offerings were as follows: Figure 1: Project Based Learning Core of CoursesBy starting in the Junior year and culminating with a year-long senior capstone, participants wereable to progressively build their professional skills over several semesters. Detail PBL coursedescriptions may be found after the following titles: ENGR 350 - Engineering Practices and Principles III - Engineering project-based learning (open-ended) with emphasis on project control and engineering design processes. Special emphasis 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
, and gender and 2) engineering education, with a focus on socioeconomic class and social responsibility. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the intersection of engineering and corporate social responsibility. She is the author of Mining Coal and Un- dermining Gender: Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West (Rutgers University Press, 2014), which was funded by the National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2016 the National Academy of Engineering recognized her Corporate Social Responsibility course as a national exemplar in teaching engineering ethics. Professor Smith holds a PhD in Anthropology and a certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan
are encouraged; however, smaller teams can be accepted if the students demonstrate theyhave the appropriate discipline, work ethic and accountability to be successful. A faculty/staffselection committee will then evaluate the proposals in terms of quality, research interest, andresources required (e.g., expertise, time, supplies, equipment, funding, faculty advisor). Theselection committee is usually comprised of the MESA Center coordinator, grant directorsfunding the projects and an additional STEM faculty. Once selections are made, teams arenotified and required to attend an orientation where students sign agreements, liability waiversand other requisite paperwork. They also interact with other student researchers through team-building
discriminated, too.” (P8) “I think the first thing is not to make this so awkward because I find myself often not sure of when to disclose to people that I am hard of hearing. If I am at a phone interview, I know that I have to be in a quiet space. Also, I can't use a speakerphone because it sometimes was not clear. I have an experience where I am on a phone call with the call quality is really bad. I have to ask them to repeat. You know it makes the interview not go very well.” (P5) “I did have an interview with the Department of Defense. They made a conditional job offer but withdrew, because of ethical concerns. They encouraged me to apply to different departments within the Department of Defense. I turned it down
, dominant, and autonomous (9).Bradley and Lang claim that valance and arousal responses to most words is strong, while thedominance emotional response is “less-strongly related”. ANEW2017 does not specify how theoverall sentiment is calculated. ANEW2017 is simply a lexicon for use with other algorithms.Typically, the ANEW2017 lexicon is used in a simple average methods like AFINN andTextBlob.APPROACHThe authors teach an introductory course in electrical and computer engineering which wascreated to specifically address (1) provide an orientation and early success skills for universitylife, (2) introduce ethical considerations in engineering, (3) introduce the profession ofengineering, and specifically, electrical engineering and computer engineering
program structure andoverhauling the late freshman- and sophomore-level curriculum to better address today’s studentneeds. Over the past 18 months of the grant-based work, the grant PI and department facultyteams have collaborated to develop this vision through a base set of eight courses for all studentsto complete by the end of their second year. Consequently, the base courses must providestudents with a broad enough view of the field that they can make a satisfactory choice for theirpathway to a degree, while also providing them with basic knowledge that will be required ofany of those pathways.The program goals for the base courses are to 1) strengthen the integration of both electrical andcomputer engineering and ethics topics across the
. His research interests are in the areas of problem-solving, cultures of inclusion in engineering, engineering ethics, and environmental justice.Erica D. McCray, University of Florida Dr. Erica D. McCray is an Associate Professor of Special Education at the University of Florida. Prior to joining the faculty, she served as a special educator for students with behavioral and learning disabilities in Title I elementary and middle school settings. Dr. McCray has been recognized on multiple levels for her teaching and research, which focuses on diversity issues. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Critical Theories for Unmasking Individual and Structural Racialized
characteristics, meaning that the pedagogicalpractices are unique to students’ cultural, religious, demographic, and gender differences. Thesecharacteristics set students apart from one another and their educators. Therefore, when ateacher’s instructions reflect characteristics of only one group of students, the other students aredenied an equal opportunity to learn [16]. Using CRP takes into consideration a student’straditions, linguistics, value and ethical systems. CRP provides teachers with empirical andtheoretical constructs that support their efforts to lower existing barriers and opportunity gaps [17]- [19] for the increasingly diverse public-school student population in all educational platforms.CRP’s objective is to support students in obtaining
which offer inclusive learning opportunities for all participants. Whilechallenges exist, the class will continue to evolve and hopefully the partnerships will continue tobe meaningful to all involved.I. IntroductionOne primary purpose of higher education in engineering is to prepare engineering students fortheir future world of engineering practice. Recently, this purpose has required engineeringeducators to shift our thinking towards preparing students specifically as engineers who emergefrom college ready to participate as active and effective members of a global society [1], [2].Haag, et al. [3] observe that the “current work environment requires engineers to be globalcitizens, as well as aspirational, ethical leaders” and mimics
