.” The perception that MT is an extremely difficult learning environment existsapart from notions about the institution’s rigor. Students are proud that MT is rigorous and thatthey have the skills, work ethic, and intelligence to be successful in an environment of highexpectations. However, MT’s difficulty is not a source of pride, but rather of anxiety, defeat,depression, and hopelessness. Difficulty is an enemy of balance, and all MT’s students feel theeffect. Page 11.573.5Research into learning indicates that learners perform best in conditions in which difficulty canbe managed; new information and/or tasks should be presented just beyond a
action taken will have implications on project quality, cost, and schedule, as well as possible ethical implications. Analogous to the previous case, these approaches are not mutually exclusive. However, Experiences will tend to focus primarily on one or the other. ‚ Individual Work vs. Team-based Activities: Individual learning and team-based work are equally valuable skills for construction engineering and management students. Experiences can be designed for individuals or teams. Individual analysis and reflection is the basis for critical thinking, and the authors recommend that some type of individual work be incorporated into each learning Experience. Individual work can be reinforced by
sponsor has a working prototype for their design problem and necessarydocumentation at the end of the project term. They benefit from the work the students completeand developing a relationship with the university for future partnerships. The RCX project teamgained experience in taking a project from start to finish, dealing with customer requirementsand satisfaction, team work, leadership, and work ethic as well as applying their knowledge ofthermodynamics, design, and testing gained through coursework and co-op employmentexperience. The students gained insight from the analysis and testing they conducted as to what Page 11.1092.14engineering
days related to the project.The teachers and the mentors were provided with training both in approaches to using problem-based learning in classrooms and in technical training sessions. They were trained together inorder to build both a confident working relationship and to develop as a team that will implementthe curriculum in the schools. Together, the SET (scientist, engineer, and teachers) teams wereprovided with professional development sessions by the College of William and Mary in theareas of collaborative teaching, curricula development, rubric development, problem-basedlearning, managing student teams, and ethics in the classroom. The technical training sessionsincluded two days of instructions on the LEGO Mindstorms kits and ROBOLAB
demonstrated to the protégés in this program is that,mentors do not judge protégés as being poorly prepared, overconfident or defensive. But viewthem as challenges in an effort to provide meaningful support. It was very important for thementors to make the protégés understand the importance of the problems they might face in thebeginning phase of teaching. In order to do so, professors were advised to revisit their first yearexperiences as a teacher and pick similar situations and explain them to the students. Doing sohelped students better understand problems and their consequences.People Skills Technical knowledge alone does not guarantee success of a student. An individual needs tohave good PEOPLE skills (Problem-solving, Ethics, Open-mindedness
engineering2 Ability to design and conduct XX XX X experiments, as well as analyze and interpret data3 Ability to design a system, X X XX component or process to meet desired needs4 Ability to function on multi- X XX X disciplinary teams5 Ability to identify, formulate, and XX X XX solve engineering problems6 Understanding of professional and X X X XX ethical responsibility7 Ability to communicate X X X XX
fundamentalcharacteristics of a profession—an ethic of professional service, a professional organization, anda specialized body of knowledge.2 The committee’s analysis of the civil engineering professionsuggested that, of these three characteristics, only the first two were adequately defined. Thusbegan a broad-based effort to define and articulate the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge. InJanuary 2004 this effort came to fruition with ASCE’s publication of Civil Engineering Body ofKnowledge for the 21st Century—a report describing the knowledge, skills, and attitudesnecessary for entry into the practice of civil engineering at the professional level.This report describes the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK) in terms of fifteenoutcomes, the first eleven
, creative responses, and lessons learned. Analogous to the naturalworld, survival depends upon continuous improvement. Not only is an educational programjudged by economic viability but also an ethical responsibility to meet its educational goals.Most importantly, the undergraduate educational experience must lay a foundation for asuccessful career as well as a valued societal member. The interaction of curricula, resources,marketing, technology and other factors are also discussed.While assessment and continuous improvement are important for external accreditations andinternal reviews; it is helpful to look back and examine their long-term benefits. These methodsprovide information that generally indicates needs for improving quality in the form
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role of engineering in society, so that students take into account environmental, economical, social and ethical issues that are important in the development of an engineering project.5. Project Budget and Administration.In Table 1, we present a full list of parts and cost for each vehicle. Originally the budget assignedto the workshop was $3000. The cost of the parts purchased for each vehicle was in the order of$1450, and as shown in the table this cost does not include the costs of parts that we already hadavailable in the department such as the laptops and software packages. Taking these expensesinto account the actual cost increases to about $3500 for each vehicle. One faculty member wasin charge of administrating the budget. The main
