engineering ethics, researchin an academic setting, and graduate education opportunities and application process. Thefreshman year programs implemented showed success in recruiting students for the S-STEMprogram, and can serve as a model for other undergraduate programs looking to enrich theexperiences of their undergraduates by providing a comprehensive, supportive, and career-relevant environment inside and outside of the classroom.1. IntroductionEngineering education is constantly evolving and changing to meet the current and projectedneeds of the engineering profession. In 2010 1 the National Society of Professional Engineers(NSPE) released a position statement proposing additional undergraduate engineering outcomes:Leadership, Risk and
ortheir preference for aggregated or disaggregated data in a given project.3We see all such choices by STEM education researchers as powerful indicators of socialunderstandings of equity and inclusion and find the absence of routine inquiry about theseconditions of research to be concerning. As Riley writes of one ubiquitous methodologicalcommitment in particular, “The evidence-based process [of STEM education research] isinstrumental in that it is a means to a given end, and the ethics or morality of those ends is notconsidered.”4 We see “ethics or morality” configuring all research choices and along with Riley,envision a set of critical questions that could potentially increase the impact of educationalresearch upon social inequities. Such
that the Broader Impacts criteria of NSF grants in theCAREER program require a teacher-training plan26. Wankat goes further and links engineeringfaculty training with whether the faculty have the qualifications necessary to perform their jobfunctions in teaching26. He cites the AIChE Code of Ethics, which states that “Members shall:Perform professional services only in areas of competence.” The question here is obvious: Is itethical for a chemical engineering faculty member who belongs to AIChE to teach if they are notcompetent in that area? Of course, the next question is: what defines competency in the area ofteaching? Is it competency in the material or competency in the material and the delivery of thematerial? The former has been the
cultures; have had a chance to practice engineering in a global context, whether through an international internship, a servicelearning opportunity, a virtual global engineering project or some other form of experience; and can effectively deal with ethical issues arising from cultural or national differences. We present evidence of the efficacy of the peertopeer collaboration model at achieving these competencies. The most important aspect of global competency for engineers as ranked by the Parkinson survey was that engineering graduates can appreciate other cultures. In the university setting this is often achieved by language and culture classes or through other exchanges [8]. One of the ways the program achieved it was by housing all
, as Marley said, “Itchanged my view as I said earlier even about like the moral aspect and the ethical aspect becauseI didn’t really think it [engineering] was just about designing and building stuff, but that waswhat I kind of anticipated as like the main part.” Design and construction, for Marley, were notthe main part of engineering; rather, the moral and ethical considerations that accompany designand construction were a primary concern of engineering. Additionally, Reness saw that CitizenEngineering “exceeded my expectations on just learning about kind of, like, world issues.” The role of non-engineers in engineering projects was prominent in student responses.Milburn acknowledged their contribution to engineering literacy: “The
delivery system thatemphasizes efficient materials handling to eliminate waste on construction projects.The top five other, not included in the construction BOK are: 1. Written communication (M = 4.72 SD = 0.57) 2. Ethics (M = 4.67 SD = 0.59) 3. Interpersonal skills (M = 4.61 SD = 0.70) 4. Verbal communication (M = 4.61 SD = 0.61) 5. Leadership (M = 4.56 SD = 0.62)Of the top five, none are explicitly BIM specific skills. Rather, they are skills related to being aconstruction manager in five years using BIM. Due to the teamwork required of a true BIMproject, ethics, interpersonal abilities, verbal facility and leadership skills will be very important,as recognized by this Delphi panel. A true BIM project places all members of the team on
the elements of a healthy and ethical relationship between thecommunity partners and engineering students during the learning experience.Sustainability component 2- Kits containing all the different items needed to conduct the hands-on activities were assembled and reused at different K-12 schools’ visits. Once the kits were notin use, the CPP CoE Office of Outreach took custody of them and made them available to otherCoE outreach programs, individual students clubs or faculty members that wanted to getinvolved with K-12 outreach. This is the legacy of the EGR 299 S students.Sustainability component 3- Building relationships with committed and nearby K-12 communitypartners facilitated the multiple visits of CPP engineering students during
