Conference Session

Engineering, Engineers and Setting Public Policy

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Haws, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

core class for non-engineers at Boise State University, I focus on helping studentsunderstand the impact of engineering decisions on their individual and communal lives. I attemptto de-mystify engineering design, but also try to explain the engineer’s over-reliance onconvergent thinking, and the dissonance response of engineers to project opposition (denying,marginalizing, or baffling the opposition through intentionally turgid language and the appeal to“special” expertise). We discuss Habermas and Discourse Ethics, and as one of the principalassignments, I have them attend and report on the public hearing required to enable federalfunding for some local engineering project. The Idaho Department of Transportation, and theAda County Highway

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lily Laiho, California Polytechnic State University; Richard Savage, California Polytechnic State University; James Widmann, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

CADTechnical Report and PresentationsSustainable Design and Technology Detail DesignMaterial Selection in Design Teamwork Update/Peer Assessment/RolesDesign for Manufacturability Design Verification/Test Plans/Engr. StatisticsHuman Factors EngineeringIntellectual Property & Patents Page 15.65.3Engineering Ethics Ethics Case StudyEntrepreneurship Ethics Case Study ConclusionProduct Liability Update PresentationsDesign with Quality in Mind Teamwork ExerciseIndustrial DesignCost

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shana Craft; David Click; P. Paxton Marshall

the system is not necessarily optimized byoptimizing the subsystems individually. It connects with the real world experiences of students.It provides an ideal vehicle for “incorporating engineering standards and realistic constraints thatinclude most of the following considerations: economic; environmental; sustainability;manufacturability; ethical; health and safety; social; and political”. [ABET EC2000, criterion 4]It demands initiative and provides leadership opportunities in project management, costestimation and budgeting, marketing and fund-raising. It develops manual skills, communicationskills, and teamwork skills. It values and develops aesthetic judgment and creativity. This paper will describe the Solar Decathlon, the UVA

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Lloyd Massengill; Joel Barnett; Donald Kinser; Andrew Dozier

course. Since a new design instructor wasappointed for ME (DK) and the EE/CE instructor was also to change, the current andfuture instructors decided to get together in order to consider means by which interactionbetween the departments could be facilitated to the benefit of both the faculty and thestudents.The primary design effort that resulted from this effort was the initiation of a seniordesign seminari. The catalog description for the course was posed as: “Elements ofProfessional Engineering Practice. Professionalism, licensing, ethics and ethical issues,intellectual property, contracts, liability, risk, reliability and safety, interdisciplinaryteams and team tools, the role of codes, standards and professional organizations, career

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Pasek

BEYOND EQUATIONS: TEACHING ORGANIZATION THEORY TO PRACTICING ENGINEERS Zbigniew J. Pasek University of MichiganINTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATIONIt has been long recognized that skills needed by the engineers in the technical workplacecomprise not only of the technical competence and familiarity with various types of technology,but also have to encompass communication, teamwork, ethics, and many other issues.Interestingly, many of these skills are activated only in the work-setting and universities ingeneral some of these skills are hard to acquire during an academic training. The alumni surveycarried out annually by the College of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Newstetter; Paul Benkeser

Integrating Soft Skills in a BME Curriculum Paul Benkeser and Wendy Newstetter Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory UniversityAbstractABET’s Criterion 3 requires engineering programs to demonstrate that its graduates possess anumber of “soft” skills related to the practice of engineering. These include skills related toteamwork, communications, professionalism, ethics, life-long learning, impact of engineeringsolutions, and knowledge of contemporary issues. Too often programs seek to satisfy thiscriterion through what might be called an “inoculation” approach, i.e. giving students a dose ofethics

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Jensen

development of an appreciation forengineering, (2) an introduction to the disciplines, (3) the development of competency withspecific engineering topics (e.g., technical communications, engineering ethics, and computerskills), and (4) the building of relationships among students and between students and faculty. Auseful tool to achieve these objectives is a set of integrated case studies.In this paper, the experiences at the University at Buffalo with the use of case studies as the mainpedagogical tool in a large (approx. 420 students) introductory engineering course will bediscussed. The ideal characteristics of case studies and the goals of case study use will bepresented. Techniques for reinforcing key concepts throughout all case studies will be

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Denny Davis; Larry McKenzie; Kenneth Gentili

include: (1) motivation, (2) technical competence, (3) judgment and decision making,(4) innovation, (5) client/quality focus, (6) business orientation, (7) product development, (8)professional/ethical, (9) teamwork, (10) change management, and (11) communication. Theseattributes span ABET engineering criteria 3 and 4 requirements.A set of broadly-applicable capstone course learning outcomes is presented to address needs fordeveloping the attributes of top quality engineers and to match capstone course objectives withinengineering curricula.Introduction and ObjectivesIntroduction and RationaleCapstone design courses occupy strategic positions in engineering baccalaureate degreeprograms. They provide senior engineering students open-ended project

