Conference Session

First Year and Cross-Disciplinary

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Gregory J. Mazzaro, The Citadel; Kevin Skenes, The Citadel; Timothy Aaron Wood P.E., The Citadel

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

, MathCAD) [4]. 4AssessmentGraded assignments may consist of individual written homeworks, group projects, and quizzes;traditional written exams are generally avoided. Students might keep a weekly journal ofreflections, e.g. regarding campus activities in which they have participated or academicdifficulties they have encountered and overcome [4]. Ambitious programs ask each student tocreate a portfolio of work (including narrated audio/video reflections) which helps him/her toidentify as an engineer [10].Most published literature recommends that a large portion of first-year students’ grades be basedon projects -- generally team efforts [5, 6, 10, 18, 20–23]. Assignments can tie back to aunifying

Conference Session

Communications and Ethics

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Claire Lynne McCullough, High Point University

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

., rights, autonomy, hon- esty, coercion, loyalty, selfishness, character, duty, utility, fairness, etc.). • Distinguish morally relevant facts in a scenario from facts that are not morally relevant in a scenario. • Reflect critically on their own values in light of alternatives. • Apply ethical theories to contemporary or hypothetical scenarios.2 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023All of these would be appropriate as learning outcomes in an engineering ethics course, andcould easily be met in such a course. However, it is required that these be met from a liberal artsperspective—that is, in terms of “rigorous traditions of philosophical inquiry”2, which is not themost effective tool

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering 2

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Whitehurst, Mississippi State University; Nathaniel Hyams, Clemson University; Morgan Green, Mississippi State University; Matthew William Priddy, Mississippi State University

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

, enthusiasm, interest, and confidence in themselves and102 their other team members opposed to their randomized counterparts23. One study revealed that as103 ownership of projects is given to students, they retain knowledge and skills from that project better104 than from the traditional lecture format24. This ownership of work contributes to the attitude of105 students in how they view the group. Higher education curriculum has begun to reflect student on106 attitude and how a group evolves throughout the duration of a project, rather than focusing on the107 outcome.108109 The ABET criteria for students have evolved throughout the last two decades into an “outcomes-110 based accreditation”, which implies that the skills learned in

Conference Session

Communications and Ethics

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Brian Aufderheide, Hampton University; Otsebele E Nare, Hampton University; Garrick E. Louis, University of Virginia; Andres Clarens, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

a graduate course developed from an NSF CCLIgrant in 2006. It is taught in the Spring semester as “Ethics in Science and Engineering Researchand Practice.” The class size varies between 6 to 12 students per year taking the course as agraduate elective in Systems Engineering. In 2022 the class had 16 students, including 2 AfricanAmericans and 1 undergraduate student admitted by special permission. In most years the studentsin the class are White and Asian, reflecting the composition of the graduate student body inEngineering at UVA. The class covers the professional codes of ethics, ethical theories, ethicaldilemmas, and issues in applied ethics supported by case studies from the National Society ofProfessional Engineers and the Online