current research interests include student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices, and the use of technology and innovative pedagogies on student learn- ing and success. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering education research, and she was part of a team that studied ethical decision-making in engineering students.Dr. Harry Courtney Powell, University of Virginia Harry Powell is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia. After receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering in1978 he was an active research and design
” competencies after surveying employers todetermine a clearer definition of what encompasses career readiness [28]. These competenciesare Professionalism, Critical Thinking, Leadership, Communication, Teamwork, Technology,Global Citizenship and Career Management. Professionalism is the competency thatencompasses appropriate behavior, timeliness, and professional attire in the workplace. CriticalThinking is comprised of creating decisive solutions within the confines of competing ideas.Leadership prompts one to show selflessness, placing team and its success as priority. Thosewho have this skill are believed to maintain high ethical standards and are good at delegatingtasks. Communication entails written and oral; proper etiquette in correspondence is
head. Do you feel know that I am not the only one who feels that way so like you fit that description? Why we together (my friends and I) are trying to change our or why not? mentality by encouraging each otherFollow Up Survey - Identity as what you are: Students generally expressed affinity with anengineering identity. Some students had positive association with engineering, relating it toqualities like problem- solving ability, aptitude, and work ethic. Two students related theirengineering identity to their social identity. One student cited difficulty relating to others as a 7reason they
seriesof information sessions, focusing on topics such as ethical standards, required certifications,healthcare settings, and career paths. Despite rising career prospects in the region, the programhad been struggling not only to attract, but also to retain majors, and the decision was made torethink the introductory course in an effort to strengthen student motivation and persistencethrough the degree program and into the workforce. Four-year biomedical engineering degreeprograms typically have a different focus and larger enrollment, but comparable retention dataare not readily available.The instructor chose to redesign the course using problem-based learning (PBL). PBL is astudent-centered approach where students learn about a subject by
setup, you will be able to engage your audience, convey your story, and create empathy. - Career Readiness: In this last theme, we aimed at outlining critical steps towards preparing for their professional careers. Many skills can be developed and trained during their academic training. Therefore, we wanted to create awareness for critical skills and important tools towards becoming a valuable asset. These include work towards becoming a critical thinker and problem solver, practice oral and written presentation skills, gain teamwork and collaborative experience, pursue leadership opportunities and peer mentorship, develop a professional work ethic, and study basic project management skills [9].Based on our post-program
that discipline,[3] and that suchparticipation results in the development of a variety of skills related to communication,[4]leadership and ethical development,[5] and design and teamwork.[6] Such increases also havevarious professional benefits. For example, students who participate in these activities get jobsafter graduation at higher rates than those who do not.[7]But the engineering curriculum is very dense, making participation in out-of-classroom and co-curricular activities challenging. Brint and co-workers [8] found that there are two separateacademic cultures of engagement, where the arts, humanities, and social sciences focus on the“interaction, participation, and interest in ideas,” and science and engineering disciplines focuson
used to fill in the blanks, e.g. Jeff Hawkins’ wood block Palm Pilot o Minimum Viable Product: a working prototype with bare minimum features o Provincial: suited when major costs are associated with scaling, not functionality. Therefore, the scope can be limited to a small subset of the ultimate target market, e.g. testing a restaurant app in a city first before taking it national o Fake Door: As an example, in developing a web product, one can pretend a feature exists in order to see if anyone clicks on it, e.g. before writing a book, advertise it in forums with a link saying “for more information click here”An important ethical point was made to make sure the students are aware of the fine line betweenpretotyping and
stop the clock concerned thatrequesting a tenure extension will have negative consequences, such as department promotionand tenure committees, external reviewers, and/or administrators viewing it as a reflection on theemployee’s work ethic stigmatizing them and hurting their chances at tenure. One approach toremove the stigma, aid in retention of good new faculty, and improve the odds of gaining tenureis to make the policy automatic. Indeed, in 2003, only 27% of women and 18% of men eligibleto stop the clock under elective policies did so, as reported in [22].Most early discussions of tenure clock stoppage were based on childbirth as an issue. However,it is clear that there are a number of other events, affecting both men and women, which
7 5 Technology 5 7 Computer Programming/coding 1 10 Design 2 4 Perseverance 3 4 Building 2 3 Creativity 3 3 Collaboration/Communication 4 8 Work Ethics 0 1 Electrical/Mechanical 2 3 Critical Thinking Skills 3 5
effectivelywith a range of audiences; (4) an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities inengineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact ofengineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts; and (5) anability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create acollaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives (ABET,2020). While the inclusion of leadership development programs has been common practice formany disciplines, it has been on the increase within engineering programs, particularly over thelast decade. A necessary component of any leadership development program is the ability toassess the
