preparedness of STEM graduatesMany researchers have approached the question of what makes a globally competent STEMgraduate by identifying lists of requisite knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs).28,29.Parkinson’s30 survey of experts from industry and academia identified the attributes of aglobally competent engineer, including an ability to appreciate other cultures and tocommunicate across cultures; familiarity with the history, government and economic systems ofseveral target countries; an ability to speak a second language at a conversational level and at aprofessional (i.e. technical) level; proficiency working in or directing a team of ethnic andcultural diversity; ability to effectively deal with ethical issues arising from cultural or
hours of technical coursework leaving little roomto add new courses, especially those that integrate soft skills.1 The workforce demands technicalskills, and the changing work environment and competitive global market also drives demand forteamwork, ethics, problem solving, and communication within the engineering curriculum.1Previous research2 detailed competence in college graduates and the demands of the workplace,but also noted that a skills gap is present between the technical training and experience ofstudents and the responsibilities of the job. Although other researchers3 reported employersatisfaction with employee skills, it is likely that there is still room to improve upon the skillsstudents acquire in their higher education programs
Advisory Committee company. The learning objectives are to:1. Develop managerial and ethical skills as they relate to an actual project.2. Prepare complete detailed estimate and specification analysis.3. Prepare complete detailed construction schedule.4. Prepare construction contracts, project manuals and project administration documentation.5. Develop work package and project start-up procedures.6. Understand and utilize construction resources & databases.7. Prepare and deliver a professional presentation.8. Provide an independent assessment of individual student skills and knowledge.A project binder is completed by each student during the last week of the semester whichprovides a summary of their work for grading.In addition to the
% 35 39% Free electives 26 28% 22 25% Accounting 24 26% 16 18% Ethics 17 18% 21 24%Table 9 shows a notable drop in the percent requiring accounting and an almost equal increase inthe percent requiring a course in ethics. With all of these findings, it is important to note thatthese topics (especially ethics) can be within other courses. Page 26.277.8Total number of creditsFor 73 programs, I have the number of credit hours in 2005
Education student learning outcomes4 Upon graduation from an accredited ACCE 4-year degree program, a graduate shall be able to: 1. Create written communications appropriate to the construction discipline. 2. Create oral presentations appropriate to the construction discipline. 3. Create a construction project safety plan. 4. Create construction project cost estimates. 5. Create construction project schedules. 6. Analyze professional decisions based on ethical principles. 7. Analyze construction documents for planning and management of construction processes. 8. Analyze methods, materials, and equipment used to construct projects. 9. Apply construction management skills as a member of a multi-disciplinary team. 10. Apply electronic-based technology
was conducted at California Polytechnic State Universitybetween Civil and Environmental Engineering (CE) 587 - Geoenvironmental Engineering andMaterials Engineering (MATE) 232 - Materials, Ethics, and Society students. Both classesseparately received a devoted lecture module on the environmental implications ofnanotechnology. The different perspectives on synthesis of nanomaterials were highlighted in theproject with regard to material performance (MATE 232 students) and with regard to fate in theenvironment (CE 587 students). The students in CE 587 were asked to provide guidance andrecommendations to groups of students in MATE 232 for developing environmentally friendlymethods for the synthesis of silver nanomaterials. Each student group in
designed toprovide students, from day one, a resource to experience what working on real world problemswith team members from other disciplines is like and how they can work together and bringexpertise from their specific subset of skills to the project at hand. At the freshman level theclass is held twice a week, one 55 minute lecture, and one 165 minute lab. In the lectures, eachinstructor covers a core set of topics which focus on Engineering Fundamentals such asProduct Development, Reverse Engineering, Design Tools, Ethics, Team Development,Problem Solving, and many more1. These lectures are fairly uniform across each section of theclass to help provide all freshman students with the same set of skills when enteringSophomore year and Sophomore
K12 institutions, libraries, and community centers, tomutually improve social, civic, and ethical problems around educational outcomes.Boundary Spanners, or individuals who act as knowledge and power brokers to helpestablish reciprocal relationships between a university and community, are fundamentalfor providing pathways for collaboration between the academy and society. Stakeholdersfrom University, Government, K12, Industry and Non-profit organizations wereinterviewed to determine how boundary spanners can be best utilized to facilitate andimprove engagement outcomes. Purposeful and snowball sampling was used to identifyinterview subjects resulting in N = 30 interviews; 16 of which represent the universityand 14 represent the stakeholders
, communication, computer aided design, ethics, andteamwork, are practiced continuously during these courses. Figure 1 enumerates the key aspectsof the curriculum, their explanations, and their student outcome reference on the AccreditationBoard of Engineering Technology (ABET) Criterion 3. 9 Page 26.1436.3 ABET ref. Curriculum Key Aspect Example activities Criteria •Students solve problems for clients from industry or non-profit organizations •Regular client meetings provide opportunities for students to receive E, C, Client-based and
26.118.2Here the sustainable development of technology falls well within the umbrella of grandchallenges facing humanity. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)also requires engineering students to be exposed to sustainability in the context of technologydesign and development through student outcome (c): “an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability.” 4The National Academy of Engineering echoes this emphasis on sustainability in engineeringprograms in its description of the Engineer of 2020, calling engineering students to: “… be leaders in the
