; of these respondents,6,187 students were classified as “juniors”, “seniors”, or “5th-year seniors”, in keeping with the study’ssampling plan. See Gilmartin, et al. for a detailed technical report that provides extensive informationabout the study objectives and research questions, sampling framework, response rates and nonresponsebias, and respondent characteristics [20]. All procedures were approved by the Institutional ReviewBoards at Stanford University and Elizabethtown College.Variables considered in the analysis Students
minimized [2]. The dynamics of the panopticon areexemplified in the design of Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon as illustrated in Figure 2(b) [19]. Theauthor intends to draw on Foucault’s interpretation of Bentham’s panopticon. These are not one-to-one analogies as the instructor does not offer a “performance” in the lecture hall nor is theobserving instructor invisible to the students in the computer lab as she would be in apanopticon. The analogies hold at the level of the underlying assumptions while designing thesespaces vis-à-vis what type of interactions in the space are anticipated and planned for. (a) (b
component.Field visit with EWB Project TeamOriginally, the ethnographic component of our project was envisioned as following our localchapter through an entire project cycle. We planned to travel with the EWB team, sit in oncommunity conversations, and conduct participation observation in chapter meetings, work, andplanning sessions. The chapter identified for this portion has, for a variety of reasons, not beenable to make progress on their project, but we were able to find another chapter to travel with.However, we have not been able to conduct participant observation during ongoing chapteractivities due to geographical distance. Instead, ongoing “check-ins” with chapter leadership havebeen conducted. In January of 2017, Dr. Tina Lee and a student
research questions presented at the end of the “Introduction” section.3 Transcriptionexcerpts were first grouped into six categories: “choice of major,” “choice of college,”“evaluation of college experience,” “career plan,” “imagination of the profession,” and “notionof engineering learning.” Within each category, inductive coding was conducted to discoverrecurring themes from student reflections.4 Where appropriate, field notes from participantobservation were used to supplement students’ narratives (e.g., sometimes students in theinterviews referred to their projects, the content of which was documented in my field notes).Data from archival research was used to compose a brief introduction of the historical andcontemporary background of the
cycle with the two codebooks. Two researchers then reviewed the analysis tocorroborate its trustworthiness20. Plans to expand this work include potential quantitative analysisusing frequency counts25, and expansion of data analysis using multiple coders24. TABLE 2: Aggregate codebook using Deakin Crick Et al.’s seven Dimensions of Learning Power 6 and emergent categories • Circle bullet Indicates preliminary definition Ø Arrow bullet Indicates emerging definition 1. Change and Learning (as opposed to stuck & static) • The extent to which students see themselves grow as learners Ø Take steps to expand their repertoire of learning skills 2. Meaning Making (as opposed to data accumulation) • Links to prior learning (what
“altering the melody” or“creating a parallel structure,” while moments of agreement might be described as“harmonizing” with the other “dancer” or “partner,” as opposed to agreeing with an “opponent.”As referenced in section 4.3 of this paper, engineers think and express themselves in terms ofwar-based metaphors, as product designers communicate how they plan to target a specificdemographic, and capture a percentage of those target users.2.4 Categories of metaphorIn this study, the term “metaphor” is used broadly to refer to many metaphorical forms ofnonliteral similarity comparison. In addition to the aforementioned definition of metaphor(section 2.1), this study examines the following subtypes of metaphor:• Personification ascribes human drives
forwhich they were responsible for reviewing.PresentationsThe student presentations were similar to many conference presentations I have witnessed. Eventhough the class discussed presentation etiquette prior to the presentations, the majority of thestudents exceeded the 20 minute time limit, and there were presenters who also read every slide.RecommendationsThere are Universities that require a technical writing course in their graduate engineeringcurriculum. From conversations will fellow faculty at peer institutions, the course content canvary significantly. However, a course dedicated to technical writing best addresses writing thana graduate subject matter course. Future plans include gathering faculty input regarding thetopics of such a
about essentialism, meritocracy, individualism,and exceptionalism trump the opportunity to take a feminist critique to its logical conclusion.We end by exploring the irony of their simultaneous adherence to and rejection of feministcritiques of engineering.IntroductionAt each career stage, engineering is persistently white and male.1 Whether in the classroom2,3 orthe workplace,4,5 research continues to show that women confront a “chilly climate”6,7 wherethey experience token status.8 At the stage of credential acquisition, where engineers encounterprofessional socialization for the first time and earn their degree, research has also shown thatthis climate has consequences for women‟s career plans, whether measured by the likelihood oftheir