experts and their work in relation to environments, technologies, and human lives. Her current research projects deal with earthquake risk management technology in Mexico and the United States, environmental data justice in the US/Mexican borderlands, and the development and practice of engineering expertise.Dr. Gordon D Hoople, University of San Diego Dr. Gordon D. Hoople is an assistant professor of general engineering at the University of San Diego. His research interests lie in microfluidics, rapid prototyping, genomics, engineering ethics, and engineering education. He earned his MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from University of California, Berkeley and a BS in engineering from Harvey Mudd College.Prof
engineering college? 3. What aspects of the student experience do students identify as causing or relating to those feelings?BackgroundFeelings and AffectThe term affect can refer to several aspects of a student experience that relate to feeling oremotion, as opposed to cognition or behavior. A student’s affect has the capability to greatlyimpact their school experience: it has also been found that a positive affect correlates to highersuccess in school [1]. A student’s emotions can impact their cognitive functioning [2], theiremotional intelligence and abilities to work with other students [3] and can affect ethical decisionmaking [4]. However, beyond considering how affect impacts other elements of a studentexperience, it is also important
importance of society inengineering design. A few of the papers defined the steps of the design process and includedsocial elements such as “identify a design need” and “research a design need” (A3, p.74). Thesewould need to be further defined in order to ensure students were properly considering the needsof their users and the impact on society. For example, one paper further defined the outcome tobe “Appreciate and consider the non-technical constraints (ethical, political, aesthetic,environmental, economic, cultural, etc.) in their work” (A5, p.2).Many of the findings which came out of the research also reflected on the importance offurthering this connection to society. For example, one of the authors recommended to “engagedesign coaches to help
function in the course and the function of their teams. There were in-class writing exerciseson independent learning and ethics, and these exercises provided further opportunities forreflection and self-awareness. In the independent learning module, students wrote narrativesabout their career and personal plans, their experiences in the class, and independent learningthat they needed to do to meet their long-term goals. In the ethics module they were asked toreflect on ethical and professional behavior and how that behavior influenced their capstoneexperience.Similar to the “assess and adjust” exercise, as mentioned previously, the first author conductedmid-term evaluations where she asked students about problems in their teams and in the course
What activities contributed significantly to... ... your perception of disability and the role of assistive devices in society? Activity checklist2 ... your understanding of ethical considerations and conduct in the design and testing of Activity checklist2 assistive devices? ... your confidence and skill in the process of initiating and conducting interviews to inform Activity checklist2 the design of assistive devices? ... effective realization of functional mechatronic devices to support human dexterity? Activity checklist2 Comment on your particular experience and perspective of completing CITI Training in the Long answer text context of this class
strategies to increase female participation and success in engineering, thus avoidinglabor and economic gaps. Early dropout prediction is a valuable tool for management teams,allowing them to focus support efforts on high-risk students and improve academicmanagement indicators.Machine Learning, particularly neural networks, has proven to be a significant advancementin predicting student dropout in engineering. This technology effectively analyzes large datasets and accurately identifies key dropout factors. By modeling the complexities of studentbehavior and circumstances, neural networks offer a deeper perspective than traditionalanalytical methods. This approach improves early intervention and highlights the importanceof ethical technology for
standard that I'm held up to at school which causes me to produce, I think, a better work ethic or just a stronger work ethic, that will prepare me for biology, a topic that I know, or a major, which I know and is known to be a little bit more strenuous.And: I've just heard people say it. I've just heard people say that it's strenuous just as I've heard other people at my school say that certain courses, which I'm taking right now, are strenuous. Just with the information that I have right now, I believe that I'm getting well prepared, but I'm not sure which levels of strenuous they both stand on. However, there's only so much I could do right now to prepare myself in terms of work ethic for that course. I