will be placed on professional, ethical, global, environmental, and contemporary issues. Contact Hours: 2 Lecture, 2 Lab. ENGR 400 - Engineering Capstone I - Senior engineering project selection, planning, and development. Emphasis will be placed on defining project requirements, developing project work breakdown structure, conceptual designs, and working prototypes. Contact Hours: 1 Lecture, 4 Lab. ENGR 450 - Engineering Capstone II - Senior engineering project design, development, fabrication, and testing. Emphasis will be placed on iterative design processes, project management and execution, fabrication and testing. Contact Hours: 1 Lecture, 4 Lab.The PBL sequence of courses provided the
engineers. In their opinions, engineer is the one who solves real-life problems andcreate new things, which needs interdisciplinary knowledge and skills in the fields of engineering,social science, business and management. At the same time, engineers need to have the sense of dutyfor the society, and consider the aspects of cost, clients’ needs, engineering ethics and influence onthe environment when they find a solution or design a product in their project. As Dora said, theproject experience made her realize the responsibilities of engineers are not limited in engineering,but also involve science, social science and humanity fields. It’s necessary for engineers to preparethemselves with interdisciplinary skills and learn to look at things from
used to protect technology. 12. The specialized nature of patenting computer related inventions and software. 13. The patenting of biotechnology inventions. 14. Patent protection for methods of doing business. 15. Obtaining international patent protection, at minimum expenditure of resources. 16. The enforcement of your patent rights and avoiding infringement of someone else's patent. 17. Patent licensing advantages. 18. Employment contract provisions that relate to intellectual property and confidentiality. 19. The engineer and scientist selected to consult or testify as an expert witness, and professional ethics. 20. Copyright protection for technology, including copyright registration for computer
,motivation and work ethic outside of the classroom, interest in the subject, and a host of otherfactors.Although the notion of a comprehensive student assessment program that accounts for all possibleinstitutional and student-level factors is compelling, it is an extraordinarily difficult goal to achievein the short-run and will likely need to be modified over time. Therefore, a rational approach foreducators to understand the factors that are at play in their classrooms is to build a methodologyfor factor identification and assessment that can be updated continually. While several studiesfocused on predicting student academic performance based on different student and institutionalfactors [4] [9], the objective of this study is to document the
” which supports immigrant students and theirfamilies [16]. She currently works on a campaign that targets egregious misconducts in privacycurrently occurring as school police officers’ reports are being made available to federal lawenforcement. We also tweeted about an alternative job fair organized by students at RennselaerPolytechnic Institute during Engineering Week (E-Week), the week prior to our own week ofaction. For this event, organizers invited companies committed to ethical practices onto thecampus, giving students an opportunity to find alternative pathways in engineering that alignbetter with their equity and justice commitments.We pointed to and promoted events that happened specifically in response to the#EngineersShowUp call as
from underrepresented groups than their four-yearcounterparts, including ethnic minorities, financial aid recipients, students with disabilities, andre-entry students [10]. To date, 89% of TTE REU interns have been from backgroundsunderrepresented in STEM fields. Successfully involving these community college students inscientific research is important for building diversity within the engineering fields.Community college students who participate as interns of the TTE REU program benefit in avariety of ways. Analysis of mixed methods evaluation data shows that interns are better able tofind scholarly resources, design ethical scientific experiments, conduct independent research, andanalyze data after participating in the program [11
skills -21% Conflict level (0-4): 1S5 Male Appreciating others Company: Government, defense +13% Conflict described: Personal ethical Conflict management conflict about the nature of the work +25% Conflict resolved: No Goal orientation -12% Conflict level (0-4): 1 Interpersonal skills +47%S6 Female, Appreciating others Company: Small IT firm URM -22% Conflict described: Personal internal Conflict management conflict about work -2% Conflict resolved: Yes Goal
participating in the Florida-Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (FGLSAMP). She is a past adviser of the Women in Computer Science (WICS) student club. From 2008 to 2010, Ms. Solis was a programmer analyst at the Department of the Attorney General in Hawaii, a member of the team revamping the State Juvenile Justice Information System. Her research and instructional Interests include programming languages, computer ethics and student success and development. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Computing Pathways: A quantitative inquiry into the dynamic pathways of students in computing with gender comparisonsAbstractThe number of female students in computing fields
intelligence skills are on the decline and, as a result, may lead to higherdropout rates. He is also a strong proponent of using emotional intelligence as a tool to increasethe communication skills of engineering students [23], [24]. Brackett makes the case thatemotional intelligence is a valuable tool that can be used to facilitate positive growth within theindividual, setting them up for success in the workplace [25]. Strobel and Walther [26], [27]reason that empathy, one of the measured values in trait emotional intelligence, is vital andshould be cultivated in the engineering field.Cech [28] shows that as a student progresses through their engineering education, the importanceof Ethical and Social issues decreases, as reported by students, thus
National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education at Purdue University Northwest. Dr. Tu’s areas of expertise are information assurance, digital forensics, cybersecurity education, and cyber physics system security. His research has been supported by NSA and NSF and published over 40 peer reviewed papers in prestigious journals and peer reviewed conference proceedings. Dr. Tu has over 14 years of col- lege teaching and research experiences in cybersecurity and digital forensics. Dr. Tu is a CISSP, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), & AccessData Computer Examiner (ACE).Mr. Tianyang Guan, Purdue Northwest University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Credential
