four engineering-intensive organizations, asking them to identify 3-4 senior engineers with a range of career pathswho had graduated prior to 1992. We also asked them to be mindful of demographic diversitywhere possible. The four organizations represented the following industries: Chemicalprocessing, manufacturing, consulting/mining, and software. To ensure the inclusion ofengineers who had followed less traditional paths, we also reached out to senior engineersemployed in public service, finance, university leadership and social impact enterprises. In theend, 28 senior engineers consented to participate. Despite our intention to diversify our sample
University (United States), Universidad Nacional deIngenieria (Peru), 100,000 Strong in the Americas, Partners of the Americas, and Foundation,Department of State (United States), and Association of International Educators (NAFSA).References[1] https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ [Online][2] J. Adams, "The Fourth Age of Research," Nature, Vol. 497, May, 30, 2013.[3] A. L. Freeman, J. V. Urbina, and S. Zappe, “Engineering Pathways fellows: Four years of successful retention initiatives and international collaboration”, Conference proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Columbus, OH, June, 2017.[4] C. Drew, “Why science majors change their minds (It’s just so
Paper ID #13547Spanglish Software Engineering: A Curious International Learning Experi-enceProf. Barbara Victoria Bernal, Kennesaw State University - Marietta Campus (formerly Southern PolytechnicState U.) Barbara Victoria Bernal is a Emeritus Professor of Software Engineering at Kennesaw State U. (formerly Southern Polytechnic State U. (SPSU)), where she has worked since 1984, serving as undergraduate co- ordinator for software engineering (2002-2005); undergraduate coordinator for information technology (2004-2005); and chair of software engineering (2005-6). She was awarded the SPSU Outstanding Fac- ulty Award in 1995
Paper ID #14663Integrating Compassion into an Engineering Ethics CourseDr. George D. Catalano, Binghamton University Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Binghamton University Previously member of the faculty at U.S. Military Academy and Louisiana State University. Two time Fullbright Scholar – Italy and Germany. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Integrating a Compassion Practicum into a Biomedical Engineering Ethics CourseAbstractA required undergraduate course in the ethics of biomedical engineering has been developed andtaught. Students are required to design
project that helped them with their presentation skills.We chose the project based on the students' background and passion and with having their degree,general engineering, in mind. Students at Cornell College are heavily involved in artistic andathletic activities. The students involved in this project had recently taken the engineering circuitscourse and have a musical knowledge background. The technical goal of the project was toconstruct a gesture-controlled piano that could recognize the distance from an object to the sensorand translate it into musical notes. The idea came from an open-source project designed by AndyGrove. The students built upon the open-source project and expand its capabilities. They addednew features to the initial
mind with intelligence. The cognitive process involves obtaininginformation, processing it, and storing it in the memory to be accessed again. AI is accomplishedby studying the patterns of the human brain and by analyzing the cognitive process. Artificialintelligence has contributed to various fields including agriculture, finance, manufacturing,security, pharmaceuticals, academia, and others. But now AI has become more of aninterdisciplinary entity.Impact of AI Tools on Engineering EducationAI-powered tools have been in development for several years in different forms, which humansare well-aware of. For instance, word processors can suggest better-sounding sentences andwords while writing an essay or report. Similarly, spreadsheets have
Paper ID #45590Engineering Students’ Perceptions and Preparedness for GlobalizationDr. Shazib Z Vijlee, University of Portland Dr. Shazib (Shaz) Vijlee is an Associate Professor of Engineering at the University of Portland’s Donald P. Shiley School of Engineering. He has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas (Austin). He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington (Seattle). He has held various positions in industry (Boeing Phantom Works) and government (Sandia National Labs and Air Force Research Labs). Dr. Vijlee has been at the
and its effectiveness.Both Arnold and John again encouraged participants to co-create a community of reflectivepractice and report back on what they learned about our own practice of teaching, theirdeveloping philosophy of education, and being able to defend it through evidence-based actionresearch. What works? When and why and how? They suggested that participants connect theoryand practice using an engineering frame of mind; that trying to learn to teach is like a big designproblem, with uncertain constraints and variables. The leaders sincerely offered to help theparticipants over the next year via virtual meetings phone, email, Skype calls, and encouragedgoal setting, reflective teaching, and reporting back in eight months at the next
Paper ID #13813Crafting a Successful High School Engineering ProgramMs. Marie Anne Aloia, Bayonne High School Marie is an alternate route teacher with an educational background in math, physics, chemical engineering and computer science. As the first girl in her family to go to college, and maybe to prove the point, she earned two bachelor’s degrees, one from Montclair State University by day, and 8 years later, one from New Jersey Institute of Technology, by night, while working full time by day at Exxon Research and Engineering. While a traditional female career, like teaching, was the last thing on her mind, she was
