primary strategies researchers used to identify collaborators5 andtheir behavioral changes after collaboration8. However, few efforts have investigated the overallcollaboration pattern and why some scholars tend to collaborate.There are many factors that influence a researcher's collaboration decisions such as fields ofstudy, awareness of other academic work, levels of competition, perceived usefulness ofcollaboration, and work ethics. Among these possible factors, fields of study have beenrecognized as the most significant characteristic in determining researchers’ collaborationdecisions9. Even though there are increasing amounts of co-authored publications, suchcollaborative research varies radically in discipline10,11.In this study, we focus
Engineering, IEEE Computer, Journal or Systems and Software, Software Process: Improvement and Practice, and IEEE Software. He is the author of Antipatterns:Managing Software Organizations and People and Associate Editor-in-Chief of Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering.Dr. Joanna F. DeFranco, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley Joanna DeFranco earned her Ph.D. in computer and information science from New Jersey Institute of Technology, M.S. in computer engineering from Villanova University, and B.S. in electrical engineer- ing from Penn State University Park. She teaches graduate courses including: Problem Solving, Project Management, Software Systems Design, Computer Forensics, Ethics and Values in
GenEd curriculum 8. Although eachuniversity may have different requirements for GenEd, a survey of the American Association ofColleges and Universities identifies common themes, including science, global studies,technology, sustainability, and others 7. We maintain that the class described can be tailored tomeet a General Education requirement at many institutions. The course also is well suited foraddressing the ABET expectations that students understand the broader impacts of engineering.Practically speaking, it is our claim that energy is also an excellent topic for extending STEMeducation into the realm of social, cultural, economic, environmental, ethical, and other domains.Energy is clearly a subject for scientific and engineering study
Virginia Tech, whichenrolls 1,400 – 1,600 freshman engineering students each year. The first course, EngineeringExploration (ENGE 1024), focuses on introductory engineering topics such as problem solving,ethics, graphing, hands-on design, programming with LabVIEWTM, and contemporary issues likeglobalization and nanotechnology. The second course, Exploring the Digital Future (ENGE1104), focuses on design and problem solving from an electrical and computer engineering andcomputer science perspective and MATLABTM programming. The third course, Exploration ofEngineering Design (ENGE 1114), focuses on design, graphics communication and solidmodeling with Inventor TM, and programming with MATLABTM. All freshmen are required tocomplete ENGE1024 with a C
which students learn communication skills, ethics of the use of technology, and teamwork, among other topics. Gomez presented at the Teacher Networking Technology 2010 conference, where he presented on mobile technologies and the use of Podcast Producer to help the process of creating and publishing podcasts. Gomez also participated in MaST (Math and Sci- ence Teachers Academy) delivering workshops for the students. Gomez, as well, works with the UGLC team to provide Center for Life Learning classes to assist our returning community members in keeping up with the fast-paced and ever-changing world of technology. When not preparing our students for their technology dependent future careers, he assists in the UGLC with
developing countries. He also writes and does research in the areas of engineering ethics and engineering education.Edmond John Dougherty, Villanova University Edmond John Dougherty is a graduate of Villanova and Drexel universities. He is the Director of the Engineering Entrepreneurship program at Villanova University. He is also President of Ablaze Develop- ment Corp and a Founder of Wavecam Media. Ablaze provides electronic and software product design services. Wavecam designs, produces, and operates a number of aerial remote camera systems for sports and entertainment. He specializes in product design, engineering project management, artificial intelli- gence, and creativity. He was a key part of a team that won an
AC 2012-4913: THE LONG-TERM OUTCOMES OF AN ENGINEERINGCOURSE FOR STUDENTS OUTSIDE ENGINEERINGRenata A. Revelo Alonso, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Renata Revelo Alonso is a doctoral student in higher education in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her B.S. and M.S. are in electrical engineering from the same institution.Prof. Michael C. Loui, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Michael C. Loui is professor of electrical and computer engineering and University Distinguished Teacher- Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His interests include computational complexity theory, professional ethics, and the
intentions, creativity, and other related constructs, as well as the effects of an individual’s values and professional role orientation on STEM learning, retention, persis- tence, and ethics. Page 25.1043.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Pilot Intervention to Improve “Sense of Belonging” of Minorities in EngineeringSynopsisDuring the fall 2010 semester the Longitudinal Assessment of Engineering Self-Efficacy(LAESE) was administered to engineering students across several majors at three institutions.The purpose of this study was to examine if there were differences in
PAUL R. LEIFFER, PhD, PE Paul R. Leiffer is a professor in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology and Chairman of the Engineering Department at LeTourneau University, where he has taught since 1979. He is the co-developer of LeTourneau’s program in BioMedical Engineering. He received his B.S.E.E. from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Drexel University. Prior to joining the faculty at LeTourneau, he was involved in cardiac cell research at the University of Kansas Medical Center. His professional interests include bioinstrumentation, engineering design, digital signal processing, and engineering ethics. Email: paulleiffer@letu.edu
