discussed most oftenas cognitions, behaviors, and dispositions. We organized these into three broad categories:self-management, task management, and team management, which can be used as aframework for future research. By providing students the opportunity to own the problem andits outcomes, engineering competitions can empower students to think like, act as, andbecome professional engineers.IntroductionEngineering is a professional discipline. Engineers work largely within professional codes ofconduct and are often required to obtain professional licensure to practice. As a professional,they are not only required to abide by certain codes – such as ethics – but are also expected togain skills such as being able to communicate effectively
provided inReference 6.Note that the Profiles are organized in terms of twelve differentiating characteristics—engineering knowledge, problem analysis, design/development of solutions, investigation,modern tool usage, the engineer and society, environment and sustainability, ethics, individualand team work, communication, project management and finance, and lifelong learning. Becausethese characteristics are logically distinct, they result in individually assessable graduateattributes. The remaining three columns contain the Graduate Attribute Profiles for WashingtonAccord (i.e., engineering) graduates, identified as WA1-WA12; Sydney Accord (i.e., engineeringtechnology) graduates, SA1-SA12; and Dublin Accord (i.e., engineering technician
rubrics with performance indicators that are being used in our Program. Together with the rest of the PIs, they represent significant leap toward improving our student outcomes assessment. Performance indicator for outcome C: To assess the ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraint as economic, environment, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability, the assessing faculty used to come up with learning score based on his or her “mental” picture regarding the students’ work in the classroom during the semester. Now under our new PI system, the score will be based on whether, and how well, the students Work within realistic
the possible implications and consequences for any proposed solution are explored. What are the ethical considerations involved? The societal implications? The global consequences? The effects on the natural environment? • Via Creativa. The third step refers to the act of creation. The solution is chosen from a host of possibilities, implemented and then evaluated as to its effectiveness in meeting the desired goals and fulfilling the specified criteria. • Via Transformativa. The fourth and final step asks the following questions of the engineer: Has the suffering in the world been reduced? Have the social injustices that pervade our global village been even slightly ameliorated? Has the notion of a community of
their academic and industrial training and meeting this need is the objective ofthis paper. Based on this perspective, we will examine the full range of engineeringfundamentals (i.e., ethics, problem solving, modeling, analysis, design, economics andcommunications) in an effort to layout an approach that prepares first-year students fortheir future careers in a manner that is consistent with their current knowledge andexperience (i.e. high school math and science). That is, in a general sense engineeringreduces to either engineering analysis or engineering design both of which rely onproblem solving and modeling. Engineering economics provides a means to consistentlyevaluate the performance of an engineering project by using optimization
, cannot be addressed with technical knowledge alone. The interdisciplinary nature ofengineering and these complex challenges require engineers with diverse experiences,knowledge, perspectives, skills, etc. However, current preparation of engineers often leaves themunsure about their role in society1. Therefore, it is necessary that we better prepare engineers tooperate in social contexts considering both historical and contemporary issues with ethical,economic, global, political, and environmental impacts. It is also necessary for engineers todevelop as persons able to critically examine the presuppositions of beliefs and value systemsbased on the perspectives and opinions of others rather than passively accepting them as reality. The
but carry knowledge further towardcreative application needed to solve engineering problems. 40We grouped all definitions together (2)Engineering Design – Engineering design is the process of devising asystem, component, or process to meet desired needs, specifications,codes, and standards within constraints such as health and safety,cost, ethics, policy, sustainability, constructability, and manufacturability.It is an iterative, creative, decision-making process in which the basicsciences, mathematics, and the engineering sciences are applied toconvert resources optimally into solutions.Teams – A team consists of more than one person working toward acommon goal and may
student may be appropriate. All students wishingto take this course must also submit an Ethics Agreement to reinforce the ethics expected of acybersecurity professional. An example of a cybersecurity course Ethics Agreement can befound in Appendix A.Learning OutcomesThe Social Engineering course learning outcomes include the following: 1. Explain the various techniques that can be used to complete Social Engineering exploits. 2. Develop an understanding of the psychology of human interaction and how it can be exploited for gain. 3. Learn what technical controls, trainings, and processes can be used to help defend and establish security in-depth to protect against Social Engineering. 4. Overcome uncomfortable feelings such as
colleges have developed pioneeringengineering leadership programs to promote leadership among engineering students. Thispaper compares twenty-one engineering leadership programs around the world by analyzingthe differences and similarities across these programs via text analysis. By exploring theoutcomes and implementation of these engineering leadership programs, this paper found thatvisioning/setting goals, thinking or reasoning skills, interpersonal skills and ethics are the keyattributes emphasized in these engineering programs. Lectures, field trips and practicalexperiences are the most common implementation platforms to develop engineeringleadership. This paper aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of current practices andoffer
