Paper ID #45304Syllabus Review Assessment: Technical Contract ReviewDr. Tracey Carbonetto, Pennsylvania State University, Allentown Professional skills continue to be found lacking in early career engineers despite efforts to improve suggested and implemented by faculty, administration, and ABET. Utilizing the early career engineering population as a source of information and specifically, feedback on the ability to meet the professional skills expectations, engineering faculty can include suggested recommendations for improve professional skills development within the undergraduate engineering curriculum
Knowledge with Essential Business Skills 4. Building Effective Leaders and CommunicatorsThe second pillar, nurturing global engineering competence, is of particular relevance to our courseand field experience. Through required international engineering field experiences like the onedescribed in our manuscript, students gain firsthand exposure to diverse cultures, engineeringpractices, and global challenges. This experience is integral to their development as well-roundedengineers capable of addressing complex, real-world problems in an increasingly interconnectedworld. Our course has been designed to align closely with the goals of the School of Engineering,ensuring that students not only receive a rigorous technical education but also develop
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refinement of asustainability-centered engineering curricula.Keywords: Climate Change, Paired Sample T-test, Attitudes & Behaviors, intervention,Sustainability I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUNDEngineering Education and Sustainability The evolving landscape of engineering challenges in the 21st century necessitates a paradigmshift in engineering education, steering it towards sustainability to address global environmental,social, and economic challenges. Duderstadt et al. (2007) underscore the urgency of this shift,highlighting a general lack of knowledge among engineering students about sustainabledevelopment despite its critical importance to their future roles as innovators and leaders. The needfor an integrated
how to improve. Also, peer leader performance improves with more practice as a peerleader.Future WorkThe level of participation in the peer activities can be measured by the student’s willingness toengage with the peer leader. As a result, it is important that the group size is small enough forpeer leaders to build meaningful relationships with the students. The team will increase peerleader training to incorporate more strategies that allow for early communication within thesmall groups. Part of this strategy is to require that participation in the PLTL count as part of thestudent’s overall course grade rather than voluntary commitment. The requirement to engage indialogue and participate in PLTL activities as part an integrated activity to
, University of Delaware ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Promoting the Transfer of Math Skills to Engineering StaticsIntroductionIt has been well documented that students face difficulties in transferring their knowledge andskills learned in prior courses to other areas of the curriculum. These problems with transfer areexacerbated by foundational courses being taught outside the major, as well as the fact that manyengineering courses are taught in silos, with little connection being made to the engineeringcurriculum as a whole. At the same time, engineering graduates are moving into an ever moreinterdisciplinary workplace where the ability to transfer knowledge across disciplines andcontexts is
responded to an IRB-approved follow-up survey about their learningexperiences. Reflective student feedback from both multidisciplinary trips indicated thatengineering students deepened their understanding of chosen topics in consideration of global,cultural, and societal factors, and that the non-engineering students enjoyed the visits more thanthey expected and overcame initial fears about engineering-related coursework, discoveringengineering practices in many aspects of their social lives. Overall, the students gave positivefeedback about the multidisciplinary trips and demonstrated achievement of the learningoutcomes. In the future, the authors plan to continue collaborations to further integrate the coursemodules and regularly evaluate the
toward the culminating semester-long project. Students completedopen-ended semester-long projects in groups of three to four, and while not completely unique,the extent of the open-endedness was high compared to other first-year engineering courses.Intro to Engineering FieldsThe course deliberately integrated skills from multiple engineering disciplines to enhance thestudents' toolbox, thereby fostering versatility and adaptability in problem-solving approaches.This interdisciplinary skill set was particularly crucial when addressing the multifacetedchallenges encountered during the semester's team project, where prototyping served as a centralcomponent of the learning experience. Moreover, the curriculum was structured to facilitate
