Paper ID #5936Teaching social topics in engineering: The case of energy policy and socialgoalsMr. Rylan C. Chong, Purdue University, West Lafayette Rylan Chong is a master’s student in the Information Security Program and affiliated with the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Chaminade University of Honolulu. His research areas include global policy, ethics, information security and assurance, technology adoption, biometrics, education, pharmaceutical supply chain, and energy.Dr. Dennis R. Depew, Purdue University
. The authors will beaddressing this issues in the future iterations of this project by allowing several students with samemajors contributing to the same group.One of the challenges of practicing engineering is the ability to research and find appropriate technologyto meet the needs of the task at hand. Overall, the realworld project addressed several AccreditedBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria for student outcomes, specifically, (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering; (b) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economics, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety
typically include the following [6]: Provide students an opportunity to synthesize knowledge from formal and informal learning and apply such knowledge to contemporary issues in the field Help prepare students for a successful career by providing experiences that enhance their labor market advantage Increase students’ understanding of the “big picture” including ethical and social issues related to the field Help students understand the relevance of theory and research to practice Provide opportunities for teamwork and leadershipBecause of the importance of capstone programs, ABET has delineated key components thatthese programs must have to be valid capstone experiences and to induce students to
at UVa, where they will have several writing intensive coursesas part of the major’s requirements: SYS 3023, Human-Machine Interaction; SYS 4053/4054,Systems Design I and II (“Capstone”), which culminates in a submission to and presentation atthe IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium; and STS 4500/4600 –Science, Technology, Science and Engineering Practice and The Engineer, Ethics, andProfessional Responsibilities, the classes in which the fourth year thesis is written.Another change for the Fall, 2012 offering of the course was the expansion of the readings. Toprovide additional insight on the practice of systems engineering, selections from Blanchard andFabrycky18 and Kossiakoff, et al.25 became part of the reading list
, which focus on teaching first-year engineering students criticalthinking, computer modeling, teamwork and communication skills. They included a mix of 20freshman and sophomore level students each semester. ASU’s courses were advancedengineering courses, which focus on teaching a multidisciplinary group of students integratedand ethical tools used to design and manage engineered human-natural systems. They included amix of 82 sophomore, junior and senior level students in 2012 and a comparable mix of 77students in 2013. Module learning objectives and associated Bloom’s levels of intellectualbehavior11 for both MCC and ASU courses are listed in Table 2.Table 1. Water-for-Energy Water Footprint Module Implementation During 2012-2013 Academic Year
ethical decision-making in un- dergraduate engineering students. Dr. Finelli leads a national initiative to create a taxonomy/keyword outline for the field of engineering education research, and she is past chair of the Educational Research and Methods Division of the American Society of Engineering Education.Ms. Kenyon M Richardson Kenyon Richardson is a program assistant and research assistant with the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching in Engineering at the University of Michigan. Currently, she is assisting with an NSF grant- funded study on faculty motivation to adopt effective classroom practices. She has a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and is interested in the use of computer-assisted qualitative
project. More serious lab activities actuallycommenced in Spring 2011 in the second course of the senior design.For the Spring lab activities, the student team including the sophomores regularly met for about 5hours of lab work per week, split into two lab sessions, in addition to seniors’ own lab activities.As part of the senior design course, seniors were assessed on some of the key ABET-definedstudent learning outcomes, such as a) ability to design a system, component, or process to meetdesired needs, b) ability to function on multidisciplinary teams, c) understanding of professionaland ethical responsibility, d) ability to communicate effectively, and e) recognition of the need for,and an ability to engage in life-long learning. In addition
