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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 2: Design in the First Year: Challenges and Successes

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalie C.T. Van Tyne P.E., Colorado School of Mines; M Brunhart-Lupo, Colorado School of Mines

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First-Year Programs

and Engineering Students. Part 1: Modelsand Challenges.” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 93, No. 4, 2004, pp. 269-277. Page 26.1740.136. R.M. Felder and R. Brent, “The Intellectual Development of Science and Engineering Students. Part 2: Teachingto Promote Growth.” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 93, No. 4, 2004, pp. 279-291.7. G. S. Stump, J.C. Hilpert, J. Husman, W.-T. Chung and W. Kim, “Collaborative Learning in EngineeringStudents: Gender and Achievement.” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 100, No. 3, 2011, pp. 475-497.8. N.Van Tyne and M. Brunhart-Lupo, “Ethics for the ‘Me’ Generation – How ‘Millennial

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Pre-College: Resource Exchange

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

teamwork, diverse skills, o Optimization creativity and cooperation o Collaboration• Inviting divergent thinking and doing o Communication• Integrating interdisciplinary and creative o Ethical Considerations approaches o Critical Thinking• Exploring multiple solutions to problems NSTA. (2017) Best STEM Books. Science and Children, 54(6), 71-78.For More Information: Download the “Best STEM Books” article for free from the NSTAwebsite by going to http://www.nsta.org/publications/, and selecting the February 2017 issue ofScience and Children, Science Scope, or The

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Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 3: Veterans in the Lab Environment

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John A. Hamilton Jr., Mississippi State University; DeMarcus Montrez Thomas, Distributed Analytics and Security Institute; Patrick Pape, Distributed Analytics and Security Institute

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Military and Veterans

-edcertificationanddegreeoptions.CurrentlywearegettingapplicationsfromreservistsandguardsmenfromKabul,KosovoaswellasclosertohomelikeKosciusko,Mississippi.ConclusionsThe MSU effort is an outstanding example of a public private partnership. Through this effort,MSU has been able to assist reservists/guardsmen achieve mandated commercially recognizedcyber certifications. Cyber certifications can provide an important incentive/reward for reservepersonnel and improve retention.MSU has successfully offered 45 hour Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and Certified InformationSystem Security Professional (CISSP) review courses to National Guard members. Inpartnership with the NSA CAE Program, the MSU Center for Cyber Innovation and the MSUCollege of Business, MSU is offering Reserve Component Personnel the opportunity to completefor NSA-sponsored cyber

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Educational & Professional Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession and ASCE II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Horst Brandes P.E., University of Hawaii; Joe D. Manous Jr, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama

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Civil Engineering

cross-disciplinary MSCE/MBA and MSCE/JD dual-degree programs. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Comparison Between the New Bodies of Knowledge for the Civil Engineering Professional and the Civil Engineering TechnologistBackgroundCivil engineering relies on a strong formal knowledge and skills base acquired largely throughhigher education and experience. Central to the identity of civil engineering as a profession isthe need for such expert knowledge and skills, independence of thought and judgment, and anethos to serve the public good grounded in a sound code of ethics [1], [2]. The American Societyof Civil Engineers (ASCE) formally endorsed the

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Design and Making

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Summers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Renee D. Rogge, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

experts atchallenging students to develop excellent listening skills, cultural sensitivity, ethics, andempathy13,14. While engineering programs require students to take courses in the arts,humanities, and social sciences, students often compartmentalize these human-centric skills as“liberal arts” skills instead of weaving them into their technical expertise. There are numerousexamples of engineering programs or courses that have incorporated arts and humanities intodesign courses to encourage students to practice integrating human-centric skills with theirtechnical knowledge.15-17 A major challenge faced by this approach is that these courses are oftenseen as design courses and the “soft skills” offered by the arts and humanities faculty are just

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Robin Sacks, University of Toronto; Annie Elisabeth Simpson, Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #11906Gendering Engineering Leadership: Aspirations vs. Shoulder TappingDr. Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto, ILead Cindy Rottmann is a Research Associate at the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead) at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include engineering leadership, engineering ethics education, critical theory, teacher leadership and social justice teacher unionism.Dr. Robin Sacks, University of Toronto Dr. Sacks is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto teaching leadership and positive psychology at both the

