second year engineering students. Scott received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, with a focus on global engineering education. His current research areas include cultural competency in engineering education, pedagogical inmoves through game-based and playful learning, and engineering ethics education. Scott has recently received funding through the National Science Foun- dation (NSF) to conduct research on the impact of game-based learning on the development of first-year students’ ethical reasoning, as well as research on the development of culturally responsive ethics edu- cation in global contexts. He is an active member of the Kern Engineering Entrepreneurship Network
skills,interpersonal skills, discussions of ethics, and other key competencies. Classroom topics can beimmediately applied, and course learning outcomes (including a research poster presentation)encourage students to disseminate their work. In addition to the regular faculty supervisor,CREATE-U students were also assigned a graduate student mentor in their lab.In this paper, we intend to present our evaluation of the aspects of the program outside of the twocourses. Our research questions were: 1. How effective were course-based interventions to increase undergraduate engineering student understanding of and interest in research? 2. How effective were attempts to create equitable and broad-based admissions into an
- cluding long-term international assignments in Tokyo and Paris. These roles have provided a keen appre- ciation for the cross-disciplinary aspects of an engineering career in today’s global environment, includ- ing such things as business acumen, cultural sensitivity, communications, ethics, logistics, manufacturing and technology infrastructure. James’ doctoral research involved understanding the unique challenges of First-Generation Students and designing systems and pedagogy to remove unintentional barriers. James resides in Seattle with his wife and their daughters. James is a Certified Flight Instructor, and in his free time trains pilots through the Boeing Employee Flying Association at Renton Municipal
BehavioralResearch Ethics Board at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Participants were recruitedthrough professional networks. Recruitment was aimed at participants of diverse genders andethnicities. Participants were selected in their 3rd or 4th year of study as they would likely havehad more opportunities to participate in co-curricular student groups. Participants were offered a$30 gift card as compensation for the time taken to complete the study. Eight participants wereinterviewed in total. Following interviews, transcripts were produced and analyzed usingthematic coding.Results and DiscussionAmong the eight student leaders interviewed, three identified as male, four as female, and one astransgender. Of the three domestic students, one student
problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics 2. an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors 3. an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences 4. an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts 5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership. Create a collaborative and
EmpathyEmpathy is described as the cognitive and affective ability to ascertain and share another’semotion, state, reactions, or perspective [7, 8]. It has also been linked to behavior [9], and isdelineated as a construct that may have self-centered, other-centered, or pluralistic orientations[10]. The “affective response more appropriate to another’s situation than one’s own” [11, p. 4],has also been characterized as central to moral and ethical decisions and interpretations of socialjustice.Some scholars have labeled empathy as a teachable skill, virtue, and/or ability, and othershighlight the role personal choice plays in its development [12–15]. As Wiggins and McTighe(2005) expressed, “It is not simply an affective response or sympathy over which we
aspects. These new analyses present a holistic view of engineering problems including impact andinfluence from humanistic, social and philosophical aspects, culminating in thorough, robust, andintelligent solutions that can adequately identify and address the morality and ethics oftechnological design and engineering role [10]. Technical criteria Beliefs Economics Engineering solutions Stakeholders Policies SocialFig. 1: Multidimensional
wider social issues including US immigrationpolicy, climate change, personal privacy, and military contracts. Companies including Microsoft,IBM, Tableau, Salesforce, Facebook, Google and Amazon have exhibited a variety of responsesto manage this growth in social justice related petitions, walk-outs, and protests from theiremployees. Responses have ranged from firing individuals to meeting demands at least in part.Study of these activities in the engineering writing classroom has multiple benefits in terms ofdeveloping student’s sense of deliberate purpose, persuasive communication skills andunderstanding of ethical limits within the field of engineering. This paper reports on the potentialvalue of using a case study depicting Amazon’s “cubicle
internationalengineering education have published studies of effective programs[2]–[4] and proposed principles of global engineering competency[5]–[7], which includes intercultural communication, reflection onprofessional ethics in a global context, and increasingly, virtual teamskills. The existing literature can inform a new paradigm: globalizingengineering curricula to incorporate analysis of cultural differencewith an explicit equity framework and analysis of power that reckonswith legacies of colonialism and racism.[SLIDE 3]We will be using a live interactive “whiteboard,”starting with the “Quick Poll” questions section. Thisfeature allows for more immediate social feedbackand interaction while also permitting audiencemembers’ anonymity if they wish. (Their
the capacity of K-12 teachers to teach engineer- ing. She is also staffing the Roundtable on Linking Academic Engineering Research and Defense Basic Science. She also co-edited a resource collection translating research on women in science and engineer- ing into practical tips for faculty members and worked on LinkEngineering, an online toolkit to support PreK-12 engineering education, and the Online Ethics Center, a website that supports ethics education and science and engineering. She earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Cognitive and Human Factors Psychology from Kansas State University and a B.A. in psychobiology and political science from Wheaton College in Massachusetts.Dr. Beth M Holloway, Purdue University at
