competitions they could lead as a junior or senior (i.e., concrete canoe, steel bridge, mini-Baja, ethics, robotics)Fall-Spring Club Meetings Mentorship, connection to future internships and jobs, service opportunitiesFall Mathematics Jeopardy Opportunity to compete using calculus skills only STEM majors are developingJanuary Academic Training for
invites student participation. Class exercises are designed to explicitly facilitate that. Woods and Howard [11] effectively used class exercises for information technology students to study ethical issues. Day and Foley [12] used class time exclusively for exercises, having their students prepare beforehand for class with materials provided online. Frydenberg [13] primarily used hands-on exercises to foster student understanding in data analytics. Based on the context of the class module, class exercises were designed for the class time to explicitly raise questions to invite student participation. It may be questions to think further into the concepts for a deeper understanding, or practice using their knowledge with
); ethical in its conductand implications (Walther, Pawley, & Sochacka, 2015); as well as a carefully-planned researchdesign that responds to the research questions, whereby the generation of data enables theresearchers to make supported claims. Although rigor is bound up in all aspects of a study—fromits level of cultural responsiveness to communication with internal and external stakeholdersthroughout the research process—our definition of rigor is narrower than our definition ofquality. Specifically, we understand rigor to mean that a study’s claims and implications havebeen carefully supported with data, and that alternative explanations have been considered andaddressed throughout the research design.Validity and reliability have
Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, about a boy inMalawi who built a windmill to power his community. In 2017, the book selection was TheImmortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, which focuses on ethics and issues of classand race within science.During the fall semester, students participate in a 1.5-hour discussion session led by two upper-level College of Engineering students. These discussions focus on important themes in the bookand how these relate to engineering and the experiences of a first-year student. The sharedexperience is intended to encourage community-building and promote a sense of belongingamong the students. This discussion also prompts reflection about what it means to be anengineer, including the
both Mathematics instruction as well as Physics instruction during summer bridge instead of last, which is when it was taught previously. This way, students had foundational skills to learn physics concepts and apply trigonometry concepts in the process of solving physics problems. New - Engineering Humanities A mechanical engineering professor, who serves as the faculty advisor for the Engineering GoldShirt Program, taught a Humanities in Engineering class during summer bridge to encourage students to be mindful of the humanitarian impact on engineering designs and projects. Case studies included the burning tower in London and the ethical decisions made by engineers who designed the tower
image processing, computer vision, engineering education, and academic ethics. He has extensive experience as a computer hardware engineer at Hewlett-Packard. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #27793Dr. Jie Yang, Northern Arizona University Dr. Yang is an assistant professor of practice in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University. She serves a coordinating role in the NAU/CQUPT 3+1 Program. Her research interests are in wireless communications, signal processing, and engineering education. c American
. Nextwe incorporate sklearn 40 so students can execute and explore the results of machine learningalgorithms. To prepare for machine learning content students watch bots videos 14 and they arealso assigned some ethics reflection prompts in response to Cathy O’Neil’s TED Talk 35 .The common thread across topics is the problem-solving heuristics shown in Figure 1. Weintroduce these early on and revisit them with each topic and explicitly point out when we areusing a strategy, or trying several of them, to solve a problem. For example we point out the useof concrete examples for solving encoding problems, developing algorithms, and initially usinghard-coded values in incremental web development. Another example is how students areexposed to
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also learnt that I cannot and willnot sacrifice my principles and ethics for any position. The costs have been due to stress from thenew position.Panelist 4: As far as I am concerned, it is all benefits. Many times at the university, I would tellmyself "Money and power are not important." I told myself I was changing the lives of thestudents I influenced. I do believe that was true and I was an excellent educator and mentor, butthis decision to leave was for me! The Naval Surface Warfare Center appreciates all of myskills. The DOD briefs I am a part of are fascinating and the nature of the problems we have theopportunity to try and solve matters! The practicality of the research and people I get to interactwith on a daily basis are
Technology (ABET) include several student outcomes related to contextualcompetence: “c) An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needswithin realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health andsafety, manufacturability, and sustainability; f) An understanding of professional and ethicalresponsibility; h) The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineeringsolutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context; j) A knowledge ofcontemporary issues” [15]. Several recent studies explored contextual competence inengineering—“the constraints and impacts of social, cultural, environmental, political, and othercontexts on engineering solutions” [7], [8]—but
