Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack P. Eng...., Grand Valley State University; Val Hawks, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

, etc. isoften referred to as soft skills. This topic has also had some consistent attention but as shown in Figure 7,there has been a slight increase over the last decade. Page 25.155.5Figure 7 – Soft Skills Papers by Year Figure 8 – Awareness of Manufacturing Papers by YearNew and emerging topics are shown to be coming on-line in the ASEE venue. As can be seen in Figures9-12 topics Green Manufactuirng, Nanomanufacturing and Additive Manufacturing (a bit moreestablished we know) have seen a significant increase in the last decade and will likely continue. Othertopics such as micro-manufactuirng (7), biomanufacturing (5

Conference Session

DEED Potpourri

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Singli Garcia-Otero, Virginia State University; Ehsan Sheybani, Virginia State University

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Design in Engineering Education

Master’s thesis, was mainly focused on technical knowledge, and was especiallyfocused on building a working prototype. Each student had his own technical advisor. However,we realized that this focus did not teach the early stages of design (such as literature search,market study, and cost analysis) and did not adequately emphasize soft skills (such as workingeffectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team, understanding professional and ethicalresponsibilities, understanding the impact of engineering solutions, communicating effectively,and learning by oneself). Therefore, we revised the Senior Design course to include these topics.This paper describes the restructured (“new and improved”) Senior Design course, including:how the student teams

Conference Session

Main Plenary 3 - Opportunities for collaboration with engineering educators in India (ISTE)

Collection

2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

R. Natarajan, Indian Institute of Technology

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ASEE International Forum

ISSUESII Conflicts : • Short-range perspective of Employers vs. Long-range perspectives of Academics • Soft skills demands of Employers vs. Hard skills focus of Academics.  A person with hard skills, but no soft skills:  'Nerd', not a Leader  A person with soft skills, but no hard skills:  Bluff-master, gas-bag • Institution's perception of a Faculty member as a Commodity, a 9-5 worker; a commodity which can be purchased in the market. 38 Page 17.7.39 SOME MORE CONTEMPORARY ISSUESIII Internal Brain Drain (criticized) Students given professional education (Engineering

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Eva Theresa Singleton, The Citadel Military College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

non-technical soft skills to producethe desired project outcomes. The Project Management Institute's Standard for ProjectManagement in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK ®) Guide – SeventhEdition includes 12 principles to guide the behaviors of project practitioners toward successfulproject deliveries that create value. Introducing the project management principles to engineeringstudents will enhance their career skills by guiding the behaviors in future project environments.This one-week module was created to better equip engineering students with projectmanagement competencies within an undergraduate three-credit hour project management careerskills course. The module includes a lecture on the 12 guiding principles from the

Conference Session

Teaching - Best Practices

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne P Hung, Texas A&M University; Wm Adam Farmer, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

processes.Nelson6 analyzed inputs from directors of ABET accredited programs to identify key technicalcompetencies for manufacturing graduates. Among 264 competencies, the highest rankedcompetencies related to quality, communication, and personal ethics. Baird7 proposed alaboratory exercise to simulate mass production environment. Although is more difficult todevelop this type of exercise compared to the traditional teaching practice, the benefit of thelatter approach is numerous since: a) It simulates industry practice, b) It develops specific hard-skill and soft-skill of students, c) It provides opportunity for lab instructor to be creative and organized, and

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Serdar Celik

improvementof verbal communication for engineering students. The implementation has not onlyenhanced the students’ soft skills on technical communication but also has increased theinterest in energy topics, including renewable energy and sustainability. The debatesessions require students to conduct research on both their assigned topic they are toadvocate for, and the opponent’s topic that they are to debate against. Such preparationinvolves studying the strengths and weaknesses of competing topics, their theoretical andtechnical limitations, economic analyses, and environmental impacts. The debate sessionshave been conducted in a tournament structure where the qualifying teams haveprogressed to the next level, gradually yielding a final debate

