Paper ID #43452Extraordinary Engineering Impacts on Society: Over Seven Decades of Contributionsfrom the National Science Foundation: A U.S. National Academy of EngineeringStudyMs. Casey Gibson, National Academy of Engineering Casey Gibson, M.S., is an Associate Program Officer at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine where she contributes to the Cultural, Ethical, Social, and Environmental Responsibility in Engineering (CESER) program. Gibson holds an M.S. from the Colorado School of Mines in Humanitarian Engineering and Science with a specialization
knowing are valid, and whoseapproach to communication can be valued” (p.20). The predicament and challenge ofcommunication across difference also presents opportunities and ethical imperatives, contendscholars working on social justice in technical communication [22], [23]. These scholars, amongmany others, highlight a social justice imperative and work to foreground the influence ofidentity and culture on technical communication.Problems of access, representation, and equity are not unique to STEM contexts. Social justiceresearch takes up the problem of injustice and discrimination in TPC research and workplaces,illuminating both problems of inequity and possibilities for change [20]. Issues of power,privilege, and positionality circulate
]. However, thechallenges of transitioning laboratory experiments to these environments are still not wellunderstood. This is particularly true in chemical engineering, where replicating hands-onexperiences and ensuring safety and ethical considerations are especially critical [10]. Researchstudies in different contexts also suggest that these learning environments present severalchallenges, including replicating hands-on experiences [11], dealing with equipment limitations[12], [13], effectively assessing learning outcomes [14], adapting pedagogy to suit the onlineenvironment and ensuring safety and ethical considerations [15].Graphical characterization of pumps is critical to ensure optimal performance and compliance withtechnical and safety
Purdue University. His current research interests focus on engineering ethics, the connections between personal morals and professional ethics, and how students ethically develop as engineers. He earned a B.S. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines (Golden, CO) in 2020.Polly Parkinson, Utah State UniversityFawn Groves, Utah State UniversityDr. Angela Minichiello, Utah State University Angela (Angie) Minichiello is a military veteran, licensed mechanical engineer, and associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University. Her research examines issues of access, equity, and identity in the formation of engineers and a diverse, transdisciplinary 21st century
and inclusion in engineering is an ethical imperative and key to advancing scientificprogress and societal development (Delaine et al., 2016; Williams et al., 2016). As a result, thereis a growing focus on creating a diverse and inclusive environment in the engineering educationresearch community.The Role of Language in Engineering Education Inclusivity In recent publications in the field of engineering education, researchers have emphasizedthat even implicit and unintentional linguistic biases can profoundly impact underrepresentedgroups, particularly in terms of feeling socially included or excluded (Aeby et al., 2019; Golbecket al., 2016). These biases affect dimensions such as gender, race, ethnicity, and other socialidentities
, 2015, American Society for Engineering Education.[7] M. Huyck, D. Ferguson, E. Howard, J. Ferrill, and L. Getzler-Linn, “Enhancing Ethical Awareness Within Undergraduate Multidisciplinary Teams By Preparing Codes Of Ethics,” in 2008 Annual Conference & Exposition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, June, 2008, American Society for Engineering Education.[8] D. Chachra and D. Kilgore, “Exploring Gender And Self Confidence In Engineering Students: A Multi Method Approach,” in 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition, Austin, Texas, USA, June, 2009, American Society for Engineering Education. pp. 14-614.[9] E. Litzler, C. C. Samuelson, and J.A. Lorah, “Breaking it down: Engineering student STEM confidence at the intersection of
Child With Down Syndrome: A Phenomenographic Study,” p. 15, 2006.[35] J. Saldaña, The coding manual for qualitative researchers, 4E [Fourth editiion]. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publishing Inc, 2021.[36] J. Walther, N. W. Sochacka, and N. N. Kellam, “Quality in Interpretive Engineering Education Research: Reflections on an Example Study,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 102, no. 4, pp. 626–659, 2013, doi: 10.1002/jee.20029.[37] J. Walther, A. L. Pawley, and N. W. Sochacka, “Exploring Ethical Validation as a Key Consideration in Interpretive Research Quality,” presented at the 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2015, p. 26.726.1-26.726.21. Accessed: Sep. 23, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org