6 7 Construction skills (building, tinkering) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Cultural awareness/understanding 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ethics 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Please rate the level to which you agree/disagree with the following statements on a scale from 1 to 7 with 1 indicating strongly disagree to 7 indicating strongly agree: 1=Strongly Disagree 7=Strongly Agree It is important to me to learn how to make the world more 1 2 3
fundraising strategy and action plan according to the target budget. [IDENTIFY unexpected opportunities to create extraordinary value] (3/4) Illustrate the impact of the triple bottom line on the design project. [EXAMINE societal and individual needs, DISCERN and PURSUE ethical practices]The subset of learning objectives for Competition Projects 2 (Spring) associated with anentrepreneurial mindset are as follows with Bloom’s taxonomy levels in parentheses. Eachlearning objective is also matched to associated entrepreneurial mindset example behaviors asdefined in the KEEN framework. (6) Justify through presentation the value of the vehicle. [EVALUATE technical feasibility and economic drivers, CONVEY engineering
ethically, and helping to contribute to a commongood. These goals are used as a framework throughout the discussion, but rather thandeconstruct engineering education to the SLEM framework this work focuses oncommonalities or intersections. We begin with a general note on such research and thenconsider a more recently published case study on “How College Works” [8]. In this study weassume that lecture-based styles of teaching closely reflect material that is in course texts andwhich may just as well learned through properly designed digital courses without the aid of ahuman tutor.How college affects students“How College Affects Students” is the title given to two books that have critically reviewedthe vast body of research on how college impacts on
have strong work ethics and that in general want to do things such as working with a professor or start an entrepreneurship. (Faculty member, UAI)PUC students feature similar characteristics of those at UAI. Some students enroll in engineeringwith the idea of continuing the family business. However, the school strongly encourages theteaching of entrepreneurship skills to their students so they can develop it in their professionallife, either by launching their own project or in a public or private organization. When theyengage in entrepreneurship they see it as a way of generating social impact.What are the main strategies the selected engineering schools use for the promotion ofentrepreneurship education?As a synthesis of these
course that brings exciting, newtechnologies and skills to a first-year PBL course with the aim of enhancing engagement andproviding an authentic multidisciplinary, creative design process that includes student-proposedprojects. At the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, a large R1 research institution, an effort todevelop engagement, community and connections between freshmen and faculty began with thedevelopment of a required, one-credit first semester course. This course covers topics importantto all new university students – selecting a major, exploring extracurricular opportunities, writinga resume, appreciating diversity and understanding ethics – and for three years it was expandedto add a faculty co-instructor, who led a small
were collected from 120 first-year engineering students in a requiredengineering course at a large midwestern university. The main topics taught in the course includedata visualization and analysis, ethics, engineering design, application of computer programmingby using Matlab software, and development of mathematical models to solve engineeringproblems in a collaborative teamwork manner. Students were divided into teams, where eachteam had 3 to 4 students. We designed a semester-long study, where students submitted theirreflection after each lecture individually. Further, students evaluated themselves and their teammembers at four-time points for the teamwork. In addition, students provided their gender andrace information as shown in Table
. On-campus housing is provided to the Scholars. A resident coordinator is present at all times to handle logistical, operational, and emergency matters. Multifaceted daily activities are administered, including lectures on mathematics, science, communications, social justice and ethics (e.g., construction of racial identity, identifying inequalities), workshops on technical writing, coding, robotics, and resume building, hands-on team challenges (projects), professional tours, social and shopping trips, and personal time. All projects are team-based where two to three Scholars collaborate under the guidance of ambassadors. Each project is a challenge for which each team must
of Research ethics, the MIT Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program (KTCP) course, and un- dergraduate genetics. She believes in the power of peer-coaching as a method of improving an entire community’s ability to communicate effectively.Dr. Marina Dang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Marina Dang holds a PhD in Chemistry from Brandeis University, where she also served as an instructor for the Science Posse Boot Camp program. She taught chemistry at Emmanuel College and later became a STEM curriculum developer for an educational startup. In 2014, she joined the MIT Department of Nuclear Science & Engineering to serve as its first Communication Lab manager. As the Communication Lab model spread to new
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.Dr. Deepa Chari, Florida International UniversityZahra Taheri Zahra Taheri has studied psychology and her interests focus on human development, women and minori- ties in STEM. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Exploring