widely used drug or consumer product.For example, one problem explores the role of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) andexcipients (binders, filler, lubricants) in the formulation of drugs through unit conversions andmass/mole/volume composition problems. Other problems are made to convey course objectives Page 23.793.4in areas such as health, safety, and ethics. The problem (Figure 2) on diethylene glycolpoisoning is particularly interesting since it is based on the actual 1930’s case of a companydistributing a “drug” without proper testing. By using this problem, students learn about
learners becoming aware offacts, to engaged learners understanding and analyzing concepts, to interactive/introspectivelearners able to assign value and discuss ethics, to global self-regulated learners who grasp theirrelation with the world, evaluate options for positive action, and share their learning with others.3For engineering education program development, it is important to see that students need toreach the level of interaction if they are to have the capacity and the desire to consider the valueof a project, to decide what really matters and to answer the question - for what good purpose(cui bono?).Several recent publications from The National Academies Press are useful in setting theeducational context for the relational learning
Engineering & Mechanics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Papadopoulos has diverse research and teaching interests in structural mechanics, biomechanics, appro- priate technology, engineering ethics, and engineering education. He serves as Secretary of the ASEE Mechanics Division and serves on numerous committees at UPRM that relate to undergraduate and grad- uate education.Aidsa Ivette Santiago Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Aidsa I. Santiago-Rom´an is a Tenured Assistant Professor in the General Engineering Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM). Dr. Santiago earned a BA and MS in Industrial Engineering from UPRM and Ph.D in Engineering Education from
Conversion project lead with the iFoundry and on the steering committee of the College of Engineering’s Strategic Instructional Initiatives Program.Kathryn F Trenshaw, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignProf. Michael C. Loui, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Michael C. Loui is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and University Distinguished Teacher-Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His interests include computational complexity theory, professional ethics, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He serves as editor of the Journal of Engineering Education and as a member of the editorial boards of College Teaching and Accountability in Research. He is a Carnegie
50-minute periods which is twice that for a lecture-based course, reflecting the studio nature of EDSGN 100.The first project is more structured and provides the students with an opportunity to learn andapply a design process while developing their teamwork, communication, and ethics skills. Thesecond project is industry-sponsored and more open-ended, and typically all teams in all sectionswork on the same project. Students apply stakeholder needs assessment, ideation, research,analysis, testing, concept selection, detailed design, prototyping, and reporting.In the Zero Energy Home (ZEH) project, students work in four person teams to design the homeof their dreams with the main constraint being that it must produce as much energy as it
: Comsol Training Week 2 May 26 10:00am-12:00pm Seminar: How to Conduct Research? May 28 10:00am-12:00pm Group Meeting June 03 2:00pm-5:00pm Field Trip: Visit the University of Science and Technology Beijing Week 3 June 04 9:00am-10:00pm Presentation: Research Ethics 10:00am-12:00pm Group Meeting June 11 10:00am-11:00am Seminar: Introduction to Heat Pipes Week 4 11:00am-12:00am Group Meeting (Mid-term project presentation) 2:00pm-5:00pm Field Trip: Visit Beijing Aeronautics and Astronautics University Field Trip: Visit Fuel Cell Research
Jason Durfee is an Associate Professor of Engineering & Design at Eastern Washington University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University. He holds a Professional Engineer certification. Prior to teaching at Eastern Washington University, he was a military pilot, an engineering instructor at West Point and an airline pilot. His interests include aerospace, aviation, computational fluid dynamics, professional ethics, and piano technology.Ms. Doris M Munson, Eastern Washington University Doris M. Munson is the Systems/Reference Librarian at Eastern Washington University Libraries. She holds a M.L.S. from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a B.S. from Oregon
Page 23.100.2concepts and to impact the breadth of student learning (in terms of ABET outcomes “(c) anability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realisticconstraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety,manufacturability, and sustainability” and (h) “the broad education necessary to understand theimpact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context”).The senior design project can serve as an excellent culminating experience in the program ofstudy when it focuses on research and design projects that have practical value to consumers orto industry. For the ET program at Drexel University, the senior design course is a year