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ravi Shankar; Don Ploger; Oren Masory; Francis X McAfee

power near-neighbor communication links, with optical/ sonar /IR/RFtransceivers. These will allow the robots to self-organize in response to a chess move conveyed from aphone. Simple cameras will be used for robotic localization and navigation on & off the board. The highschool students will be able to program the robots with different behaviors and plan/play different typesof games/activities. This will increase their interest in the STEM curriculum and enhance their soft skills(team building, project management, communication, systems thinking, abstract thinking, and problemsolving); this will also bring to the fore innovation and entrepreneurship, two hallmark qualities of theUS economy, since these applications can be marketed, with

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

John Mirth

Teamworking 28 (7.4%) 34 (6.7%) 23 (4.7%) 9 (3.7%) 94 5.8 “Soft” Skills Project planning and design 44% 62 (16%) 58 (11%) 30 (6.1%) 19 (7.8%) 169 10 process Societal issues 72 (19%) 26 (5.1%) 30 (6.1%) 34 (14%) 162 10 Ethics, Safety, and 1 (0.3%) 22 (4.3%) 23 (4.7%) 6 (2.5%) 52 3.2 Professional practice

Conference Session

COED: AI and ML Topics

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shatha Jawad, National University; Ronald P. Uhlig, National University; Pradip Peter Dey; Mohammad N. Amin, National University; Bhaskar Sinha, National University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

subjects the student enjoys studying, such as Math, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, and so on. Usually, this list includes the subjects that help to differentiate between the programs offered at the university. Table 3 describes this list. Table 3: Subjects the Student Enjoys Studying Material Enjoy (1-5) Where 1 represents “I strongly disagree” and 5 represents “I strongly agree”, and 3 represents “Neutral” Math Physics Chemistry Biology Coding (programming) Robotics4. The fourth questionnaire includes the kinds of soft skills the students have, such as solving puzzles, building things, music (listening or playing), and so on

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rubaya Rahat, Florida International University; Piyush Pradhananga; Mohamed Elzomor, Florida International University

learning (PBL) can effectively foster their capability to deal with open-endedtechnical problems in their future careers. Additionally, the interactive nature of such methodscan facilitate knowledge retention of emerging and effective sustainability concepts. This studyhighlights how the PBL technique can develop soft skills during sustainability education toArchitecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) students at a minority-serving institution asan effort to promote professional skills of underrepresented groups, i.e., women of color,Latinos/Hispanics in a classroom. This study designed and implemented a PBL activity in across-listed Sustainable Approach to Construction course which introduced the students to: (1)sustainable infrastructure

Collection

2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Joie Marhefka, Penn State New Kensington; Dalynn D Park, Penn State New Kensington; Laura E Cruz, Penn State

know exactly what’s wrong or what thedevice is.” This student among many of the others gained the understanding that within ahospital environment, a biomedical engineer would be interacting with many other clinicalpersonnel that would have different technical intelligence or communicational levels. In theformative assessments collected over the course of the semester, 80% of the students mentionedthe importance of communication in various forms including reporting, professional emails, andnon-verbal cues.In addition to enhancing soft skills like communication, the PBL methods applied in this coursealso impacted emotional intelligence. The need to improve their patience, for example, wasmentioned by 40% of the students in their formative

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Technical Session 10: STEM Outreach

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mahmoud K. Quweider, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Fitratullah Khan, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Liyu Zhang, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Yessica Rodriguez, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Yessenia Rodriguez, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Science (CS) department got together and proposed a focused10-week long funded summer camp for two local high schools with the following objectives: 1. Provide graduate students to instruct in the areas of` mobile application development, forensics and cyber Security. 2. Provide CS one-on-one mentors for students while conducting their work-based learning experience in Computer Science. 3. Assign hands-on interdisciplinary projects that emphasize the importance of STEM fields when using and developing software applications. 4. Promote and develop soft skills among participants including leadership, communications skills, and teamwork.The proposal was funded, by DOE and the summer camps were conducted in the summer of