minds of local citizens and their level of trust and confidence inengineering and engineering-dominated organizations such as the Army Corps of Engineers.26Different opinions were voiced in class, including why rebuild at all in areas below sea level?However, about half of the students were silent and did not engage in these discussions. Thestudents were perhaps uncomfortable with uncertainty and the lack of clear, correct answers; oruncomfortable sharing their personal opinions when they were uncertain if their peers agreed ordisagreed. Some students voiced open skepticism, wondering why we were even looking at amap of residency disaggregated by race and in reference to sea level in New Orleans.In-class Discussion: Social JusticeA full class
organizations, low levels ofretention and promotion of racial minorities and women in the workplace indicate a lack ofinclusion within workplace cultures (Cook & Glass, 2013; Giscombe & Mattis, 2002; Hom &Ellis, 2008). With this in mind, ABET’s approach to Criteria 3 specifically identifies the abilityto create inclusive environments in engineering teams. Creating these inclusive environments requires individuals to practice behaviors thatfoster individuals’ feelings of belonging. Shore, Randel, Chung, and Dean (2011) go one stepbeyond belongingness in their definition of inclusion to include “the degree to which anemployee perceives that he or she is an esteemed member of the work group throughexperiencing treatment that satisfies
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2017 ASEE International Forum:Columbus , Ohio Jun 28 Paper ID #20770TEACHING ENGINEERING ETHICS IN ASIA FROM WESTERN RE-SOURCESDr. N. Krishnamurthy, (Self-employed) Dr. N. Krishnamurthy (known as ’Prof Krishna’) is currently Consultant in Safety, Structures and Com- puter Applications in Singapore. He is an Approved Consultant of the Singapore Ministry of Manpower, for whom he has carried out assignments. He has more than five and half decades of teaching, research, and consultancy experience, including short courses and talks for practicing engineers, in U.S.A., Sin
Springs, NY, ppF3F-1-F3F-7, Oct. 2008.[9] A. Haugh, et al., “Assessing the effectiveness of an engineering summer day camp,” ASEE’s123rd Ann. Conf. and Expo., New Orleans, LA, Paper ID #15045, June 2016.[10] C. Denson et al., “Value of informal learning environments for students engaged inengineering design,” J. Technology Stud., vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 40-46, Spring 2015.[11] D. Beck, et al., “Summer Engineering Experience for Girls (SEE): An evolving hands-onrole for the engineering librarian,” ASEE 2010 Ann. Conf. and Expo., Louisville, KY, pp.15.1146.1 - 15.1146.25, June 2010.[12] T. L. Roberson, L., “‘STEM’-ulating young minds: Creating science-based programming @your library,” J. Library Admin., vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 192-201, 2015
Paper ID #19343Engineering Faculty Perceptions of Diversity in the ClassroomDr. Kelly J Cross, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Cross completed her doctoral program in the Engineering Education department at Virginia Tech in 2015 and worked as a post-doctoral researcher with the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At UIUC she has collaborated with mul- tiple teams of engineering faculty on implementing and assessing instructional innovation. Dr. Cross is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Bioengineering working to
thesesurveys are quite low, about 40 %.The bachelor course got an overall grade of 3.8 in the standard course survey, which isconsidered good having in mind that it was the first time it was held. The bachelor project aswell as the profile as a whole was also carried out by a questionnaire distributed by the author ofthis paper to the students first enrolled, at the end of their bachelor project. The response rate washigh, about 70 %. The overall grade of the course shows that most students were very satisfiedwith the bachelor project. Aspects particularly emphasized as positive were the multifacetedengineering approach and the opportunity to freely work on a large project. The project was alsoconsidered very relevant for the energy engineering
Paper ID #13957Practicing care in global engineering with underserved communitiesDr. Bhavna Hariharan, Stanford University Bhavna Hariharan is a Social Science Research Associate at the Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. Her field of inquiry is Engineering Education Research (EER) with a focus on engineering design for and with underserved communities around the world. For the last nine years, she has worked on designing, implementing and managing environments for interdisciplinary, geographically distributed, collaborative research projects among scholars, and
hierarchical dualisms (e.g. man-woman, mind-body, rational-emotional, culture-nature, technical-social, etc.), I aimed to increase the criticalconsciousness of engineering education and bring awareness to these normative value systems.This paper provides a story of how storytelling methodology saved my sanity, improved myresearch, and led to greater outcomes. Much of the words in the paper are adapted from Chapter3 of my dissertation (Paul, 2024).Prologue: ContextWriting a PhD thesis is a daunting task filled with trepidation, uncertainty, and anxiety. Afteryears of research, reading, data collection, and analysis, somehow this information is to bepresented into a coherent sequence of scholarships that demonstrates enough ‘rigour’ (Riley,2017) to be
Paper ID #43071Sustainability-focused Digital Case Studies: Enhancing Engineering EducationDeepika Ganesh, University of Michigan Deepika is a second year Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, School for the Environment and Sustainability. She specializes in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and is curious about informal education spaces, especially outdoor and digital spaces, and their role in contextual learning environments. Her most recent projects include program evaluation for the Next-Gen Scholars program aimed at first generation and underrepresented masters students in her department, and studying