does not break ties using GPA,however, as its randomization takes precedence for the fair tie-breaking.junto can also be compared to CATME 5 , a software tool to make teams. CATME takes a moreindividual-centric approach, querying instructors to complete subjective surveys about theirstudents. Combining peoples’ schedules, work ethics, and interests with the survey data, CATMEprovides holistic teams, but requires many inputs. junto, in contrast, cares only about preferencedata, and optionally factors in student GPA while balancing teams. In the workflow for creatingcapstone project teams, junto provides a specialized option, tuned to its requirements.The scalability of genetic algorithms is an important factor in making junto a portable web
in his militarydeployment, and contrasted it to his undergraduate degree. My undergrad was in math. I wasn’t necessarily out working in a math based field, it was more a people management type of field… I think that West Point tailors its undergrad education to be broad… philosophy, ethics and psychology, people motivation, things like that…Chuck also spoke of leadership, with a reference to what he had learned in the military including“leadership development and sort of management class.”DiscussionIn some ways, military returners’ experiences match those of non-military returners; as with thegeneral population of returners, the degree to which they used their undergraduate knowledge intheir employment differs, and
students are most likely to experience success in college? The literature suggests thatstandardized test scores, high school GPA or a combination of the two may be used to predictstudent success in college to some degree [1, 2]. In addition to these cognitive variables, studiesalso focus on noncognitive factors that affect student success such as academic motivation andinstitutional integration [2,3]. While standardized test scores are uniformly administered to allstudents under similar conditions, they only measure a students’ current knowledge base. Manystudies have shown that success in high school academics (i.e. GPA) is a better indicator ofsuccess in college academics because it indicates students’ intellectual habits; i.e. work ethic [4-7
student assistants. A small group of in-service and pre-service teachers will work closely with RET facultymentors and his/her students on a specific research project for six weeks in summer. Anorientation to review safety, research methodology, ethics, and be familiar with researchfacilities will smooth the transition of participants to the program. Information on the programwebsite allows the selected participants to know their research team and project informationbefore the program start date. This provides an opportunity for them to contact the research teamto clarify the research objectives and scope so that the participants could (i) do preliminaryinvestigation and be well prepared before joining the program and (ii) possibly
, social, environmental, and economic factors project)3. An ability to communicate effectively with a range of Presentation of course project to audiences the client (MFC voltage sensing project)4. An ability to recognize ethical and professional Selection and justification of responsibilities in engineering situations and make components for any project, informed judgments, which must consider the impact of
. Martinez, C. M. Ouellette, L. T. Plante, B. M. Wallen, and J. A. Starke, “An environmental engineering sequence: Deliberately addressing and evaluating environmental attitudes and knowledge,” Proceedings of the 2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference, American Society for Engineering Education, Penn State University - Berks, Reading, PA, 2017.[4] C. M. Ouellette, L. T. Plante, E. V. Martinez, B. M. Wallen, and J. A. Starke, “Informing an environmental ethic in future leaders through environmental engineering education,” Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Conference & Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education, Salt Lake City, UT, 2018.[5] B. M. Wallen, N. P. Sheehan, E. Martinez, L. T
in order to ensure topicality and the provision of adequate resources.In addition to technical or “hard” skills, recent graduates need – but very often lack – “soft” ortransferrable skills, including communication, leadership and teamwork [22]. Therefore, in thesubsequent spring semester students will receive training on key transferrable skills in a 3 credithour 600 level seminar course designed to integrate these skills with the research-related contentcovered in the foregoing 500 level course. This seminar course will train participants incommunication, teaching, funding procurement, entrepreneurship, management, teamwork,conflict resolution, mentoring, leadership, and outreach as well as ethics and research-relatedskills. All NRT
appropriate principles of construction management, law, and ethics, and; (i) perform standard analysis and design in at least one sub-discipline related to construction engineering.The average performance of students in CON 357 for each of the four course objectives ispresented in Figure 1. The offerings from 2013 through 2018 were made without anyconsideration for the use of OER, using only traditional materials. There is some minor variationin performance from year to year for these offerings. It was mentioned in the “Background”section that several variables, which are difficult to control, may have led to these variations.Among them are size of the class, institution, and timing aspects (e.g. day vs. night, one longweekly session vs. two
that scored low on the participantsurveys are areas the evaluation team felt that project leadership should revisit in future iterationsof the Young Scholar programs. Those included: • Students feeling like they designed and/or implemented their own investigation under supervision • Improving onboarding process. Students were sent journal articles and slide decks • Intensifying the review and discussion of research ethics at weekly meetings • Increasing utility and importance of the weekly meetings • Creating a deeper sense of community among the Young Scholars during the weekly meetings. As mentioned in the design-change section of the overview changes were made to improve these sessions and additional
Engineering; I teach microbiology (lecture and lab) to under- graduates and graduate students and do research on microbes in natural and engineered environments.Dr. S. Ismat Shah, University of Delaware Professor S Ismat Shah has a joint appointment in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. He is also the Director of the Energy and Environment Policy Program. In addition to the STEM courses in his the Departments, he teaches policy and ethics courses.Prof. Sheldon Allister Hewlett, University of DelawareProf. Jenni M. Buckley, University of Delaware Dr. Buckley is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Delaware. She received her Bachelor’s of Engineering (2001