Conference Session

Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Donna Kay Chrislip; Rex Allen Parr; Victoria Alexandra Sauber, Arapahoe Community College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

advances in informationtechnology (IT) applications, nearly all business practices today are “IT-enabled.” There iscontinued demand for skilled ICT workers, but largely only those who possess both ICT skillsand a range of employability (soft) skills that add value to their work. The maturing of IT jobscalls for the integration of employability skills with technical skills.The Boston Advanced Technological Education Connections (BATEC) Workforce Skills Study,along with independent research by industry trade groups indicate more holistic teachingmethods that involve students in complex problems developed from industry input are in order.In fact, the only plausible way to cover competencies in both areas is to develop a problem-basedlearning scenario

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

through the REU program on the post-survey: hard and soft skills. Hard skills thatstudents mentioned were fundamental knowledge acquisition, practice of techniques/skills, andhow to do research. Soft skills that students addressed were higher-order thinking skills,communication, teamwork, professionalism, and networking. Higher-order thinking skills thatstudents addressed include analytical, critical, problem solving skills and creativity.Communication includes communication skills with peers, research teams, and people fromdifferent disciplines of research, presentation of the research through posters, and writing skills.Professionalism includes persistence, patience, confidence, independence or autonomy, and timemanagement.Among hard skills

Conference Session

Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Jokar, Washington State University-Vancouver; Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University-Vancouver; Dave Kim, Washington State University-Vancouver; Xiaolin Chen, Washington State University-Vancouver; Hamid Rad, Washington State University-Vancouver

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

input energy to run the vehicle as far, fast, and straight as possible. Student teams first designed their prototypes using the Working Model software and later built and test them for the competition. • Engineering problem solving; about one-third of the course schedule was spent on solving real-world engineering problems in different sub-disciplines of mechanical engineering through case-studies; including: systems of units, unit conversions, forces in structures, stress and strain, fluidic systems, thermal systems, motion, power transmission, design of machines. • Soft-skills in engineering; each faculty member introduced ethical and contemporary issues related to their sub-discipline as part of their

Conference Session

TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

william mullett; Gary Mullett

then NYNEX Corporation, this progressive program that emphasizesemployee soft skills was expanded to the New England states in 1996. Through extensiveinteraction between all New England stakeholders involved with this project, a baselinecurriculum was developed that was similar but not exactly the same as the New York curriculum.The first graduates of the NextStep program are now in the workplace, the NYNEX Corporationhas since merged with Bell Atlantic and then become Verizon, the two different curricula havebeen morphed into a single curriculum and the sometimes contentious summer Faculty Instituteshave been replaced by smaller curriculum specific gatherings. This paper will first look back at thesometimes fascinating events that helped to

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Uri Feldman; George D. Ricco, University of Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

helping developcommunication and teamwork skills. We found it interesting that of the primary themes amongthe student responses, two were soft skills. Students expressed more of a sense of appreciationfor the teamwork and communication skills development of the course and used less specificlanguage in this domain (Ex. “My skills... increased”). Student perception of soft skills has notbeen a focus of this research, and it may be considered in future work.Conclusions and Future WorkIn this paper, we have described how Jigsaws were implemented in a health informatics course,where system design and process mapping are essential components. Jigsaws can add context forstudents to apply their learning and increase their ability to perform in teams to

Conference Session

Professional Skills and Teaming in Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd W. Polk, University of Texas, Dallas; Margaret Garnett Smallwood, University of Texas, Dallas; Jeanne Sluder; Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas, Dallas; Joe Pacheco Jr., University of Texas, Dallas

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

engineer’s success. Engineering schools strive to prepare their students in both of theseareas through rigorous education and practice. Technical abilities are taught and practicedthroughout the curriculum, and capstone is where students are given the opportunity to gainvaluable “real world” experience on an open-ended, team-based engineering project.The other component to success in engineering, particularly for new college graduates, is theability to master professional or soft skills such as communication, project management andinterpersonal skills. Companies routinely look for and prize individuals that exhibit theseprofessional skills [1-4].Teamwork is an important skill needed for success in engineering capstone courses. A recentnationwide

Conference Session

Improved Pathways to Graduate Studies

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University; Maria Claudia Alves , Texas A&M University; Vikram K. Kinra, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

