individual function and performwithin a work environment at the highest level. Examples of professional skills includecommunication skills, teamwork, time management, creativity, work ethic, leadership, conflictmanagement, and stress management, among others.Professional skills can be taught and reinforced using expository, guided, and active strategies[1]. The integration of such skills in the curriculum can occur via lectures (expository),demonstrations (expository), project work (guided), simulations (guided), role playing (active),brainstorming (active), and coaching (guided) [1]. Engineering students are exposed to soft skillsusing one of the following three learning methodologies: expository (lectures, seminars,conferences, and demonstrations
Paper ID #45055WIP: Survey Validation to Enable Investigating Community Cultural Wealthin Engineering Students’ First Year Experiences (FYE)Dr. Adetoun Yeaman, Northeastern University Adetoun Yeaman is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the First Year Engineering Program at Northeastern University. Her research interests include empathy, design education, ethics education and community engagement in engineering. She currently teaches Cornerstone of Engineering, a first-year two-semester course series that integrates computer programming, computer aided design, ethics and the engineering design process within a project
Another Look at the Freshman Engineering Course Robert I. Egbert Cooperative Engineering Program Missouri State University AbstractThe curriculum in most engineering programs includes some type of freshman level coursedesigned to introduce new engineering students to the various engineering career fields open tothem and to introduce these students to the different university resources available to help themmake a successful transition to university life. Some programs expand the freshman engineeringcourse to include topics such a teamwork, professionalism and ethics, and
., students will: o Be able to gain accurate and timely information regarding the current and future availability of mineral-derived materials and use this information in the context of materials-constrained design, o Appreciate when opportunities for materials substitution and possible and appropriate, as well as when it is not (i.e., intrinsic materials properties are unique), o Understand the ethical implications of materials choices in designs and devices, particularly in the context of a globalized economy, o Synthesize information obtained from historical sources, technical literature, business writings, and current news.It was recognized from the beginning that the course would not have a “home,” in that itwas
professionals as well as from national sources including the NationalAcademy of Engineering (NAE) [2], the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)[14], and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) [1] (See Appendix Afor competency definitions and dimensions). Each competency can be assessed on one of threeperformance levels designated as: Exploring, Engaging, and Explaining (Table 2) [15].Table 1: Key Professional Competencies [15] ● Communication ● Ethics ● Lifelong Learning ● Creativity ● Global/Cultural Awareness ● Risk Management ● Empathy ● Grit/Persistence/Resilience ● Systems
demonstrate effective work habits, and act in the interest of the larger community and workplace. • Teamwork: Build and maintain collaborative relationships to work effectively toward common goals, while appreciating diverse viewpoints and shared responsibilities. • Technology: Understand and leverage technologies ethically to enhance efficiencies, complete tasks, and accomplish goals.These career competencies can map directly to the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) student outcomes 10 : 1. an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics. 2. an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that
., students will: o Be able to gain accurate and timely information regarding the current and future availability of mineral-derived materials and use this information in the context of materials-constrained design, o Appreciate when opportunities for materials substitution and possible and appropriate, as well as when it is not (i.e., intrinsic materials properties are unique), o Understand the ethical implications of materials choices in designs and devices, particularly in the context of a globalized economy, o Synthesize information obtained from historical sources, technical literature, business writings, and current news.It was recognized from the beginning that the course would not have a “home,” in that itwas
A Direct Method for Simultaneously Teaching and Measuring Engineering Professional Skills Edwin Schmeckpeper1, Ashley Ater Kranov2, Steve Beyerlein3, Jay McCormack4, Pat Pedrow5Abstract – Proficiency in professional skills related to teamwork, ethical responsibility,communication skills, the impact of engineering solutions, life-long learning, and contemporaryissues is critical for success in the multi-disciplinary, intercultural team interactions thatcharacterize 21st century engineering careers. Yet, programs across the nation have struggled todefine, teach, and measure professional skills since their introduction as ABET criteria forengineering programs in 2000. The Engineering Professional Skills Assessment (EPSA) is
