abandoned mines. The launch video and design briefincluded information on the more than 15,000 abandoned mines in New Mexico that threatensafe access to water, how acid mine drainage occurs, a brief history on why mining wasbeneficial to the state, and how mining disasters have had and continue to have myriad negativeconsequences for people and the environment.Students were guided to conduct research on the problem and existing solutions, as well asresearching ways to engage with communities that might be mistrustful of outsiders. We felt thiswould provide them an opportunity to reflect on engineering ethics. They gave 5-minute pitchesof their solutions, following similar guidelines for the previous pitch.Data collection and analysisStudents
had minimal input from the PI or program manager to not hinder the stimulatingdiscussions between the participants Seminars on twice-exceptional education, creativity, andthe creative product were included. Workshops were presented on responsible conduct ofresearch and ethics, graduate school, preparing for the GRE exam, and technical writing. Thepresentation of the seminars and workshops by experts in their respective fields were successfulin increasing the participants’ self-awareness along with expanding their knowledge ofpossibilities following undergraduate education.Role of NSF RET FellowsThe program involved two local K-12 STEM teachers joining the University of Connecticut forsix weeks during summer 2016 to work alongside the REU
ethical issues arising from cultural or nationaldifferences, 5) possessing understanding of cultural differences relating to product design,manufacture, and use, and 6) possessing understanding of implications of cultural differences ofhow engineering tasks might be approached”.Pitts and McGonagle (2013) expand the conversation to consider the intersection of study abroadwith leadership and communication skills. Pitts and McGonagle state, engineers should be “ableto explain point of view, approach those with differing backgrounds and cultures; assess theextent to which you are understood… Appreciate, engage, and connect with those who havedifferent perspectives." These researchers reported a 100% greater improvement in GPA post-study abroad
research theme Demonstrated work ethic and maturity Good social skills Under-represented STEM groups (women and minorities)The management team met to select the top applicants and sent acceptance letters to the selectedstudents. This letter included a deadline for the students to accept the offer and clearly statedtheir obligations once accepted. It is recommended that the selection committee also choosealternate candidates in case any of the participants decide to withdraw from the program.Although the program was intended to support six students each year, we have been able tosupport eight students during each of first two offerings. Image 1 – 2015 International Research Experience Students
).For the Civil Engineering Discipline, ABET relies on the input of the American Society of CivilEngineers (ASCE) who consider themselves a “recognized leader in this [sustainability indesign] advancing area” (ASCE 2015). The concept of sustainability even appears in the CivilEngineering Code of Ethics as one of the Fundamental Cannons that “Engineers shall…strive tocomply with the principles of sustainable development…;” (ASCE 2015) yet more evidence thatsustainability is becoming a foundational and essential component of an engineering education.ABET Criterion 2How these open ended outcomes are achieved is assessed by a combination of the ABET Boardsand the Institutions themselves. The Criterion 2: Program Educational Objectives (PEO
question about why they are interested in the research experience. A primary component of our initial selection rubric was the number of science and math courses they had taken and how they had performed in those classes. In year one of this project, we required that students must have taken a year of college calculus, physics, and chemistry to participate. However, we quickly observed that most of our applicants did not have these courses. Therefore, we modified our selection criteria so that we would not overlook students with great potential. The new rubric puts more weight on the teacher recommendation with an emphasis on work ethic and “grit”, students’ grades in the science classes they had taken, and their veteran status. Of the
4.25 0.18I have the ability to analyze data and other information. 4.39 3.96 0.43*I understand science. 4.00 3.71 0.29I have learned about ethical conduct in my field. 4.07 4.18 -0.11I have learned laboratory techniques. 3.93 3.82 0.11I have an ability to read and understand primary literature. 4.07 3.82 0.25I have skill in how to give an effective oral presentation. 4.22 3.79 0.43*I have skill in science writing. 3.89 3.43 0.46*I have self-confidence. 4.21 4.29
