Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 10

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence E. Whitman, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Kristin Dutcher Mann, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Amar Shireesh Kanekar, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Albert L Baker, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Srikanth B Pidugu P.E., University of Arkansas at Little Rock

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

disciplines, were presented with information on issues related to the ethicaluse of LLMs for class assignments. The primary research question was: “What are students’perceptions of the ethical use of LLMs in college coursework?”The research employs a mixed-methods approach. The survey of student attitudes concerning theethical use of LLMs was conducted in courses from six different academic disciplines –engineering technology, computer science, political science, chemistry, health education andhistory – during the fall 2023 semester. Both quantitative data and qualitative responses on thesame survey, designed to be given before and after a short learning module, were collected, aswas a student assignment. Since the research centers on student

Collection

2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

David A. Vaccari

(EAC) of ABET,engineering programs are required to have eleven documented student outcomes[1], commonly referred to as “a through k.” Five of these student outcomesrepresent technical attributes that engineering educators are familiar with teachingand assessing. However, six of these student outcomes are, for many facultymembers, difficult and purportedly subjective to assess. These include: (d) An ability to function on multidisciplinary teams (f) An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility (g) An ability to communicate effectively (h) The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afrin Naz, West Virginia University Inst. of Tech.

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Computing & Information Technology

Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Embedding ABET’s outcomes in a software engineering courseIntroduction The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) is the leader in assuringquality and stimulating innovation in applied science, computing, engineering, and engineeringtechnology education. One aspect of the enhanced ABET criteria (published in 2000) is “anunderstanding of professional responsibility.” In ABET student learning outcomes forcomputing, Outcomes d to h (i.e., communication, teamwork, impacts of computing, ethics andprofessional development) are identified as “professional skills.” In most undergraduate computing and engineering programs, students do not haveopportunities to be exposed to the

Conference Session

Safety and Sustainability in the ChE Classroom

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam T Melvin, Clemson University; Michael J. Ardoline, Louisiana State University and A&M College

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

and Biomolecular Engineering at Clemson University in the fall of 2023.Michael J. Ardoline, Louisiana State University and A&M College ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Development of a learning module to teach chemical engineering students aboutmoral reasoning in the context of process safety.AbstractIncorporating ethics and ethical decision-making into the chemical engineering curriculum hasalways been a challenge given that much of this theory is covered outside of engineering, usuallyin philosophy departments. Nevertheless, moral reasoning has been a component of ABETevaluations for years which means that we need to identify how we can teach and assess therelevant components. Recent work

Conference Session

Tree-huggers, Diggers, and Queers--Oh my!

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York, Binghamton; Caroline Baillie, Queens University, Kingston

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Liberal Education

modern era as well as new ideas which have justrecently been applied to the professions. In the spirit of the Diggers from the 1960’s, thepresent work offers new ‘frames of reference’ from which you can consider your decisions.The Diggers focused on promoting a new vision of society free from many of the trappingsof private property, materialism and consumerism. Our hope is to offer a new vision ofengineering which takes into account many of the elements of our society and our planetwhich have been historically ignored.As described by NSPE, “engineering ethics is (1) the study of moral issues and decisionsconfronting individuals and organizations involved in engineering and (2) the study ofrelated questions about moral conduct, character, ideals

Conference Session

Balancing Act: Ideas in Pre- & Post- Surveys and Assessment of Professional Skills

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Civil Engineering

licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Challenges of a Professional Issues Course in Civil Engineering: Comparison Across Two YearsAbstractThere are a number of professional skills that civil engineering students should possess whenthey graduate with a Bachelor’s degree, as articulated in the ASCE Body of Knowledge SecondEdition (BOK2) and the civil engineering program specific criteria under ABET EAC-accreditation. An analysis of the curriculum at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU

Conference Session

Cognitive and Motivational Issues in Student Performance II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tuba Pinar Yildirim, University of Pittsburgh; Joel Townsend, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Harvey Wolfe, University of Pittsburgh

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Educational Research and Methods

Pittsburgh Joel Townsend is a graduate student in Industrial Engineering Department of University of Pittsburgh. His research interests are engineering assessment, engineering ethics and public policy. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering (University of Pittsburgh.Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh Mary Besterfield-Sacre is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and the Fulton C. Noss Faculty Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests are in engineering education evaluation, in empirical mod-eling applications, and K12 district system improvements. In the area of assessment, Dr. Sacre has written numerous conference and journal papers and has

Conference Session

Engineering, Engineers and Setting Public Policy

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Bodde, Clemson University

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Engineering and Public Policy

increasingly turnto technology to solve societal problems. To be sure, the capacity to create innovativetechnical solutions remains essential. But for those engineers who seek to contributefully to the common wealth, technical problem-solving alone is no longer enough. Inaddition, they must engage with the policy process to ensure that the ethicalconsiderations surrounding any technology reinforce rather than diminish its potential forgood. The history of technologies ranging from nuclear power to genetically modifiedcrops demonstrate the perils of neglect.Public involvement, however, adds ethical and value judgments to engineering design instronger measure than would derive from technical and economic considerations alone.And so, by introducing