involving not just an engineering faculty member, but also acurrent engineering student and an engineer currently practicing in industry.Case StudiesSottile (2024) collects a recent review of literature on case study pedagogy on engineering ethicseducation, highlights of which are presented here. It should be noted that “[c]ase studies areconsidered to be the most popular method to teach engineering ethics” (Martin, Conlon, &Bowe, p. 47). Harris et al. (1996) decades ago called for more holistic treatments of engineeringethics education, going so far as to make the case for engineering curricula to consider ethicalissues as often as possible, both within the formal curriculum but also via extracurricularopportunities. Harris et al. (1996) also
ofconnected device. The remaining five competencies of this digital badge (digital forensics,incident management, infrastructure design, systems integration, and vulnerabilities assessment)are also technical competencies but require skills and knowledge of specific technical situations,equipment, digital devices, and scenarios in an automated working environment. These are allcategorized as “technical competencies” in the NICE framework.The TRACKS-CN Cyber 4 RAM Digital Badge provides modular content for the learner ofthese competencies using the basic principles of cybersecurity. It applies these principles Proceedings of the 2024 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2024, American Society
and ML. In alignment with Cal Poly’s Learn byDoing philosophy, a strong emphasis of the course has been placed on real-world engineeringproblems using materials data. A significant part of the raison d'être of this course was an avenueto integrate the emerging topics of AI and ML into the MS&E curriculum at Cal Poly. Themajority of the students taking this course have little to no knowledge of computer science,computer programming (e.g., Matlab or Python), or algorithm development. This presents anopportunity to be innovative in the approach taken to introduce the topics of AI and ML.At present, one week (3 hours lab time) is devoted to exploring the concepts of AI and ML. CalPoly transitioning from quarters to semesters will expand this
mentioned Collaborating across and integrating disciplines 86% 100% Interdisciplinary Gaining disciplinary knowledge from others 86% 100% Learning Outcomes Learning the ‘languages’ and methods of other disciplines 71% 57% Extending one’s work to apply in other disciplines 29% 29% Bringing other disciplines in to receive feedback 36% 42% Working in an emergent space to combine insights 64
other colleges and universities. In previous years, students have actively participated in regional and national competitions at the conferences hosted by ASEE, ASME, IEEE, SEM (the Society for Experimental Mechanics) and LACCEI (the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions), respectively.CONCLUSIONSThis project has established an educational pathway to educate PRA technicians for the serviceindustry. The program collaborated with service industry collaborators to develop a curriculum,ensuring that graduates can seamlessly transition to the workforce. Professional developmentinitiatives enhance faculty capabilities, ensuring the delivery of up-to-date PRA technicians.Collaboration with industry partners
-ating novel design concepts, proposing innovative solutions, and inspiring new avenues for re-search. Through the integration of Generative AI technologies into engineering curricula, educa-tors can effectively prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of the digital age, em-powering them to succeed in their academic pursuits and beyond 42. Fall 2024 ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference, Farmingdale, New York, USA, October 25-26 Zhang, Z., Chang, Y.4. Implementation and outcomes4.1 Implementation of Generative AI in classesIn the curriculum of four courses—Circuit Analysis and Dynamics for lower-level engineeringstudents, and Electrical Power and Machinery and
challenges in an ever-advancing technological landscape. AcknowledgmentsWe thank the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological andEnvironmental Research program for providing funding through the Research Development andPartnership Pilot (DOE-RDPP grant # DE-SC0023066) to support this endeavor. Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX Copyright 2024, American Society for Engineering Education 11 References[1] C. Fredriksson and J. Galos, "An integrating
computationalapproaches.To maximize student learning, the integration of computation into introductory courses shoulduse tools designed specifically for education. The existing computational MSE initiatives inupper-level courses focus mostly on using computational tools designed for research andindustry to solve problems [5], [6], [7], [9], [10]. The value of this approach is that students learnto use tools they may encounter in professional settings. However, these tools are designed forefficient problem solving and do not usually help students to better understand the underlyingphenomenon being modeled, making them suboptimal for an introductory setting.Here, we describe an introductory MSE course grounded in computational modelling from acomplex systems