level of rigor that is equivalent to one 3-credithour course per year. Additionally, these CPD requirements could be specified to coverdiscipline specific needs (such as ethics and technical specialization). Currently, the number ofrequired PDH’s (in the 32 states that do require Continuing Professional Development) rangesfrom 4 per year in Florida, 8 per year in Virginia, 12 per year in five states, and 15 per year in theremaining 25 states. By raising the CPD requirements to 45 PDH’s per year, an engineer wouldgarner the equivalent of 12 credits hours in the first four years of service as an EngineeringIntern, enough equivalent credit hours for an MS after 10 years, and enough hours for a PhDafter about 20 years. Given the exponentially
reactions Manage the Nitrogen Cycle General Chemical Reactions Environmental Lesson: Engineering and Environmental Ethics Provide energy from fusion Nuclear Reactions Nuclear Lesson: E = mc 2 Preventing nuclear terror Nuclear Reactions Nuclear Lesson: E = mc2Unit 7: Stoichiometry Develop carbon sequestration methods Stoichiometry Chemical, Mat. Sci. Lesson: Suck it Up, Balance it RightUnit 8: Gas Laws
completed after the completion of the internship.The Strengths Awareness Matrix10 was developed to evaluate the change in how students per-ceived their personal strength characteristics. This assessment allows students to describe theirstrengths with phrases or adjectives and was then coded into 23 different categories for evalua-tion. The categories were based upon the most common responses received from the students.These categories were then separated into five groups that included work ethic, communication,personality, time management, trust and physical qualities. The data evaluation indicated themost notable areas of improvement measured were verbal communication skills and an aware-ness of their abilities to interact with individuals.To help
containing some of the background andcomplexities actually encountered by an engineer’6. Similar definitions apply to otherdisciplines like law, arts, music, management, teacher education, or any other fields that havemade extensive use of cases for professional training.Teaching with cases often involves several challenges for the instructor. These includediagnosing technical problems and formulating solution strategies, making engineering andmanagement decisions taking into account technical, economic, and social and psychologicalconsiderations, and confronting ethical dilemmas7. The instructor needs to either have lots ofexperience or invite systems engineers in the industry to give seminars and present cases. Theinstructor can then have students
the last century or so [13].Figure 6 shows the damage indicators obtained via Eco-indicator 99.5. EDUCATIONAL IMPACTS OF NANOTECHNOLOGYProceedings of the 2012 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering EducationNanotechnology offers amazing benefits to human life and the environment, but it can lead toeducational consequences, as well. Research and development on nanotechnology andnanoproducts have been growing rapidly for more than a decade; however, educational progresshas not been as rapid as technological development. In other words, technical training is notsufficient for individuals working in the field; parallel training is required, which will be usefulfor the societal and ethical implications of the
and acceptance of thestudents and make sure they are included in department activities. Integrate more diversityactivities into engineering curriculum by requiring that all freshman and first year graduatestudents take two-hours of diversity education.Faculty Diversity through New Teaching Post-Docs and Assistant: Host orientation for newTAs each fall and provide ongoing training seminars for teaching assistants wanting to developtheir teaching skills. Provide training to new Teaching Post-docs and Assistants to help themdevelop and improve their teaching skills. Survival Skills and Ethic programs can help post-docsand TAs to enhance their career growth and success at present and future.Foster a sense of belonging for minority students in the
related to weight, performance, and reproducibility. Students also learn about the advances in and applications of remote sensing technology. In parallel, playing off of the unit’s space theme and the activity of “launching” an aerial imagery system, students are asked to explore Page 25.533.15 engineering ethics and safety through a unit project focusing on the 1986 Challenger disaster.The primary focus of this unit is teamwork. Other student learning objectives emphasized orintroduced in this unit are safety considerations; system decomposition; requirements; designmodification; concept generation and selection; operations planning; team
students to develop team, communication,ethical reasoning, and societal and global contextual analysis skills. Therefore it issuggested that engineering schools focus more on outcome-based approaches bypromoting flexibility and creativity in student projects.2 In some ways, theserecommendations denote a growing emphasis on design and open-ended problem solvingas opposed to the traditional close-ended problems.To respond to these recommendations, it is crucial to prepare engineering GTAs toperform effectively in new and challenging learning environments. Since training isconsidered an important part of the GTA experience, it would be very beneficial tounderstand the training needs that can contribute to GTAs’ professional growth.Generally, there
industry engineering learning that happens in working in open source software companies them Sustainability and student P5 BS in civil engineering; minor in philosophy environmental awareness Ethical reasoning and social responsibility in engineers and developing those attributes; human- BS and MS in computer engineering; A young
reform and engineering education research grant,Departmental Level Reform (DLR), awarded to a group of engineering and education faculty inthe university [4, 5, 6]. The first course in the program, Engineering Exploration (ENGE 1024),is the most affected course by the DLR project. This course primarily focuses on hands-ondesign, problem solving, professional ethics and skills, contemporary issues like sustainability,globalization, nanotechnology, and critical thinking skills [7]. This course is taken byapproximately 1700 freshmen every year. The course delivery format includes one 50-minutelecture followed by one 110-minute hands-on workshop every week.One of the learning objectives of this course is gaining the ability to develop and
