Technology (ABET) include several student outcomes related to contextualcompetence: “c) An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needswithin realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health andsafety, manufacturability, and sustainability; f) An understanding of professional and ethicalresponsibility; h) The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineeringsolutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context; j) A knowledge ofcontemporary issues” [15]. Several recent studies explored contextual competence inengineering—“the constraints and impacts of social, cultural, environmental, political, and othercontexts on engineering solutions” [7], [8]—but
. The following learning outcomes are what the course was designed around: 1- Be able to applyTRIZ problem solving to novel problems, and Manufacturing Design Principles and Human-Centered Design principles to projects, 2- Be able to identify, formulate, and solve engineeringproblems and to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineeringpractice, and 3- To understand the ethical responsibility. Nine lectures were developed, where each was designed to last three hours (with the labcomponent), and four labs were held throughout the semester that were designed to reinforce keylearning concepts. The lectures and the labs are shown in Table 1. Table 1. The nine lectures and the four labs that were held
another (remote learning) occurred.Something that is not able to be explicitly stated from the survey data is the impact of theconnection with our students. The authors all had the same personal conclusion that, although wewanted more, the sense of connection via Teams with our students was as vital to our well-beingin this uncertain time as we hope it was for our students. This approach provided the opportunityto continue to make “constructive utterances” and ensure we all had “enough turn taking” tohave a positive experience.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe authors want to acknowledge our students! Throughout this unprecedented series of events,we are incredibly proud of their work ethic and perseverance, as well as their steadfast resolve tobecome the
). One critical element in developing and pursuing sustainable goals ishuman capital and hence the reform of undergraduate engineering education has received muchattention. The motivation for academic institutions to incorporate sustainability principles intoengineering education is manifold, including meeting criteria of accreditation boards likeAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) across the globe, policies andregulations from government agencies and increase in the standards required by industries thatprovide employment to engineers(3, 5, 7). According to the National Society of ProfessionalEngineers (NSPE), one of the professional obligations under the NSPE code of ethics, requiresengineers to adhere to the principles of
interest include: STEM Education, Cybersecurity Education, Cybersecurity Policy, Social Engineering, Information Technology Ethics, and Cybersecurity Workforce Development.Dr. Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University at West Lafayette Alejandra Magana is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology and an affil- iated faculty at the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a B.E. in Information Systems, a M.S. in Technology, both from Tec de Monterrey; and a M.S. in Educational Technology and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research is focused on identifying how model-based cognition in STEM can be better supported by means of expert technological
real world. I have noticed that the ones that are open to outside experience do listen and try to apply what we do/say into their work. Some will even ask questions and try to learn more directly as well. An example is in control systems, when we were going over frequency and time domains. My communications background allowed me to explain that information in a different way to a couple of the other students and show how that education is applied in industry. From our work ethics, to our different knowledge bases I do think we make a positive impact on the performance of the other students.”MethodsTo conclude whether veteran students have a positive influence on the grades of non-veteranstudents, student
typically female or male firstname but were otherwise identical. When asked to provide both quantitative and qualitativeassessment of qualifications of the two candidates, participating students gave the female resumelower quantitative marks and honed in on non-technical and language skills more so than they didin their evaluations of the male candidate. This paper presents the findings of this initial study andoutlines a path toward a more comprehensive look at gender-bias in engineering studentperceptions of qualifications.IntroductionIn the Fall of 2019, the author taught a required, senior-level mechanical engineering courseintended to develop student career readiness through discussions and guest lectures on topics suchas ethics, codes and
activities was useful to increasestudents’ employability [6], professional ethics [7], skills for writing a business plan [8] andthe like. Despite of the promotion of these educational efforts, however, the impact of TIECson engineering students’ entrepreneurship intention and behaviors, remain scarcely answered.Entrepreneurial intention, as the prerequisite and the best prediction of entrepreneurialbehavior, have an important impact on actual entrepreneurial behavior. This research focuseson engineering students’ entrepreneurial intention and sets out to explore the impact ofengagement in TIECs on their entrepreneurial intention. This study aims to examine tworesearch questions: 1) In the context of TIECs, what are the factors that affect
of engineering identity: definitions, factors, and interventions affecting development, and means of measurement. European Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 42(6), 1240-1262, Feb 2017, http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/uvMnAdrywrDPeXMbFicE/full, https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2017.128766423. A. Furnham & J. Marks (2013). Tolerance of Ambiguity: A Review of the Recent Literature. Psychology, Vol. 4, 717-728. doi: 10.4236/psych.2013.4910224. A. Furnham & T. Ribchester (1995). Tolerance of ambiguity: A review of the concept, its measurement and applications. Current Psychology, Vol. 14, 179-199. doi:10.1007/BF0268690725. W. G. Perry Jr. (1970). Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College
