a specialized curriculumthat makes program graduates skilled and competent in their field upon graduation. The VicePresident of Human Resources for one large manufacturing company provided the followingstatement regarding leadership development program graduates they have hired. “(Institution’s name omitted)’s engineering leadership development program does an outstanding job of preparing the students to enter the workforce with the readiness to assume leadership positions quickly. (Manufacturing companies name omitted) utilizes this program as one of our key talent pools for leadership roles. Through the program’s rigorous academic and extracurricular requirements, I have found that these graduates have an exceptional work ethic
energy,biology, environment, and education. At the same time, new dimensions of safety and ethical,social and environmental responsibility must be considered as nanotechnology based productsbecome more common. There is a need to create the next generation of competitive workforcewhich understands and appreciates the potential of nanotechnology. One consequence of therecognition of this need is the inclusion of Nanotechnology in undergraduate education. Severalacademic institutions not only offer introductory courses in nanotechnology in theirundergraduate programs but some, such as Lawrence Technological University, are taking thelead in creating minors and concentration in this field. The goal of these programs is to not onlyspark an interest
debate over which type of lab is better occurred in 2002 when a colloquy ofexperts from a wide range of disciplines and institutions convened to determine the fundamentalobjectives of laboratories, regardless of the method of delivery. They converged on 13 learningobjectives [10]: working with instruments, building a model, devising an experiment, dataanalysis, design, learning from failure, creativity, psychomotor, safety, communication, teamwork,communications, ethics, and sensory awareness. The proposed effort will determine the extent towhich these objectives should be met for mobile hands-on labs. In contrast, remote laboratoriesand virtual laboratories are unable at this point to address objectives 8 and 13 (psychomotor andsensory
thestudent outcomes. Furthermore, the high levels of research content broaden students’knowledge of creative and research work. Level of Exposition/Experience at ERIP Student Outcomes (SOs) Low Average High a. math/science/engineering… X b. conduct experiments… X c. engineering design… X d. multi-disciplinary teamwork... X e. problem solving… X f. professionalism & ethics… X g. communication skills
, predictablepath toward developing a UAV by the students. Though there were some disagreementsbetween the students about work being accomplished, there was also relatively calibratedperformance on each of the tasks. Some disagreements and behaviors led to the firstauthor to implement a phone-calling protocol between team members – students werereluctant to contact other students on other campuses – and this facilitated someimproved coordination.However, other incentives in the program worked against team members developing astrong customer ethic, and thus worked against students maximizing validity. Only onestudent out of the group of eleven visited the customer that gave the team its mission –tracking range cattle from the air. The customer additionally
. Theaverage starting salary for environmental engineers increased by 51%. While industrial,mechanical, and agricultural engineering showed a salary increase of 38%, 34%, and 25%,respectively, the increases were less significant.Licensure plays a key role in salary increase for civil engineers. A Professional Engineeringlicense (PE) allows a civil engineer to sign and seal engineering documents for private or publicprojects. A PE, or a “Professional Engineer”, is respected as an ethical and competent publicservant. In order to obtain a license from a particular state’s licensing agency, an engineer mustcomplete a four-year engineering degree from an accredited program, pass two thorough state-specific exams, and complete four years of engineering work
products.7 Engineers in the 21st century also need to beprepared to be socially and culturally aware, innovative, compassionate, ethical, life-longlearners; to have a global perspective; and to be creative, and holistic thinkers responsive to theneeds of society7 and the environment. The combinations of engineering qualities, skills, andknowledge are not typically taught as part of formal K-12 education and yet the development ofthese perspectives and abilities forms early in student’s K-12 education8 based on their learningexperiences. Thus, to address the development of 21st century engineers, K-12 education mayneed to embrace a wide range of educational innovations, such as teaching 21st century skills,STEM practices, and integration of family