Combustion; Center for People and Infrastructures; CompGEN; the Health Care Engineering Systems Center; the National Center for Professional & Research Ethics; SONIC Systems on Nanoscale Information fabriCs; and TCIPG, the Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid Center). Member, Board of Directors, Illinois at Singapore Pte. Ltd., 2016-Present. Associate Director, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, UIUC, 2009-2016. Co-founded Center in 2009; is Illinois-based lead of the center, responsible (together with director) for its overall operation. ADSC is a bricks-and-mortar research laboratory in Singapore, with 14 participating Illinois faculty, 57 full-time technical staff members, and about $70M U.S. in
etal., 2017).Therefore, it is imperative to develop support mechanisms in which faculty can understand andempathize with the ways marginalized identities and experiences impact students. The empathypractice of perspective-taking has shown promise for developing ethical responsibility,promoting an awareness of others, and facilitating effective interpersonal interactions amongengineering design learners (Hess et al., 2017; Walther et al., 2017). While the majority ofresearch has focused on empathy in students, empathy and perspective-taking have beendescribed as an avenue for engineering faculty to “understand their academically diverse studentpopulation” (Hess et al., 2012, p.15), allowing them to more adequately assist students
, teachers, and undergraduates in this role. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Quantitative Methodological Approaches to Understand the Impact ofInterventions: Exploring Black Engineering Student SuccessAbstractAs engineering educators and practitioners, we must broaden the participation of students fromracially minoritized populations to meet engineering education's social and ethical responsibilitiesto address problems and design solutions relevant to our diverse communities. However, theengineering profession in the United States has historically and continues to exclude certain racialand ethnic populations, including Black, Latinx, and Native people. As a result, engineeringremains a predominantly
Paper ID #37619The Development of Career Resilience for Early Career Engineers inChina: A Grounded Theory StudyMr. Lichao Ma, Tsinghua University Lichao MA, male, PhD. student, Division of Engineering Education Research Tsinghua University. His scholarship focuses on higher education policy and management, engineering education. He is devoted to understanding and facilitating Chinese higher engineering education reform, through which he expects to cultivate engineers who can demonstrate innovation, resilience, social competency, responsibility and ethics. His research is published with journals like The Asia-Pacific
design. mathematically energy. The mass Increased ethical model system balancing concerns are performance. component has introduced in been increased updated project. from previous iteration.*Major updates are bold.The biggest updates to Project 2 are around an increased focus on mass balances through thefiltration and distillation processes, as well as additional ethical concerns incorporated into thedesign. While both of these were present in the initial design, they have been increased to bemore emphasized throughout
individual project has many different aspects. In that case, the instructor hasfound that the outcome is better if the work is divided into small sections and assigned to anotherteam or individual. For instance, the projects which include ethical, environmental, and politicalaspects of construction are divided into smaller pieces. The students’ work resulted in a deeperand more detailed investigation of the assigned topics than similar projects. In addition, thestudents will learn more from peers during the presentation by this method. Also, they practiceworking as a part of a larger team, which can be the entire class.An example is a project to understand the interdisciplinary nature of construction projects andencounter the students with logical
Engineering Education. These courses are 2 credit hourseach and are offered at the central and regional campuses, however, this study only focuses on theregional campus course offering. These courses are required for all Engineering disciplines withinthe College of Engineering.First Semester Course - Fundamentals of Engineering I Curriculum: Topics in this course include engineering problem-solving, introductory programming, technical communication, engineering ethics, and teamwork. Utilizing engineering tools to analyze data and solve real-world problems is an important aspect of the course. Data analysis involved arrays, logical and relational operators, and graphing techniques for single or multiple datasets in Microsoft Office Excel. Basics of
, H. G. Murzi, and D. B. Knight, “Experiencing Cross-Cultural Communication on a Home Campus: Exploring Student Experiences in a Cultural Simulation Activity,” Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 187–214, 2019.[13] R. S. Emmett, H. Murzi, and N. B. Watts, “Teaching Ethical Photography to Deepen Global Engineering Competency,” presented at the 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Jun. 2020, Accessed: Mar. 01, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/teaching-ethical-photography-to-deepen-global-engineering- competency.[14] A. Mazzurco, B. Jesiek, and K. Ramane, “Are Engineering Students Culturally Intelligent?: Preliminary Results from a Multiple Group Study,” in