engineer [6], making it difficult for some students to staymotivated and to continue their engineering studies [7]. In addition, this lack of societalcontextualization causes engineering students’ social responsibility to decrease over the courseof their education [1, 8, 9]. Engineering is sociotechnical by nature; the design process involvestechnical and non-technical (social, economic, environmental, political, legal, cultural, ethical)factors that are simultaneously connected with one another [10-12]. Graduates should beprepared with sociotechnical problem solving skills to tackle the complex engineering challengesfacing the world today and in the future [13, 14]. Courses that approach engineering from asociotechnical framework may better
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
Kettering University. Dr. Finelli’s current research interests include student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices, and the use of technology and innovative pedagogies on student learn- ing and success. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering education research, and she was part of a team that studied ethical decision-making in engineering students.Prof. Stephen L DesJardins Stephen L. DesJardins teaches courses related to public policy in higher education, economics and fi- nances in postsecondary education, statistical methods, and institutional research and policy analysis. His research interests include student transitions from
approaches and ethics, leadership styles, and social and political issues.Students developed mutual respect and appreciation for different cultures byunderstanding the differences and identifying some deep-rooted similarities in cultures and socialbehaviors. Being international graduate students, they learned professional social etiquettesfollowed in United States and how to build professional relationships with professionals from othercultures. By working in culturally diverse teams for semester-long projects, the graduate studentslearned some critical professional skills such as effective communication, project management,leadership, and critical thinking. For example, one of the graduate students learned to apply criticalthinking to provide
, encouraged students to takeresponsibility for their learning by including them in course decisions, provided room forstudents to make mistakes without penalization, and fostered a collaborative community ofscholars. Furthermore, the curriculum focused on my decentering westernization, facilitatingcritical thought about engineering ethics and how race and class issues intertwine withthermodynamics, dismantling false notions of objectivity in engineering, and exploring historicaland philosophical dimensions of thermodynamics [14]. These pedagogical techniquesempowered students to develop authority in an environment that is commonly controlled by theinstructor and to critically analyze and counter dominant narratives and ways of knowing inengineering
in both written and oral forms.The development of these skills has the indirect effect of increasing student confidence, improving criticalthinking and problem-solving abilities, and enhancing both verbal and written communication skills. Inaddition to providing a meaningful research experience, the site includes a variety of enrichment andprofessional development activities that allows students to better appreciate the inherent complexities ofurban engineering and to explore the broader social and political implications of their work.Enrichment activities include an ethics workshop, a seminar series on urbanism, a reading group, andfield trips focused on urban policy and managing the urban infrastructure.REU program efficacy can be framed
[12] T. Martin, K. Rayne, N. J. Kemp, J. Hart, and K. R. Diller, “Teaching for adaptive expertise in biomedical engineering ethics,” Sci. Eng. Ethics, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 257–276, Apr. 2005, doi: 10.1007/s11948-005-0045-9.[13] T. Martin, S. D. Rivale, and K. R. Diller, “Comparison of student learning in challenge-based and traditional instruction in biomedical engineering,” Ann. Biomed. Eng., vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 1312–1323, Aug. 2007, doi: 10.1007/s10439-007-9297-7.[14] K. Rayne, M. Taylor, S. Brophy, N. J. Kemp, et al, “The development of Adaptive Expertise in biomedical engineering ethics,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 95, no. 2, pp. 165–173, Apr. 2006.[15] D. L. Schwartz and T. Martin, “Inventing to Prepare for Future Learning: The
women in engineering and technology. Dr. Bhaduri has an interdisciplinary expertise with a Ph.D. in Engineering Education and Masters degrees in Statistics and Mechanical Engineering, from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include: future of work, women in technology, assessing the impact and effectiveness of inclusion and diversity initiatives as well as employing innovative, ethical and inclusive mixed-methods research approaches to uncovering insights about the 21st century workforce.Natalie Anna Foster, Sisters in STEM - Saguaro High School Natalie Foster is a current high school senior at Saguaro in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is the president of the school’s FRC robotics club and has been a member of the team
design. She received ICA’s Mentorship Award and the Provost Outstanding Mentor Award at Purdue, where she was University Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair and Director of the Susan Bulke- ley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. She has worked with Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, four EPICS teams including Transforming Lives Building Global Communities (TL- BGC) in Ghana, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of ethics in design and professional formation of engineers through NSF funding. [Email: pmbuzzanell@usf.edu; buzzanel@purdue.edu]Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Carla B
strategy and does their perspective change after creating one or more problems? ● Are there differences in the responses related to understanding and effectiveness between students who completed a one-problem bonus assignment in a course versus students who created many problems as part of a work-term?MethodsWe obtained institutional ethics approval (ethics approval number H21-03521) to complete thesurveys in this study. Evaluation of the student-developed problems was part of programevaluation and did not require ethics approval.In this cohort study, we performed surveys to assess self-reported confidence and understandingof mechanics topics related to problem-creation activities within two populations, “coursestudents” (123