probability and statistics toaddress uncertainty; apply knowledge of analyze and solve problems in at least four technicalareas appropriate to civil engineering; conduct civil engineering experiments in at least twotechnical areas of civil engineering and analyze and interpret the resulting data; design a system,component, or process in at least two more than one civil engineering contexts; includeprinciples of sustainability in design; explain basic concepts in project management, business,public policy, and leadership; analyze issues in professional ethics; and explain the importance ofprofessional licensure.2. FacultyThe program must demonstrate that faculty teaching courses that are primarily design in contentare qualified to teach the subject
Number ofTopic Area Questions Subjects within AreaMathematics 7 – 11 Analytic geometry; calculus; roots of equations; vector analysis Measures of central tendencies and dispersions (e.g., mean, mode,Probability standard deviation); estimation for a single mean (e.g., point, 4–6and Statistics confidence intervals); regression and curve fitting; expected value, weighted average, in decision makingComputational Spreadsheet computations; structured programming (e.g., if-then, 4–6Tools loops, macros) Codes of ethics, professional and technical societies; professionalEthics and
development i. An understanding of and a commitment to address professional and ethical responsibilities including a respect for diversity j. A knowledge of the impact of engineering technology solutions in a societal and global context k. A commitment to quality, timeliness, and continuous improvementCertification of Manufacturing (C4M) was developed by Louisiana Fast Start to provide amechanism of stackable credentials to satisfy the growing needs of manufacturers in the state5.C4M is: A certificate program that is equivalent to 12 college credit hours. Consists of courses that can be completed in one semester, with topics such as: o Introduction to Manufacturing o Tools and Equipment Used in
we might wear coats and why we don’t putthem on snowmen. Perhaps political cartoons are the most evident example of cartoons’ relianceon the viewer’s awareness of current events, social debates, and even stereotypes common to thesociety in which the cartoon was made. Political cartoons are unusual cartoons because theyarguably reflect as well as influence a society’s beliefs, in their roles as neutral socialcommentary or as propaganda intended to promote a certain outcome (Mills et al., 2013, p.183).17 As a result, political cartoons are often used in educational activities to teach studentstextual analysis and interpretation skills as well as content information included in the cartoons,such as political science, history, and ethics
briefdescription of the course and the assessment strategy are discussed. Collaborative engineering educationresearch efforts and assessment of the fall 2015 data are ongoing and results will be included in the finalpresentation.2. Workshop Summary2.1 Experiences from First-Year Courses Topics One of the goals of the workshop was to share experiences from college-wide first year engineeringcourses at Virginia Tech. First-year engineering courses are required of all engineering freshman (~1,500/ year) at Virginia Tech with the purpose of introducing engineering students to the profession, datacollection and analysis, mathematical modeling, problem-solving, software tools, design, professionalpractices, communication, teamwork, ethics and the diversity
Paper ID #15377The Role of Engineers as Policy Entrepreneurs toward Energy Transforma-tionsProf. Efrain O’Neill-Carrillo, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Efra´ın O’Neill-Carrillo is a professor of power engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayag¨uez (UPRM). He holds a Ph.D. (Arizona State), an M.S.E.E. (Purdue), and a B.S.E.E. (UPRM). His profes- sional interests include energy policy, sustainable energy, distributed generation, power quality, social and ethical implications of engineering, and technology. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. O’Neill
Teaching / Learning 4 Learning Styles Straw Towers Hiring and Firing Learning Process Process Industry Guest Ch 4: Making the Most 5 Ethics Ethics Tutoring Center Speaker of How You are Taught Ch 5: Making the Industry Guest 6 Name Practice Learning Process Work Names Success in Math Speaker for You Industry Guest
KSAs were often based on animprecise definition of global engineering competency define global engineering competency as“those capabilities and job requirements that are uniquely or especially relevant for effectiveengineering practice in global context.” This team identifies three dimensions: technicalcoordination, or working with or influencing people to complete a project in amultinational/multicultural setting; understanding and negotiating engineering cultures, whichrefers to the multinational/cultural differences in the actual practices and processes of technicalproblem solving; and navigating ethics, standards, and regulations, which occur when technicalcoordination or technical problem solving “happen in the midst of multiple – and
) Industry with topics in career fairstrategies, networking, information literacy, and corporate skills with a simulated industryinternship to create artificial membrane for kidney dialysis, ii) Healthcare professions with topicsin healthcare operations, emergency medicine, inpatient care, and electronic medical recordswith a clinical shadowing experience, and iii) Research with topics in experimental design,ethics, scientific literature, and translating technologies with a research laboratory shadowingexperience. Students self-selected into the three sections during an advising session and wereasked to provide information before classes started to help facilitate setting up the shadowingexperiences. Each section had the same number of lecture and
the Industrial Engineering (IE) program cover the knowledge, skills,and abilities required for Icesi’s students to achieve the program’s PEOs within a few years aftergraduation. These outcomes are based on ABET definitions for student outcomes. The studentoutcomes for the IE program are: a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data c) an ability to design a system, component, or processes to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability and sustainability d) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams
, design projectassignments, engineering analysis, formal design process, teamwork, engineering ethics, writingskills, data estimation, and academic advising. The least frequently listed topics (though stillpresent) included stress management, academic integrity, interviewing, poster communication,brainstorming (design fundamental), social entrepreneurship, empirical math functions, clientinteractions, and qualitative research skills. These skills were only included in one or two courseseach2. The range in both number and categories of course content reflects the variability in firstyear course experiences for engineering students.A call was put forth several decades ago (i.e., the mid-1980’s) to postsecondary education tofocus on the first-year
