sustainability in all major industries worldwide.The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 continued the work of the Brundtland Commission3establishing the current UN Commission on Sustainable Development. The Rio Summitendorsed a global action plan called Agenda 21 that provided a framework for achievingsustainable development4, and the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development(WSSD) in 2002 (also referred to as the Rio+10 because it took place 10 years after the first RioSummit) 3 formalized a widely-used definition of sustainability as being composed of the threepillars of sustainable development - economic, social, and environmental. Present-daysustainability discourse still largely revolves around the inclusion of these three pillars
justification, euphemistic labeling, advantageous comparison,displacement of responsibility, diffusion of responsibility, distortion of consequences, attributionof blame, and dehumanization.57 Students were asked to respond to these items (e.g., “It is alrightto protect your friends” as an example of an item measuring moral justification) using a five-point Likert scale ranging from “Strongly Disagree” to “Strongly Agree.”Experiences and Demographics: Seventeen experiences were listed, with respondents asked toacknowledge participation within the last five years, as well as their plans to participate in thefuture. These items were used in stratification of participants for interviews as well as items offurther probing during the interviews themselves
local context andbalanced out reflectively against competing needs for fairness and community autonomy. Usingthe four principles of common morality then as a shared point of reference will allow a broadrange of participants in the conversation to engage more fully and contribute together to thecritical process of specification.The primary goal of a common morality approach like Reflexive Principlism, “to promotehuman flourishing by counteracting conditions that cause the quality of people’s lives toworsen,” 27 aligns well with several statements of the goals and practice of the profession ofengineering (e.g., “Engineering is the creative application of scientific principles used to plan,build, direct, guide, manage, or work on systems to
DTRA Grant HDTRA1-11-1-0016, DTRACNIMS Contract HDTRA1-11-D-0016-0001, and NSF NetSE Grant CNS-1011769.References [1] W. K. LeBold, R. Delauretis, and K. D. Shell. The purdue interest questionnaire: An interest inventory to assist engineer students in planning their career. annual Frontiers in Education Conference, 1977. [2] John P. Bean. Dropouts and turnover: The synthesis and test of a causal model of student attrition. Research in higher education, 12(2):155–187, 1980. [3] James A. Beane and Richard P. Lipka. Self-concept, self-esteem, and the curriculum. Columbia University, Teachers College, 1986. [4] Malene Rode Larsen, Hanna Bjornoy Sommersel, and Michael Søgaard Larsen. Evidence on Dropout Phenomena at Universities
. Perspective Taking: the skill of investigating and understanding other people’s values, interests, and needs. 2. Constructive Negotiation Approach: the promotion of a win-win negotiation method so that all members benefit from an agreement.Task Focus Subscales 1. Task Analysis: the examination of problems, opportunities, and task solutions. 2. Task Implementation: the competent execution of a plan with appropriate strategic adjustments along the way.Interpersonal Focus Subscales 1. Positive Group Affiliation: the promotion of mutual acceptance and personal rapport among members, with the aim of fostering a
includes 4 phases: orienting, planning, executing, andchecking. The final round of coding collapsed these codes into the 5 Step Problem SolvingMethod similar to the MPSF but more consistent with the expert heat transfer solutions.However, the orienting category was maintained since it did not overlap with the 5 step method. 4ResultsUnexpected Theme: Professor Beliefs about Problem SolvingWhile solving these problems, many of the experts revealed their beliefs about what types ofproblems are developmentally appropriate for students. The experts were not prompted for thisinformation in either the think-aloud instructions or the subsequent structured interview.Unprompted, most of the experts freely
. Identifying the challenges that students face in multidisciplinary environment willlead to the discussion on how to tackle these challenges.The results for this study help course coordinators to plan accordingly for student teamformation, project matching and creating an environment of support. Providing workshops andsupport from the faculty to guide students through this journey, peer evaluation on top of clients’evaluation and supervisors’ evaluation, and constructive feedback are examples of further actionsto be taken.Having in place a system for peer evaluation and self-evaluation to give feedback to students andsupervisors will prevent low psychological safety of the team that inhibits innovative behaviors.There are tremendous opportunities for