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Engineering Economics New Frontiers

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel; Kenneth Brannan, The Citadel; Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Kevin C Bower P.E., The Citadel

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Engineering Economy

administered on the assignedreadings and the homework assignments and students were provided with quick feedback. Onoccasion, clickers were employed to assess the understanding of concepts and create anenvironment to engage students and provide immediate feedback to both students andinstructors. Students worked problems in teams and each team submitted responses using aclicker. On other occasions, students were asked to take a position for or against ethically-oriented challenges confronted during benefit cost analyses and debate the issues. This activitynot only assisted the sensing and global learners by providing relevancy of the course material toreal-life issues, but also engaged students actively in thinking, analyzing, and

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Strategies Beyond the Classroom to Tackle Gender Issues

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eddie L Jacobs, University of Memphis; Amy L de Jongh Curry, University of Memphis; Russell J. Deaton, University of Memphis; Carmen Astorne-Figari, University of Memphis; Douglas Clark Strohmer, University of Memphis

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Women in Engineering

differentiatestraditional engineering majors (mechanical for this study) from interdisciplinary majors such asBioengineering or Biomedical engineering. A key finding was that “Students who score highly onknowing an engineer as a reason for selecting a major, wanting a good potential salary, designingand building things, and their perceptions of the present were likely to be traditional engineers.Students who want to prove themselves in the hardest possible major and benefit society are likelyto be in interdisciplinary majors.” In addition, “BIOE (bioengineering) females feel they have agreater understanding and ethical responsibility, and confidence in their choice of majorcompared to top enrollment (traditional engineering and other majors) females.” Rasoal, et

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Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineering students often dothe opposite: they focus on social (and sometimes SJ) dimensions but exclude technical ones.With the exception of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and occasionally ProfessionalCommunication and Engineering Ethics, most HSS disciplines rarely try to bridge the social andthe technical. Combined, this dichotomy of the engineering curriculum into the technical(engineering sciences) and the social (HSS), with perhaps some occasional (yet often superficial)sociotechnical integration in engineering design, constitutes a disservice to future engineers.Engineers-to-be need to practice thinking not just technically or socially, but sociotechnically.By practicing sociotechnical thinking, engineering students can improve their

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Research on Design Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark W. Steiner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Junichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Design in Engineering Education

Student Outcomes to Knowledge and SkillsTo help implement the new model, we hierarchically prioritize the ABET criteria to guide thedesign of direct measures 20. The hierarchical prioritization is shown in Figure 4. Criteria 3c ofthe ABET 2000 program outcomes calls for students to demonstrate an ability to “design asystem, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such aseconomic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, andsustainability”. We view this student outcome as paramount to engineering practice andencompassing of the remaining student outcomes 21. In support of criteria 3c the remainingABET student outcomes call for a foundation of knowledge that facilitates

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Assessment and Liberal Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Mary Roth, Lafayette College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

instrumentation lab experiment (Rhudy and Rossmann, 2015). • Our first year introduction to engineering course featuring a cornerstone design experience as well as the introduction of engineering as a sociotechnical enterprise. We teach engineering design thinking as founded on empathy & interchange with all stakeholders; we encourage students to become problem definers, not simply problem solvers (Cohen, Rossmann, and Sanford Bernhardt, 2014). • Engineering ethics infused throughout the engineering curricula in several majors; faculty members develop and include modules on ethics related to the course’s technical content. This work in one engineering department has been recognized

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PCEE Resource Exchange

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Clapper Bergsman, University of Washington; Eric H. Chudler, University of Washington

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Pre-College Engineering Education

. Finally, students will explore the ethical implications of building artificially intelligent machines.This curriculum was co-designed by Benjamin Hart of Redmond High School and LarryBencivengo of Mercer Island High School and has been pilot-tested with their students overthree years. Lessons include: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence  Introducing Arduinos Introducing Artificial Neural Networks  Building Neural Networks with Arduino 1414 North East 42nd Street, Suite 204, Seattle, WA 98105-6271 Telephone: (206) 685-8915 URL: http://www.csne-erc.org

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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 1: Topics Related to Engineering - Part 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Conrad Tucker, Carnegie Mellon University; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; John Jongho Park, Penn State University