sciences (2) majors that were started before the 2000-2001 academic year (Table 1).The environmental design degree was housed in the College of Architecture and Planning. Eightof the programs were accredited by ABET’s EAC; one was Computing Association Commission(CAC)-accredited; 12 were non-accredited.The admissions criteria for majors in the CEAS differed from those in the College of Arts andSciences. These differences were reflected in the average high school GPA of the first-year students who matriculated into various majors, which ranged from a high of 3.90 in Aerospace Engineering to a low of 3.28 in Geography (based on the fall 2008 class). Table 1. The 21 studied undergraduate degree programs
to know and be able to do by the time of graduation.”One of the Student Outcomes for the 2019-2020 cycle is “(5) an ability to function effectively ona team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusiveenvironment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives ” [7]. These strategic documentsguide all engineering programs and are more than aspirational. They are meant to affect change,so implementing action to produce students with habitually effective leadership skills starts withthe faculty.BackgroundToday's students are usually very comfortable with technology, have shorter attention spans, alower threshold for boredom, resist memorization and homework and favor action to observation[8]. Learning
initial solution concepts as well as to the final design. (FEAS) Feasibility Assessing and passing judgment on a possible or planned solution to the problem. (EVAL) Evaluation Comparing and contrasting two or more solutions to the problem on a particular dimension such as strength or cost. (DEC) Decision Selecting one idea or solution to the problem from among those considered. (COM) Communication Communicating elements of the design in writing, or with oral reports to parties. (OTH) Other None of the above codesTwo other variables included in
ensuringthat colleges and universities integrate these skills in their curriculum [4]. To determine whichprofessional skills are important for career success, researchers have queried academics,students, and practitioners in a range of engineering disciplines and country contexts. Chan et al.identify 38 skills including critical thinking, conflict management, and time management [5]. Astudy of practicing engineers in New Zealand maintained the importance of communication andethics but added career planning, leadership, and project management [6]. In addition to confusion over what makes up this professional skill set, no consensusexists on what to call this group of skills. Some research uses a single term, while others usemultiple terms
members starting a chain of catalyticpositive changes in sanitation and hygiene.” This care statement aligns with her research onsustainable and equitable funding schemes for sanitation campaigns. But rather than developingengineering solutions or economic models, her focus is now on how to measure the impact ofsanitation interventions―an endeavor that could inform funding plans akin to social impactbonds.While in India, Sarah focused on sanitation and hygiene metrics specifically for the collaboratorsat ESI. She hopes to continue working with Dr. Hariharan to research metrics for socialimpact―unencumbered by any sense of obligation to build anything.Case study of Student B:When Devika arrived at the KGC, she had taken the course two years prior
AC 2012-3526: INTEGRATION OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SO-CIETY (STS) COURSES INTO THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUMDr. Wesley Marshall P.E., University of Colorado, Denver Wesley Marshall is an Assistant Professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado, Denver, and Co-director of the Active Communities Transportation (ACT) research group. He focuses on transporta- tion research dedicated to building a more sustainable infrastructure, particularly in terms of improving road safety, active transportation, and transit-oriented communities. Other recent research topics involve transportation planning, congestion pricing, human behaviors, parking, and street networks. A native of Watertown, Mass., Marshall is a
the pedagogical approaches and classroomstructure in their HSS lectures and tutorials. If they manage to enroll in a course withcomparatively low engineering representation, they often feel isolated from their peers, and ifthey choose to enroll in an HSS elective with high out of department enrollment they are oftenshepherded into a non-arts and science lecture section or tutorial with no change in the way thatmaterial is delivered or discussed. While they may watch different modes of thought at work, it’sunlikely that they are proficient in their use or convinced of their benefit by course’s end. Andwhile another calendar entry strongly encourages students to “plan their complementary studieselectives in accordance with their career
students develop effective written andoral communication. In the summer of 2010, Professor Moore taught a modified versionof that course in Santander, Spain. The course was offered to UT Engineering students aspart of a larger UT study abroad program that takes up to 50 biology, engineering, andbusiness students to Spain for a 6-week course of study. The program is especiallybeneficial to engineering students who are not always accommodated by study abroadprograms which often only offer liberal arts courses that do not allow engineeringstudents to progress in their programs. Engineering Communication has proved to be anexcellent course for study abroad because it allows students the opportunity to complete arequired course in their degree plan
36 151 Strategic Plan 2015-2020 11 Codes of Ethics ASCE Code of Ethics 12 4 22 123 (COE) ASME Code of Ethics 13 2 18 51 National Society of Professional 2 19 97 Engineers (NSPE) Code of Ethics 14 Profession-wide ABET Criteria for Accrediting 31 22 103 Position Statements Engineering Programs 15 (Prof-wide Position) National