et al[10] are adopted as our reference. Gradoville et al studied the service learning in Ecuador as partof senior design course in spring 2011, and developed a survey to measure students’ outcome.The same survey questions (seven questions in Table 2) were included as part of our survey. Thequestions were answered on a scale of 1 – 10. Table 2: Survey questions adopted from Gradoville et al 2011 OUTCOME QUESTION Ethics How much has your senior design enhanced your understanding of professional and ethical responsibility? Communication To what degree has your senior design experience enhanced your ability to communicate effectively? Global/Society To what degree has your senior
engineering skills to addressglobal societal problems. Also, the ABET criteria requires engineering programs toprovide “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutionsin a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.” These two factors haveraised fundamental questions about how to effectively prepare engineering students toengage with underserved communities globally. This paper uses a case study approachto document the experiences of students of a global engineering course. This courseoffered students the unique opportunity to address sanitation and hygiene issues byworking with a community rather than for it. The paper highlights curricular innovationsthat ensured ethical, sustainable collaboration with the
, which has been funded by the NSF, Department of Ed, Sloan, EIF, and NCIIA. Dr. Sacre’s current research focuses on three distinct but highly correlated areas – innovative design and entrepreneurship, engineering modeling, and global competency in engineering. She is currently associate editor for the AEE Journal.Dr. Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh Larry J. Shuman is Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Distinguished Service Professor of industrial engineering at the Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on improving the engineering education experience with an emphasis on assessment of design and problem solving, and the study of the ethical behavior of
prominence in the 1990s in K-12 education research. Post-secondary education has had relatively little to do with this term until the past decade, where thetrends have conjoined. One notable researcher who spans these decades is John Heywood, whose“Engineering literacy for non-engineers K-12” argues that the non-engineering public must cometo appreciate the potential and the limitations of engineering, to situate that understanding withinsome ethical framework.1 He extends this work into a more-detailed explication of engineeringliteracy, worth replicating in whole: Engineering literacy requires that we understand how individual’s [sic], organizations and society interact with technology, and this requires an
and their consent should be taken. Ensure to inform family anduniversity in timely manner about your safety and progress while in field. While exiting researchsite it is important to leave on a good note and this will help in any future field work. Also tryany opportunity to learn about the culture, remember field research is not just about how peopledo things to perform specific tasks, which is your area of research, but what are the externalfactors, which effect people and motivate to work in that manner.Research ethics It is important to maintain the research ethics for maintaining integrity, validity andsecuring participant identity in the research2. Researchers need to abide by the University IRBrequirement. The entire
long learning C) An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, Ability to find information outside of normal class sources I1 environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, (pursue of knowledge) manufacturability and sustainability Ability to recognize need for improvement of currentC1 Design techniques I2 engineering solutions (self-motivation)C2
A Qualitative Look at African American Students’ Perceptions of Developing Engineer of 2020 Traits Through Non-curricular ActivitiesIntroduction and MotivationThe National Academy of Engineering’s publication The Engineer of 2020: Visions ofEngineering in the New Century identifies 10 attributes necessary for engineering graduates: (1)strong analytical skills; (2) practical ingenuity (skill in planning, combining, and adapting); (3)creativity; (4) communication skills; (5) principles of business and management; (6) principles ofleadership; (7) high ethical standards; (8) professionalism; (9) dynamism, agility, resilience,flexibility (the ability to learn new things quickly and apply knowledge to new
level of intellectual exchange expected at the college level • to help students think about engineering outside its technical aspects (e.g., the important role of ethics, teamwork, etc.) and to foster the exchange of ideas and discussion with peers.Book Selection ProcessThe selection process of the book has varied over the years, but has been driven by a committeeof engineering faculty, staff from the Engineering library, and 2 representative from theEngineering student government. While the two co-authors from the University of Virginia havebeen asked to chair the committee for the past 7 years, other committee members volunteer toserve on the committee. The committee generally meets at the end of the fall semester
account explaining that, “Students' needs and their learning preferences arecomplex and vary over time; something similar can be stated about their engagements withprinted text, to say nothing of their interactions with online and/or multimedia content” (p. 10).Similarly, George Siemens9 suggests that, “The most significant challenges facing analytics ineducation are not technical. Concerns about data quality, sufficient scope of the data captured toreflect accurately the learning experience, privacy, and ethics of analytics are among the mostsignificant concerns” (p. 394) leading many in the field to look at ways of including students inthe research and design process. Our overall approach, summarized by Figure 1, meets this call
to analyze and interpret data X X Ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic (c) constraints such as economic, environmental, X X social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability. (d) Ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams X X X X Ability to identify, formulate, and solve (e) engineering problems X X X Understanding of professional and ethical (f) responsibility
