Collection

2024 CIEC

Authors

Sidney Martin; Marilyn Barger; Catherine Davis

create unified training and industry languageand address gaps in skills required in the future.The manufacturers attending the sessions requested the following for sessions to be developed in thefollowing topics suggested. They asked for a course on how to work in the manufacturingengineering field. This feedback included soft skills such as writing a resume, calling in when youwill be out from work, and how to schedule a vacation. A course would follow this course insoldering. All the companies in attendance thought the soldering skills were critical. They wouldallow the individual to have permanent employment at the company and be able to attend techniciantraining. Some employers were requesting soldering compliance to the J-STD-001. This

Collection

2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Chang-Hee Won

simply cannot be introduced in conventional lecture and laboratory courses. From proper documentation techniques and the systems engineering philosophy to teamwork and systems-level integration, students learned valuable lessons in both the technical aspects of engineering and the group dynamics of a large-scale project. • Large-scale system integration also rarely takes place in either undergraduate or graduate education. The satellite project allowed the students to gain valuable experience that is generally not found in either the on-campus curriculum or through cooperative (co-op) education. • Dealing with group dynamics helps students to polish their “soft skills,” which

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Aaron S. Bradshaw; Gary N. McCloskey; Franklin Miguel

Development of a Civil Engineering Design Course Based On Reflective Action Aaron S. Bradshaw, Merrimack College Gary N. McCloskey, O.S.A. Merrimack College Franklin Miguel, Merrimack CollegeAbstractAdded to solid technical skills, there are a number of “soft” skills that a civil engineer must possess to besuccessful in practice. A concept for a course is proposed where students can develop technical and non-technical practice skills using the learning approach of reflective action which was first introduced byDonald Schon in the 1980’s. Reflective action is demonstrated through a design problem involving

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Linda Laird; Ye Yang

  Tech  Company   Job  Awareness   Cohort  Based   Cultural   Seminars   Software   Financial   Engineering   Leadership  and   Assistance   Soft  Skills   Studio   Technical   Mentoring   Skills

Collection

2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Fariborz M. Tehrani

more guidance to focus on high taskbehaviors. These behaviors typically reflect work structure, organization, schedule, and resourceallocation.Relationship or supportive behavior, on the other hand, is interpreted as psychological aspects ofmaturity dimension and correlates with the confidence of person to perform. The matchingleadership style provides more support for high relationship behavior. This behavior is oftencharacterized by giving considerations to emotional state of the performer and developing mutualrespect and trust, as well as improving communication and other soft skills. As a person maturesin certain performance, the directive and supportive behaviors advance through four zones ofleadership style. This cycle will require the

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Aaron S. Bradshaw; Gary N. McCloskey; Franklin Miguel

Development of a Civil Engineering Design Course Based On Reflective Action Aaron S. Bradshaw, Merrimack College Gary N. McCloskey, O.S.A. Merrimack College Franklin Miguel, Merrimack CollegeAbstractAdded to solid technical skills, there are a number of “soft” skills that a civil engineer must possess to besuccessful in practice. A concept for a course is proposed where students can develop technical and non-technical practice skills using the learning approach of reflective action which was first introduced byDonald Schon in the 1980’s. Reflective action is demonstrated through a design problem involving

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Aaron S. Bradshaw; Gary N. McCloskey; Franklin Miguel

Development of a Civil Engineering Design Course Based On Reflective Action Aaron S. Bradshaw, Merrimack College Gary N. McCloskey, O.S.A. Merrimack College Franklin Miguel, Merrimack CollegeAbstractAdded to solid technical skills, there are a number of “soft” skills that a civil engineer must possess to besuccessful in practice. A concept for a course is proposed where students can develop technical and non-technical practice skills using the learning approach of reflective action which was first introduced byDonald Schon in the 1980’s. Reflective action is demonstrated through a design problem involving