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heinz Luegenbiehl; Kathryn Neeley; Jerry Gravander

complicated than the neat, reductionist realm of scientists and engineers. . . .In the real world, disparate components interact in complex systems.” Erika Jonietz 3Abstract Criterion 4 of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)Engineering Criteria 2000 requires that engineering curricula culminate in a major designexperience that incorporates “engineering standards and constraints that include most of thefollowing considerations: economic; environmental; sustainability; manufacturability; ethical;health and safety; social; and political.” That is, Criterion 4 calls for an educational experiencethat integrates virtually everything students have learned, ranging from their technicalengineering knowledge to

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina

cases, there is a list ofrequired student outcomes, the so-called “a’ through “k” lists. Although they are different for the twocommissions, there are many similarities, particularly in what are commonly referred to as the “softskills.” These include teamwork, communications skills, global perspectives, ethics, life-long learning,and contemporary issues. Often the faculty would like to leave many of these to the students’humanities and social science courses. However, at many schools there is a wide variety of electivesfor students in those areas and it is impossible to guarantee that they will receive exposure to all of the ato k items. Thus, it is the author’s contention that the technical courses must cover these topics.The author teaches a

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Riley

students as authorities in the classroom, integrating ethics and policy considerations,problematizing science as objectivity, and de-centering western (and male) civilization.Appropriate assessment methods for this type of course are presented with results from the firsttwo classes, pointing to areas for further development. Critiques and limitations of the use ofliberative pedagogies in engineering education are discussed, as well as the potential for thesemethods to address the needs of all students while increasing the accessibility and attractiveness ofengineering for underrepresented groups. 1. 2.Introduction For many years, efforts toward increasing the participation of traditionallyunderrepresented groups in

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia C. Tempel; Hisham Alnajjar; Beth Richards; Andrea Brick Ader; Ronald Adrezin

Shared activities: group “What’s essay, “Why Should discussion of ethical dilemmas engineering?” My Conscience in engineering. Brief library exploration of Bother Me?”: exercise (getting familiar with different analyze reasons for library’s online catalog). engineering fields. different Shared outcomes: Guest speaker: Cost perspectives in a appropriate professional vs. safety and ethics. conflict (cultural communication (1); critical analysis) and analytical thinking (2

Conference Session

Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Soto-Caban, Muskingum University; Emre Selvi, Muskingum University; Ferdinand Avila-Medina, Ohio State University, Newark

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

some evaluation of evaluating content conclusion. evaluation of the the evidence based on evidence. evidence presented. presented. Identifies ethical Clearly identifies Poorly identifies and Does not identify issues but not and states ethical states an ethical and state any ethical states them in issues

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John J. Duffy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Manuel A Heredia, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

degrees? ShouldABET then require service as an accreditation criteria?In this short paper, service in professional codes of conduct are explored, a case study is made ofthe opinions of beginning engineering students as well as students at all levels who have beeninvolved with service-learning projects in several courses, and the implications are considered.Service and professional societiesEngineering professional societies as well as the societies of other professions, such as theAmerican Bar Association, expect community service in their codes of ethics and conduct, as forexample, the following:NSPE (National Society of Professional Engineers) code of ethics III. Fundamental Canons

Conference Session

Innovations in Design within BME Curricula

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Naomi C. Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christopher L. Brace, University of Wisconsin; Willis J. Tompkins, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

access to a faculty member through their design course atleast once per week. Part of the two-hour design course lab time is relatively unstructured so thatstudents can have the opportunity to seek advice on the curriculum, career counseling, or anyother matter of interest to them. These courses allow the faculty access to all of the students inour department, providing an effective means to make announcements or discuss issuespertaining to the whole student body. Design courses also provide a platform for professionalcommunication throughout the curriculum5, and a relevant structure to discuss other professionaltopics such as intellectual property, professionalism, engineering ethics, and the need for lifelonglearning. Some of these topics are