the utilization of hands-on pedagogy as a means toenhance peer learning collaboration and curiosity among chemistry undergraduate students. Theresearch seeks to instill confidence and competence in students' grasp of fundamental chemicalprinciples, collaborative skills, and problem-solving abilities, while also nurturing their curiositythrough the integration of active learning techniques, laboratory experiments, and interactiveteaching methodologies. The study discusses an examination of the impact of hands-onpedagogy on students' peer learning collaboration and curiosity. The study was carried outamong undergraduate students taking foundations in chemistry, which includes engineering andother STEM majors. The study adopted a pre-post-test
presentation to suit the preferences of modern learners.Against this backdrop, the importance of supporting improvement of visual literacy skills ineducation has never been more pronounced. This paper advocates for the strategic integration ofinfographics as an essential tool to enhance learning outcomes. Infographics, by virtue of theirability to simplify complex information into engaging, visually stimulating formats, emerge as acritical asset in the educator's toolkit, offering novel ways to enrich the learning experience [2].Driven by the significance of visual literacy and the pedagogical potential of infographics, thispaper aims to highlight how these visual tools can significantly improve visual literacy,comprehension, engagement, and
course or being exposed to process safety contentas a student. Another challenge that arose was how and where to fulfill a newly required studentoutcome in an already packed curriculum or what to remove and replace to add process safety asa learning outcome.The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Center for Chemical Process Safety(CCPS) has long been viewed as a leader in the field of process safety. The CCPS has provideda platform for industry and academia to share information and resources related to process safety.Chemical engineering faculty members that have been leaders in process safety instructionincluding Dan Crowl, Ron Willey, and Chip Howat began facilitating faculty workshops held atindustrial sites as early as 1989 [1
study the subject. Turkanet al. [3] launched an iOS marker-based app for third year undergraduates that recognizedtextbook and assignment examples and displayed pre-calculated deflections and loads. Whilestudents reported an improved learning experience, students were also overwhelmed and foundthe app difficult to use.Given the limited integration of AR in structural engineering courses and its potential benefit tostudents who struggle with visualizing complex structural phenomena, this study presentsSTRUCT-AR, as a continuation of previous work by the authors [13, 14] as part of an ongoingstudy on the formation of engineering intuition in structural engineering. STRUCT-AR is amarker-less AR application designed to address the limitations in
activities which instill self-driven and just-in-time learning experiences[1]-[3] are incorporated to promote system-levelthinking and reinforce the technical, communication, and leadership skills of each student.Engineering project platforms[4] offer an effective approach to integrate the curriculum acrosscourses and academic level of the student. This paper provides the framework of an engineeringproject which integrates the hardware environment with the simulation environment. Each 1 Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference Copyright © 2024, American Society for Engineering
. Retrieved from http://upcea.edu/wp- content/uploads/2017/05/Demographic-Shifts-in-Educational-Demand-and-the-Rise-of- Alternative-Credentials.pdf. [Accessed Jan 6, 2024].[3] C. Craig, “Open Badges and Microcredentials,” Technlogy in the Curriculum, OER Lab Ontario Tech University, J.M Stokes and S. Stokes (Eds.), 2021.[4] V. Devedžić and J. Jovanović, “Developing Open Badges: A Comprehensive Approach,” Educational Technology Research and Development, vol. 63, pp. 603-620, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-015-9388-3. [Accessed Jan 4, 2024].[5] F.M. Sullivan, “New and Alternative Assessments, Digital Badges, and Civics: An Overview of Emerging Themes and Promising Directions,” CIRCLE Working Paper #77, 2013. Retrieved
challenges that multi-disciplinary collaborations may present [9] - [12].Teaching multidisciplinary skills in the engineering classroom, though important, can bechallenging due to a variety of reasons. First, engineering students traditionally find themselvesrestricted by a narrow disciplinary focus [13]. Though multidisciplinary courses can better preparestudents for real world contexts [14], for learning to become more multi-disciplinary, instructorsthemselves need to be trained to break disciplinary silos and successfully teach students how tofunction on multi-disciplinary teams [15]. Second, the engineering curriculum is already packed[16], often leaving little room for integrating multidisciplinary courses. Further, classroom settingscan be