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Maxim, University of Michigan - Dearborn; Thomas Limbaugh, University of Michigan - Dearborn; Jeffrey Yackley, University of Michigan - Dearborn

instruction in Fall 2021, butclassroom activities needed to be redesigned to take masking and social distancing into account.The activities implemented in the course have been used successfully with several groups ofstudents and their evolution benefited from feedback provided by the students and faculty [1],[3].This paper describes the authors’ experiences using active learning materials adapted for socialdistancing in a software engineering course. Depending on their Covid vaccination status,students attended either the in-person, socially distanced class meetings or exclusively online.The authors wanted to provide opportunities for online students to develop soft skills on teamprojects by encouraging them to participate virtually in reflection

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration and Sociotechnical Thinking: The Big Picture

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

confirmed these results,including “Hard Evidence on Soft Skills” (Heckman and Kautz, 2012), which uses rigorouseconomic analysis to conclusively demonstrate that “personality traits, goals, motivations, andpreferences. . . .predict success in life [and] causally produce that success” (p. i). A studyconducted at Harvard in 2016 yielded similar results: 85% of job success was attributed topersonality traits with only 15% of success depending on technical capability [Torun, 2018, p.6299]. Mann acknowledges that “personal traits like integrity, initiative, and common sensecannot be taught didactically like the rule of three [but argues that] it is no less obvious that thegrowth of these essential characteristics in students may be either fostered and

Collection

AEE Journal

Authors

Martha Liliana Torres-Barreto; Ginna Paola Castro Castaño; Mileidy Alvarez Melgarejo

technical and non-technical skills. The model is being applied at a university and theirfirst results show the need to modify the engineering training processes, to include the develop-ment of appropriate competences in engineers, in response to the demands of a globalized world.Key words: Challenge based learning, Industrial engineering, Soft skills. INTRODUCTION The dynamic world in which engineers operate presents them with new demands and offers newchallenges in the diverse, profound and incessant changes that humanity faces while walking in the21st century (Nguyen 1998).SUMMER 2020 VOLUME 8 ISSUE 2 1

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachal E Thomassie, Texas A&M University; Kathryn Kirsch, Pennsylvania State University; Eric R Marsh, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Timothy J. Jacobs, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

mechanicalengineering. In addition to learning about jobs and careers, students also indicated a newfoundappreciation for lifelong learning and the importance of soft-skills. This positive feedback pointsto success in achieving the course objectives. Each institution took a different approach;however, both have the same goal: to prepare mechanical engineering students for a productiveand enjoyable career.References[1] J. Selingo, “Reimagining the Career Center,” Entangled Solutions, July 2017.[2] V. Goodrich, L. McWilliams, and C. Pieronek, “Implementation and Assessment of RequiredEngineering Exploration Assignments in a First-Year Engineering Course,” Proceedings of the2015 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exhibition, Seattle

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Curricula and Pathways

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alma H. Rosales, Colorado State University; Andrea M. Leland, Colorado State University; Olivera Notaros, Colorado State University, ECE Department; Richard F. Toftness, IEEE High Plains Section; Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University; Michael A. De Miranda Ph.D., Colorado State University; Alistair Cook, Colorado State University; Melissa D. Reese, Colorado State University; Zinta S. Byrne, Colorado State University; James Warren Weston, Colorado State University; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Engineering has worked for years to continuouslyimprove its approach to professional formation, relying heavily on input from constituentsranging from alumni and corporate partners to faculty and current students. The most influentialstakeholder group has been the department’s Industrial Advisory Board (IAB), and for the pastdecade the IAB has driven a number of initiatives designed to teach and build capacities forprofessional skills, often called “soft skills.” As shown in Table 2, the IAB’s recommendationshave been delivered in silos, mostly via the senior design capstone experience. ECE 202 CircuitTheory Applications – which now includes a project design component in the sophomore year –has served as the vital lower-level course for introducing

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bernd Steffensen, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

for granted and do not come to auser’s mind when market researchers attempt to identify opportunities for future productimprovements and innovations. Companies, i.e., their employees, need empathy to understand thissituation and why certain experiences and performances with products are meaningful to theuser12.McDonagh13 defines empathy as “the intuitive ability to identify with other people’s thoughts andfeelings – their motivations, emotional and mental models, values, priorities, preferences, andinner conflicts”. In an engineering class the theoretical concept of empathy is probably perplexingand will be rated by the students as a very soft skill or as a psychological approach beyond (a) theboundaries of the engineering disciplines and (b