developing creative data visualizations, it is important to keep in mind bestpractices in accessible design such as using high contrast colors and alt text for digital works.This paper is just a starting point for exploring more compelling data visualizations. More workneeds to be done to develop these for a variety of potential audiences.ConclusionThe presented case studies explore the critical role of creative data visualization in enhancing theunderstanding and impact of various aspects of engineering education. It is important andbeneficial to look beyond traditional data representation methods and towards more innovative,visually appealing, and creative approaches. The first case study addressed the issue of genderdisparity in engineering. Use
leverage theories that speak to the gender-basedracialized experiences of Black students and the racialized nature of institutions. We aim to provideinsight into the institution's role in facilitating thriving for Black engineering students at PWIs.IntroductionThe experience of Black students in engineering programs at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) isrife with inequities in participation and racial stereotypes about ability and competence [1-4]. WhileBlack students navigate their way to success in engineering programs not created with them in mind,they often survive rather than thrive [5-6]. A literature review examining engineering student successfound that success is often defined as a collection of academic competencies that
. Because best practices suggestlimiting course outcomes to six or under [7], [8] it is unrealistic to think that faculty canadequately assess all thirteen learning outcomes for engineering laboratories described in Table3. This report based on responses from faculty supports the notion that not all lab learningoutcomes are equally important and points towards candidates for a focused set of outcomes thatshould be more thoroughly assessed. Departments should be mindful when determining whichlearning outcomes are best-suited for the ChE laboratory courses, with consideration of whichoutcomes translate to ABET criteria as well as which outcomes can be taught and assessed inother courses. While this paper focuses on understanding how faculty perceive
Paper ID #30045The Modalities of Governance in Engineering EducationDr. Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Atsushi Akera is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY). He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania. His current research is on the history of engineering education reform in the United States (1945-present). He is a the current Chair of the ASEE Ad Hoc Committee on Interdivisional Cooperation; Chair of the International Network for
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international example to follow.U.S. higher education has had a long history of pursuing engineering expansion. “Every studyof engineering education in this century, beginning with the Wickenden report in the 1920s,directed attention to broadening the engineering curriculum [3, p. 120].” The broadeningincluded the humanities. The president of the National Academy of Engineering wrote, “Don’tbe tempered to crowd the humanities, arts, and social sciences out of the curriculum. Theintegral role of these subjects in U.S. engineering education differentiates us from much of therest of the world. I believe the humanities, arts, and social sciences are essential to the creative,explorative, open-minded environment and spirit necessary to educate the engineer
students presented their rehabilitation devicesand gave them to their clients.The course modules that were intentionally designed to help students engage with their clientsincluded empathic design, disability etiquette, and the ecological model of disability. Thelearning objectives of each module is described below, and authors of this paper will gladly sharespecific module curriculum upon request.Empathic Design Discuss empathy and how it relates to engineering design. Compare and contrast emotional and cognitive empathy. Describe the consequences of only using an analytical state of mind when facing today’s complex design problems.Disability Etiquette Provide examples of using first person disability language. Explain to a
it was definitelystrange to change my mind.” But in her new major, “I really, really like what I am in now andsince I started my new major it’s been doing a lot more science and less computers which wasnever my favorite. …I decided I’m going to law school…” She stated that via environmentallaw she “can make a bigger impact.” She also discussed the she would be graduating a semesterearly (after 3.5 years of college), since her new major required fewer credits. She noted that shewas looking forward to getting to pick her classes in the final semester.Persisting in Original Engineering DisciplinesA large contributor to Tanya’s persistence in EnvE may have been her early mentoringrelationship with an environmental engineering faculty member. The
Paper ID #23558Assessment of a Global Engineering Outreach CourseDr. Randy S. Lewis, Brigham Young University Dr. Randy S. Lewis is professor at Brigham Young University (BYU). He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from BYU and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively. He currently serves as chair of the Education and Accreditation Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and as an ABET commissioner for accrediting engineering programs. He previously served in several national positions of AIChE. His research interests include biomaterials development, engineering
Paper ID #14975Barriers to Broadening Participation in Engineering Competition TeamsRui (Celia) Pan, Toyota Financial Services Dr. Pan is currently working as a sales, product and remarketing analyst at Toyota Financial Services. She received her Ph.D in Engineering Education from Purdue University. She hold a M.S. in Statistics and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering.Dr. Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma Dr. Randa L. Shehab is a professor and the Director of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. She was recently appointed as Director of the Sooner Engineering Education