Collection

2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

PS. Dhanasekaran

privacyconcerns. As AI increasingly enhances students' learning, time feedback, and intelligent administrative support.these innovations may overshadow critical ethical issues. AI-supported classrooms have been found to improveTeachers play a crucial role in ensuring that AI is used engagement and student achievement compared toethically in education, and their training needs to be traditional methods. Computer-based education is set tocomprehensive in addressing these concerns. AI transforms become an integral part of the 21st century, with AIeducation by focusing on students' needs and aiding playing a crucial role in this transformation. It is essentialeducators in developing personalized

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

these tasks as a result of the instruction.The average improvement was approximately 0.50, indicating that, on the average, one-half ofthe students indicated an increase in their confidence to do these tasks.IntroductionThe EC 2000 criteria require that engineering curricula teach the set of skills defined in Criterion3 (a) – (k) 1. This includes the traditional knowledge of the discipline (i.e., the content) alongwith the processes needed to use the content (i.e., the processing skills). Engineering programsmust demonstrate that their graduates have learned the traditional skills (e. g., design, problemsolving, and computational skills) and nontraditional skills (e. g., communication, ethics, andlifelong learning skills). Learning these

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad A. B. Wilson, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

forms of engineering writing.Introduction: The Typical Technical Writing CoursePurposeThis paper describes the use of novels to teach ENGI 2304: Technical Communications forEngineers. The course uses Robert Harris’s Pompeii1 and Michael Crichton’s Prey2 to teachengineering writing, ethics, and presentations.BackgroundThe College of Engineering’s required technical communications course is ENGI 2304. Page 25.83.2According to the course description, the class teaches “engineering communication skills: writtenproposals, specifications, progress reports, and technical reports; individual and group oralpresentations; essays on engineering ethics

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 11: Program Descriptions and Learning Analytics

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Talal Gamadi; Marshall Watson, Texas Tech University

students in Whitacre College of Engineering (WCE) at Texas Tech University follow a common core curriculum in their first and second semesters of study. The First common First Year (FCY) curriculum was implemented in Fall2020 and formed to introduce certain basic skills to engineering students; and acquaint students with the interaction of skills, techniques, logic, and creativity in engineering problem formulation and solving. The FCY curriculum includes classical foundational studies in calculus, chemistry, physics, English, and new studies in computational thinking (programming/ data science), Bioinspired engineering design class, and Ethics/humanities science. Since the first-year experience is critical in the long-term academic growth

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 11 Empathy and Human-Centered Design 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rockwell Clancy, Colorado School of Mines; Qin Zhu, Colorado School of Mines; Diana Martin, Eindhoven University of Technology; Gunter Bombaerts

Paper ID #36917From Value- to Norm-sensitive Design? An Empirical andIntercultural FrameworkRockwell Franklin Clancy (Research Assistant Professor) Rockwell F. Clancy conducts research and teaches courses at the intersection of moral psychology, technology ethics, and Chinese philosophy. He explores how education and culture affect moral judgments, the causes of unethical behaviors, and what can be done to ensure more ethical behaviors regarding technology. Central to his work are insights from and methodologies associated with the psychological sciences and digital humanities. Rockwell is a Research Assistant

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Christopher Byrne; Joel Lenoir; Robert Choate

, Professional Communications, Computer Skills Tools, and Engineering Ethics, withstudents receiving instruction and practice in each area at least once per academic year.Engineering Design experiences combine a structured approach to solving problems with anappreciation for the art of engineering. Professional Communications and Computer Skills Toolsare introduced and then required throughout the four-year sequence to support the execution ofdesign projects. The Engineering Ethics component provides students with a framework forunderstanding professional expectations and techniques for clarifying the ambiguity that iscommon in ethical dilemmas.The primary purpose of the Professional Component course sequence is to link all these skills toengineering

Conference Session

Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John M. Sankovic; Dmitri Kourennyi

trained to and required to write lab reports in form of full-length scientific paper, which gives them powerful skills in technical communication. 3. Students are required to deliver a computer-based presentation on one of their labs. 4. Students participate in grading the presentations of their peers, thus acquiring important skills in grasping material quickly, as well as in objective and fair judgment. 5. Several lectures/discussions on ethics in science and engineering in the beginning of the fall semester are appreciated by students as important and interesting experience which many of them encounter for the first time. A short essay concludes the ethics component.IntroductionThe technological and social development of