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Computers in Education

was held on the Carnegie Mellon University campus on December 2ndand 3rd, 2019. The objective of the two-day AI+STEM workshop was to bring together expertsand non-experts in the fields of AI and STEM education to discuss ways that industry, academia,and government could work better together to i) explore how the field of STEM education couldpotentially benefit from AI advancements, ii) propose education and knowledge acquisitionstrategies for the 21st century job landscape that will require lifelong learning and possibly causeentire shifts in expertise (potentially as a result of the very same AI technologies that couldenhance STEM education) and iii) engage with policy and decision makers in order to ensurethat ethical guidelines are in

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitra Varun Anand, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Curtis Abel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Ahmet Can Sabuncu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Adam Sears, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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SME guestspeakers and support staff introduced students to a broad spectrum of insights and professionalexperiences, further enriching the educational journey. Assessment and evaluation methods werecarefully crafted to be inclusive and equitable, incorporating a variety of assessment types tofairly evaluate the diverse competencies within the student body. 3.5.Ethical ConsiderationsAll data collection and analysis procedures adhered to ethical guidelines, ensuring confidentialityand voluntary participation. The study received appropriate institutional review board approval. 4. Results and Discussion: 4.1. Attitudinal Shifts towards Failure and LearningOur quantitative analysis revealed significant shifts in students' attitudes towards

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nellone Eze Reid, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

students - Frequent meeting and working in research labs Improve ethical reasoning and - Attend and actively participate - REU evaluations and surveys social awareness of all student in engineering ethics seminars - Feedback from seminar host. participants Table 5: Summary of Site objectives, activities, and data collection for Cancer Innovation REUdata using appropriate statistical methods, write a report including the findings from the data analysis, andshare it with the stakeholder. In addition, the report also includes relevant recommendations to improve theeffectiveness of the program. The report also addresses6 out of the 10 undergraduate students

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 6: Programs in Graduate Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie R. Gurganus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Michael M. Malschützky, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany; Neha B. Raikar, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Yarazeth Medina, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

training lab and observe essential safety measures in operating a laser system • Hands-on demonstration of some cool optical experiments, e.g. nanostructure behaviors under laser lights • Opportunity to meet an expert and a legend in optics.Course Detail: ETHC104 - ETHICAL HACKING: (Middle & High School) IN-PERSONETHICAL HACKING: Want to become an Ethical Hacker? Learn to hack like a black hat andsecure like a white hat hacker. Ethical hacking is a practice of detecting vulnerabilities in anapplication, system, or organization's infrastructure and bypassing system security to identifypotential data breaches and threats in a network. This beginner-friendly course acts as a launchpad for your cybersecurity career and aims to walk

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Industrial Engineering Division (IND) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nina Miville, University of Miami

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Industrial Engineering Division (IND)

did not match what they wanted toachieve [4]. Also, a study in 2022, indicates that the primary reason girls do not chooseengineering is because of lack of knowledge and understanding of what engineering is and whatthey do [5]. As part of the redesign of the project management course, we also wanted to addressthis societal issue. Having engineers incorporate societal issues into their design work is arequirement of not only our accrediting body ABET, it is a professional obligation according tothe Engineer’s Code of Ethics[6, 7]. These two primary issues were the guiding light in theredesign of the project management course.Why was the Project Management Class redesigned?One of the primary reasons for redesigning the project management class

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WIP Poster Session: Emerging Research and Practices in Pre-College Engineering Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Syeda Fizza Ali, Texas A&M University; Ayaan Sunil Rege, The Hill School; Susanna Angela Ponniah, The Hill School; Hoda Ehsan, The Hill School ; Saira Anwar, Texas A&M University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

of AI meant they had to do "less thinking," which put bounds on their creativity and original brainstorming.4. Ethics: A couple of responses touched on the ethics of using AI for assignments. They noted that while it is possible to use AI for all work, it is the human's responsibility not to delegate everything to AI.5. Context: The responses agreed that AI was more suitable for some contexts than others. For example, AI is more suited for quick brainstorming and "short-term" projects than long-term ones. Additionally, AI is better at providing feedback than generating novel ideas. One student noted, "AI's main strength is saving time, not generating amazing ideas."Overall, most students responded that they would use AI in