interests include engineering leadership, engineering ethics education, critical theory, teacher leadership and social justice teacher unionism.Dr. Robin Sacks, University of Toronto Dr. Sacks is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto teaching leadership and positive psychology at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Robin also serves as the Director of Research for the Engineering Leadership Project at the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering which aims to identify how engineers lead in the workplace.Ms. Annie Elisabeth Simpson, Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, University of Toronto Annie is the Assistant Director of the
program).In 2015, the Monday workshops were expanded to three hours in the morning. Each three-weekrotation culminates in a final team presentation to the clinical mentors. In these workshops,students receive training in Responsible conduct of research, including ethics of human subjectresearch, User-centered design research, Contextual inquiry, Stakeholder interviewing, Analysisand synthesis of research, and Prioritizing user needs. A guest speaker leading discussion andactivities related to empathetic design, facilitates one of the workshops. Meeting times are alsoan opportunity for students to share their observations and experiences for group discussion. Thefaculty instructors guide students to identify trends, understand underlying needs and
, the student would probably be looking at this conference from an engineering point of view. Taking an engineering oriented topic, like drones, and addressing it holistically should help the student expand their engineering identity to look at engineering problems from an ethical, historical, person based perspective.Developing Non-Engineering IdentityThis vector focused on internal and personal development. Identity is a particularly trickyconcept to define. Chickering defined identity as being secure in one’s sense of self; comfortwith one’s body, gender, sexuality, culture, and place in the larger community. Because of this,LGBT/Queer community seminars, as well as discussions having to do with relationships andsexual
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 An application-based learning approach to programming concepts and methods for engineersAbstractThis paper documents an innovative
, profession-based, industry andsociety level abstract learning objectives is surprisingly short. It is as close as your closeststudent. SBL is focusing on student’s knowledge, skills and self-awareness capabilitiesthrough its methodology. It is not a substitute for engineer´s disciplinary knowledge. It ispart of “software” that runs the engineering skills through making the student morecapable in creating and sharing her passion, vision and thoughts in a group of people.Though not listed directly in the ABET criteria1, 16 document we believe that thesequalities are part of the key skill set in creating sustainable engineering, coming up withnew ventures, commitment to life long learning, and simply fostering ethical andcommitted individuals to the
College in the Spring of 2015 with a B.S.E. concentrating in Mechanical Engineering. Experiences during his undergraduate years included a semester in Spain, taking classes at the Universidad de Oviedo and the Escuela Polit´ecnica de Ingenieria de Gij´on, as well as multiple internships in Manufacturing and Quality Engineering. His current work primarily investigates the effects of select emergent pedagogies upon student and instructor performance and experience at the collegiate level. Other interests include engineering ethics, engineering philosophy, and the intersecting concerns of engineering industry and higher academia.Mr. Dhinesh Balaji Radhakrishnan, Purdue University Graduate Research Assistant at the School
communication, ethics,professionalism, and an introduction to engineering design.Similar to first-year courses at other engineering schools1-3, the various disciplines have typicallybeen presented to the students through department seminars in which faculty from each of theengineering departments give presentations to students. Our department is currently re-vampingthe Introduction to Engineering course and has added some activities to see if it would helpstudents decide their choice of major within the first semester or year rather than later in thestudent’s engineering program. In addition to department presentations, 24 engineeringcompanies were invited to the school through a unique collaboration with the Engineering Co-opand Career Development
Consul- tants, a group of students who provide peer-to-peer library research help.Nora Allred, Michigan Technological University Nora Allred is Scholarly Communications and Copyright Librarian at the J. Robert Van Pelt and Opie Library at Michigan Technological University. She provides copyright and fair use awareness to the campus community through the library’s webpage, presentations, instruction sessions, and one-on-one consultations. As Co-PI on the NSF ethics education project, she lead the learning module on copyright and fair use for graduate students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Developing a Comprehensive, Assessment-based