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environment. Thechoice of a nuclear engineering project required students to utilize knowledge in mechanicalengineering but also forced them to learn more in areas such as material selection as applied tonuclear facilities. They were also required to make use of codes and standards that they had notpreviously used in order to achieve adequate safety factors for their design. The project havingindustry involvement and requiring more stringent safety standards due it being in nuclearengineering also made students more aware of the ethical implications of their design practice.A student survey was conducted to evaluate the impact on student learning, as related to theinterdisciplinary aspect of the project. The questions are shown in Table 1.Table 1
Academy of Engineering (NAE) described the qualities of the Engineer of2020 (The engineer of 2020: Visions of engineering in the new century, 2004). The NAEhighlighted the following attributes as essential for an Engineer of 2020: strong analytical skills,practical ingenuity, creativity, communication, business and management knowledge, leadership,high ethical standards and professionalism, dynamism, agility, resilience, flexibility, and thehabit of lifelong learning. While developing these qualities may seem a lofty feat to accomplish,these benchmarks for success in engineering introduced the need to generate alternative teachingenvironments in education that foster opportunities for a student-engineer to acquire this diverseskill set (Zabudsky
cohort workshop designed to initiate learning community, instill professionalism, andintroduce learning skills to the students. The cohort workshop is presented through team instruction by the programs director, aprofessional engineer with 30 years’ experience as an engineering hiring manager who representsthe professional work environment to the students, the mechanical engineering faculty, a PE with20 years’ experience in industry, and a professor from the University’s organizational behaviorprogram in the department of psychology who represents professionalism and knowledge infields outside of engineering needed in professional practice. The workshop covers the topics ofprofessionalism, ethics, cohort norms, self-awareness, and
as well as other outcomes that are more distantto the experiments themselves; e.g., teamwork, professionalism and ethics, life-long learning,and especially communications. This paper will describe the process of redesigning a junior-level mechanical engineering laboratory on measurements and instrumentation at Georgia Tech.Such classes are fairly standard in ME curricula, and they are often structured so that a newmeasurement technique, or new sensor/actuator is introduced in every lab. Such courses have theadvantage of introducing students to a wide variety of instruments and measurement techniques,but they do this at the risk of losing conceptual connections between the weekly projects. Thispotential problem was compounded by the original
in this range.When compared to the men, women begin the first semester at OSU with a large deficit inspatial skills, SAT Math and ACT Math and a slightly lower MPT score but finish thesemester with equal grades. Assuming GPA draws on verbal, mathematical and visuospatialabilities, at a cognitive level, and on several emotional and affective aspects such asmotivation, work ethic and so on, there are at least two possible explanations for thisobservation: (i) the male and female suite of cognitive abilities remain unchanged relative toeach other but females compensate for other reasons or (ii) females improve their math andverbal abilities to reach parity with men and all other things are equal. Since our data set islimited to the cognitive
technologies have evolved into dynamic, complex systemsthat profoundly change the world we live in. Designing these systems requires not only technicalknowledge and skills but also new ways of thinking and the development of social, professionaland ethical responsibility. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) atIowa State University was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in 2016 aimed attransforming curricula and practices to better respond to student, industry and society needs. Thisis being done through new structures for faculty collaboration and facilitated throughdepartmental change processes. Ironically, an impetus behind this effort was a failed attempt atdepartment-wide curricular reform. This failure led
. student in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech (VT). Benitez seeks to understand how to best instruct and assess ethical reasoning of engineering practices and engineering responsibilities, including wildlife and humanity, in our definitions of public good. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Self-Authorship and Reflective Practice in an Innovation MinorAbstract This project describes a minor in Innovation that is being introduced in an engineeringdepartment as a part of a new general education curriculum initiative. The minor connects threeexisting courses from different colleges to form the core course sequence. The theories of self-authorship1 and reflective practice 2
Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dr. Trevor S. Harding is Professor of Materials Engineering at California Polytechnic State University where he teaches courses in materials design, sustainable materials, and polymeric materials. Dr. Harding is PI on several educational research projects including the psychology of ethical decision making and promoting the use of reflection in engineering education. He serves as Associate Editor of the journals Advances in Engineering Education and International Journal of Service Learning in Engineering. Dr. Harding has served numerous leadership positions in ASEE including division chair for the Materials Division and the Community Engagement Division. Dr. Harding received
to 24 students (the standard class size forengineering at Campbell University) and students are often assigned work in pairs or teams of 4.A typical class period will see extended periods of student work on different problems orprojects punctuated by small portions of lecture or classwide discussion. It is expected thatstudents or teams completing the current assignment will assist other students in the class untilall students are done. It is common to see students walking around the room to help otherstudents, which is facilitated by the open layout of the space. With longer class periods and smallclass sizes along with this peer-teaching ethic, it is typical that all students in each section fullycomplete all in-class tasks in a given day
on costs, revenue, channels, and market segments. In addition to technical andfinancial factors, ABET requires that students consider complementary priorities in design suchas environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, andsustainability. The proposed S*Metamodel canvas approach accommodates these considerationsin a straightforward manner by including them directly in the iterative design process as essentialinformation needed to identify and understand stakeholders as well as develop relevant features.Sustainability could be included in the design canvas by identifying the environment as thestakeholder with ‘sustainability’ as the general feature. Two possible attributes could then becarbon impact and
classroom why the activities integrated into the gamificationplatform are important to their personal and professional growth.Our study investigated whether student academic motivation towards homework in a freshmanengineering design course was influenced by the integration of a gamification platform. In thiscourse, engineering students of all disciplines learn about fundamentals of engineering such asstatistics, economics, ethics, etc. It is important for students to master these basic engineeringprinciples early in their curriculum in order to succeed in future classes within their degreeprograms. The gamification platform 3D GameLab was implemented in a semester long study inthe Spring semester of 2016.This study addressed the following research
mentioned, to be due to large amounts of focus in courses outside of the“pure” engineering courses of math and science, and the integration of multiple areas ofstudy into one that is typically considered difficult. Almost any fundamental course in thefield of engineering requires knowledge of math, science, coding, and ethical restraints,proper handling of which in turn begs a deeper understanding than the surface-level,simplified “sum of its parts.” The LL program’s intended design was to adjoin theseseemingly separate modes of thinking, and present math and science in the context ofengineering, and vice versa. Integrating active learning as well as shifted contexts of thestandard topics in core and first-year engineering courses was designed to
a graduate certificate in engineering education – all from Clemson University. She is the 2016 recipient of Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Assistant Professor and the Black Graduate Student Organization’s Lisa Tabor Award for Community Service. Using deep insights from a fourteen-year industry career and her strengths as a systems thinker, she is now developing and disseminating empirically-grounded models and strategies for improved human competence, motivation, and learning as it relates to the civil engineering profession and the construction industry. She is a discipline-based education researcher who passionately pursues research to develop an agile, ethical, diverse
pursuing accreditation must demonstrate that the program meets a setof general criteria. Of particular interest are the requirements of Criteria #2, #3, and #5, which arefocused on Program Educational Objectives, Program Outcomes and Assessment, and Faculty16-17 . These requirements include:1. A process based on the needs of the program's various constituencies in which the objectivesare determined and periodically evaluated (Criterion #2);2. The students in the program must attain “an ability to design a system, component, or processto meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social,political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability” (Criterion #3); and3. The overall competence