showed not only a high degree ofsatisfaction among the graduate student population, but also a general improvement of skills ineach of the three main focus areas.IntroductionAlthough industry requires young Ph.D.s. with well-rounded professional skills,1 many newgraduates lack these skills. First, with large number graduate students matriculating frominternational undergraduate programs, many students lack the ABET-required skills such asworking in multidisciplinary teams; understanding professional and ethical responsibility; andunderstanding the economic, environmental, and societal impact of their decisions.2,3Communications skills are also an issue.4 Second, for many universities the typical target forplacement of doctoral students is in
students in need got extra attention in times that the pace of the course was fast. Because of this particular students’ decision to stay on and try harder he began to open up about his fears and concerns about transferring to a four year university. During a session of field work this student asked: “How hard are other courses and how do they compare to this course?” This question started a conversation about work ethic and how much effort would be needed to succeed in an engineering curriculum at university. The instructors expressed that it would not come easily and would need a high level of commitment. Also we expressed that there would be set backs and times where they would like to give up
new trendin the energy industry. Energy-using system designers are paying more attention to lifetimeenergy costs.By preparing students to work in the renewable energy field, the REET program will be poisedto be one of the forces driving this change. Educating experts and professionals who can solvethe problems of utilizing a broad range of energy resources more efficiently and more effectivelywhile being sensitive to the environmental and human costs often associated with energygeneration is a fundamental need of the market. Statistics show that there is a growing trend inthe "Renewable Energy Industry" which provides justification for the growing need for thesekinds of professionals in this global industry, where sustainability and ethics
. Introduction A quote by John Reinert, an engineering manager at Aeroflux Microelectronics inColorado Springs, CO states, “The soft skills are just as important the engineering skills.” Thisstatement has been proven to be true for companies of all sizes, particularly for small startups,which employ a large percentage of engineers who graduate from various schools. This isbecause at a small startup company that is trying to make in-roads into a new market, using thesesoft skills are extremely important. The technical skills are the defining skills and the soft skillsare the enabling skills. These soft skills include: Oral and written presentation skills, ethics,interpersonal skills, understanding globalization, how to function on teams as well
socialization in chemistry and history. Higher Education, 2006. 54: p. 723-740.8. Blackmore, K. and K. Nesbitt. Identifying Risks for Cross-Disciplinary Higher Degree Research Students. in Proc. Tenth Australasian Computing Education Conference. 2008. Wollongong, Australia.9. Vanstone, M., et al., Interdisciplinary Doctoral Research Supervision: A scoping review. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, in press 2013.10. Goodyear, R., C. Crego, and M. Johnston, Ethical Issues in the Supervision of Student Research: A Study of Critical Incidents. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 1992. 23(3): p. 203-210.11. Nisselle, A. and R. Duncan, Multiple supervisors from multiple disciplines: Lessons from the past as
studies at the Instituto Tecnol´ogico de Celaya, M´exico. Her research interests are in the field of Process Systems Engineering, and include the analysis and design of thermally coupled and alternative distillation configurations, the design of nonideal distillation systems and the synthesis, optimization and control of chemical process with recycles streams.Prof. Ramirez Apud Lopez Zaira, Universidad de las Americas Puebla Zaira Ram´ırez is Science, Engineering, and Technology Education Ph.D. Student at Universidad de las Americas Puebla in Mexico. She teaches ethics and development complex thinking skills related courses. Her research interests include faculty development, outcomes assessment, and creating effective
semesterrepresents half a year of enrollment).The biological engineering program used this course to meet several a-k outcomes during ABETaccreditation in 2009. This service-learning component was used to successfully illustratestudent mastery of the following outcomes: (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering (b) 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, Page 23.248.9 manufacturability, and sustainability (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams (h
objectives vs others.The experiment gives students exposure to Instrumentation, Models, Experimentation, and DataAnalysis (objectives 1-4 of Feisel and Rosa8). The use of a guitar string as the vehicle forlearning allows the students to develop Psychomotor (the ability to actually touch andmanipulate the device) and Sensory Awareness (objectives 8 and 12, respectively.) The exercisealso helps reinforce “soft skills that are so important in professional practice: Safety,Communication, Teamwork, Ethics (objectives 9 – 12). Tuning, fret positioning, the tone controlcircuit relate to Design (objective 5). Finally, although not intentional, students will sometimesget exposure to objective 6: Learning from Failure. The portability and affordability
such as teachers, family members, and members of theoutside community. There are many reasons to engage in community-centered instruction: toexpose students to real-world ethics and government policy; to practice communication withpeople outside their own academic and social community; to promote student reflection on howtheir work affects their community and how community affects their work; to provide a benefitto the community (a design of a useful device, information gathering and analysis); to engender asense of professional responsibility; to provide a cultural context for their work, and additionalfocus on social issues. Experiential clinical and service-learning programs involving localcommunities have been performed in the health
., gender, age, classification, and ethnic origin), the NEO–FF21 forthe five factor evaluation, and the ND–LOC19 for the LOC evaluation. Administration of theassessment battery took approximately 60 minutes. Appropriate institutional review approvalswere obtained and American Psychological Association (APA) ethical guidelines for researchwith human participants were followed.InstrumentsThis section briefly summarizes the measurement instruments employed in this study:Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS).20 The focus of the ALEKS testemployed was calculus readiness exam used by the engineering program as a means ofmeasuring students' mathematical readiness for college level calculus. Scores from the ALEKSare used to determine if a
Activities in the First Year. International Journal of Engineering Education. 2008;24(2):409-419.15. van de Poel I, van Gorp AC. The need for ethical reflection in engineering design: The relevance of type of design and design hierarchy. Science, Technology, and Human Values. 2006;31(3):333-360.16. Garrety K, Badham R. User-Centered Design and the Normative Politics of Technology. Science, Technology, and Human Values. 2004;29(2):191-212.17. Oudshoorn N, Pinch T. Introduction: How Users and Non-Users Matter. In: Oudshoorn N, Pink D, eds. How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 2003:1- 28.18. Chambers R. Whose Reality Counts? Putting the First Last. Warwickshire
problemsAbility to utilise a systems approach to (c) An ability to design a system, component, ordesign and operational performance process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainabilityAbility to function effectively as an (d) An ability to function in multidisciplinaryindividual and in multi–disciplinary and teamsmulti–cultural teams, with the capacityto be a leader or manager as well as aneffective team memberUnderstanding of the social, cultural, (h) The broad education
concluding thoughts inSection 6. 2. Course objectives and expected student outcomes of ENGR 290ENGR 290 in part addresses several ABET defined student outcomes related to global, societal,and contemporary issues. The related ABET student outcomes include the following: (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context (j) a knowledge of contemporary issuesTo achieve these outcomes, ENGR 290 China set out specific course objectives that focused onChina specific content such as how engineering is practiced in China, what are some of thedifferences between engineering
Curriculum Renewal InEngineering Education for Sustainable Development. PhD Dissertation, Griffith University.15. Jolly, L., C. Crosthwaite, L. Brodie, L. Kavanagh, and L. Buys. (2011) The impact of curriculum content infostering inclusive engineering: data from a national evaluation of the use of EWB projects in first year engineering,in AaeE 2011: Developing Engineers for Social Justice: Community Involvement, Ethics & Sustainability, Y.M. Al-Abdeli and E. Lindsay, Editors., Engineers Australia: Fremantle, Australia. Page 21.43.10
who are internationallysavvy and have a specific interest in and knowledge of Japan; and v) to educate students inculture, language and technology, in order that they may be more effective when addressingglobal scientific problems.3.2 Program Model: NanoJapan, like all PIRE-funded projects, is characterized by a tightintegration between the research and education programs. The education program is informed byParkinson’s characteristics for a ‘globally competent engineer,’ in that it encourages students toappreciate other cultures, develop proficiency working in cross-cultural teams, communicateacross cultures, practice engineering in a global environment, and evaluate ethical issues arisingfrom cultural differences14. The program model is