; Project Lecture 2.1 Assign Project 2Week 6 Project Lecture 2.2 Project Lecture 2.3Week 7 Project Work Quiz 2Week 8 Second Competition/Demo Presentations Session 3: Industrial Engineering (Production Systems) Tuesday ThursdayWeek 9 Technical Writing 2; Ethics; Assign Project 3 Communication 2Week 10 Project Lecture 3.1 Project Lecture 3.2Week 11 Project Lecture 3.3 Project WorkWeek 12 Quiz 3 Third Competition/Demonstration (Report Due) Session 4: Electrical
, contemporary software tools, and professional practices and expectations (e.g., communication, teamwork, and ethics). During the most recent curricular revision, there is increased emphasis on ProjectBased and ProblemBased Learning and mathematical modeling. In fall 2015 (offsemester), there were 5 instructors (1 faculty, 4 GTAs); of these, three quarters had taught the course previously. In spring 2016 there are 23 instructors (12 faculty, 11 GTAs); of these, half have not taught this course before, and two are new to Virginia Tech this semester. Training and mentorship Tables 1 and 2 describe challenges related to training a number of new instructors while being cognizant that instructors come from a wide variety of teaching experiences
Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Papadopoulos has diverse research and teaching interests in structural mechanics, biomechanics, appropri- ate technology, engineering ethics, and engineering education. He is PI of two NSF-sponsored research projects and is co-author of Lying by Approximation: The Truth about Finite Element Analysis. Pa- padopoulos is currently Chair of the ASEE Mechanics Division and serves on numerous committees at UPRM that relate to undergraduate and graduate education.Dr. Aidsa I. Santiago Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Aidsa I. Santiago-Rom´an is an Associated Professor in the General Engineering Department at the Uni- versity of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM). Dr. Santiago earned a BA
these characteristics. KEEN has defined 12secondary entrepreneurial behaviors as the learning outcomes grouped into the following fourcategories: Engineering Thought and Action: Apply creative thinking to ambiguous problems Apply systems thinking to complex problems Evaluate technical feasibility and economic drivers Examine societal and individual needs Collaboration: Form and work in teams Understand the motivations and perspectives of others Communication: Convey engineering solutions in economic terms Substantiate claims with data and facts Character: Identify personal passions and a plan for professional development Fulfill commitments in a timely manner Discern and pursue ethical practices
debatewhether explicit rhetorical genre instruction should buttress what students learn through whatWilder calls the “meaningful social interaction”2 of immersive work experience.25, 27-28 Freedmantakes a view of explicit rhetorical genre instruction that reduces disciplinary specificity to moregeneral “rules,” and warns that such instruction can cause students to ignore the reasoningpatterns, habits of mind, and underlying assumptions that govern the rhetorical genre features infavor of those “rules,” and thus produce less rhetorically effective work.27, 2 On the other side ofthe debate, several WID scholars2, 6, 29-31 argue that allowing genre instruction to remain tacitdiminishes both the efficacy and the ethics of disciplinary teaching, and
C. Loui, Purdue University - West Lafayette Michael C. Loui is the Dale and Suzi Gallagher Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity. He was previously 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 engineering education research. He serves as Editor of Journal of Engineering Education and as a member of the editorial boards of College Teaching and Accountabil- ity in Research. He is a Carnegie Scholar and an IEEE Fellow. Professor Loui was Associate Dean of the Graduate College at Illinois from 1996 to 2000. He directed
Technologies, New Jersey: Princeton University Press,1999.[9] Atman, C.J., Kilgore, D., and McKenna, A., “Characterizing Design Learning: A Mixed-Methods of Study ofEngineering Desginers’ Use of Language,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 71, No. 3, pp. 309 - 326.[10] Prince, M.J., and Felder, R.M., “Inductive Teaching and Learning Methods: Definitions, Comparisons, andResearch Bases,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 95, No. 2, 2006, pp. 123 - 138.[11] Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Research. Retrieved fromhttp://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases.aspx.[12] Yadav, A., Shaver, G.M., and Meckl, P., “Lessons Learned: Implementing the Case Teaching Method in aMechanical Engineering Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol
ethics, engineering philosophy, and the intersecting concerns of engineering industry and higher academia.Mariana Tafur, Purdue University, West Lafayette Mariana Tafur is an assistant professor at University of Los Andes in Bogot´a - Colombia. She has a Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Purdue University, West Lafayette-IN; a M.S., in Education at Los Andes University, Bogot´a-Colombia; and a B.S., in Electronics Engineering at Los Andes University, Bogot´a-Colombia. She is a 2010 Fulbright Fellow. Her research interests include engineering skills development, STEM for non-engineers adults, motivation in STEM to close the technology literacy gap, STEM formative assessment, and Mixed-Methods design.Prof. Charles
engineering and what it means to be an engineer. Wehave a certain vocabulary, a way to approach problems, a diligent work ethic (if we want tomake it as engineers), and, of course, cool green engineering paper! Students learn to appreciateeach of these through contact and engagement with them. For this project, the learningframework in Statics should prepare the student to be a more engaged, deliberate, andresponsible student in Solid Mechanics.3. Build on successful practice. Both the ExCEEd Teaching Model and the flipped classroomhave been shown to work. Deliberately combine both so that the offspring is more than the sumof the parents.4. Structure for student engagement. The original driver of the work was the observation andsense that students
"Helping people in undeveloped nations become more advanced and 3underdeveloped modern."nations &rural areasLeaders "Engineers play roles throughout all aspects of society. Engineers, due to 1 their work ethic, can become leaders of companies or businesses due to their ability to manage and organize large projects. Also, engineers of individual disciplines contribute new ideas and technologies to advance society as a whole. "Working in teams "Engineers are all over, they are looking for new ways to fix old problems. 1 For example, They are always teams doing work on buildings. Mechanical
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short, the predominate interests behind the choice of minority engineering students were,predictably, math skill, love of science and family influence. However, the highest performingstudents were also motivated by good career opportunities (the “hunger factor”), the bent towardmaking and fixing things, and the desire to improve the world.Success in EngineeringThe second question put to them was “What does it take to be successful in your engineeringprogram?” The top three responses were (see figure 2): (1) Dedication and motivation, from 49.3% of students: “Dedication and motivation because there is a lot to learn and a lot to do;” “Commitment;” “Determination.” (2) Effort and hard work, from 31.3%: “It takes a very strong work ethic
techniques are taught, or as part of a forensic practice lecture series whereinformation about case studies is disseminated along with discussions on ethics andjurisprudential issues.4Faculty at LTU, in collaboration with an engineering professional specializing in forensicapplications of engineering, have co-taught an upper-level undergraduate forensic engineeringelective course biennially through the biomedical engineering department. The course was notfocused only on structural failures but surveyed a range of topics such as biomechanics ofaccidental injury, failure of biomedical implants, human factors/ergonomics, vehicle accidentreconstruction, fires and explosions and maritime accidents.The course was designed to introduce students to forensic
three reasons identified in the literature to include SE principles in theundergraduate engineering curriculum: in support of ABET student outcomes1, to improve and inform capstone project development and design methods7, and to address industry demand for SE knowledge8-10From an ABET perspective, Criterion 3 STUDENT OUTCOMES states that ABET accreditedengineering programs should demonstrate that program graduates have: (c) 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, manufacturability, and sustainability (e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems, (k) an ability
enroll, remain in, and complete engineering graduate programs.Literature on Graduate Advising Relationships and Racial Microaggressions The nature of the advising relationship impacts a number of student outcomes; the mostcommonly cited in higher education research are time-to-degree, productivity, academic sense ofself, and completion rates.2,3,4 Because of these potential outcomes, the advising relationship isoften considered a mentoring relationship where the advisor helps the advisee learn about – andbecome socialized to – the academic field of study, the university, research, ethics, and manyother important aspects related to being a graduate student.5 Advisors can display a caringinterest in students’ welfare, helping students