objectives of any engineeringlaboratory experience must be understood. Once these fundamental objectives are wellunderstood, then there is a much greater potential for developing new kinds of laboratoryexercises that are appropriate for distance learning.As presented by Feisel and Rosa [7], a set of fundamental objectives of engineering instructionallaboratories developed by a colloquy run by the Sloan Foundation in 2002 involve studentoutcomes regarding: Instrumentation Theoretical models Experimental approaches Data analysis Design Learning from failure Creativity Use of engineering tools and resources (psychomotor) Safety Communication Teamwork Ethics Sensory awarenessThe above
communication,effective teamwork, written communication and ethical judgment and decision making. Thisspecifies where the gaps are occurring between industry and academia. Employers wantemployees that are more experienced in working teams effectively as that is how industry works,very few people ever work alone.This research paper has a preliminary analysis of five participants’ interviews revealed four toolor techniques used in complex problem solving in industrial settings: lean and/or Six Sigma, riskmanagement, data management, and communication across teams. Ultimately, we envision theresults of this work will lead to recommendations for curricular interventions and reform inSTEM education to bridge the academic-industry divide.III
% MACT 0% 1-33% 34-100% Figure 18 – Passing Rates for High Socioeconomic Students with SI Attendance by Math ACT4.4 Minority Cross-Group Examination What about the overlap between students who fit into multiple underrepresented groups?Little difference is found between the gender minority and the ethnic minority, with 4.2% of thepopulation being female and of an ethic minority. Further overlap is found when examiningsocioeconomic status. Figures 19 and 20 show students of low and high socioeconomic statusbroken down by ethnic minority. In addition to the ethnic minority overlap, females make up23.1% of LSES students and 16.1% of
development of technical communication skills.Historically, published aggregate results of the SURE III provide a window into the need forsupplemental programming to foster the development of student communication skills in thecontext of undergraduate research experiences. In both the first [8] and second [9] nationwideadministration of the SURE survey, skill in oral presentation and skill in science writing wereamong the lowest rated gains followed only by learning ethical conduct. In the 2015 institutionaladministration of the SURE survey for students participating in undergraduate researchexperiences in the STEM fields at Carnegie Mellon University, self-reported learning gains inscience writing and oral presentation skills were lower than
, collaborativedesign, ethical issues, and concepts on a computing society. The course also used IoT to teachcomputer science principles. Stevens IT has modified the Software Engineering Curriculum toemphasize the technical competencies required for Cyber Physical systems and IoT softwareengineering21. Mullett described an Internet of Everything course which addresses microprocessors,microcontrollers, hardware theory, software programming, operating systems and interfacinghardware and controllers to the real world23. This course was taught with the Arduino Unomicrocontroller for interfacing to the sensors and the Raspberry Pi 2 microprocessor for webinterface. The course was taught at a community college and influenced students to becomemakers and
of ABET outcomes “(c) an ability to design asystem, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic,environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability”and (h) “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in aglobal, economic, environmental, and societal context”). The senior design project can serve as anexcellent culminating experience in the program of study when it focuses on research and designprojects that have practical value to consumers or to industry. For the Engineering Technology(ET) Department at Drexel University, the senior design course is a year-long educational journey(three quarters) that takes an
PitfallsClarification Promise. Clarify the underlying Epistemological Pitfall. Limiting instructor,content, skills, and dispositions needed to learner, and researcher conceptions ofmaster a certain domain knowledge and knowingPersonalization Promise. Find personalized Ownership/Security Pitfall. Mishandlingpaths through the learning process for each and learner data legally, ethically, andevery student economically (intentionally or not)Optimization Promise. Increase learning gains Development Pitfall. Creating an adaptivewhile reducing the time durations needed to learning system can bankrupt an institution dueachieve them to high
Paper ID #18277An Analysis of Emotional Fluctuation and Its Causes in the Productive Prac-tice for Engineering Undergraduates: Based on the Case of an EngineeringMajor in ChinaMiss Jiaojiao Fu, Beihang University Jiaojiao FU is a Ph.D. candidate in School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beihang University Beijing, PRC. She received B.A. in China Agricultural University and M.Ed. in Beihang University, China. Her academic and research interests include engineering education, engineering ethics education, first-year engineering education, lifelong education. From April 2017 to October 2017, she will in College of