0.007 0.778 Engineering Career Path 18 4.79 1.04 5.53 1.15 132.0 2.637 0.008 0.761International Program Research Knowledge 13 5.36 0.63 6.13 0.63 73.0 2.670 0.008 0.771 Research Skills 13 5.29 0.63 6.02 0.68 64.0 2.763 0.006 0.798 Engineering Career Path 13 5.60 0.82 6.17 0.60 60.0 2.413 0.016 0.697D. Expectations of Research Skills and Acquisitions of Research SkillsTwo common themes emerged from open-ended questions on the surveys: hard and soft skills,including several subthemes. Hard skills that students mentioned were fundamental knowledgeacquisition, practice of techniques/skills, and how to do research. Soft skills that studentsaddressed were higher-order

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, University of Delaware; Jeannie S. Stephens, University of Delaware; Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Delaware; Dustyn Roberts P.E., University of Delaware

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

sector, and non-profit and start-up entities. The recent rollout of our multidisciplinary senior design program provides us with aunique opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of this approach in relation to overall careerreadiness as well as select “soft skills” such as project management and ability to work inmultidisciplinary teams. Presently, we have relatively large cohorts of recent graduates from boththe single (<2012) and multidisciplinary (2012+) sections, and, in this study, they were assessedon their experiences in the senior design program. The findings from this work-in-progress studywill provide empirical support for multidisciplinary experiences for students by highlightingeducational and career-development

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamad Ahmadian, Eastern New Mexico University; Tom Brown, Eastern New Mexico University

report and inclusion ofrequired materials.Another goal of this course was to improve student’s soft skills. Engineering and sciencecurricula often focus on the technical abilities of students, neglecting the “soft skills” that willoften determine success or failure for graduates when they enter the workforce. As an example,project management skills are often neglected in an engineering or science curriculum, requiringadditional training for those engineers who end up in management positions. Skills such as theability to lead and work effectively as a member of a team are frequently identified as critical tothe success of an engineer, but typically are lacking in new engineering graduates. 3Course TopicsIn this course students worked in groups

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering 2

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Whitehurst, Mississippi State University; Nathaniel Hyams, Clemson University; Morgan Green, Mississippi State University; Matthew William Priddy, Mississippi State University

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

minor changes within the engineering curriculum, so24 that communicatory and soft skills vital for student future endeavors can be built.2526 Keywords: engineering, group dynamics, problem member, soft skills, group work, STEM, social27 interactions, peer evaluation2829 1.0 Introduction30 Previous research has demonstrated that the degree to which a student absorbs and applies31 knowledge largely depends on the presentation of material in the class1. In consideration of the32 environment in which they will work after college, students are being given more realistic33 problems and case studies that are applicable to future learning, with the utilization of in-class34 projects and group work becoming a staple2. Because of the

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division (CONST) Technical Session 5

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tolulope Ibilola Ogundare; Rebecca Kassa, University of Kansas; Omar Maali, City of Lawrence, Kansas; Brian Lines, The University of Kansas; Jake Smithwick, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Kenneth Timothy Sullivan, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

to workers’ decision to transition todifferent job roles in the industry.These challenges make it important for construction companies to apply effective strategies torecruit, train, and retain employees. One beneficial strategy involves assessing workers’ technicaland soft skills and determining whether they align with the job requirements. Previous studies(e.g., [7], [13]) have found that personality traits are associated with skills that influence jobperformance. The objective of this study was to identify the personality traits, or humandimensions (HDs), of specialty field leaders and general contractor project managers, anddetermine whether specialty field leaders have the traits needed to be effective as project managersin general

Conference Session

WIED: Activities and Programs

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Weiss-Lopez; Michael Frye; Orion Jones

Operatorlicense to collect images using a drone. The camp provided opportunities to expand soft skills,explore college-level research, and community outreach. The apprenticeship curriculum wasimplemented by undergraduate and graduate students which included: daily Python codingclasses, developing quality research skills, improving public speaking, and introducing careersin STEAM. Local female STEM leaders were guest speakers and provided career advice. Theprogram concluded with a research symposium where they presented their research in posterand presentation format.This paper will provide details about recruiting, lessons learned working with students andparents under COVID-19 restrictions and developing research agendas for high school