-centered design principles, agilemanagement principles, and engineering design tools for engineering decision making as well asintroductory CAD and MatLab. Sophomores who enrolled in these studies were completingtheir first formal engineering design course and would have completed modules covering designteaming, interviewing, listening, ethics, design objectives, constraints, and functional modeling.The senior engineering students who participated in these studies would have completed nearlyall of their engineering course work which includes: statics and dynamics, circuits andinstrumentation, two courses in thermo-fluids, mechanics and materials, two courses inengineering management, and thus far, four courses in engineering design. Students would
. Scott Streiner, Rowan University Dr. Scott Streiner is an assistant professor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department (ExEEd) at Rowan University. He received his Ph.D in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, with a focus in engineering education. His research interests include engineering global competency, cur- ricula and assessment; pedagogical innovations through game-based and playful learning; spatial skills development and engineering ethics education. His funded research explores the nature of global com- petency development by assessing how international experiences improve the global perspectives of en- gineering students. Dr. Streiner has published papers and given
notanalyzed quantitatively.Example Fall 2018 Projects All OEPs participated in a presentation competition at the end of the semester toshowcase their project. Each member of the top two teams won an award of $200 for theirefforts. Predefined projects also compete in a separate competition so that those students have asimilar incentive for not just completing their project but to go above and beyond in creativityand work ethic. The first OEP team was “PepperPet,” a holographic digital pet that acts as atalking companion. The team designed all the pets themselves and used a free API to helpgenerate the animation from the static images. These images would be displayed based on howthe user interacted with the display and buttons
improvements and our desire to capture information we heard in conversations withparticipants. The evaluation was approved by the Research Ethics Board at the University ofToronto as a quality improvement project. Findings presented in this paper were not gainedthrough research but rather a quality improvement project for The OPTIONS Program.The pre-evaluation included demographic and information gathering questions (e.g., degree-related work experience, extra-curricular/professional development activities). We do not presentsuch data in this paper. The post-evaluation had four open-ended questions including: “What didyou like about the program” and “What did you not like about the program?”. The post-evaluation also assessed the usefulness of
to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors. Table 1. A portion of rubric for ABET-EAC Student Outcome (2) (4). An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts. Table 2. A portion of rubric for ABET-EAC Student Outcome (4) Data also indicate that because of this assignment, among others, some students in the course choose hands-on electric vehicle-related design projects for their Senior Design I and Senior
(Quantitative, Qualitative, and Psychometrics Program), the Department of Anthropology, and the De- partment of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL).. He also serves as Dean’s Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Academy at UNL and as a Research Associate for the Kala- hari Peoples Fund of southern Africa. As a research methodologist, he teaches and conducts research on the history, epistemology, application, and instruction of qualitative research across disciplines, research ethics, grounded theory, ethnography, grounded ethnography, and mixed methods. He is also involved in several other research tracks including faculty teaching and evaluation strategies, interdisciplinary collab- oration
overwhelmed by theworkload, learning engineering theory, and social adjustment to campus life. Many of thesestudents encounter additional challenges such as differences in ethic/cultural values andsocialization, chilly classroom environments, perceived lack of faculty/advisor support,internalization of negative racial and gender stereotypes, and socio-economically disadvantagedbackground [2], [3], [4].Typically, postsecondary educational research focuses on one element of engineering studentssuch as gender or ethnicity; and fails to recognize the intersectionality of women of color. Thisis compounded by the fact that due to low participation, women of color in engineering areunderrepresented in research [2]. Qualitative research can provide a means
. We viewed this as a way to focusstudents on their teammates’ strengths, rather than focusing on deficits. We additionally askedthem to explain what interests and experiences drove them to become an engineer.In the following class session, they conducted a team gap analysis, placing a tick mark for eachperson who had each specific professional skill (additional areas focused on lifelong learning,ethics, problem solving, and technical competence). Students self-assessed whether theypossessed each skill, making this a binary choice (present/absent) for each member. For ourpurposes in this paper, we narrow our scope to the areas below, which were well covered by sub-topics:Professional Communications Skills Technical writing (technical
didactic instruction regarding FDA regulation and the Agency’s expectations fordocumentation associated with design of a new medical device via the development andmaintenance of a risk-based design history file. FDA quality system regulation is presented tothe Nursing students in the context of the “Joint Commission” requirements, with a comparisonof the similarities and differences of these two quality systems. Additionally, students thinkthrough and address ethical areas that may pose risk to a patient or healthcare worker and gain anunderstanding of HIPPA rules and regulations when working in the healthcare setting.Nursing students select a bioengineering team to participate on following a networking event atthe start of the fall semester. At
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