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald F. DeMara, University of Central Florida; Navid Khoshavi, University of Central Florida; Steven D. Pyle, University of Central Florida; John Edison, University of Central Florida; Richard Hartshorne, University of Central Florida; Baiyun Chen, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Ronald F. DeMara, University of Central Florida

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

instrumentsfacilitates design problems beyond rote multiple choice. Thus, problems with partial credit,which are isomorphic to pencil-and-paper based exams, become deliverable electronically.Meanwhile handwritten image files are retained for strengthening the learner’s soft skills throughone-on-one clarification with Content GTAs. Second, STEM learners require extensive guidanceand student-specific coaching to hone their proficiency on subtle design aspects. A hierarchy ofexpertise facilitates these roles within a rapid feedback loop. A detailed financial cost model wasdeveloped which indicates that tutoring can be provided at no additional expense, by attaining abreakeven point between the grading hours avoided and the test proctoring hours required. Thisis

Conference Session

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Case Studies in Construction Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hector Buyones-Gonzalez, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; Monica Quezada-Espinoza, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

andconfidentiality.Results on recommendations for adjusting the curriculumTable 2 displays the frequencies of the recommendations made by the interviewedconstruction experts. Table 2. Emerged recommendations from experts and frequencies. Recommendations for adjusting the curriculum Frequency Cross-disciplinary incorporation of AI into the curriculum 14 Encouragement of soft skills development 14 Establishment and strengthening of ties between academia, the 13 industrial sector, and technology companies Training in AI ethics and legislation

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Jill Lunn, Florida International University; Edward Dillon, Morgan State University; Zubayer Ahmed Sadid, Florida International University

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

professional skills that may be needed for long-term success incomputing [12].Please note that professional skills may also be referred to as “social skills” or “soft skills.”However, it has been suggested that the term “soft” can imply that they are less relevant than“hard” or technical skills [13]. Accordingly, we use “professional skills” in the work that followsand apply the definition provided by others for computing in that we recognize it as “anon-technical skill that can be learned in a traditional academic setting and is relevant toproficiency in a given field of study, which may itself be largely technical” [14, p. 288].Finally, dispositions are described in terms of the way an individual may apply skills orknowledge to impact their

Conference Session

Reviewing Emergent Topics and Theory in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yi Cao, Virginia Tech; Qin Zhu, Virginia Tech; Jennifer M. Case, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Impact of EC2000,” p. 12, 2014.[7] J. A. Shaeiwitz, “Outcomes Assessment in Engineering Education,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 85, no. 3, pp. 239–246, Jul. 1996, doi: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.1996.tb00239.x.[8] J. Lucena, G. Downey, B. Jesiek, and S. Elber, “Competencies Beyond Countries: The Re- Organization of Engineering Education in the United States, Europe, and Latin America,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 97, no. 4, pp. 433–447, Oct. 2008, doi: 10.1002/j.2168- 9830.2008.tb00991.x.[9] C. Del Vitto, “Cross-Cultural ‘Soft Skills’ and the Global Engineer: Corporate Best Practices and Trainer Methodologies,” Online Journal for Global Engineering Education, vol. 3, no. 1, Feb. 2008

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 5 Design Teams

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Clavijo, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Louis Oh, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Kishore Pochiraju, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

Explainer Video Competition whileunderrepresented in the Autonomous Robot Competition. The Autonomous Robot Competitionrewards technical performance, while the other two competitions rely on excelling in bothtechnical and professional skills. This finding supports the hypothesis that female engineeringstudents value professional skills or “soft-skills” more than their male counterparts [19].Entrepreneurial thinking course competitions seem to attract more female students and may behelpful to encourage and retain women in engineering programs.Since the competition is part of a class and not external, students that might be distracted bycompetitions, focused on their coursework since they are aligned. Most students improved theirGPA during the

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division: Approaches to Ethics Education (Part 1)