* *Assessment Automatic grading * * * * Self and peer anonymous grading Table 2. Professional Skills Related Topics Project Dream Lecture Topics and Formats Management Ethics Resume Projects One instructor in person for all sessions Including online portion Teaching Purely online module * * * Each instructor leads their own session * Manual grading
theirdisciplines. The EM Champions and mini-grant programs provided the necessary means andsupport to faculty members to integrate EML in their courses. However, the development offaculty members’ interest in and teaching skills related to EML were based on the broad array ofFD opportunities provided.Example 1: Sustainability, Ethics, and Professional PracticeSustainability, Ethics, and Professional Practice is a course that most engineering students takeduring the sophomore year or later at the University of New Haven. The course is divided into 14modules of which 10 focus on the different engineering aspects of sustainability. The course wasoriginally developed with a theoretical term project of greening the engineering building byreducing the energy
Workplace Work Structures and Performance Assessment – Students are introduced to concepts such as matrix organizations and the yearly performance appraisal process • Job Search and Interview Practices – Students gain practical skills necessary for a successful professional job search • Engineering Ethics in the Workplace – Students are introduced to engineering ethics as it is practiced in the workplace along with receiving training typical of employees at companies such as Lockheed Martin • Industry Design Practices – Approaches to solve design problems in the workplace are introduced • Team Management in Industry – Course makes extensive use of teams to approach design problems
projects.In most engineering programs, the Introduction to engineering courses is offered based on disci-pline-specific contents. Introduction to engineering (EGGN-100) at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF),is offered to first-year and undecided engineering majors every fall semester. Besides theobjectives mentioned earlier, one of the primary goals of this PBL course is to “introduceundecided freshman engineering students to major projects in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, andComputer Engineering projects so that students can make an informed choice about their major.”The course starts with an active introduction to the engineering profession, different engineeringdisciplines, engineering ethics, team building, and engineering
; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and Mechanical Engineering. Whilenot an exhaustive list of undergraduate majors offered by the COE, these four broad cohortsenabled the SBP to cover major areas of interest to participants.Engineering presentations by Texas A&M University-Kingsville faculty addressed introductoryengineering topics such as the design process, importance of math for engineers, use of computerprograms, professional registration and public safety, engineering ethics, and engineering careerpaths. These were distributed throughout the 3-week period. The organizing faculty decided thatworking or retired engineers from the community and alumni from the COE would be invited tospeak individually or as group panelists about
century.Enhancing student knowledge of sustainability within the capstone design course preparesengineering graduates for the challenges they will face as they move into their professionalcareers while also meeting the ABET criteria, namely 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” [2]. Addingsustainability tasks into their proposed designs encourages the students to think about the largerimpact of their projects. Consideration of sustainability within the undergraduate capstone designis linked to professional ethics for all civil engineers, as noted in the BOK3: “striving to complywith the
from https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01622-z[23] J. Walther, N. W. Sochacka & N. N. Kellam, “Quality in Interpretive Engineering Education Research: Reflections on an Example Study,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 102, no. 4, pp. 626–659, 2014. doi.org/10.1002/jee.20029[24] N.W. Sochacka, J. Walther & A. L. Pawley, “Ethical Validation: Reframing Research Ethics in Engineering Education Research To Improve Research Quality,” Journal of Engineering Education, 107(3): 362-379, 2018. doi:10.1002/jee.20222
analyzeswhich career readiness competencies employers value most in their new college hires [3].Employers rank each competency as more than essential, essential, or somewhat essential in thesurvey. In the Job Outlook 2019 Survey, employers ranked critical thinking, oral and writtencommunication, teamwork and collaboration skills, and professionalism/work ethic as more thanessential competencies in new hires [3]. While the training in this project did not address thecritical thinking competency, it addressed the other top three skills cited in the NACE survey:oral and written communication, teamwork and collaboration skills, and professionalism/workethic.Recognizing that we had two groups from distinctly different disciplines that shared a