Conference Session

Marketing Engineering as a Career Path to URMs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Lambright, Savannah State University; Wayne Johnson, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Cameron Coates, Armstrong Atlantic State University

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Minorities in Engineering

ateam of agents and processes, acting upon the students’ life at decidedly different time intervalsand all with a different focus. The first challenge is that of foundational mathematics and scienceand the critical time frame for the first challenge is that of between 4th and 6th grades. Thesecond challenge is that of instilling a self motivated work ethic towards learning and the criticaltime frame is ideally 9th grade but no later than the beginning of the 11th grade. The thirdchallenge is that of financial accountability and the critical time frame is from freshman throughsophomore years at the undergraduate level. This paper peers into these real challenges ofattracting minority students to engineering careers and offers the seeds for

Conference Session

Cultivating Professional Responsibility

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Julia Williams

technologies. The argument for a civic-minded engineer will seem very familiar tothose of us who have been working in the field of engineering education. As a result of thedemands of The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology’s Engineering Criteria2000, engineering faculty know that if they wish their programs to remain accredited, they mustgraduate students who possess “an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility” (f),as well as “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solut ions in aglobal and societal context” (h) and (g) “an ability to communicate effectively”.2 Theseattributes resemble the very same that Lane proposes. Engineering curricular revision representsa movement toward instilling

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Ashish D Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology

technology, in a first-year engineering classroom?Research shows that engineering students are most likely to engage in academic dishonesty, withas much as 80% reporting to have cheated at least once. Research also shows that students whoengage in cheating in college are more likely to engage in the violation of professional ethics whenthey enter the workplace. Students nowadays have access to new sets of technological toolsincluding third party problem solving services like Chegg.com (“online tutors”) and extensiveonline availability of materials (including solution manuals) which make it an increasingly difficultand challenging to monitor and restrict cheating. Dealing with and addressing academic

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation of Multidisciplinary Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Cottrell, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Outcomes for ETGR 3071, “Engineering Technology Professional Seminar,” (e) An ability to function effectively on teams. (g) An ability to communicate effectively. (h) A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in lifelong learning (i) An ability to understand professional, ethical and social responsibilities. (j) A respect for diversity and knowledge of contemporary professional, societal and global issues. (k) A commitment to quality, timeliness, and continuous improvement. There have been many papers published

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

James A. Reising

and final report, and adiscussion of professional ethics.The non-credit seminar is usually taken in the spring of the junior year. Students select projectsinvolving areas of current interest in engineering and make presentations preparatory for theengineering design project series.The first semester of the two-semester course sequence is devoted to a discussion of ethics inprofessional practice and the preparation and presentation of an engineering design proposal.Students work with the course coordinator and a faculty project advisor to develop the proposaland preliminary conceptual design. They also practice oral presentation of their proposals.The second semester of the two-semester course sequence is devoted to completion of thetechnical

Conference Session

Main Plenary 3 - Opportunities for collaboration with engineering educators in India (ISTE)

Collection

2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Baldev Raj, Indian Society for Nondestructive Testing (GEEP)

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ASEE International Forum

students need to be taught foundations of multidisciplinaryscience and technology, ethics and finer auspects of differentcultures, in addition to improved curricula and innovativeexperimentation. Teachers and ecosystems of learning shall form thecore resource to realise these objectives. It is clear that internationalcollaborations, hybridising of digital and real life teachings forums toenable conceptualisation and implementation of changes shall fosterchanges and enhance successes. The paper discusses visualisation ofchanges and implementation strategies. Page 17.28.2

Collection

2024 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Daniel Marchant, USC Viterbi School of Engineering; Danny Marchant, University of Southern California

-sea exploration resulted in poor ethical standards. The Titan alsoserves as a modern parallel to the ship it was intent on exploring; the Titanic notoriously sankdue to an iceberg, as the ship had been poorly tested in rough conditions. In the growing age ofextreme adventures, OceanGate's lack of proper testing and overconfidence in its engineeringresulted in a culture that was socially responsive to meet demand but lacking in socialresponsibility. Ethical standards must be established and enforced for start-ups who push theenvelope in extreme environments to foster a spirit that emphasizes discovery while prioritizingsafety. Additionally, countries must collaborate to ensure basic, proper regulations can beenforced in international spaces

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in the Junior and Senior Year

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jeffrey Stransky, Rowan University; Landon Bassett, University of Connecticut; Daniel D. Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University; Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Lehigh University in 1998, and his M.S.C.E.P and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000 and 2003, respectively. His primary areas of interest are game-based education, engineering ethics, and process safety education.Dr. Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University Dr. Bodnar is an Associate Professor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department at Rowan University. Her research interests relate to the incorporation of active learning techniques such as game- based learning in undergraduate classes as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into

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15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