students studying the basics of engineering design. The authors inthis paper would discuss the results of the survey and recommended actions based on the survey.IntroductionHigher educational institutions have recognized and acknowledged their responsibility towardsachieving the goals of sustainability as they prepare the future engineers for the global world.Sustainability challenges all schools and universities to rethink their mission and vision torepresent themselves as the new generation school. With this in place most of the accreditingbodies have also included the ethical part of sustainability in the curriculum, which makes mostof the program to restructure and realign the curriculum, develop research programs, andredefine the student life
was on the ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) from 1993-2003 and was chair in 2001- 2002. He is currently a member of the NAE Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society Advisory Group, the ASCE Committee on Sustainability and the Board of Directors of the Civil Engineering Certification Board. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and ABET.Dr. J. P. Mohsen, University of Louisville Dr. Mohsen is Past President of the American Society for Engineering Education. He has served on the ASEE Board of Directors previously as Vice President for Member Affairs and Vice President for Professional Interest Council. J. P. Mohsen is professor and chair of the Civil and Environmental
fundamental goal to provide every student with the ability tounderstand the social, political, economic, and ethical implications of new technologicaldevelopments.This paper will present the reasons for creating this kind of course and how it is designed to helpstudents discover how modern technology affects society and how they can use it to improvetheir cognitive skills, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. The course was built to provideopportunities for students to explore the positive and negative aspects of modern technology,understand the social, political, economic, and ethical aspects of issues that are impacted byadvancement of technology, and realize how to utilize it for the benefit of humanity. The courseis structured to provide students
history of electrical and computer engineering, the electronicsdevelopment cycle, professional ethics, multidisciplinary team environments, and commondevelopment tools used in industry. Students are expected to apply this and knowledge fromprerequisite and concurrent courses to completing their project.In our paper, we describe the course in detail, including examples of student projects. Studentoutcomes related to both technical and soft skills are assessed using student surveys and projectevaluation rubrics. We discuss these assessment results and highlight some successes andlimitations of the experiential 1st-year course.IntroductionThe traditional model for engineering undergraduate programs in the US is to have mostlyfoundational courses in
by applying (b) an ability to design and conduct principles of engineering, science, and experiments, as well as to analyze and mathematics. interpret data (2) An ability to apply both analysis and (c) an ability to design a system, component, synthesis in the engineering design process, or process to meet desired needs within resulting in designs that meet desired needs. realistic constraints such as economic, (3) An ability to develop and conduct environmental, social, political, ethical, health appropriate experimentation, analyze and and safety, manufacturability, and interpret data, and use engineering judgment sustainability
such as ethics, and smoothing outlogistical challenges with the course should result in improved student learning.IntroductionA new engineering course at a large land-grant university seeks to introduce non-engineers to theprofession via a combination of artistic endeavors, social science analyses, engineering designthinking, and community practice. The course introduces a new concept, “citizen engineering,”borrowed from a tradition of citizen science in which community members (“non-experts”)identify scientific questions and proceed through formal processes, such as participatory actionresearch, to systematically seek answers to their questions by defining and driving their ownprocesses of inquiry and analysis, sometimes but not always with
. structures to achieve a civic aim. civic aim.There are actually several rubrics that could be added to assess an ISLPs in addition to civicengagement. AACU encourages users to also consult three other rubrics: Global Learning;Intercultural Knowledge and Competence; and Ethical Reasoning. These rubrics are provided inthe appendix12.Due to the months of planning to address all the constraints of an ISLP and the student outcomesof developing student leadership and collaborating with other project stakeholders a rubricassessing the rigor of teamwork would also be very desirable. With four rubrics to draw fromthe AACU assessment rubrics appear to be very useful. However, for the sanity of the facultyadvisors who develop these programs and
Paper ID #14655Sports, arts and concrete canoes: Engineers learning to lead outside the for-mal curriculumDr. Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto 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
of our industrial partners, we used the following threecriteria to narrow our selection of professional skills targeted in the online course. Professionalskills should be: • Valued by a broad spectrum of employers4 of our graduates • Essential for assimilating an engineering student into an industrial environment • Practical to be immediately effective on the jobFor our circumstances, ten professional development goals were established for an engineeringstudent to acquire during one semester-long (16 weeks) term of an industrial coop or internship: 1. Commit to personal and process safety. 2. Understand ethical and professional responsibilities (e.g., confidentiality, intellectual property, safety, punctuality, attitude
. Develop an effective working relationship with team members with different technical backgrounds and with an industrial client to determine how to solve problems.5. Synthesize solutions to industrial problems in order to develop designs and build prototypes.6. Develop technical reporting skills (oral and written) as they apply to the industrial environment.7. Develop a systems approach to solving industrial problems.8. Demonstrate ability to incorporate standards and industry compliance requirements in the engineering design process.9. Demonstrate understanding of ethics in engineering and technology practice.10. Demonstrate ability to apply sustainability analysis to engineering design.The above learning outcomes were mapped against ABET a