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2022 ASEE - North Central Section Conference

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

Copyright © American Society for Engineering Education 5summarizes soft skill requirements developed by engineering and non-engineering professors tobe integrated into such engineering content6. Soft skill sets given in the table was broken intothree categories: defining yourself, being a professional, and practicing ethics. Table 3 not onlyinclude the items sketched out in the Four Pillars BOK but also helps students to understand theirown identity including self-motivation and -reflection as well as work ethics that is applicable toproblem solving and critical thinking of different sorts. Table 3. Soft skills integrated into engineering content6Conclusions and Future of Manufacturing EducationAs the

Collection

2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

John Carrell; Joshua Cruz; Stephanie Kuzmack

, providing soft skills through application of the humanities. Our paperfocuses on the development of empathy, one soft skill. Specifically, discourse analysis was used toexamine course assignments that ask students to reverse engineer technical dilemmas from WorldWar II. In some instances, students were asked simply to reverse engineer; in others, they wereasked to consider broader, contextual, humanitarian concerns during WWII. Results showdevelopment in empathetic language, such as emotionally evocative terms, attention to societalaspirations, and human-centric focus over more abstract problem-solution oriented thinking. Webelieve this illustrates a definite link between empathy development and technical problem-solving

Conference Session

Mechanics & Mechanics Related

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sudeshna Pal, University of Central Florida; Ricardo Zaurin P.E., University of Central Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

performance, while 81% of the students reported that theassignments stimulated their creative and critical thinking skills. The survey results presented inFigure 5 affirms some of the benefits associated with project based assignments that have beenreported in literature. Hadim and coworkers have reported advantages such as improved classparticipation and better promotion of critical thinking skills, while Felder and coworkers havereported improved comprehension and retention with project based assignments. [16], [17] Otherbenefits of project-based learning that extend beyond improved learning capabilities includedevelopment of soft-skills in students. Figure 6 shows student survey responses to questionsrelated to the development of soft skills

Collection

2012 EDI

Authors

James K. Ligh

, communicator, visionary BUILDING STRONG® 15 Summary Engineering skills/competencies vital for soft power  Technical expertise (glue) to Connect the dots  3-D (Defense, Diplomacy, Development)  “Whole of government” approach  Effects based (watch out for unintended consequences) Capacity development • Engineering skills! • Water, food, health, energy …..nexus • Sustainable solutions: life-cycle management • “Green” facilities: environmentally sensitive ->compliant • Its about people! Engineering education • Balance sound technical skills with soft

Conference Session

Technical Session IX

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Kadri Akinola Akanni Parris, Ohio State University; Krista M Kecskemety, Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

FYEE Conference Sessions

Project Management Institute (PMI). Dr. Parris is actively involved in curriculum design, introduction of innovative pedagogies of engagement and the practice of engineering education through teaching several courses across the department. He is integrally involved in the design and delivery of the Pre-Freshman and Cooperative Education Program and others of that ilk at OSU, as a part of his specific interest in soft skill development, diversity, recruitment and retention initiatives.Dr. Krista M Kecskemety, Ohio State University Krista Kecskemety is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. Krista received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio

Collection

2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Dimitrios Stroumbakis P.E., City University of New York, Queensborough Community College; John Migniuolo, Mig-Tech Fluidics Design; Bernard Hunter

learningexperiences make for a highly preferred and desired job candidate.In this paper, we present a mixed-method, undergraduate research case study for an authentic-industry,product development experience with two main objectives: To determine the viability of using additivemanufacturing (AM) to produce a 32-channel parallel microfluidic dispenser--a critical component inDNA sample preparation, and to develop student professional and business soft skills leveraging ourworking platform with our industry partners. A third objective was to create an outreach effort to raiseawareness of the bio-technology sector as a viable employment sector for traditional engineering majors(i.e., electrical , mechanical , computer science)---a sector often overlooked by