Promoting Intra-Disciplinary Design in Civil Engineering Technology: An Approach to Comprehensive Capstone Design Through Faculty and Practitioner Mentorship John W. Duggan, Ph.D., P.E.(1), Michael Davidson, P.E.(2), Leonard Anderson, Ph.D., C.P.C.(3)Abstract - Working in teams, civil engineering technology students develop an open-ended design on a project of theirchoosing. The design integrates several design and engineering concepts including design alternatives, designassumptions, value engineering, cost, safety, construction feasibility, construction scheduling, engineering ethics andengineering economy. All projects include elements of civil engineering sub-disciplines, including structural, hydraulic,site
disciplines to multi-facetedenvironmental problems is described. This course involves student discussions and studentreports and examples of the type of topics that are considered for these purposes are described.IntroductionIn the delivery of engineering programs environmental problems are often treated toosimplistically. In reality the solutions to such problems frequently involve choosing betweenoptions that all have their own unique advantages, drawbacks, and limitations and involvedealing with complex and often contradictory ethical considerations. It seems important,therefore, to expose engineering students to complex real-world environmental problems whichinvolve making difficult decisions about which solution to adopt. The environmental
engineer will entail: “strong analytical skills, practicalingenuity, creativity, good communication skills, business and management knowledge,leadership, high ethical standards, professionalism, dynamism, agility, resilience, flexibility, andthe pursuit of lifelong learning.”Furthermore, in 2008, the NAE identified fourteen global challenges for the 21st century. GrandChallenges are key initiatives fostering innovations to solve the world’s problems in relation tosustainability, health, vulnerability, and human wellbeing. Subsequently, in 2009, the NAEGrand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) was announced at the GC Summit in Durham,North Carolina9, 10. The intent of the GCSP is to prepare students via a combination of curricularand extra
Jr.’s Pro-Black engineeringeducation research framework [14],[15], and Gelles’s work on ethical mentoring [16]-[19]. Thispaper presents a novel process by which conflicts could be managed internally between engineeringlab as well as introduce new methods by which the research process can be both democratized andaffirming of the assets that underserved graduate students and their advisors bring [14].Background: Whether formally structured (i.e., advising) or informally structured (i.e., mentoring),national reports [20] point to the dire need for evidence-based practices and research in not justforming productive relationships but meaningful ones for a graduate students’ profession.Unresolved conflict resolution continues to be among
Certificate to MS for students interested in AI ● Coordinating mentoring and support activities to build engagement ● Study around professional identity development ● Thinking about partnerships with different stakeholdersAs those two pathways that were discussed in the previous slide originated from a 9-credit College Credit Certificate Artificial Intelligence Awareness shown here. TheCCC includes AI Thinking, AI & Ethics, and one elective (Applied AI in Business orIntroduction to Robotics).For the purposes of this study, the data that was collected for this study includes theAI Thinking, AI Business, and AI Ethics course. We plan on doing data collection ofthose who have taken the Introduction to Robotics as well that will be included
. Feedback was used torefine the user interface and improve the responsiveness of the speech-to-text engine, ensuring a seamless interaction between the child’sspeech and the application’s output. The application is ready to be testedin real- 3In world classrooms or therapy settings, approval for ethics is pending.With the speech-to-text technique incorporated into AR, possibilities tomake timely responses in a format that will be engaging and, at the same,engaging children more often and with more passion in speech therapysessions. This paper will seek to fill this gap by developing an ARapplication tailored to support speech therapy to build on the benefitsalready proven in
student learning outcomes and proficiencies, rather than specific coursecontent.To begin the curriculum redesign process, a retreat was held in December of 2019 to gather inputfrom faculty and staff of the department, with a focus on the question, “What do we want ourstudents to be able to do, know, and care about after successfully completing the ME program?”The output of this retreat was six guiding “areas” that would guide a department committee in(eventually) redesigning the curriculum: Problem Solving; Communication; Professional Identityand Ethics; Teamwork, Leadership, and Inclusivity; Information Literacy, Judgement, andCritical Thinking; Character Traits and Self-Directed Learning.As all readers will know, the Covid-19 pandemic caused