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

course deliverables. Deliverablesinclude: final working product (hardware, source code, and binaries), research paper (completedindividually), time logs (completed individually), system requirements specification, systemdesign specification, project plan, design review presentation, socio-economic impact statement,ethical impact study, test document, traceability matrix, test logs, user manual, and finalpresentation.Literature Survey: Competition-based Capstone ProjectsCompetition-based capstones are not uncommon as was found from a literature survey. In aconference paper by Paulik and Krishnan4, they discuss the use of competitions for capstonedesign courses at the University of Detroit, Mercy’s department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Hooshangi, George Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

skills that are desired in a competitive jobmarket.We have created a curriculum that couples a series of foundation courses in science andtechnology with complimentary courses in business/entrepreneurship, energy/environmentalsciences and technology ethics. Students also have the opportunity to take specialized courses inInformation Systems Technology or Biotechnology tracks during their senior year. Figure 1represents a comparison view of a traditional academic program versus a more multidisciplinaryapproach to a technical education.(A) (B)   Biology   Engineering Science

Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jens Kabo, Chalmers University of Technology; Xiaofeng Tang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; John Currie, University of Sydney; Hu Wenlong, Beihang University; Caroline Baillie, University of Western Australia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

/interpersonal skills”). • Each document includes capabilities related to what we classify as “social analytic skills,” such as ethical reasoning, understanding of global and local contexts, or political awareness.As our main interests are how a) “the social” and b) the relation between “the social” and “thetechnical” are represented, our attention now shifts to an assessment of how these features aremanifest in the accreditation documents. For the most part, professional/interpersonal skills areconceptually straightforward in the accreditation documents, and there is agreement that goodcommunication and teamwork skills are core competencies for engineers (even if the attributesof these skills are less-clearly specified). While we acknowledge

Conference Session

Technical Sessions 2

Collection

2024 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Uma Balaji, Fairfield University

Tagged Topics

Professional Papers

coursesnot only enhance students' knowledge in the energy domain but may also raise awareness aboutthe growing demand for energy. The focus of instruction is often on engineering design, analysis,and technical problem-solving, with less emphasis on dealing with sustainability and other globalissues. Also, students who opt for other electives within the electrical engineering major may notget effectively exposed to the energy crisis or its environmental impact and the need forsustainable solution.Ethics education in engineering curricula at many universities is typically delivered througheither a standalone ethics course or by integrating it into "bookend" courses, such asIntroduction to Engineering and senior-level Capstone courses. Often, selected

Conference Session

Diverse Pathways: Exploring Inclusive Practices and Outreach in Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amr Hassan, University of Pittsburgh; Mohamed A. S. Zaghloul; Irene Mena, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

].The codes mostly fell under one of two main categories: positive comments and negative comments.Table 2 below provides a list of the codes that fell under each category, as well as an example commentfor each one. Table 2: Different Categories of Student Responses with Examples for Each One EXAMPLE POSITIVE COMMENTS About teammate's work, work “He was very good about getting the most out of everyone. Very ethic, and/or personality committed to creating a good product for every assignment.” “I feel that the work has been evenly and fairly distributed across About entire team's work

Collection

2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine Abrey; Maddy Cronin; Deanna Malone; Libby Osgood P.Eng.

International Humanitarian Trips: Objectionable or Estimable? Katherine Abrey, Maddy Cronin, Deanna Malone, and Libby (Elizabeth) Osgood Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering, University of Prince Edward IslandAbstractThe ethical considerations surrounding student international humanitarian trips are complex. Thisarticle considers the benefits and drawbacks of such trips by examining existing literature anddiscussing personal experiences. The positive aspects of these trips for communities includeessential work being accomplished, economic support, and job creation for support staff. Thebenefits for students include professional, personal, and technical growth, global awareness,research opportunities, leadership

Conference Session

Partner Organization Plenary I

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Marwan T. Abdelhamid, World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO)

Tagged Topics

Partner Society Plenary

a vital and visible connection to their professional association.Needles to say that, an intimate familiarity with the Code of Ethics can help facultymembers to maintain the highest ethical standards and allow them to act as rolemodels for students. It is important to integrate the Code of Ethics into course work,where appropriate. This will help in to inculcate ethical thinking of the students.Finally, high standards of research are vital component of to the professional lives ofengineering faculty members and graduate students in a university setting.Engineering research advances the state of engineering practice, provides valuablelearning and experience to graduate students and generates needed revenue forteaching institutions. Besides

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ET: Part III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Mehrabian, University of Central Florida; Walter Buchanan, Texas A&M University; Alireza Rahrooh, University of Central Florida; Tarig Ali, University of Central Florida; Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

design projectcourse. In this case, students worked remotely in teams. In some case the students (teammembers) lived as far as 200 miles apart from each other.6. Ethics: The Engineering Criteria 2000 of the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) pledge to significantly and rigorously improve the landscape of engineeringeducation in the United States. One outcome of Criteria 2000 is increased attention in thecurriculum to the ethical responsibilities of engineers. This is certainly a concern among manyfaculties including those teaching courses in online learning environments. The focus is toachieve meaningful ethics education for all engineering students, with particular emphasis oncompeting curriculum models.Our enduring

