implementation of structural health monitoring (SHM) tools and techniques used for evaluating the current conditions and predicting the future conditions of large civil infrastructure. Mr. Alexander is also an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), where he has served as a past branch president, section president, and regional governor. He is currently the chair of the ASCE Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, and concentrates on advancing the value of diversity and inclusion within the civil engineering community. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Codifying Diversity as Ethics: The American Society of Civil Engineers Code of EthicsCanon 8IntroductionCivil
communicate with people from different backgrounds. 5.98 1.00 Q1_2 articulate opinions on issues related to diversity 5.53 1.20 Q1_3 learn about race/ethnicity in an engineering classroom 5.80 1.36 Q1_4 learn about gender issues in an engineering classroom 5.69 1.39 Q1_5 learn about oppression and discrimination in an engineering classroom 5.63 1.44 Q1_6 learn about ethics in an engineering classroom 6.18 1.05 Q1_7 learn about gender in an engineering classroom 5.68 1.44 Q1_8 learn about sexual orientation in an engineering classroom
introduce topics such as thehistory of technological innovations, profiles of important innovators, engineering and socialjustice, and engineering ethics. The instructor framed the discussions around societal and culturalintersections with engineering, providing an opportunity for in-class discussion of issues thatstudents find important to engineering. For example, one of the authors of this paper uses lecturetime to discuss how different engineering disciplines evolved over time. Historic and non-western examples were used to highlight elements of engineering that expand students’conception of the profession, while local examples drew students into issues that might directlyimpact their own lives. The course also highlighted the contributions of
perspective on how individual professions studytheir engineering education profession as it relates to diversity and inclusiveness. Each year, thenominations resulted in five or six finalists arising from different divisions which included the K-12 and Pre-College Engineering, First Year Programs, Liberal Education/Engineering andSociety, Mechanical Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation, andMultidisciplinary Engineering Divisions in 2015, the Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering,Educational Research and Methods, Engineering Ethics, Women in Engineering Division and thePacific Southwest Section in 2016, and the Aerospace Division, Diversity Committee, LiberalEducation/Engineering & Society Division, Mathematics Division, and
topics and do long problems on the board and no one ever stopped to ask questions because he would make no effort to help us understand the topics.”These comments demonstrate the crucial role of professors as ambassadors of the profession instudents’ early careers. Engagement with the professors/T.A.s Lectures and activities in class Doing homework & assignments Helpful textbook, handouts, and other resources Collaboration with fellow classmates; study groups Internship experiences My own technical skills and work ethic 0
education into engineeringcurriculum at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Diversity education here includes coursesaddressing the culture and social context of engineering, the disparate outcomes of engineersbelonging to groups traditionally underrepresented in engineering, and inclusive engineeringpractice. Courses such as these would help students contextualize their experiences and those ofothers in a larger body of knowledge about human interaction, challenge implicit biases, andmake a statement about institutional values of inclusion. These courses may align with a largermovement in engineering education to integrate ethics, human-centered design, leadershipdevelopment, and community-based project work—considerations of people, in other
Paper ID #17699Managing Transformation to Crack Open Engineering EducationDr. Jennifer Karlin, University of Southern Maine Jennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneurship and economic development. She is now at the University of Southern Maine where she is a research professor of engineering and the curriculum specialist for the Maine Regulatory Training and Ethics Center.Dr. Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington Dr. Allendoerfer is a Research Scientist
had similar ways of thinking. These students highlightedaspects of their own or their peers’ latent diversity that made them different than the describednorms described by Naomi, Ayida, and Casey above. These students focused on personality(mainly introversion and extraversion), people who solved problems differently (top-down orbottom-up approaches), and work ethic as ways in which their peers showed aspects of latentdiversity that made them belong in engineering.The interview process provided an opportunity for students like Nathan (mechanical engineer) toclarify how he felt about diversity of thought in engineering. When asked about diverse ways ofthinking, Nathan focused on the introversion and extraversion dimension of personality
Karlin, University of Southern Maine Jennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneurship and economic development. She is now at the University of Southern Maine where she is a research professor of engineering and the curriculum specialist for the Maine Regulatory Training and Ethics Center.Dr. Cassandra M Degen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Cassandra Degen received her B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 2007. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2012
conversations about equity anddiversity in the classroom. The engineering curriculum is not neutral, and knowledge is producedwithin a power-driven social and cultural system [3, 4]. ABET student outcomes are not entirelytechnical and include that students must have an understanding of professional and ethicalresponsibility, the broad education necessary to understand engineering impacts in a global andsocietal context, and knowledge of contemporary issues. Nevertheless, discussing the societaland ethical implications of engineering and technology is often a daunting task for bothengineering students and instructors [5].At our university, as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Revolutionizing Engineeringand Computer Science Departments (RED
current professionalgraduate students of a university industrial distribution program, through industrial distributiontrade organizations and online networking or recruitment sites.All potential participants were emailed a link to an online study hosted by Qualtrics. The surveybegan with an introduction explaining that the purpose of the study is to identify genderperceptions related to the trends, challenges, and opportunities for women interested in orcurrently engaged in a career in industrial distribution. All survey questions were anonymouswith an opt-out feature if a respondent did not choose to answer. We received IRB approval priorto running the study, and all respondents were treated ethically. Of the original 293 participants,282
(where 1 = Not Really, 3 = Neutral and 5 = Absolutely). Dimensions Developed to Measure Participant’s CS Interest Code Dimension atcs Attitudes about CS competency. atcsgender Attitudes about the role of gender in CS atct Understanding of computational thinking blg Sense of belonging in the CS classroom. clet Attitudes about social implications and ethics. cltrcmp Understanding around cultural competency. mtr Access to CS Mentors. prcs Pre-Collegiate CS awareness. Table 1: Survey Instrument Dimensions to Measure CS
, holistic thinking, leadership, and academic achievement. Students alsodiscussed the ideal educational environment around content delivery and user-empowered choices.Dissociation described students’ experiences where they felt disconnected from engineeringbecause of their dyslexia—the diagnosis of having a learning disability or language-basedchallenges. Finally, students’ time was a major factor in their engineering experiences related toaccommodations, processing speed, and work ethic. Other research has shown that students withnon-traditional ways of thinking including ADHD have significant creative potential86–89. Thisresearch emphasizes the need to understand the challenges and capacity of students with cognitivediversity to promote different
modeling learning and reasoning processes. In particular, he is attracted to fine-grained analysis of video data both from a micro- genetic learning analysis methodology (drawing on knowledge in pieces) as well as interaction analysis methodology. He has been working on how learners’ emotions are coupled with their conceptual and epistemological reasoning. He is also interested in developing models of the dynamics of categorizations (ontological) underlying students’ reasoning in physics. Lately, he has been interested in engineering design thinking and engineering ethics education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 “Turning Away” from the Struggling Individual