earned B.S. degrees in Civil Engineering and in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University (1993) and a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell University (1999). Prior to UPRM, Papadopoulos served on the faculty in the Department of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Papadopoulos has diverse interests in structural mechanics, sustainable construction materials (with emphasis in bamboo), engineering ethics, and engineering education. He is co-author of Lying by Approximation: The Truth about Finite Element Analysis, and after many years, he has finally (maybe) learned how to teach Statics, using an experiential and peer-based learning ”studio” model. As part of
online students interested in undergraduate research opportunities?and 2) has student interest in undergraduate research changed since the onset of the COVID-19pandemic? The purpose of this study was to compare pre- and post- student perspectives ratherthan to directly inquire about perceptions of how the pandemic impacted fully online students toavoid acquiescence (response) and recall bias. This paper provides a summary of theresults.MethodsThis study was conducted at a medium-sized private university with two residential campuses andone distance campus. Online student participants were recruited from an upper-divisionundergraduate ethics course, that is required in nearly all online degree programs, ensuring abroad representation. The survey
, including research ethics, replicates/reproducibility, control experiments,validaƟon, and lab safety.Weekly Professional Development: On Mondays, the REU parƟcipants parƟcipated in a JournalClub to develop their skills in reading scienƟfic literature using ‘Quality Talk’ as a structuredframework to promote criƟcal and reflecƟve thinking [6]. ParƟcipants also shared conceptsrelated to their individual projects in 20-minute presentaƟons at least twice during the program.ParƟcipants were introduced to advanced research and applicaƟons in the field of Smart CiƟesthrough the weekly Guest Lectures or Field Trips. These events provided students to networkingopportuniƟes with regional and academic and industry leaders. Field trips showcasedoperaƟonal
support studentdevelopment of professional competencies and engineering identity. Resources include a set ofrubrics for 12 professional competencies often associated with experiential learning (teamwork,ethics, global & cultural awareness, etc.). Structures include our new web-based learningresource platform, which we believe provides important professional and identity developmentsupport to students who engage with it. Furthermore, we believe that this approach can be doneat scale and provide meaningful support to the thousands of undergrads at our institution.Utilizing these supports and analyzing student outcomes will provide an exceptional opportunityto advance our understanding of the professional formation of engineering graduates
1 2 Manufacturing Fabrication 1 2 3 4 5 Material Classification Joining 1 Casting/Molding/Forming Separating/Machining 1 2 Conditioning/Finishing Safety 1 2 3 Quantitative Analysis Computational Thinking Computational Tools 3 Data Collection, Analysis, & Communication 1 2 3 4 System Analytics 1 2 Modeling & Simulation Professionalism Professional Ethics Workplace Behavior/Operations Honoring Intellectual Property Technological Impacts
inclusion, Asian American Studies, Critical Mixed Race Studies, engineering ethics, and pop culture.Dr. Qin Zhu, Virginia Tech Dr. Zhu is Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Science, Technology & Society and the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Vir- ginia Tech. Dr. Zhu is also serving as Associate Editor for Science and Engineering Ethics, Associate Editor for Studies in Engineering Education, Editor for International Perspectives at the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science, and Executive Committee Member of the International Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum. Dr. Zhu’s research interests include engineering ethics
, give some examples of theproject approval form for a few projects, and how the use of this form has improved theachievement of student outcome 4 in the senior design projects course.IntroductionIn 2018, the ABET criteria for student outcomes changed from the a)-k) to a shorter 1)-7) list [1].The original a)-k) language related to student design, criterion c) read as “an ability to design asystem, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such aseconomic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, andsustainability.” [2] The language of the revised criterion related to senior design, criterion 2) nowreads, “an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet
toCOVID-19. As the fall semester continues, faculty continue to research, share ideas, and try newways to ensure academic integrity. Some have opted for take-home or open-book, open-notesexams, while others take advantage of the variety of software that monitors student activitiesduring exams. In the end, academic integrity comes down to trust and ethics. Students must bedriven to build this strong sense of ethics that will be with them throughout their engineeringcareers. Students (and everyone) should strive to do what is right and fair even when no one islooking.Time should be taken upfront in an online learning environment to teach students how to succeedin this environment. Learning tips such as active participation in synchronous classes