sameinstructor during the 10-week fall quarter 2011. The courses were SE 1 (Introduction toStructures and Design), which ended up with 178 students, and SE 103 (Conceptual StructuralDesign), which ended up with 123 students. SE 1 serves as the very first Structural Engineeringcourse (freshman level) and is a survey of the field of Structural Engineering, covering topicssuch as introduction to structural components of civil and aerospace structures, the designprocess, engineering ethics, and cost-benefit analysis. SE 103’s objective is to introduce students(junior level) to the creative aspects of the design process and to the professional aspect of theindustry
interest is in the cultural and religious perspectives in the ethics of emerging biotechnologies for which she was awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct research at the United Arab Emi- rates University. She is the Special Projects Manager in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems at Drexel University, and Director of the local and international weServe Program, currently established in the Gambia and Mozambique, (Africa), for which the weServe program recently received a student leadership award from the Jenzabar Foundation. She is a summa cum laude graduate from Thomas Jefferson University with a B.S. in diagnostic imaging. She has presented at MESA, the International Conference on Islam and
engineers both in a research context and in the public arena. Itincludes such tasks as identifying current research papers and news articles on emergingtechnologies (providing working links to their sources and/or using proper citation style) as wellas describing recent engineering failures/successes they are aware of. Several of these questions(Appendix C, questions 6, 8 & 9) target this knowledge by stimulating an investigation by thestudent into current affairs in research and the public domain. It is also possible to incorporateother ABET Student Outcomes here with questions on ethical practice, lifelong learning, andother facets of an engineering education. Scoring of this section should follow a rubric such asthe one presented here for J1
had a chance to practice engineering in a global context,whether through an international internship, a service-learning opportunity, a virtual globalengineering project or some other form of experience, and can effectively deal with ethical issuesarising from cultural or national differences.”5 Downey et al. report a similar conclusion aboutstudent outcomes in that students should be able to demonstrate “substantial knowledge of thesimilarities and differences among engineers and non-engineers in different countries; an abilityto analyze how people’s lives and experiences in other countries may shape or affect what theyconsider to be at stake in engineering work; and a predisposition to treat co-workers from othercountries as people who have
member in 2011. She was awarded NAE’s 2008 Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education.Dr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has incorporated service-learning projects into the senior capstone design course for environmental engineering since 2001. Her engineering education research interests include sustainable engineering, ethics, and retention of female students.Dr. Daniel W. Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder Daniel W. Knight is the engineering Assessment Specialist at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Pro
in participating schools to new combinations of curricular, co-curricular andextra-curricular activities and experiences that will foster entrepreneurial thinking in allengineers. This thinking is grounded in complementing technical competence with business Page 25.913.4 acumen, customer awareness, ethics and an entrepreneurial spirit. Personal)and)Professional)Competencies) Skills&learned&through&human&interac3on&and&prac3ce& Communica3ng)|)Planning)|)Leading)|)Managing)|)Teaming) Behavioral)Style
. Online Traditional Assignment Mean Mean P-value Unit 1 - Introduction 95.7% 100.0% 0.13349 Unit 2 – Teamwork/Basic Excel 93.8% 80.5% 0.00933 Unit 3 – Writing/Design Cycle 88.4% 76.6% 0.13740 Unit 4 – Drawing/Intermediate Excel 89.5% 78.4% 0.04184 Unit 5 – Transferring/If Statements 89.6% 58.7% 0.00578 Unit 6 – Resumes/Graphing 93.4% 75.7% 0.01944 Unit 7 – Ethics/Algorithms 81.4% 59.6% 0.10376
AC 2012-5554: AN OVERVIEW OF EXISTING POWER ELECTRONICSCOURSESDr. Florian Misoc, Southern Polytechnic State University Florian Misoc, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Southern Polytechnic State University, Department of Elec- trical and Computer Engineering Technology. His research interests include renewable energy (fuel cells, wind, and solar energy), distributed energy systems, power electronics, energy conversion, electric power generation and distribution, professional ethics, and control systems (theory and applications). He has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, Dec. 2007, from Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan.; a M.S. in engineering technology, July 1999, from Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kan
AC 2012-3436: CHALLENGES AND SUCCESSES OF CREATING A LIVING-BUILDING LABORATORY (BUILDING AS A LABORATORY) FOR USEIN THE ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUMMr. Jason K. Durfee, Eastern Washington University Jason Durfee received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young Univer- sity. 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, professional ethics, and piano technology. Page 25.293.1
, thecommon syllabus and lecture materials used in the courses provided continuity over sections.The course is designed to introduce students to engineering and includes topics such asapproaches to problem-solving, developing familiarity with different engineering majors,graphing, flowcharts, basic programming, sketching, and ethics. We implemented a pre/post Page 25.306.4survey design using the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ). We addedseveral open-ended questions to the posttest to help us understand any measured changes. Thefollowing sections describe the challenges, participants, data collection, and data