, however, could not be satisfied across all project so a newcourse, “EPICS LC Course”, was created. It covers the outcomes related to computing skills andawareness of the engineering disciplines. Some topics, such as ethics and teaming, were alsocovered by the new course as well as EPICS. The sequence is shown in Table 2.Table 2: First Year Sequence, Standard and Learning Community Fall Semester (credits) Spring Semester (credits) Standard Core Introductory Engineering I (2) Introductory Engineering II (2) LC EPICS LC Course (2) EPICS course (1) Sequence EPICS Course(1)Because the new course was unique to the LC, it could
streamlining student outcomes assess- ment processes and has been an invited presenter at the ABET Symposium on multiple occasions. He was named an ABET Fellow in 2021. Estell is also a founding member and current Vice President of The Pledge of the Computing Professional, an organization dedicated to the promotion of ethics in the computing professions. Estell is Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio Northern University, where he currently teaches first-year programming and user interface design courses, and serves on the college’s Capstone Design Committee. Much of his research involves design education pedagogy, including for- mative assessment of client-student interactions, modeling sources
and analysis, written communication, oral communicationThe holistic review meeting concludes with mutually setting one to three developmental goalsand one to three task goals for the semester. The developmental goals are intended to helpguide decision-making when opportunities inevitably arise, so that opportunities can beevaluated against current goals and the student feels comfortable and justified in saying “no”when appropriate.Sample items included: ● Maintains a professional academic CV ● Situates research within extant literature and contextual data ● Relates research agenda to issues of diversity, equity, social justice ● Carries out research that adheres to ethical human subjects research ● Establishes a clear and
, diversity, inclusion, and equity in engineering, human-centered design, engineering ethics, and leadership. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Full Paper: First-Year Computing Course with Multiple Computing Environments - Integrating Excel, Python and MATLABIntroductionComputers are a fundamental part of the engineering landscape. All engineering disciplines usecomputers and computing tools to model potential design solutions, collect and analyze data,create new parts through computer aided design and 3D printing and control a wide range ofmachinery. Computing and computer tools are a modern foundation for engineering education.Earlier studies have
mixture of professional backgrounds and experiences. Throughout the semester, thestudents are expected to show evidence of significant individual contributions to the team efforts,consideration related to design’s effectiveness, material selection, ergonomics, safety, cost, effecton the environment, ethics, ease of production, etc. The course offers the perfect platform forimplementing the Engineering Unleashed’ s mission to graduate engineers with anentrepreneurial mindset (EM) and KEEN’s mission to teach technical skills while fosteringcuriosity, connections, and creating value [1], [2].As part of the course, all teams are required to make two presentations to their peers and thecourse instructor, and to submit a Project Proposal and a Final
inclusion and diversity initiatives as well as employing innovative, ethical and inclusive mixed-methods research approaches to uncovering insights about the 21st century workforce. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Opportunities from Disruption -how lifelong learning can help create more connected classroomsAbstractThe coronavirus pandemic has led to instructors worldwide seeking ways to engage studentsbetter through virtual platforms. As the world interacts online, more than ever before, thispaper reflects on an educator’s experience with the virtual teaching and learning spaces pre andduring the ongoing
DimensionsOur third theme focuses on students who connect mechanics topics to the impacts engineeringwork has on the people and world around them. We defined Sociotechnical Dimensions asinstances where students recognize engineers’ responsibilities beyond technical competence,such as keeping people safe, promoting social justice, or positively impacting society.SafetyOur first code within this theme is Safety, which describes students who connect mechanicsconcepts to the professional and ethical responsibilities of keeping people safe through goodpractice of engineering. These excerpts highlight how mechanics can provide the foundation formeaningful engineering calculations, like finding the allowable stresses in bridges, factors ofsafety in buildings
, act with empathy,37 and use creativity and design for liberation throughtechnology integration. This process moves beyond theories and ethics into liberation praxis ofreflection and action.7 A liberatory education means students are flourishing and thriving, notjust surviving.Implications for Engineering EducationIn order to begin the ongoing process of pursuing a liberatory engineering education, I amcommitting to and suggest the following for fellow engineering educators: 1. Prioritize self-reflection: we need to make interrogating our positionality and assumptions part of our ongoing practice. Praxis is both reflection and action. Self reflection is the first step towards transformative action. Anti-oppression work is
, engineering problems in the following Civil Engineering Areas: CE 140, CE 160, Construction, Environmental, Geotechnical, Structural, CE 121, CE 150 Transportation, and Water Resources. c. Demonstrate an ability to design engineering systems, CE 181, CE 162, components, or processes through the use of engineering judgment CE 170, CE 150 that consider public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, economic, and sustainability factors through the use of professional behavior, professional tools and ethics. d. Demonstrate an ability to communicate ideas, calculations, and CE 140, CE 162 engineering judgment through visual, written, and oral communications for a