Paper ID #36635A Research Study on Student Conceptions of Artificial IntelligenceAshish Hingle, George Mason University Ashish Hingle (he/his/him) is a Ph.D. student in the College of Engineering & Computing at George Mason University. His research interests include engineering ethics, information systems, and student efficacy challenges in higher education. Ashish graDr. Aditya Johri, George Mason University Aditya Johri is Professor in the department of Information Sciences & Technology. Dr. Johri studies the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for learning and knowledge sharing, with a focus
skills,communication skills, and problem-solving efforts in domain-specific contexts [7] [13] [14] [15][16]; or influence learners’ self-regulation phases [17] [18] or ethics [19]. Yet, no studies haveexplored how ill-structured problems, specifically used in engineering classroom contexts,promote learners’ understanding of their own social realities. Our study seeks to redress this gapin the literature by exploring how the ill-structured characteristic of an engineering mechanics-based PBL unit fostered learner’s understanding of the world around them.We use Freire’s critical consciousness (CC) to understand how a learner comes to understand theworld, its injustices, and their individual responsibility to resolve those injustices [20]. There
can occur across many areas of engineering problemsolving. Engineers might leverage divergent thinking when developing their understanding of theproblem and its context, identifying stakeholders, or exploring potential problem-solvingmethods and strategies [9]. As educational tools, stories have been employed to convey complex factors that impactengineering solutions in practice, such as ethics [20], conflicting technical requirements [21],sustainable development [22], and the human impacts of engineering decisions [23]. Accounts ofhow individual engineers have pursued divergent thinking in their workplace may be helpfulpedagogical tools for engineering students to better understand its importance and motivateefforts to learn more. One
practice areas in the engineering discipline Week 7 Comprehension of the role of engineering in society and identified issues in engineering practice in the discipline: ethics and the professional responsibility of an engineer to public safety; the impacts of engineering activity: economic, social, cultural, environmental, and sustainability Week 8 Engagement with selected knowledge in the research literature of the disciplineCurrent Engineering Education-Related Studies in SingaporeTo date, there are efforts to explore the different influences, levels of awareness, and learningstandards relevant to engineering education in Singapore. In research investigating the funds ofknowledge for first
of disciplinary specialization, and to create an initial lesson design thatcould be used with middle school students (U.S. Grades 4 – 8). The participating preserviceteachers’ disciplinary specializations were Social Studies (n = 3), English Language Arts (n = 8),and Mathematics (n = 12). We found that all students portrayed that learning goals aboutartificial intelligence (in general) and machine learning (in particular) were relevant to their focaldisciplinary areas and their understanding of literate participation in society. Additionally, someTCs focused on students’ understandings of the social and ethical dimensions of artificialintelligence technologies. This included perceptions of the ethical dimensions of AI and thediverse cultural
? citizens) to make science better understood by the public? Roundtable Two – The Conflict Between Science and Compassion How do we define compassion? Is there Is compassion a foundation in a conflict between science and personal ethics, or is ethics a compassion? rationale underlying how How science can help people to become compassionate someone is? Can we more compassionate? Or does say that a scientist is morally correct compassion help science to become if they are more compassionate? more affordable/profitable? In this era of pandemic and scientific
Bachelors of Science in computer science from Portland State University and a Bachelors of Arts in Asian studies from the University of Maryland University College. John holds multiple security certifications, including Certified Information Systems Security Profession (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Profes- sional (CCSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and CompTIA Security+. John is a U.S. Navy veteran who honorably served as a surface sonar technician and shipboard/classroom instructor. He is a member of the OWASP leadership team for the Portland, Oregon chapter and hosts a popular security podcast for them. John has over 20 years of experience in high tech with 10 years focused on security, working at startups