and demographicvariables were also independent predictors of a student’s approach to learning. And thus, theirresearch indicates that course experience causes a student’s approach to learning. The authorsalso found that as far as subgroups of students, there were differences between students who didnot intend to continue psychology studies as compared to the rest of the students. Those whointended to continue their studies in psychology had more favorable course experiences andapproaches to learning and higher efforts and performed better on the exam as opposed to thosewho do not plan to continue their studies in psychology. Even though their mean high schoolgrade point average was similar to those who did not intend to continue their studies
often preface his response witha winking admonishment, “that’s way beyond the scope of the class!,” he nevertheless foundhimself spending significant portions of class time answering such questions thoroughly.Given the nature of the questions (as beyond the scope of the class) only a small portion of theclass understood the content of these questions and answers. Thus this question and answersession functioned as projection of ability: students noticed who had the ability to play the gamein asking this sort of question. Instead, for the programming beginners like Becca, it was aperiod of confusion and a reminder of just how far behind they were.This lecture discourse pattern also meant less class time for the planned basic content, an
: Designing an institutional change plan using local evidence. Journal of Engineering Education, 103(2): 331–361, April 2014. doi: 10.1002/jee.20042.[17] Michael J. Prince. Does active learning work? a review of the research. Journal of Engineering Education, 93: 223–231, 2004.[18] Scott Freeman, Sarah L. Eddy, Miles McDonough, Michelle K. Smith, Nnadozie Okoroafor, Hannah Jordt, and Mary Pat Wenderoth. Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, 111(23):8410–8415, May 2014. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1319030111.Appendix: Full text of survey promptsThe following tables list the abbreviated versions and the full text prompts for
.79 – .88 9 .96Creative Thinking Self-Efficacy Pre-Test 1199 5.81 2.23 .70 – .84 12 .96 Post-Test 471 6.34 2.36 .77 – .91 12 .98In anticipation of the statistical analyses planned (correlation and t tests) these data screeningprocedures helped ensure that statistical assumptions were met and conclusions drawn might beaccurate. Ensuing hypotheses were tested using a significance level of α = 0.05 and are reportedwith effect sizes (Cohen’s d).Relationship Between Engineering Design Self-Efficacy and Creative Thinking Self-EfficacyAs previously stated, we hypothesized that design self-efficacy and creative thinking
organizational change at a research university with respect to a campus-based STEM improvement initiative? 4Towards constructing a robust research model to study our campus intervention, we conducted a targetedliterature review concerning organizational change research from a variety of theoretical frameworkspublished since the 1980s. These decades produced significant research. We were particularly interestedin documenting change in response to planned interventions, change to both to organizations and thepractitioners working in these organizations.Literature Review: Building The Case For Our Research ModelAs noted above, we argue that
those identified needs. From this affinity diagram, we facilitated a discussion about POD resources, asking the participants to identify which POD resources could help with their needs. Finally, the “messageinabottle” activity allowed participants to evaluate their individual needs and those of their peers by capturing their highestpriority thoughts on engineering education to share with POD practitioners. At the end of the day, if all worked out according to plan, from FIE we would have: “[enhanced] the connection between engineering education research and the daytoday teaching practices of university instructors...Participants [would have left] with concrete methods and contacts for engaging the POD community in
task taking significantly more time than others or suggesting tasks that they maynot have considered otherwise, multiple Gantt charts could be provided with contrasting errors.Students could compare and contrast these Gantt charts rather than critiquing a single process.This may also help emphasize that they are not describing what a team has already done, butgiving feedback on their plans with emphasis on choosing a process which will produce the bestresults. In addition, during the decision making stage, analysis and modelling should be includedin the grading rubric as the engineering approach to designing is different from a hobbyistapproach which focuses on ‘trial and error’.References[1] S. Sheppard and R. Jennison, “Freshman engineering
Baccalaureate university. Approximately 30 responses indicated a breadth ofcourses where faculty infused a wide variety of macroethical topics. It also revealed thechallenges associated with encouraging faculty to respond to surveys. A handful of facultyparticipated in follow-up interviews, giving feedback to help improve the surveys. The surveyswere revised, with national dissemination in spring 2016. The dissemination plan includes ASEElist serves and a targeted list of individuals who have publications and have received grantsrelated to macroethics education. Some national survey results should be available in time for theposter in June 2016.IntroductionThe broad vision of this research project is to transform the knowledge and attitudes