% growth rate in new engineering faculty opportunities over the next 10 years, not keeping upwith the rate of Ph.D. engineering graduates [2]. As a result, graduate students will need to seeknon-academic roles in industry or the government upon graduation.As part of a research study funded through the NSF Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE),we are seeking to build upon an existing transportation engineering graduate program throughthe integration of a research-to-practice model based upon cognitive apprenticeship. As part ofthis model, we include practical experiences that we believe will prepare students for non-academic roles while maintaining the program’s current level of scientific rigor. We willevaluate the success of the new graduate
engineering and engineering technology programs. Of particular interest was the enhancement of networking and mutual respect among students enrolled in the traditional engineering and engineering technology programs, which do not share a significant amount of common curriculum. 4. Better recognize and appreciate the connection between theory and applied engineering. 5. Further develop and refine communication and formal presentation skills to the various project stakeholders. Particularly, enhancing the ability to understand the needs of a specific audience and generating communication tailored to the expectations of that group. 6. Gain an understanding of system lifecycle management concepts and requirements
rigorous for a one-credit hourhonors course, and we wanted the integration of the any new assignments not to be toocumbersome for the instructors.These objectives led us to requiring honors students to complete a LinkedIn Learning Pathway asa part of their additional honors coursework. LinkedIn Learning was selected due to itswidespread popularity as an online educational platform [3-5], offering a diverse array of coursesspanning business, technology, creative skills, and more [6]. Moreover, our university providesaccess to LinkedIn Learning at no cost to students. Students also earn certificates for completingthe LinkedIn Learning pathways and display these certificates in their LinkedIn profiles.The purpose of this paper is to share the
provides anoverview of these important topics to undergraduate BME students.Incorporating assistive applications into the course, exposes students to human “stories” whichdeal with supporting people with cognitive and/or motor impairments, whether these aretemporary due to injury or life long as a result of a condition or an event, such as stroke. In theprocess, students uncover important issues like privacy, data integrity, information security, risk,decision making, ethics, regulations, and social disparities in access to care and outcomes.Students find that exploration of these issues adds context and meaning to their training asbiomedical engineers. The Active Learning ActivityThe key active learning
, and diverse strategies used by universities [1].Craney et al. [2] surveyed 465 undergraduate research participants from varied disciplines andbackgrounds, discovering high satisfaction and significant gains in professional development,deeper subject understanding, and better preparedness for graduate studies and careers. Similarly,Lopatto [3] found that 85% of UR participants in science continued to postgraduate education,with those not pursuing further studies reporting lesser gains. Haddad and Kalaani [4] introduceda model to integrate research into traditional curriculums via summer workshops and designatedcourses, aiming to boost participation through the creation of an Undergraduate Research Office.Lopatto's further research [5
education departments: • Learning design and technology • Environmental economics • Engineering technology • Journalism • Science and mathematics • Educational psychology • Curriculum and instruction • Rhetoric, composition, and literacy studies • Education, leadership, and policy studies • Heritage studies, and history languages, cultures, and literature among others.Future studies are needed to understand the impacts that these inter- and multidisciplinarydepartments have on both research and teaching practices in these departments.Finally, it was important to note an observation and perhaps an emerging trend. In thisexploratory study, it was found that the highest number of non-tenure track faculty across
inclusive, reflective teaching practices on problem solving proficiencyMotivationDevelopment and implementation of inclusive teaching practices is an important educationalmovement [1]. For four years, we worked to implement three inclusive practices: standards-based grading with reflection [2], [3], co-created assessment [3], [4], [5], and peer review [2] ofwritten deliverables in a sophomore-level experimental design laboratory and lecture course.This work focuses on peer review, though it utilizes the former two practices in doing so.Briefly, standards-based grading (SBG) is a formative assessment approach that allows fortracking of objective proficiency throughout the curriculum and allows for just-in-time