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vignesh Subbian, The University of Arizona; Linda Shaw; colleen halpin, University of Arizona

put it beyond the reachof anyone who isn’t very wealthy?”, “How can I balance my obligations to society when theyseem to conflict with the interests of the company funding my project?”. Consequently,education, when designed to prepare students for the real world must also prepare them todevelop their social awareness and abilities and acquire a clear sense of professional values inorder to develop and to sustain successful, healthy relationships with those with whom they workand with those they seek to serve. Unfortunately, such “soft skills” are often given short shrift in the undergraduate curriculum[3]. As a 2015 study by Garibay suggests, it seems that within engineering and related fields, thisstrong focus on technical knowledge, and

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cijy Sunny, Baylor University; Idalis Villanueva, University of Florida

. (Quan) Do you believe these assumptions exist? 4.The assumption that women in engineering are an exception and not the norm. Likert Scale: 1-Definitely Not 5.The assumption that in engineering ‘‘soft skills’’ (e.g., 2-Probably Not communication, teamwork) are under-valued. 3- Possibly 4-Very Probably 6. The assumption that diversity in engineering is under- 5- Definitely Yes valued. Participants were asked to watch a 7.5-minute video, which Video highlighted

Conference Session

CIT Division Technical Session #10

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University; Janis Raje

participating with their facultymentors and to encourage the use of ePortfolios. Individual students work will with their facultymentors the create an Individual Education and Development Plan (IEDP) that provides a maptoward graduation and career [18], [19]. IEDPs will include the purpose and sequence of HIPs inwhich students participate. If students have a clearer idea of which soft skills they wish todevelop – such as problem solving and critical thinking, oral and written communication, teamwork, ethical perspective, leadership, emotional intelligence etc. [20], [21] – they could morepurposefully plan and engage in HIPs.In addition, ePortfolios could provide a useful way to strengthen the collective impact of theHIPs. In ePortfolios, students can

Conference Session

ETD - ET Curriculum and Programs I

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Kelley, The Ohio State University; Camryn Reitz, The Ohio State University; Winifred Opoku, The Ohio State University

workforcedemands. Technological change, global competition, and the pandemic have combined to usherin and hasten the era of shop-floor digitalization and automation of manufacturing. Combinedwith a growing "silver tsunami” retirement and “Great Resignation” of skilled workers and thelack of a curricular emphasis on applied learning in some sectors [1] and we have now reachedcrisis level in a much-reduced pool of highly skilled, manufacturing-ready engineers available tomanufacturers.In addition to technical aptitude, there is growing demand from industry for engineeringgraduates to be equipped with professional or “soft” skills and abilities [1], [2]. “Moreover,engineers have recently begun to incorporate considerations such as sustainability

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Al Mestiraihi, Utah State University; Kurt Becker, Utah State University - Engineering Education

program. McAlexander, McCance, Blanchard, and Venditti, [33]examined internships in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector, i.e.,integrating placements into degree education. The results suggest that internships can improveemployability and provide a mechanism to obtain permanent jobs, as interns are predicted to becreative workers instead of “learning to labor.” They also reported that there was a small labormarket for undergraduates who possessed the necessary soft skills. The stress on soft skillsindicates a change in the character of ICT work, which has implications for the worker’seducation within this sector by linking employability to specific labor processes.3. MethodsTo obtain a deeper understanding of the required

Conference Session

Two-Year College Potpourri

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

technical course.The era of the “engineering technician” started to decline as more and more two-year graduateswere tasked with becoming field technicians that were required to maintain technical systems inthe field or were involved with the manufacturing process and final test of products in anindustrial environment (i.e. production technicians). In a manner similar to how four-year collegeprograms reacted, the technical education community at the two-year college level started toembrace similar elements of the Scans report [15] (usually, problem solving skills and life-longlearning) with efforts to infuse these so-called “soft skills” within the technology curriculum. Inany case, during the period preceding the Internet age, both two-year

Conference Session

Teaching Methodology & Assessment 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Amelia Greig, University of Texas at El Paso

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

widelyacknowledged that graduating engineers require a lot more skills that simply doing workedexamples about a single component of an entire engineering system, such as leadership,teamwork, and communication skills [17,18].Well-planned and well-conceived assessments can provide the opportunity to expand anddevelop these required soft skills at the same time as maintaining the ability to assess courseeffectiveness against ABET student learning outcomes and provide a ranking system of studentsfor future employers. Writing Across the Curriculum [19] is one example of this, where writingand communication exercises are incorporated into all aspects of the curriculum including thetechnical subjects that are often assessed only through worked problems. The