Conference Session

Main Plenary 2 - Establishing Innovative Strategies Through the Virtuous Cycle of Research in Engineering Education - Korean Society for Engineering Education (KSEE)

Collection

2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Woon Kyung Kim, Korean Society for Engineering Education (KSEE)

Tagged Topics

ASEE International Forum

Confucian cultural roots, also noted for Koreans’ general respectfor education as evidenced by the yearly statistics that over 70% of highschool graduates enroll in colleges. Although it may seem apparent–withthe coupling yearly statistics that about 23% outright majority of the college population major inengineering—that Republic of Korea is on smooth sail with respect to its engineering evolution,there are—due to threats pertaining to changes in industrial structure, culture, economy, politics,education, environment and social structures (and, ultimately, people’s psyche, work-ethics andliving styles)—some alarming early signals pertaining to the numbers, quality and sustainabilitypertaining to its engineering workforce. In this presentation

Conference Session

Sustainability in Engineering Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Hoffmann, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Inez Hua, Purdue University; Ernest Blatchley, Purdue University; Loring Nies, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

Page 15.773.2broader context of sustainability requires engineers, and by extension engineering students, tomove beyond traditional technical expertise, and incorporate complex aspects of political, social,economic, and environmental systems into engineering design.Within this broad framework, sustainability clearly moves beyond environmental engineeringand becomes a concern for all disciplines of engineering. Several professional disciplinarysocieties have recognized the importance of sustainability or sustainable development to theirfield by including them in their Codes of Ethics or similar policy statements. The AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers includes in the first “fundamental canon” of the Code of Ethics thatengineers “shall strive to

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafic Bachnak

, American Society for Engineering Education”Course requirements include three assignments to cover the following topics: (1)Professional, ethical, and social responsibilities; (2) Recognizing the need for, and anability to engage in lifelong learning; and (3) Recognizing the need for timeliness,quality, and continuous improvement. These assignments consist of having students readhandouts, perform library and Internet searches, and submit two-page reports thatdemonstrates their understanding of these issues. Week Number Topics and Activities Course requirements 1 Life long learning Professional, ethical, and social responsibilities

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Joel Barnett; Donald Kinser; Andrew Dozier

common design seminar and in effortsto encourage development of multidisciplinary design teams.The primary result of this effort was the initiation of a senior design seminar2. Thecatalog description for the course was posed as: “Elements of Professional EngineeringPractice. Professionalism, licensing, ethics and ethical issues, intellectual property,contracts, liability, risk, reliability and safety, interdisciplinary teams and team tools, therole of codes, standards and professional organizations, career, entrepreneurship, humanfactors and industrial design.” The stated intent of the seminar was “… thedevelopment of design skills through lectures about elements of the design process. Thiscourse will include seminars on: professionalism

Conference Session

New Teaching Methods in Construction Eduction

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Casey Cline, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

in daily operations. No matter the discipline,scope, nor delivery method, to effectively manage construction projects, the project managermust have a definable set of key competencies that facilitate his/her ability to effectively leadadministrative personnel, supervisors, foremen, skilled and non-skilled labor, subcontractors,and suppliers by applying learned skills, knowledge, values, ethics, and characteristics1. Akey competency is the knowledge, trait, skill, motive, attitude, value or other personalcharacteristic essential in performing a job2. A key competency can be a hard skill, where atechnical ability or proficiency is needed, or soft skills that focus on the interpersonalrelationships and workplace productivity3.In a study

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, Ph.D., University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

) outcomes. Accordingly, the instrument is directlyaligned to engineering ”soft skills” that are often difficult to measure via individual course examsand projects. The EGPI is not a student survey of perception of their learning; rather, it is a directmeasure of how prepared students are for global workforces in areas of communication,professional ethical responsibility, understanding of global issues and lifelong learning.Subscales for the index were developed accordingly, while also aligning with sound theoreticaland empirical research on global citizenry9, 10 and the National Academy’s expectations forglobal preparedness. The following four subscales are utilized as metrics in the engineeringglobal preparedness index (EGPI). These metrics are

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Ingrid H. Soudek

which offers an array of courses which address theinterface between technology and society, technical writing and oral presentation, as well asengineering ethics. We have found that teaching gender issues is very effective when coupledwith the teaching of ethics and values of professionals. In this paper, I discuss the specificmaterials, methods and basic philosophy of teaching that are effective in teaching issues ofgender.My course, TCC 211, "Values of Professionals," explores the value framework, the "calling" ofvarious professions, including engineering. To help students understand how one establishes thevalues for a particular profession, we talk about applied ethics and about what we consider rightand wrong behavior both on the job and in