(reflection-on-action) [11], and improve for future implementations (reflection-for-action) [13]. In addition, during the school practicum, preservice teachers’ ongoing collaborationwith their university practicum advisor, associate teacher, school staff, and fellow preserviceteachers allow preservice teachers to acquire and improve their collective knowledge of thenature of learning, the diverse development of their students (intellectual, physical, social,emotional, etc.), professional, social, legal, and ethical responsibility [12].In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 pandemic brought significant restrictions and changing healthprotocols that lasted until winter 2023. These changes affected many of Canada’s ITE programsand consequently the conduct of
Paper ID #40685On the Importance of Spatiality and Intersectionality: Transgender andGender Nonconforming Undergraduate Engineering Experiences ThroughCritical Collaborative Ethnographic Site VisitsFinn Johnson M.A., Oregon State University Finn Johnson, M.A., is a transgender and queer doctoral student in women, gender, and sexuality studies at Oregon State University. Finn has extensive experience in transgender and queer research methodologies, legal studies, and feminist research ethics and is currently working on an engineering education NSF- funded study with the College of Chemical, Environmental, and Biological
-constructed with Validation with participants to ensure that research communities to build upon data represent participants’ existing work while remaining social realities on their own authentic to research participants? terms? Pragmatic Is the selected theoretical How meaningful are the study’s Validation framework a good fit for the results to the social reality under social reality under investigation (and other similar social investigation? realities?) Ethical Validation Is the study conducted Do the findings do justice to the social
justice,political dimensions, structural conditions, and ethical considerations, as well stakeholderunderstanding, values, and dynamics, which also aligns with ABET-EAC’s Criterion 3 StudentOutcomes. [5] By providing students an opportunity to learn from and about multidisciplinaryand multicultural elements present within engineering design considerations, they can develop,with this approach students will develop intercultural competence and be better prepared totackle wicked problems [10].The FEW Model builds upon the current literature and particularly the idea of the engineer’sresponsibility relating to social elements that even exceed traditional notions of engineeringethics as described with the Engineering for Social Responsibility
assignment, students worked in teams to create abasic version of an LCA including human impacts for their senior capstone design project andwrite an updated version of the Social, Environmental, and Ethics Considerations section for theircapstone report (Appendix B). This assignment presented an opportunity for the students toconnect their work in the Sustainable Resource Engineering and Design course to their capstonedesign project with the intention that they would provide greater depth and insight than they hadto date. Given that the students had previously used a structured approach to consider each phaseof the product life cycle in the Beyond the LCA assignment, they now had an opportunity to applythat knowledge to their capstone project. In
they capture ourrealities as faculty members. Finally, three of us live the similar experiences of beinginternational faculty. We all have an insider’s insight to all of our struggles. Hence, a sense ofsolidarity and mutual respect addresses the last component relational ethics in terms of thisresearch [18].5. Co-Authors' Narratives and ExperiencesGiven the diverse backgrounds of faculty, we have outlined different perspectives and experiencesof each faculty including a personal narrative focusing on specific challenges and experiences inU.S. academia. Exploration of cultural and linguistic assets and their role in the U.S. educationalcontext, followed by a discussion on transition challenges from different career stages in academia. A. Dr
/PSF13/Session/E1.413. Schoenfeld, A. H. (2014). Mathematical problem solving. Elsevier. Accessed: Jan. 29, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.elsevier.com/books/mathematical-problem-solving/schoenfeld/978-0-12-628870 -414. Martin, T., Rayne, K., Kemp, N.J., Hart, J., & Diller, K.R. (2005). Teaching for Adaptive Expertise in Biomedical Engineering Ethics. Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 11(2), pp. 257-276.15. Martin, T., Rivale, S.D., & Diller, K.R. (2007). Comparison of Student Learning in Challenge-based and Traditional Instruction in Biomedical Engineering. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 35, pp. 1312–1323.16. Rayne, K., Martin, T., Brophy, S., Kemp, N. J., Hart, J. D., & Diller, K.R. (2006