Conference Session

Empathy and Human-Centered Design 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alexander Pagano, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Leon Liebenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

material, you can start with easier concepts or more practical conceptsbesides the theoretical concepts.” Second, the TAs thought that the activity provided students with the opportunity to developsoft skills such as human-centeredness, creativity, and communication. One TA mentioned “I thinkthe purpose that we implemented this activity is to improve the soft skills to be honest; just try toget them a little bit of creativity, kind of like thinking out of the box of the problem”. The other TAsaid, “The activity lets us cover some soft skills like communication and human-centeredness”. Challenges: The analysis of the interviews showed that the TAs thought that the activityposed two major challenges. First, it was challenging for

Collection

Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Eric B. Dano, BAE Systems

practitioner’s innateabilities must be accounted for in undergraduate curriculum to ensure a broad cadre of systemthinkers can be produced. Valerdi and Rouse [25], found that there is a difference between thosewho can perform system thinking, and those who can both do and apply systems thinking. Theypostulated that an enabling environment needed to be established in an organization so thatpractitioners are not discouraged from acting on their systems thinking analysis, and that desiredsystem properties were both realized and implemented. Therefore, in addition to just learningthe system thinking competencies in Table 2, the learning of “soft skills” (e.g. leadership,motivation, communication, management, etc. [16]), consideration of practitioner’s

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua C. Palmer, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale; Kenneth D. Birchler, Southern Illinois University; Joseph David Narusis, Southern Illinois University; Rhonda K Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale; Bruce DeRuntz, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

skills (e.g., soft skills and leadership)4 The need is so critical that fortune 50 companies such as Caterpillar7, General Electric8,Lockheed Martin9, and Siemens10 among others have created their own internal leadershipdevelopment programs. This not only highlights the need for strong leadership in a workenvironment, but it also reveals the necessity for leadership education in new engineeringemployees. Industry is also responding to this shortage by investing in the creation of technicalleadership development programs at universities via corporate sponsorship. Through thesepartnerships, students supplement their technical skills with soft-skills education and businessacumen3. Universities and industry can also work together to implement

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill Davishahl, Bellingham Technical College; Xichen Jiang, Western Washington University; Sean P. Dever, Western Washington University; Lindsey Bear, Bellingham Technical College; Tim Mark Christman, Western Washington University; Dana Hickenbottom, Itek Energy/Western Solar; Sam Winters, Itek Energy

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

’ social skills [5]. In addition, research shows that project definition and selection,development of a team vision, establishing strong communication links, and investment in long-term relationships lead to effective collaboration [6].The benefits of a successful academic-industry collaboration are abundant. These include buildinglong-lasting relationships, sharing expertise, and leveraging resources [7]. In addition, there arebenefits to each individual participant including soft skill development, experience with newtechnologies, and exposure to industry [8]. On the other hand, there are challenges and barriers toeffective collaboration. These are documented in literature as lack of trust, issues related tointellectual property rights, time

Conference Session

Engineering Education in the Mid-East / Asia

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rajeswari Sundararajan, College of Technology - Purdue University; Daniel Dangelo, Intel; kishore N.K., IIT Karagpur; Haritha Mogilisetti, Intel; Sundhasarath Somasundaram, Valliammai College of Engineering; umadevi S., highways; Robert Nowlin, retired

Tagged Divisions

International

grasping of the young, well-educated, andflexible engineering students of both genders. Since “business as usual” doesn’t work anymore,the curricula are kept current and up-to-date. Topics such as mechatronics, bioinformatics arecovered to meet the competition and challenges posed by outsourcing and globalization. Theimportance of soft skills, such as project management skills, IT, and good communication skillsin addition to the basic sciences, engineering sciences and in-depth skills in a specificengineering discipline has been realized and implemented in the curricula. In this paper, thecontemporary curricula in EE at Indian Universities will be investigated and compared to pre-outsourcing curricula. The merits of these curricula and areas for