can lead to lasting, socially just change ineducational access and economic outcomes for historically marginalized communities. This workinvolves praxis—confronting oppression and injustice through learning, action, and repeatedreflection on the ways actions reverberate into society [11]. Anti-oppressive practices stem fromself-reflexivity and introspection that aims to align actions with the values and ethics of thework.Community engaged work enlists those who are most affected by a community issue. This canbe in collaboration or partnership with others who have particular skills or resources with thegoal of devising strategies to resolve it. Community engaged work adds to or replacesprogramming done on community members with programs done
(seePlant biology, Ethics, They will debate ethical issues related to Figure 5)Engineering, Large food production and consumption and learn ● Garden beds designedscale construction, about tried and true methods and new specifically for the plantsCommunication innovations in farming. Then, they will grown in the school garden create a growing system for the school, learn what it takes to grow and harvest successfully, and practice responsibility towards our earth and environment. Figure 5: Vertical hydroponic
environmental engineering from the University of North Dakota. She received her Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Utah State University with a research focus on the ethical and career aspects of mentoring of science and engineering graduate students and hidden curriculum in engineering.Dr. Susan M Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University in Materials Science and Electrical Engineering (EE) and the M.S. and Ph.D. in EE from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Chair of Integrated Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her research focuses on the study and promotion of diversity in engineering including student pathways and inclusive teaching. She is Co-Director of
teaching”, in Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference and Expo, 2017.[7] ”The Ethical ”I” in Research: Autoethnography and Ethics”, SAGE Publications Limited, 2019.[8] C. Ellis, ”The ethnographic I: A methodological novel about autoethnography”, Walnut Creek, CA, AltaMira Press, 2004.[9] S. Wall, ”An Autoethnography on Learning about Autoethnography”, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 146–160, 2006.[10] A. Bochner and C. Ellis, ”Communication as autoethnography”, in G. J. Shepherd, J. St. John, & T. Striphas(Eds.), Communication as . . . Perspectives on theory, pp. 110–122, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAG, 2006.[11] K. Hernandez, F. Ngunjiri and H. Chang, ”Exploiting the margins in higher education: a
university-based entrepreneurship and innovation programs. Brent’s expertise also includes the design and leadership of impactful collegiate engagement programs for universal learners.Mr. Eric Prosser, Arizona State University Eric Prosser is the Engineering and Entrepreneurship Librarian with the ASU Library. Eric is the liaison to the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and provides research services for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students along with instruction in critical analysis and information literacy, including the legal and ethical use of information. Eric has a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Harvey Mudd College, a Master of Information Resources and Library Science from the University
, including the purpose andthe research question before agreeing to the interview, and participants were also ensuredcomplete confidentiality during information collection from the interview. The study securedethical approval from the Human Research Ethics Committee of Australia and participation wasvoluntary. The interviews were held in an enclosed area to ensure confidentiality amongparticipants. Interviews lasted no more than 1 hour and were audio recorded. To ensure processreliability of the study, the transcription was cleaned by using pseudonyms and identifiable datawas removed in order to maintain participant confidentiality [23]. All participants signed aconsent form.Data AnalysisThe interview data were initially analyzed using an open coding
engineeringschool (or be an engineer), you have to be “smart” [2]. Of course, what counts as smart is notneutral or value-free [3]. Only certain types of smartness are recognized as valid for or pertinentto being a “good fit” for engineering [4], typically those associated with analytical ability. Thisnarrow construction of smartness in engineering negates other aspects of ability that are alsoimportant in engineering such as ethical reasoning, judgement in the face of uncertainty, or theability to collaborate and communicate on multidisciplinary teams [5]. Further, the constructionof smartness as success in math and science courses reflects majority (White, male, middle-class,etc.) values. Because the trajectories of those who pursue engineering is often