, orother students with sufficient programming backgrounds. We have two objectives: the firstis to introduce deep learning to undergraduate students as a modern topic, and the secondis to assess the students’ performance and find suitable RA candidates for our researchteam.2. Course SetupCPS4420 Software Engineering is a major required course that offers in the fall semesterevery year. This course teaches students design and implementation issues for softwaresystems, including software life cycle, requirements definition and specification,prototyping, verification, validation, testing, fault-tolerance, social and ethical issues ofcommercial software, and software management. The prerequisites for this course includeCPS 1191 Computer Science I
Predeparture Seminars Program introduction 4.7 Research methods 4.5 Communication skills 4.7 Ethics in research 4.6 Workshop duration 4.2 Program in Scotland Meetings with mentors 4.1 Nonresearch activities 4.2 Accommodation 4.8them” as the highlights of the program. One person said no and cited the short duration of theprogram (8 weeks).We also asked the students to write any additional comments as
bioplastics. Engineering aspects of the physical, mechanical andchemical properties of bioplastics were investigated.A brief summary of each module for the lectures and hands-on activities of the chemicalengineering course, with the most important steps is described below:Module 0: Introduction to Chemical Engineering and Lab SafetyThe focus of this module is to introduce students to engineering concepts and show that engineersdesign, conduct experiments then analyze and interpret the data. Students learned that engineersdesign a system, component or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such aseconomic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability andsustainability. The field of Chemical
) Inclusion and diversity, 7) Indigenous worldview, 8)Other ethical considerations. Also, in the final coding round, the responses of the citizen scientistparticipants were classified as present-self-oriented, or future-community-oriented in accordanceto the Egan Review.Findings and DiscussionThe initial coding data of this work-in-progress paper as of yet, are listed in Table 2. The word“artifact” is used to quantify the number of verbal exchanges expressing a sustainability mindsetthat were generated by the participants during interviews or focus groups. Citizen scienceparticipants from households 2 and 4 generated a total sub-sample of 19 artifacts across the entryinterviews (green shaded cells), interim focus groups (yellow shaded cells), and
gateway andcornerstone engineering design course that will introduce human-centered design concepts inapplied scenarios. Modeled after the successful Engineering Service Learning course at UCMerced, the students in the HCRD course will be open to all majors at the university, bothengineering and non-engineering. Design concepts such as problem identification, stakeholderand context development, specification development and market analysis, iterative prototypingand evaluation, collaborative writing, client interactions, ethics, and other topics will be covered.Online videos with accompanying quizzes will assess the subject matter understanding of thestudents. In-class discussions will be conducted with students with real-world examples of
, formal instruction on teamwork may be limited.As part of a curriculum improvement process within the Mechanical Engineering department atRose-Hulman Institute of Technology, we are working to coordinate “threads” that cut acrosscourses in the curriculum, e.g., student teaming, technical communication, business acumen,ethics, and ill-structured problems. Each active thread is championed by a small facultycommittee, charged with prompting and analyzing department reflections, moderating anddocumenting departmental discussions of results, and collecting and sharing evidence-basedpractices relevant to the thread. Each thread is following coordinated change processes acrossdimensions presented by Borrego and Henderson [2] in order to have a greater
problem or need 4. Work effectively as a team with a clearly defined goal and document team activities 5. Assess the validity of individual and team assumptions about the design problem and client needs 6. Articulate the design tradeoffs that arise from these sustainability, safety, and ethics issues that relate to a specific design problem 7. Apply oral communication theories and concepts to the design processBased on these LOs, several open educational resources were identified to be used as textbooksfor ENGR 180. Various team based projects were developed as part of the formative andsummative assessments used to ensure that the LOs were being met.Project ExamplesCookie Sandwich ProjectOne of the team based projects
-year engineering students, so that the root cause behind the increasing failure canbe understood and subsequently addressed. Hence, this study will contribute to the existingliterature by answering the fundamental questions posed on the different types of study strategiesand their relationship with students’ academic achievement.Research MethodsSiteThe data was collected from two sections of required first-year engineering course at a largemidwestern university. The topics covered in this course were data visualization and analysis,engineering design, ethics, programming concepts by using MATLAB software, and thedevelopment of mathematical models to solve the engineering problems collaboratively. Theresearch team didn’t impact the site
outcomes (1-7) [13] 1. ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics. 2. an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors 3. an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences 4. an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts 5. an
accreditation criteria to include:3(c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needsThe EAC eventually expanded the criteria to include:4(c) an ability 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 sustainabilityFor the 2020-2021 accreditation cycle the EAC revised the Student Outcome Assessment criteriato include:52. an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs withconsideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social,environmental, and economic factorsAmongst the description for “Engineering Design
Paper ID #31512WIP: Motivations and Outcomes of an Undergraduate Teaching AssistantshipProgramMr. Barukh Ben Rohde, University of Florida PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of FloridaDr. Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida Elliot P. Douglas is Professor of Environmental Engineering Sciences and Engineering Education, and Distinguished Teaching Scholar at the University of Florida. His research interests are in the areas of problem-solving, cultures of inclusion in engineering, engineering ethics, and environmental justice. American