7. Convey engineering solutions in economic terms 8. Discern and pursue ethical practices 9. Contribute to society as an active citizenThe problems discovered in developing technologies for rural, base-of-the-pyramid communitymembers tend to be complex and require a multi-dimensional, systems approach to determining asolution as opposed to simply a technological solution. In preparing for their visits to thecommunities, the students were taught some basic interviewing skills and had to apply them asthey stayed overnight in the rural communities. They also needed to observe the daily routinesand work habits of the people living in the communities. They discovered a number ofproblems/opportunities through these in-field observation
ledby the education director of ASSIST and including faculty representative from each engineeringdepartment at the University. This minor requires 18 credit hours, which includes a junior levelrequired introductory course, three technical electives, and two general education electivesemphasizing diversity, ethics, and global issues. The technical electives come from a variety ofengineering departments and taught by faculty performing research in nanoscience andtechnology. Students are required to choose at least one technical elective outside of their homedepartment. From their preliminary evaluation results of their introductory course indicates thatstudents’ attitude toward nanoscience and technology is positive. Students from
as it applies to spacemissions. Students learned key topics related to spacecraft and mission design, includingrequirements development, trade studies, the project life cycle, system hierarchy, risk analysis, andcost analysis. The concepts presented in this course were demonstrated with examples from recentspace missions. The students were exposed to concepts regarding team organization, designfundamentals, and work ethics. These topics are in preparation for the capstone design courseexperience. They learn that systems engineering is iterative and develop judgment that will allowthem to compare and evaluate engineering alternatives. They learn to discuss systems engineeringmethods and processes as well as engage in systems thinking
for Engineering Education, 2015Think Global, Act Global – for Engineering Problems and Solutions Page 26.1583.2 AbstractThe discipline of engineering and technology is no longer an isolated field of human activitiesand the future role of engineering demands that social, ethical and cultural aspects should beadded to the technical dimension of engineering education. In this age of globalization, engineersshould have deeper concepts, wider views, more skills, and integrated tools to meet thechallenges of the expanding spheres of knowledge and the challenges of globalization. Effectiveand transformative global learning offers
, including fathers andgrandparents, which may lessen mothers’ feelings of isolation and childcare burden. Page 26.1299.6In the afternoon, the campers were led through an activity by a group of University of Illinois engineers who designed biological robots, bio-bots, using a hydrogel, heart cells, and a 3D printer (Figure 3)17. Campers are walked through a series of ethics scenarios relating to the engineered bio-bot including terrorists take over the bio-bots
No effect.5. If I could decide how homework Problems come from (Textbook, Unknown sources, Instructor’swas assigned and graded, written) Problems are graded (Always, Never, Sometimes) Solutions available? ( Yes, No, After homework is turned in)6. Do you think it is ethical for Yesstudents to use solution manuals? Yes, but only if it is used for learning and not just copying No I don't knowComments Table 2. Faculty survey questionsFaculty survey1. Use of solution manuals has a Strongly Agreedamaging effect on student learning
, component, or process to meet desired needs within realisticconstraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety,manufacturability and sustainability), there are some activities that the students can do fromfreshmen to senior. A more self-directed and self-determined approach is needed, in whichstudents reflect on what is learned and how to learn, and in which educators teach studentshow to learn for themselves 6,7 .A suitable learning environment facilitates the development of skills in the students andtheir ability to learn8,9 . The role played by the laboratory practices is vital to the training ofengineering professionals and the development of their professional skills. Theimplementation of new laboratory
]. Traditionally, case studies have been used as educational tools in areas ofbusiness, law, ethics, economics, systems engineering and medicine but not so much common insoftware engineering. Case studies have many unique and distinct advantages in softwareengineering education including: Application of knowledge or skills in a real-world setting Identification and clearer definition of the problem Participative, collaborative, inclusive and team based approach Opportunities for creative brain storming, and Developing solution of a problem.Therefore, the hypothesis presented in this paper is that the case studies would be effectiveeducational tools to introduce real-world professional practices into the classroom which
Building and Motivating [B-TB] 3. Project Leadership [B-PL] 4. Identifying and Engaging Stakeholders [B-SE] 5. Project Organization and Context [B-OC] 6. Managing Global Projects [B-GP] 7. Virtual Project Management [B-VP] 8. Ethics and Professionalism [B-EP]Strategic KMs can be leveraged in advanced PM elective courses. The curriculum guidelineslists the following KMs for consideration: Strategic Project Management [S-SM], Supply Chainin Projects [S-SC], Legal Aspects in Project Management [S-LA], Business and CommercialAspects of Projects [S-BC] ,Governance in Projects [S-GV], Agile Project Management [S-AM]and Portfolio and Program Management Principles [S-PP]Mapping Knowledge Modules to CoursesIt is
, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityone of several different types of containers with different dimensions and thermal conductivities– e.g. glass bottles or aluminum cans (HXC = conduction). Figure 1 – Overview of the Brewery Process Design Project. Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova University Overall, this process utilizes almost all (~75%) of the heat transfer concepts taught in ourcourse, with a few minor exceptions (forced external convection, fin effects, and the NTUmethod). We also use this process to discuss process safety concerns pertaining to the naturalgas burner in the brew kettle and the ethical considerations associated with using river water as acooling fluid in