additional sources of critical consciousness developmentinto the curriculum, enabling a more comprehensive evaluation of students' change over time.Although Castaneda’s (2019) results were counter-intuitive, it does not negate the fact thatengineers can benefit from the development of critical consciousness. Like Castaneda’s (2019) work Trbušić (2014) proposed that reforming engineeringeducation involves examining and critically questioning engineering curricula and practices. Thegoal of the work was to introduce a critical pedagogical approach to foster conscientizationamong engineers, enhancing their ethical acumen by raising awareness about a wide range ofpressing issues such as sustainability, environmental protection, poverty eradication
storming, norming,and performing, directly correlating with the research questions of the study. This process, fromopen coding to thematic structuring, allowed for an in-depth exploration of team dynamicswithin the REU program.3.4 Ethical and Trustworthiness ConsiderationsTo ensure the ethical integrity of the study, informed consent was obtained from all participants.The data was anonymized to protect the identity of the participants and stored securely on Box.To enhance the trustworthiness of the findings, an additional coder was enlisted to conductinitial coding and analysis and participate in peer debriefing and inter-rater reliability (IRR)analysis. The IRR analysis measured the degree of agreement among the coders in applying thecodes and
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and II, Poster Discussion/Poster Preparation, andApplying Ethical Research. The overarching objective of these research activities was threefold:1) to cultivate an understanding of how scientists and engineers conduct their research, 2) to exposeparticipants to engineering research, and 3) to generate heightened interest in STEM fields.Engineering Scholars successfully achieved these research goals through collaborative efforts withresearch faculty mentors from both FCC and CSU-F.Notably, workshops on remote sensing prompted students to contemplate local communities andthe environment, preparing them to create posters on natural disasters. These posters wereshowcased at the 63rd Annual Geomatics Engineering Conference (Jan 24 - 25, 2024) at
Validation framework a good fit for the results to the social reality under social reality under investigation (and other similar social investigation? realities?) Ethical Validation Is the study conducted Do the findings do justice to the social reflexively, responsibly, and in reality under investigation, and the best interests of the social positively impact the people that reality under investigation? comprise it (and other similar social realities?) Process How can random influences on
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-year students in the Summer 2023 offering ofENSC 406 - Engineering Law and Ethics at SFU, which is one of the few mandatory fourth-yearcourses all students must complete as part of their degree requirements. Although the timing of thecourse offering was a pragmatic reason for starting with these students, they were also our desiredstarting point given their time and experience in an engineering program.The survey was formulated to ask questions that did not focus on program-specific issues such asduration of study, academic expectations, and course difficulty. The survey, comprising a total of 41close- and open-ended questions, covered a range topics inspired by current literature, such as identity[8] - [10] (e.g., “In what ways does your
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offeredin the CoE. The course helped them to understand the structure and differences betweenprograms to reassure their career choice. The course also included topics in ethics, theengineering method, and teamworking. Team activities and hands-on small projects inducedthem to know each other and develop community sense. INGE-3002 deepened students’knowledge about their chosen field of study and the importance of basic engineering courses forbeing successful later on in their study programs [13]. It connected freshmen, with seniorsworking on their capstone design projects, to learn how the latter carried an engineering design,followed up the solution development process, and attended presentations of completed designs.Freshmen were then tasked with
morechallenging for minoritized students. Additionally, minoritized engineering graduate studentsencounter lack of representation at faculty and student levels, exacerbating unwelcoming feeling,and tokenism as part of diversity campaigns [13], [22].Reason of engagement and experiencesDespite all the challenges mentioned above, minoritized students often embrace their agency toplace issues in the forefront and engage in activities to help them and others navigate injusticesand inequalities. Indeed, community values and a sense of responsibility to respond to socialinjustice give minoritized students the motivation to help others reduce inequities within theirfield and develop equity ethics—challenge social inequities through their vocation—andamplifying
E. Rush, “‘Why does all the girls have to buy pink stuff?’ The ethics and science of the gendered toy marketing debate,” Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 149, no. 4, pp. 769–784, 2018, doi: 10.1007/s10551-016-3080-3.[11] E. Sweet, “Boy builders and pink princesses: Gender, toys, and inequality over the twentieth century,” Dissertation, University of California, 2013. Accessed: Oct. 26, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.proquest.com/docview/1517101640?pq- origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true[12] C. J. Auster and C. S. Mansbach, “The gender marketing of toys: An analysis of color and type of toy on the Disney Store website,” Sex Roles, vol. 67, pp. 375–388, Oct. 2012, doi: 10.1007/s11199