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Community Engagement Division 3 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Fostering Reciprocal Partnerships and Empowering Change

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danielle N. Wagner, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Ashish Dahiya, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

advantage of their participation is due to having returning students as peer mentors.Faculty and staff are important elements of collaboration infrastructure, with a high factor ofinfluence in not only the students’ outcomes and guidance, but also to the partnerships. By havinga shared dedication to community work, they contribute by guiding students to maintain highstandards, helping to ensure continuity with ethical and functional designs. The faculty are alsocommitted to understanding each other’s long-term institutional goals. Rather than seeing them asexternal objectives, the willingness to support looks like integrating those visions into their ownsystems and goals, with joint initiatives. Each of the IIT professors understands the excitement

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abigail L. Beck; Eun Jeong Cha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

Profession,” in Proc. Summit on the Future of Civil Engineering, August 2009, doi: 10.1061/9780784478868.002.[2] ASCE, Code of Ethics, 2020. Accessed: July 7th 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.asce.org/career-growth/ethics/code-of-ethics[3] D. E. Armanios et al., “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Civil and Environmental Engineering Education: Social Justice in a Changing Climate,” presented at the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference. Jul. 2021. https://peer.asee.org/36988[4] A.-K. Winkens and C. Leicht-Scholten, “Does engineering education research address resilience and if so, how? – a systematic literature review,” European Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 1–19, Feb. 2023, doi: 10.1080

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Working Together: Approaches to Inclusivity and Interdisciplinarity

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tawfik Elshehabi, University of Wyoming

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New Engineering Educators

Senior Lecturer, University of WyomingAbstractEducators revisit their teaching philosophy statement (TPS) when applying for new jobs orpromotion and tenure. However, sharing our teaching philosophy with our students could make asignificant difference. This research presents the results of creating a visual model of myteaching philosophy and sharing it with my students. My teaching philosophy informs mystudents that we learn in teams to gain not only technical knowledge but also skills and ethics. Itexpresses to students that my core values are to care, share, and be fair. I care about their life-long learning, as well as achieving fair grades. The visual model also shows the different levelsof engagement and communication; student-to-student and

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shoshanah Cohen, Stanford University; Jeff Wood, Stanford University

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Community Engagement Division

collaborate with teammates, to engineer a system. Learn collaborative and inclusive industry practices in the engineering development process, and environment, establish goals, plan project management skills such as Gantt charts, critical path, and tasks, and meet objectives budgets. Ability to recognize ethical and Assess the impact of engineering solutions on the world. professional responsibilities and Students will work on projects associated with pressing needs of make informed judgments which human society, and broaden their perspectives to consider and consider the impact of engineering assess ethical, sustainability, health, environmental, and societal solutions in global, economic

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton; Kellie Schneider, University of Dayton; Leanne Petry, Central State University; M. Suzanne Franco, Wright State University; Malcolm W. Daniels, University of Dayton; Amy Anderson, University of Dayton; Marjorie Langston, Hamilton Township High School ; Megan Shepherd; Madeline Mock

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. Dating back to the 1960s, researchershave explored the theoretical characterization of intercultural competence and the effectivenessof varying classroom practices [24]. More recently, various researchers have explored theefficacy of CEL and research immersion experiences. Research shows that teachers learn tonavigate complex, intercultural encounters through challenging CEL experiences promoting,“reflective, critical and ethical practices” [25].Since international engineering CEL has the potential benefit to both increase interculturalawareness, while also demonstrating engineering as a career that helps humanity, engagingteachers in this type of experience may prepare them to encourage and inspire their students,particularly females and other

Collection

2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Marvin Gayle; Danny Mangra

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Diversity

concerns. Theeffectiveness of these methods is also called into question since students have multiple methodsavailable to communicate, and to access information on the internet. Online proctoring servicesalso exist however there is an associated cost. Even here however student have found way tobypass protocol for proctored online exams [8]. This is a place for a technical resolutionhowever this must coexist with an effort to engage a student own sense of ethical responsibility.A student’s academic integrity is a close correlation with that student’s personal integrity [9].Academic integrity has to exist alongside a personal ethical sense of responsibilityOne of the first steps in this process is for the instructor to define academic integrity