the high school level. With the extra instructional time, high school ENGR 102students enhance their learning through multiple authentic and carefully planned projects.Towards the end of the school year, high school ENGR 102 students prepare the solar ovenproject in much the same way as their undergraduate counterparts.The design and delivery of an introduction to engineering curriculum is important as it is the firstcontact with the field of engineering for many students. Pre-college, engineering programs havebeen shown to attract students to engineering and other STEM careers (Crisp, Amaury &Taggart, 2009; Delci, 2002; Yelamarthi & Mawasha, 2008). Our goal is for our teachers to offervaried, hands-on projects in their engineering
theories for four sections of asenior-level course that includes engineering ethics. We assessed about 120 students, allmajoring in engineering. Two sections’ lesson plans included cartoons, which the instructorexplicitly led a discussion about and linked to the ethical theories. The other two sections did notsee or discuss cartoons. At the end of the class, all the students anonymously took a shortmultiple-choice assessment (see Appendix). Neeley then revealed and discussed the answers tothe assessment with her classes; Wylie did not reveal or discuss the answers. Then all the classesspent seven weeks studying other topics and did not discuss engineering ethics. In March 2016
,reported, and given information on getting assistance, students did not seek out the assistanceand the weaker students tried to avoid it, even when referred. Often those referred studentswould set up appointments then not show, and simply did not reschedule or answer followups.[10]The author believes that well planned, multiple interventions will have an impact on plagiarismwith an international graduate student population. It also makes sense, as formerly cited researchsuggested, that academic integrity is clearly something that “cannot be imposed on students; itmust be accepted by them.”[21] The question then remains how to best accomplish thisacceptance. There seems to be two distinct approaches shown to have a positive effect onacademic
, theystrongly manifest their appreciation of the freedom of thought that open-ended designproblems provide. Thus the successful completion of a series of challenging projects hasserved as mastery experiences for the students, which is a primary building block of self-efficacy 44.Due to the single data point collected in this work-in-progress, it is not possible yet toascertain specific reasons for the ineffectiveness of the interventions in this form towardsdeveloping SV skills, however the insights gained during this first iteration will be usedto refine the implementation, and continue the assessment with the help of a controlgroup. Specific planned actions include: • Increasing the number and reducing the scope of geometric design exercises
school board was impressed. ‘Oh, that foundation in New York thinks we should do something different, so let’s do it.’… They listened to us because we were from the outside… The Sloan Foundation had leverage.”Pierre did go on to stress, however, that the reputation and leverage needed to be coupled withsound planning: “It’s not just the name [of the foundation]. You had to design the school with theright curriculum. You had to place it…within an existing high school that had a principal whoreally supported it and solved every problem they had.”DiscussionThe engineering education pioneers described many different ways in which they helpedfacilitate others’ success. We next examine their accounts in terms of Lave and Wenger’s threedimensions
implications. Indeed, in their talk the students seemed toprivilege either consideration to the exclusion of the other. Additionally, the nature of the interactions with the project affected students’ orientationtoward their design work, Sebastian (Class B) excluded his project from ethical considerationbecause in his words, this phase was just an initial test to see if the product worked. He describedhis take on his team’s product: This is basically just going to one teacher, and I don’t see much of a[n ethical concern] with it because we’re sending it to him and it’s going to be just a lesson plan for a few weeks, and if it’s effective, then great, and if not, it’s just an experiment then and we can just narrow it down
to experience a phenomenon inaerospace engineering, let’s look at the experience of uncertainty in design, where uncertainty isthe phenomenon, decision-making in design is the task, and the aerospace engineering industry isthe context. The aerospace industry is risk-averse and seeks to reduce risk and cost by reducinguncertainty [29]. Lately, the aerospace business has taken a systems-of-systems approach todesign [30-33] in order to decompose the design space and to integrate the solutions withawareness of and planning for uncertainty resolution. Uncertainty plays a significant role indesign and every participant in the design process may have a slightly different understanding,where their understanding may not fall into a “right”, “wrong