. 3. I can apply the engineering design process to solve real-world problems. 4. I understand the role of engineering in society. 5. I believe that engineering contributes to everyday life. 6. The field of engineering offers solutions to important problems. 7. Engineers play a significant role in technological innovation. 8. Engineering is a field that requires creativity and problem-solving. 9. The work of engineers impacts environmental sustainability. 10. Creativity in engineering is fundamental. 11. Engineers must work collaboratively to be successful. 12. Ethical considerations are important in engineering. 13. I am aware of the broad range of careers available in engineering. Students are
sharing agreement to share student-level databetween our institutions. In order to effectively comply with FERPA requirements around datasharing, as well as ethical obligations to students, we developed a data sharing agreement thatenumerates each institution’s roles and responsibilities for providing and protecting confidentialinformation. Below are some lessons and recommendations from our experience developing andimplementing this agreement.Determining data needs: Creating the provisions of a data sharing agreement requires knowingwhat pieces of information will be used in analysis (at least in general terms), so that those itemscan be enumerated. We wanted to limit sharing to what was needed out of respect for studentprivacy. However
working full time for four years, earning my PE during that time, I left to entergraduate school, studying ethics, religion, and focusing ultimately on women’s, gender, andqueer studies. I continued to work in engineering part time remotely as a I completed mymaster’s and PhD. My academic training is in humanities, but religion is an interdisciplinaryfield that allows for many methods, including ethnographic methods. For my dissertation, Iundertook a qualitative study of Cambodian women who were leaders in their Buddhist andChristian religious communities, my work funded by a Fulbright award. My work always looksfor the underlying, unspoken values and the effects of these, my academic lens influencedespecially by the work of queer theorists (e.g
students. 4. Demonstrating the values of diversity, equity, inclusion, social responsibility and ethical engineering practice more meaningfully in CoP activities, processes and documentation. This may include efforts to hold more social justice-focused events and activities of all students to participate in and to bring more diverse URM and women in as presenters as well as broader institutional efforts to change the culture of our engineering program at all levels so that dominant faculty and students are more aware. 5. Facilitating better mentorship connection opportunities with faculty, industry partners, and/or peers that include ways for underrepresented students to connect with diverse mentors who
Paper ID #41887Mechanical Engineering Sustainability Curricular Content and Bachelor’sDegrees Awarded to WomenDr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) and Director of the Integrated Design Engineering program. Her research interests include ethics, social responsibility, sustainability, and community engagement.Ms. Joan Tisdale, University of Colorado Boulder Joan Tisdale holds degrees in both Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from Auburn University and MIT
ofAI tools raises concerns about plagiarism rates and the ethical use of technology in academicsettings. Educational institutions are actively crafting policies to navigate the complexities ofGenAI usage while maintaining academic integrity [2], [3].Recent advancements in GenAI have ushered in a new era for educational methodologies,offering innovative tools for learning and teaching. Integrating GenAI tools such as ChatGPTand MidJourney into educational practices is becoming increasingly common, with these toolspredicted to become as ubiquitous as traditional software like Microsoft Excel in the near future[4]. The emergence of GenAI necessitates reevaluating pedagogical strategies, suggesting a shifttowards technology-integrated learning
-dominatedenvironments and pursuing male leadership models. Figure 1. Critical engineering skills for facing challenges and seizing opportunities.Significant disparities become apparent when discussing gaps between industry demands andthe skills possessed by engineering graduates. Previous studies have identified criticaldeficiencies in areas such as effective communication, teamwork, management and decision-making, ethical leadership, and social responsibility within the engineering field. Engineersoften encounter challenges applying these soft skills in dynamic work environments,underscoring the pressing need to address these discrepancies during academic training.The ability to communicate effectively and collaborate in multidisciplinary teams is
get caught up in these little bubbles. When you die, your bubble stops because your body [is]obsolete and becomes dated and we now need a new version. Versus building a legacy as to, you're leaving a footprint where people remember not just the title of the name, the person. That’s why I say, I'm unapologetically me. ~ Lola, Black/African American• Recall that EM is considered a cognitively based phenomena. Specifically, cognition – the way one thinks and metacognition – how one thinks about thinking.• This includes growth mindset, resourcefulness, and ethical and social responsibility but in our sample, this also represented the negative thought processes experiences by participants such as stereotype threat and imposter