and student learning; and social and ethical issues in STEM research and teaching. Her work includes creating opportunities for students to globalize their engineering degrees and mentoring students in teaching. In addition, Dr. Kim has mentored numerous student entrepreneurial teams to success. For more information, visit her website at: https://faculty.eng.ufl.edu/gloria-kim/Prof. Yong Kyu Yoon, University of Florida Yong Kyu Yoon is a professor in the Deoartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida. He has research interests in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), micro sensors and actuators, nanofabrication, and radio frequency and microwave engineering.Prof. Jin-Woo Choi, Louisiana
course will be open to all majors at the university, bothengineering and non-engineering. Design concepts such as problem identification, stakeholderand context development, specification development and market analysis, iterative prototypingand evaluation, collaborative writing, client interactions, ethics and other topics will be covered.Online videos with accompanying quizzes will assess the subject matter understanding of thestudents. In-class discussions will be conducted with students with real-world examples of theapplication of each design principle or skill, followed by related homework assignments.Reflections questions will be provided each week through written prompts to allow students tomake connections between the subject matter
the areas of problem-solving, cultures of inclusion in engineering, engineering ethics, and environmental justice.Dr. David J Therriault, University of Florida Dr. Therriault, an Associate Professor joined the College of Education at the University of Florida in 2004. He received his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of New Hampshire and his M. A. and Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Therriault’s primary research interests include the representation of text in memory, comprehending time and space in language, the link between attention and intelligence, the use of perceptual symbols in language, and educational issues related to these
analysis, as well as improving engineering education by integration of software to the classroom. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020Work-In-Progress: Using Jupyter Notebooks to Climb Bloom’s Taxonomy in ThermodynamicsIntroductionTo be effective engineers in the 21st century, students need a holistic understanding of thechallenges that they face in a given project. This includes ethical, economic, social, andenvironmental aspects of a design, in addition to the technical aspects. Traditional engineeringeducation focuses primarily on the latter of these, usually leaving the other aspects to the laterstages of a student’s educational program
Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) and Director for the Engineering Plus program. She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where students learned about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in en- gineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and
pedagogies. In additional to traditional hands-on training, extended reality (XR), including Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Substitutional Reality, (SR), and Mixed Reality (MR) potentially provide more freedom to cover both theoretical and practical learning, with assistance of other software. The usage of big data technology will also provide large amount of real and well-examined results and experiences to shorten the learning curves. Social impacts of new mechatronic technologies: The new mechatronic systems are changing our life. The social impacts including legal regulations, safeties, privacies, economics, and ethics from these new devices need to be addressed. For example, the introduction of
the students and in line with other successful activitiesintegrated in the past [5, 6].Literature Review on Drone-based ProjectsMany schools and universities have tried to incorporate drone technology and its importance intotheir curriculum to create awareness among the students about its benefits and give them anadvantage over others in the competitive world outside. Several institutions focus on the use ofdrones in the field, their applications in engineering, and as a means to promote ethics. Russelland Ristvey of University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) establish that story-driven engineering tasks, where real life obstacles were given to students to realize the potentialof drone technology, encouraged student enrolment in
Paper ID #32084Three Years After Rollout: A Report on Systemic Changes in a First-YearEngineering ProgramDr. Amy J. Hamlin, Michigan Technological University AJ Hamlin is a Principle Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Tech- nological University, where she teaches first-year engineering courses. Her research interests include engineering ethics, spatial visualization, and educational methods. She is an active member in the Mul- tidisciplinary Engineering and the Engineering Design Graphics Divisions of ASEE. For the Multidisi- plinary Division she has served as the Secretary/Treasurer and
classified and tabulatedparticipants’ translation of the verbal and figural problem representations into free-body diagrams,correct identification of problem assumptions, accurate expansion of key equations, and monitoringthe problem solving process through checking. Taraban et al. showed that these and relatedprocesses were able to distinguish more- vs less-skilled problem solvers.Recent advances in machine-assisted text analysis have created new opportunities for teachingengineering students and for analyzing their data. Introduction of art and humanities intoengineering curricula [4], team problem-solving, critical analyses of ethical dilemmas, and otherforms of text-based qualitative data are emerging in engineering classrooms. Other
. Traditional Power and Renewable Energy. appropriate computer methods to analyze new problems they will encounter in their future professional life;; Traditional power applications have long been signaling an (3) to evaluate students’ assignments honestly and fairly;alarm that currently employed workforce is ageing [1,2] and (4) to help them to develop broader skills, such as criticalthat hiring of younger workers is problematic. The problem is thinking, efficient communications, and ethical views;not unique to the US, and is echoed in other countries around (4) and to motivate students to stay interested in pursuingthe