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ET Curriculum and Programs II

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ilya Y. Grinberg, SUNY Buffalo State

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Engineering Technology

-definedtechnicalandnon- technicalenvironments;andanabilityto identifyanduseappropriatetechnical literature Ethical, Social, Global, and Professional Criterion 5, Curriculum: curriculum must Development includetopicsrelatedtoprofessional responsibilities,ethicalresponsibilities, respectfordiversity,andqualityand continuousimprovementThe desired skills developed by the two-semester senior design sequence and listed in Table

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Subodh Bhandari, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Fang Tang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Amar Raheja, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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,and engage in professional development activities such as workshop on Application to GraduatePrograms, Resume Building, Ethics in Engineering and Science, etc.I. IntroductionUAVs have potential of replacing manned aircraft for many dull, dirty, and dangerous missions.Applications include traffic and infrastructure monitoring, surveillance of and search and rescuein disaster-hit areas, environmental gas monitoring, package delivery, aerial photography, borderpatrol, and precision agriculture. UAVs are cheaper than manned aircraft and pose no risk tohuman operators. The UAV industry is one of the fastest growing sectors of aerospace industries.However, there is a lack of professionals entering the workforce for UAV related jobs. There isalso a

Conference Session

Pre-college: Summer Experiences for Students and Teachers (2)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trina L. Fletcher, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Monique S Ross, Florida International University; Christopher Alexander Carr, National Society of Black Engineers; Brittany Boyd, National Society of Black Engineers

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

related to classroom instructors’ feedback onsite leadership performance including areas of management, supervision, their ability to givefeedback, professionalism, work ethic and problem solving skills. These results will then becompared to the classroom instructors interest outcomes on the SEEK program. The implicationsof this research include better understanding the role of leadership during short-term, out-of-school (OST) engineering programs such as training and professional development and otherpotential best practices.INTRODUCTIONOut-of-school time (OST) programs including after-school, before-school, and summer-basedactivities assist with narrowing the achievement gap and increasing interest in STEM forstudents of color. OST programs

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Cultivating Engineering Scholarship and Research Mindsets Among URM Students

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David M. Ford, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Paula Rees, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Kathleen G. Rubin, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Minorities in Engineering

Science Foundation S-STEM (Scholarshipsin Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) grants on undergraduate minorityengineering transfer student retention and development during the period 2007-13 in the Collegeof Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The programs were designed toovercome known barriers to persistence of transfer students from community college, includinglack of engagement on campus, underdeveloped professional work ethic and goals, deficientstudy habits, fewer opportunities to gain practical competence/reflection on learning, andworking for pay. The elements of the programs included cohorting, team-building, mentoring,tutoring, and advising, as well as monetary support in the form of scholarships

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International Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Matherly, The University of Tulsa; Sarah R. Phillips, Rice University ; Cody A. Chapman, University of Tulsa

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International

preparedness of STEM graduatesMany researchers have approached the question of what makes a globally competent STEMgraduate by identifying lists of requisite knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs).28,29.Parkinson’s30 survey of experts from industry and academia identified the attributes of aglobally competent engineer, including an ability to appreciate other cultures and tocommunicate across cultures; familiarity with the history, government and economic systems ofseveral target countries; an ability to speak a second language at a conversational level and at aprofessional (i.e. technical) level; proficiency working in or directing a team of ethnic andcultural diversity; ability to effectively deal with ethical issues arising from cultural or

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Multidisciplinary Approaches for Enhancing Non-technical Skills

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alistar Erickson-Ludwig, Drexel University ; Rosie Sullivan, Drexel University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

hours of technical coursework leaving little roomto add new courses, especially those that integrate soft skills.1 The workforce demands technicalskills, and the changing work environment and competitive global market also drives demand forteamwork, ethics, problem solving, and communication within the engineering curriculum.1Previous research2 detailed competence in college graduates and the demands of the workplace,but also noted that a skills gap is present between the technical training and experience ofstudents and the responsibilities of the job. Although other researchers3 reported employersatisfaction with employee skills, it is likely that there is still room to improve upon the skillsstudents acquire in their higher education programs