our course values and pedagogical principles. These included activelearning, project-based learning, and smaller class sizes.Table 3. Identified KSAs (knowledge, skills, and attitudes) for the course series Knowledge Skills Attitudes • Design Process • Teamwork • Appreciation of coding, programming • Curriculum • Communication • Societal impact/sustainability • Resources • Time Management • Metacognition about strengths and • Learning Methods • Study Skills weaknesses • Ethics and Values • Comfort with failure • “I can do this” • Multidisciplinary
senior designproject allowed the students to achieve the course learning objectives, including designing formanufacturing, learning modern manufacturing tools, and conducting ethical design/designingfor the environment.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank Hunt and Hunt Ltd. for their generous support of this series ofsenior design projects.References [1] A. Chamas, H. Moon, J. Zheng, Y. Qiu, T. Tabassum, J. H. Jang, M. Abu-Omar, S. L. Scott, and S. Suh, “Degradation Rates of Plastics in the Environment,” ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Vol 8, Iss. 9, pp. 3494-351, 2020, doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b06635 [2] United States Environmental Protection Agency, “Facts and Figures about Materials, Waste
: The Effect of Summarizing a Research Article on Students’ Area of Robotics Interest1 BackgroundThe need for capable, ethical robotics engineers is growing with the industry valued at 32.32billion in 2021 with anticipated growth of 12.1% from 2022 to 2030 [1], and projected 17,900mechanical engineering job openings each year [2]. It is imperative that undergraduate andgraduate programs prepare engineers for industry positions in robotics, and that they includeand encourage diverse groups of students to enter the field.Additionally, diversity among engineers in general is limited, starting with bachelor’s andbeing further exacerbated when entering engineering professions. For example, 22% of engi-neering bachelor degrees in
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withwomen in the industry.43% of our male participants reported experiencing no efforts to promote awareness and mitigategender inequality in the classroom. The remaining 57% experienced the following efforts: (1)sexual assault training prior to attending college, (2) efforts to prevent sexual violence againstwomen, (3) posters in classrooms and buildings on campus, and (4) female empowerment speechesin class.4.4.3. Suggestions for Future Education Efforts (From Participants)Discussing topics in class that highlight gender equity was the most common response from ourfemale participants. It was suggested that professors discussing equity and ethics or discussingvaluable minorities and their contributions to the field is an excellent way to bring
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, however, could not be satisfied across all project so a newcourse, “EPICS LC Course”, was created. It covers the outcomes related to computing skills andawareness of the engineering disciplines. Some topics, such as ethics and teaming, were alsocovered by the new course as well as EPICS. The sequence is shown in Table 2.Table 2: First Year Sequence, Standard and Learning Community Fall Semester (credits) Spring Semester (credits) Standard Core Introductory Engineering I (2) Introductory Engineering II (2) LC EPICS LC Course (2) EPICS course (1) Sequence EPICS Course(1)Because the new course was unique to the LC, it could
, economic, environmental and ethical issues facing the development of nanomanufacturing and other emerging technologies. Her 1998 NSF Career Award is one of the first that focused on environ- mentally benign manufacturing. She also guides research on development and assessment of educational computer games where students explore environmentally benign processes and supply chains in manufac- turing. She has been recognized by Northeastern University, receiving a University-wide Excellence in Teaching Award in 2000, the President’s Aspiration Award in 2005, and a College of Engineering Excel- lence in Mentoring Award in 2015. An ELATE Fellow, Dr. Isaacs has served in numerous administrative leadership roles at Northeastern
HurricaneKatrina. Two readings covered: 1) the culmination of many decisions that led to segregation andinequity in New Orleans, and 2) the engineering failures of the levy system which lefthistorically black neighborhoods at risk. Class discussion began by acknowledging the sensitivityof these topics. The discussion focused on the convergence of the articles. This topic relates topower imbalances in both political institutions and engineering decision-making.Third, we asked students to select a scenario either local to the community the university is in ortheir hometowns that centered on public health, environmental, or ethical concerns related toinfrastructure or industry. Scenarios selected included historical sites, such as the Love Canal, tomodern