Authors

Angela Jin Sadlowski, The Johns Hopkins University; Eileen Haase PhD, The Johns Hopkins University; Gyeongtae Sun Moon, The Johns Hopkins University; Meera R Bhat, The Johns Hopkins University

, introducingthe core principles of engineering, design, and health inequity. At the beginning of the semester,the BMED students (n = 126) are randomized and placed into groups of five students. Eachgroup is assigned to an LM enrolled in the Effective Teaching and Management of EngineeringTeams course. As the BMED course continues, these LMs are crucial in guiding their first-yearBME teams through engineering and design modules such as the Cardiovascular System,Arduino, Ethics, and Health Inequity Project. Since BMED follows a group-based, flipped,active-learning mode of engineering education, the LMs are vital in mentoring the BMEDstudents. From survey results of previous years, LMs required skills in conflict management,assessment design, ethics, group

Conference Session

Assessment of Learning in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Youakim Kalaani, Georgia Southern University; Rami Jubrail Haddad, Georgia Southern University

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Electrical and Computer

(EE) students are expected toacquire upon graduation:1- Basic Skills (SLO1) - Apply concepts of mathematics, science, and electrical engineering (a) - Identify, formulate, and solve electrical engineering problems in a structured and systematic way (e) - Apply the techniques and modern tools in electrical engineering practice (k)2- Design Skills (SLO2) - Design an electrical system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability (c) - Assess impacts of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal context (h)3- Lab Skills (SLO3) - Design and conduct electrical

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharifa Alghowinem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Aikaterini Bagiati, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Andrés F. Salazar-Gómez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

adoption in theirworkplace, address its ethical implications, and enable better communication about AI initiativeswithin the organization. It also demystifies the technology, and ensures leaders can responsiblynavigate AI-driven changes.Most AI-related courses mainly focus on teaching programming languages and handling big data.A closer look at AI adult education reveals gaps and limitations in content suitable forprofessional adults – e.g in leadership, decision-making, ethics, governance and cultural aspectsof organizational change. Furthermore, AI education pedagogy for adult learners,is stillunderstudied. Literature suggests that adults are self-directed, experience-based learners.Therefore, their learning should involve self-planning

Conference Session

Wellness, Readiness, and Thriving

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julianna Gesun, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Rachel Eve Gail Swan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Bryan Watson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

emergencetheory. The goal of this section is to guide and ground our systematized literature review withinthe broader context.A Primer on Interdisciplinary Perspectives to Micro-Meso-Macro Perspectives (Levels)To understand Micro-thriving, Meso-thriving, and Macro-thriving, it is important to firstacknowledge the distinctions between the terms “Micro,” “Meso,” and “Macro”, and therelationships among these terms. The distinctions between Micro, Meso, and Macro have beenwidely acknowledged in engineering ethics and related fields such as economics, sociology, andpsychology, as they provide a framework for analyzing ethical considerations at varying levels ofscale and influence within complex systems [12], [13], [14]. The Micro-Level pertains toindividuals

Collection

Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

Authors

Sheree Fu, California State University, Los Angeles; Steven Matthew Cutchin; Karen Howell, University of Southern California; Shalini Ramachandran, Boise State University

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Diversity

Algorithm Bias:A Survey of Computer Science Student PerceptionsAbstractIn the United States, Google performs over 3.9 million searches per minute. Monthly desktopsearches can exceed over 10.7 billion and mobile searches are predicted to grow steadily.Concurrently, recent discourse has raised questions about bias in search engines and big dataalgorithms. As the information universe becomes increasingly dominated by algorithms,computer scientists and engineers have ethical obligations to create systems that do no harm. Inthis paper, the authors discuss a survey that was conducted of computer science and computerengineering students' perceptions of algorithm bias. ​The aim of the survey was to gatherpreliminary data on how

Conference Session

Research in Multidisciplinary Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

; and exploring economic and ethical issues associated with nanomanufacturing. Aprofessional development component was also designed into the 10 week research program,which has morphed over the past three years, based on evaluation of students at the end of theirsummer experience.REU ProgramThe NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN)focuses on nanomanufacturing research is an equal partnership among three universities(Northeastern University, the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML), and the University ofNew Hampshire) that are located about an hour’s drive apart. For the last three summers, theCenter has held a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. The participantsspent 10 weeks

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; Frank DeRego; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

. EPICS engages students in long-term design projects thatprovide technical solutions to problems faced by local community service organizations. It is amultidisciplinary (composed of students from 20 majors), vertically integrated (freshman-senior),engineering-based design course. Students design, build, test, and deploy projects meeting the specificneeds of their community partners. Reflection has been integrated in the EPICS program throughcurricular activities and key milestones of the course. These activities guide students through thereflection process on a variety of topics. Critical reflection on the design process and teamingcomplement those on more traditional areas of ethics and social context to enhance a student’s service-learning