AC 2011-1860: A STUDY ABROAD IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:MENTORING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AS THEY PREPARE AND TEACH6-12 GRADE STUDENTS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING CONCEPTSSteven L Shumway, Brigham Young UniversitySClaudina Vargas, Complex Systems Optimization LabGeoff Wright, Brigham Young UniversityRon Terry, Brigham Young University Ron is a Professor of Technology and Engineering Education at Brigham Young University. His scholar- ship centers on pedagogy, student learning, and engineering ethics and has presented/published numerous articles in engineering education. Page 22.108.1 c American
of the graduate engineeringprocess and intended to address professional skills such as practicing effective time management,gaining familiarity with ethical issues and practices, and learning strategies for attending andleading meetings. We addressed these skills through articulating and modeling behaviors thatmay not, at first, seem to belong in a communication framework. For example, it might soundobvious, but we told students to bring their calendars and a notebook and pen to every meeting.We also created a form that incorporated both writing milestones and task-related milestones totrack progress and completion of task components and the entire task. Beginning in the secondsemester of the program, both the writing coach and the faculty
Traditional 4 5 15 38 389. Knowledge of professional and ethical MEA 9 26 46 14 6responsibility. Traditional 54 24 13 4 5 MEA 6 14 57 17 610. Ability to write reports effectively. Traditional 90 5 3 0 2 MEA 74 17 6 0 311. Ability to make effective oral presentations. Traditional 92 2 2 0 312. Knowledge of the potential risks and impacts MEA 6
JAMES HELBLING, M.S.A.E.Currently an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering where he teaches structural analysis,computer aided conceptual design, and aircraft detail design courses. He has 21 years ofindustry experience with McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) and Northrop GrummanCorporation where he specialized in structural fatigue loading and served as manager of F-5/T-38 Engineering.M. ANGELA BECK, PH.D.Currently serving as Chair of the Department of Humanities/Communications at Embry-RiddleAeronautical University, Prescott campus. As an Associate Professor she primarily teachestechnical communications with occasional forays into linguistics, the philosophy of language,and ethics. A graduate of San Diego State University and Northern
curriculum should include the use of building simulation and the idea of energyand comfort performance as an important driver for the design process. This will support studentdesign decisions based upon the affect on a building’s lighting, heating, cooling performance,and the comfort of future occupants. In this setting, for example, the glazing of a façadebecomes less about referential stylistic applications and more about whether the window patternprovides the defined daylight illumination levels while avoiding thermal penalties. Aestheticsmust play a central role in creating vitality between people and the built environment, but in theproposed curriculum it will be founded upon an ethic that design must also be grounded inphysics and energy
lose it” prevailed.The faculty responded to this situation by re-designing our undergraduate unit operations courseto include both statistics content and its direct application in the planning of laboratoryexperiments and analysis of data.The original junior-level three-credit course was comprised of two hours of lab (two 2 ½-hoursessions per week) and one hour of lecture. The course included a good blend of traditional andmodern experiments and lecture topics on lab safety, writing skills, professionalism and ethics,and a token discussion of statistics and experimental design. When a one-credit junior seminarcourse, “Chemical Engineering as a Profession,” was introduced in our curriculum, studentslearned about many of the professional topics
Page 22.1461.14relationship benefiting her professional development and stayed away from other purelysocializing activities. Jessica framed her limited social involvement as an ethical standard thatshe had to subscribe to in order to succeed in the highly demanding field of her study. Amanda: Like, I‟m talkative… but, I value my alone time. Like, you know, when I‟m finished with classes or whatever, I‟m fine to just go back to my room and kind of like shut myself off. I‟m… I‟m perfectly fine with that. And that‟s how I was in school. My friends always felt like I didn‟t want to do anything with them or go out. But, it was just… I was a homebody and I was fine entertaining myself. (omitted some conversation
“older,” “mature,” “adult,” “non-traditional” or “returning” students, have had a variety of careerand life experiences between their undergraduate and graduate studies. These returning studentsdiffer from direct-pathway graduate students; they are often more motivated and mature9,10, moregoal-directed4,10, more aware of ethical issues9, have better teamwork skills9, have a high workethic10, and more skilled with a variety of tools and types of equipment10. They also utilize timemanagement strategies more effectively than younger students, and model effective studystrategies for direct-pathway students to emulate11. These characteristics can add to theclassroom environment and enrich the graduate experience for the student body as a whole9,10