recreation. The personal context connectseasily, since the current student generation is probably more surrounded and immersed intechnology than any predecessor. This need for connection, or bridging, using context is not new, of course.Florman’s first book, Engineering and the Liberal Arts, argues for the bridge analogy tocreate specific linkages to arts9. Thus, history of technology is a bridge to history, ethics abridge to philosophy, and sound a bridge to music. The intrigue and pleasure of exploringa “liberal education” I opportunistically pursued with the arrival of the ABET EC 200criteria, which attempt to spell out not only the technical but the interpersonal andpersonal attributes of a modern engineer. A survey program organized in
; • a perception of social, ethical, and political responsibilities; • an awareness of the evolution of human civilization in general, with an emphasis on technological developments in particular; • a commitment to lifelong learning, a capacity for critical judgment, and a sense of interdisciplinary approach in tackling engineering problems.Region’s colleges have graduated, during the last three decades, over thirty thousand engineers;some with reasonably good technical skills, but most of these graduates were not adequatelyprepared to assume leading roles and/or able to manage innovative technology. To the contrary, arelatively high percentage of these graduates have found themselves “ill-equipped” to carry on asengineers
research interests include educational data mining, ethical considerations regarding the use of data in education, assessment in engineering education, and the statistics curriculum for engineering. She is a member of Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), Purdue.Ms. Huma Shoaib, Purdue University Huma Shoaib is an engineering education graduate student at Purdue working with The Weldon School Biomedical Engineering. Her research interests are; identifying computational thinking patterns in engi- neering students and underrepresentation of women in engineering.Dr. Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Dr. Douglas is an Associate Professor in the Purdue School of Engineering Education. Her research is focused on
of Chicago Press.Gee, J. P. (2005). An introduction to discourse analysis (Second ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.Gonzalez, N., Moll, L., & Amanti, C. (Eds.). (2005). Funds of knowledge: Theorizing practices in households and classrooms. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.Halverson, E. R., & Sheridan, K. (2014). The maker movement in education. Harvard Educational Review, 84(4), 495-504.Hernández, M. G., Nguyen, J., Saetermoe, C. L., & Suárez-Orozco, C. (Eds.). (2013). Frameworks and Ethics for Research with Immigrants: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 141. John Wiley & Sons.Honey, M., & Kanter, D. (2013). Design, make, play: Growing the next generation
environment. Thechoice of a nuclear engineering project required students to utilize knowledge in mechanicalengineering but also forced them to learn more in areas such as material selection as applied tonuclear facilities. They were also required to make use of codes and standards that they had notpreviously used in order to achieve adequate safety factors for their design. The project havingindustry involvement and requiring more stringent safety standards due it being in nuclearengineering also made students more aware of the ethical implications of their design practice.A student survey was conducted to evaluate the impact on student learning, as related to theinterdisciplinary aspect of the project. The questions are shown in Table 1.Table 1
Academy of Engineering (NAE) described the qualities of the Engineer of2020 (The engineer of 2020: Visions of engineering in the new century, 2004). The NAEhighlighted the following attributes as essential for an Engineer of 2020: strong analytical skills,practical ingenuity, creativity, communication, business and management knowledge, leadership,high ethical standards and professionalism, dynamism, agility, resilience, flexibility, and thehabit of lifelong learning. While developing these qualities may seem a lofty feat to accomplish,these benchmarks for success in engineering introduced the need to generate alternative teachingenvironments in education that foster opportunities for a student-engineer to acquire this diverseskill set (Zabudsky
cohort workshop designed to initiate learning community, instill professionalism, andintroduce learning skills to the students. The cohort workshop is presented through team instruction by the programs director, aprofessional engineer with 30 years’ experience as an engineering hiring manager who representsthe professional work environment to the students, the mechanical engineering faculty, a PE with20 years’ experience in industry, and a professor from the University’s organizational behaviorprogram in the department of psychology who represents professionalism and knowledge infields outside of engineering needed in professional practice. The workshop covers the topics ofprofessionalism, ethics, cohort norms, self-awareness, and
as well as other outcomes that are more distantto the experiments themselves; e.g., teamwork, professionalism and ethics, life-long learning,and especially communications. This paper will describe the process of redesigning a junior-level mechanical engineering laboratory on measurements and instrumentation at Georgia Tech.Such classes are fairly standard in ME curricula, and they are often structured so that a newmeasurement technique, or new sensor/actuator is introduced in every lab. Such courses have theadvantage of introducing students to a wide variety of instruments and measurement techniques,but they do this at the risk of losing conceptual connections between the weekly projects. Thispotential problem was compounded by the original
in this range.When compared to the men, women begin the first semester at OSU with a large deficit inspatial skills, SAT Math and ACT Math and a slightly lower MPT score but finish thesemester with equal grades. Assuming GPA draws on verbal, mathematical and visuospatialabilities, at a cognitive level, and on several emotional and affective aspects such asmotivation, work ethic and so on, there are at least two possible explanations for thisobservation: (i) the male and female suite of cognitive abilities remain unchanged relative toeach other but females compensate for other reasons or (ii) females improve their math andverbal abilities to reach parity with men and all other things are equal. Since our data set islimited to the cognitive
technologies have evolved into dynamic, complex systemsthat profoundly change the world we live in. Designing these systems requires not only technicalknowledge and skills but also new ways of thinking and the development of social, professionaland ethical responsibility. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) atIowa State University was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in 2016 aimed attransforming curricula and practices to better respond to student, industry and society needs. Thisis being done through new structures for faculty collaboration and facilitated throughdepartmental change processes. Ironically, an impetus behind this effort was a failed attempt atdepartment-wide curricular reform. This failure led
. student in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech (VT). Benitez seeks to understand how to best instruct and assess ethical reasoning of engineering practices and engineering responsibilities, including wildlife and humanity, in our definitions of public good. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Self-Authorship and Reflective Practice in an Innovation MinorAbstract This project describes a minor in Innovation that is being introduced in an engineeringdepartment as a part of a new general education curriculum initiative. The minor connects threeexisting courses from different colleges to form the core course sequence. The theories of self-authorship1 and reflective practice 2
Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dr. Trevor S. Harding is Professor of Materials Engineering at California Polytechnic State University where he teaches courses in materials design, sustainable materials, and polymeric materials. Dr. Harding is PI on several educational research projects including the psychology of ethical decision making and promoting the use of reflection in engineering education. He serves as Associate Editor of the journals Advances in Engineering Education and International Journal of Service Learning in Engineering. Dr. Harding has served numerous leadership positions in ASEE including division chair for the Materials Division and the Community Engagement Division. Dr. Harding received
to 24 students (the standard class size forengineering at Campbell University) and students are often assigned work in pairs or teams of 4.A typical class period will see extended periods of student work on different problems orprojects punctuated by small portions of lecture or classwide discussion. It is expected thatstudents or teams completing the current assignment will assist other students in the class untilall students are done. It is common to see students walking around the room to help otherstudents, which is facilitated by the open layout of the space. With longer class periods and smallclass sizes along with this peer-teaching ethic, it is typical that all students in each section fullycomplete all in-class tasks in a given day
on costs, revenue, channels, and market segments. In addition to technical andfinancial factors, ABET requires that students consider complementary priorities in design suchas environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, andsustainability. The proposed S*Metamodel canvas approach accommodates these considerationsin a straightforward manner by including them directly in the iterative design process as essentialinformation needed to identify and understand stakeholders as well as develop relevant features.Sustainability could be included in the design canvas by identifying the environment as thestakeholder with ‘sustainability’ as the general feature. Two possible attributes could then becarbon impact and
classroom why the activities integrated into the gamificationplatform are important to their personal and professional growth.Our study investigated whether student academic motivation towards homework in a freshmanengineering design course was influenced by the integration of a gamification platform. In thiscourse, engineering students of all disciplines learn about fundamentals of engineering such asstatistics, economics, ethics, etc. It is important for students to master these basic engineeringprinciples early in their curriculum in order to succeed in future classes within their degreeprograms. The gamification platform 3D GameLab was implemented in a semester long study inthe Spring semester of 2016.This study addressed the following research
mentioned, to be due to large amounts of focus in courses outside of the“pure” engineering courses of math and science, and the integration of multiple areas ofstudy into one that is typically considered difficult. Almost any fundamental course in thefield of engineering requires knowledge of math, science, coding, and ethical restraints,proper handling of which in turn begs a deeper understanding than the surface-level,simplified “sum of its parts.” The LL program’s intended design was to adjoin theseseemingly separate modes of thinking, and present math and science in the context ofengineering, and vice versa. Integrating active learning as well as shifted contexts of thestandard topics in core and first-year engineering courses was designed to
a graduate certificate in engineering education – all from Clemson University. She is the 2016 recipient of Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Assistant Professor and the Black Graduate Student Organization’s Lisa Tabor Award for Community Service. Using deep insights from a fourteen-year industry career and her strengths as a systems thinker, she is now developing and disseminating empirically-grounded models and strategies for improved human competence, motivation, and learning as it relates to the civil engineering profession and the construction industry. She is a discipline-based education researcher who passionately pursues research to develop an agile, ethical, diverse
pursuing accreditation must demonstrate that the program meets a setof general criteria. Of particular interest are the requirements of Criteria #2, #3, and #5, which arefocused on Program Educational Objectives, Program Outcomes and Assessment, and Faculty16-17 . These requirements include:1. A process based on the needs of the program's various constituencies in which the objectivesare determined and periodically evaluated (Criterion #2);2. The students in the program must attain “an ability to design a system, component, or processto meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social,political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability” (Criterion #3); and3. The overall competence
solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics. 2. An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors. 3. An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences. 4. An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts. 5. Ann ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership