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Ashish D Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Chizhong Wang, New Jersey Institute of Technology

spread out over the curriculum. More so,Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) student outcome (4), “an ability torecognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informedjudgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic,environmental, and societal contexts” [1], reinforces the importance of teaching engineeringethics and professional behavior to undergraduate students. However, most common ways ofteaching ethics to engineering students rely heavily on general education requirement courses thatare offered by non-engineering departments often using non-engineering case studies andexamples. In such courses, students are introduced to the philosophy and

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Eric B. Dano, BAE Systems

Architectures:From [1], a complex system is, “one made up of a large number of parts that interact in anonsimple way.” Even in a simple system the combined system functionality is greater than thesum of its individual parts. This truism is significantly magnified in complex systems to thepoint where it becomes difficult to predict the emergent behavior of the complex system,whether it be desired (good) or undesired (bad). This is especially true in humanitarian socio-technical and socio-economic systems which combine interactions among multiple disparatesystems and need to take into account elements such as logistics, supportability, applicable laws,politics, and human-system interactions, as well as the specific technologies used [2]. For thispaper, a

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Peter Mark Jansson, Bucknell University

their personalengineering skills were and to determine how they could best apply them to help clients betterunderstand their technical needs and jointly develop potential paths forward to satisfy those real-worldneeds. On a fortnightly basis through the semester, each senior consultant would provide their peerswith a brief status update of where they were in the process of developing the solution to theproblem/need they were satisfying and how their actual time on each task compared/contrasted withtheir initial estimates. All seniors were able to see the breadth and depth of their peer’s engagementwith the consulting opportunities during these sessions and offer input if they had ideas. The majority ofthe consulting engagements resulted in very

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Mike Simard PE, Villanova University

failure rate that is 75% lower than those who do not, see Table 1 [1].Research also shows that project management regularly ranks high on the list of essential skillsthat experienced practitioners say new engineering graduates need [2]. Fundamental technical content takes up the bulk of the typical undergraduate engineeringcurriculum, leaving little room for a course that would focus on both the hard and soft skills ofproject management. However, the importance of developing engineering students’ projectmanagement skills should not be discounted. Standard practice is to include a one or twosemester design project for senior engineering students, often referred to as the capstone course.Such courses are an ideal forum for providing project

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Jordan F. Ermilio, Center for Humanitarian Engineering and International Development, College of Engineering, Villanova University

breakout into individual project teams. The general assembly session provides the structure for academicelements of the course with weekly assignments and lecture topics that include subjects related to workingwith humanitarian organizations in a developing community. Subjects within the general assembly includethe role of external support, sustainable development, practical skills related to fieldwork, project planning,data management, reporting and project presentations. The general assembly session is also used to addressadministrative aspects of travel related to logistics and risk management, as well as professionalism as itrelates to working in other countries such as social awareness, culture, history, gender dynamics,relationship building

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Frank E. Falcone P.E., Villanova University; Gayle F Doyle, Villanova University

semester for a mandatory total of three credits earned for the firstthree years of the Career Compass Program.The overall goals of Career Compass are to provide professional guidance and to develop a senseof personal awareness within each student such that he/she proactively searches for and finds apost-graduation career path best suited to his/her professional interests and personal aspirations.Development of the Career Compass ProgramCurrently, many technical institutions and colleges of engineering offer a range of professionaldevelopment activities and programs [2], [3]. Over the past two decades, The College ofEngineering at Villanova University has organized events generally centered around on-campus

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Shari Klotzkin, Binghamton University; Howard S Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; David Klotzkin, State University of New York at Binghamton

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and wiring on thebreadboard in real life. Most students did this successfully and some realized very intricateprojects.Overall, these students spent a productive week during a difficult year and emerged with aworking knowledge of electronic hardware and Arduino programming.1. IntroductionThe pandemic has had an enormous impact on daily life, from long-distance travel to access torestaurants, and one significant but less-noted area is in the access to pre-college summeractivities. Educational camps and programs are a big part of many children’s summerschedules, and these were generally not available in 2020.To address this gap, a week-long Arduino workshop was developed to give middle schoolstudents an opportunity to actively engage in fun and

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Jamie R Gurganus, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Tanner J Huffman, The College of New Jersey; Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado Boulder

the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, a number of outreach STEM learningprograms are facilitated through the Summer Enrichment Academy (SEA). Faculty from variousdisciplines offer curricular activities that will engage students to dive deeper into content areas,expanding their technical knowledge. Programs are provided in both summer and year-roundsettings. In engineering, both middle and high school engineering and computing programs arefacilitated. An example of one of the enrichment activities offered in SEA is facilitated by afaculty member in mechanical engineering. In a weeklong summer session entitled, Powered Up:Repurposing Energy with an Energy Harvester students learn “(i) how energy harvestingtechnology can be used to

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Aaron P. Wemhoff, Villanova University

the topic, and the second implementation is a 45-minute “full lesson” on thesame topic that uses the class feedback from the first lesson to improve and expand themicrolesson. In both cases, the instructor meets individually with the students after lessondelivery to condense the class feedback to enable the students to focus on 2-3 key areas forimprovement.The course’s general topics and format had reached a steady-state after multiple offerings, andthe following teaching and learning issues were found after the Fall 2019 offering: 1. The course was held in a distance learning (DL) room to enable students to do self- assessment after teaching their lessons. The DL format, however, limited the students’ creativity in lesson

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Dimitrios Stroumbakis PE, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College

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good ofsociety 2) learning new, valuable technical skills, in our case the study project management skills, withthe longer term hope of working for the public sector who’s technology infrastructure and technologyservices are known to quite outdated due to in house expertise. public policy makers for the good ofsociety,The instructional mini-modules in this report were designed with two objectives: 1) raise studentawareness and knowledge about serving the good of the public through work at Public Sectors who are invery much need in technology. In fact, the dated technology in house of Public sectors have affectedquality of services they can be offered to the general publics. The second purpose is to introduce teachcommunity colleges students

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Suzanne Keilson, Loyola University Maryland

engineeringeducation. There is the pioneering example of engineering projects in community service(EPICS) which comes from Purdue University [1]. EPICS programs aimed to provide theircommunity with technical expertise that they might not have themselves or have access to. Thisallows the community organization an opportunity to achieve some of their goals. On the otherside, the service-learning experience can expand and broaden the experience and thinking ofstudents, in this case, undergraduate engineering students. This author’s own understanding ofan ideal for service learning is that it meets the learning aims of a course and the students in thatcourse by allowing them to engage their learning in ‘real life’ and thereby a more complex andnuanced environment

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Sushobhan Sen, University of Pittsburgh; Jeffery R Roesler, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

of the semester. Students who sign up for either class go through the samecourse content and semester project. The course is required for undergraduates focusing on Trans-portation Engineering, while the cross-listed course is required for Water Resources Engineeringand Science majors. It is a technical elective for students focusing in other civil and environmentalengineering areas as well as graduate students. The geometric design and urban hydrology/hydraulics classes and contents are linked by acommon design project that students must complete in teams of four to five. This paper discussesfindings from only the first half of the class, in which teams must submit an initial conceptualdesign (Deliverable 1) and a detailed geometric

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Ross A. Lee, Villanova University; Giles Wozniak, Villanova University; Alicia Piscitelli, Villanova University; Anitha Devi Kannan, Villanova University; Andrew Jester, Villanova University, Sustainable Engineering Program

these lectures, students are encouraged to engage withpresenters about topics from the holistic perspective. At the end of lecture class sessions, the finalhalf hour is dedicated to a Critical Thinking Exercise (CTE) related to the main topic(s) of thelecture. During the CTE, students form small groups to solve a complex problem. The CTE is oftenposed as a free-form design challenge or a debate; however, another CTE structure is underdevelopment in the form of an open-ended engineering challenge (similar to a hack-a-thon) thatrequires student groups to recruit a more technical skill set to develop a potential solution. TheCTE has often been cited in end of the semester surveys as a key learning element and encouragesa changed way of

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Patrick Tunno

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, andcollaborate in a multicultural team. The program has included engagement and site visits toglobal corporations, virtual briefings with the World Health Organization, a high ropes courseleadership retreat, and extensive volunteer activities to further the global momentum of PennState University. In addition, Fellows serve the College of Engineering by generating interest inglobal opportunities and creating meaningful connections between the College’s internationaland domestic students. Fellows act as peer advisers for other engineering students interested instudying abroad, take a course focused on global professional development, and deliverpresentations at classroom visits and other global engagement events. The program has beenawarded an Advancing

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Marie Stettler Kleine, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

engineering for good, such as thecreation of the Volunteers in Technical Assistance Network in the 1950-60s [14], the scale andvisibility of the new movement have no precedents in US engineering education and practice;hence our desire to map this significant phenomenon.The EfG movement became popular alongside professional engineers’ desires to rewrite theirrelationship with corporations [15, 16]. As historian Matthew Wisnioski details in his bookEngineers for Change [17], a small but vocal minority wanted the engineering profession to bemore accountable to the general population over their employers, rebelling against corporateconstraints and prioritizing progressive change in the “long sixties.” This direct rewriting of therelationship between

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Kevin A. Waters P.E., Villanova University; Virginia Smith, Villanova University

pursuemore advanced GIS work.Student feedbackPreliminary student feedback on the course structure suggests positive results. After the first fiveweeks of the course, 12 of the 14 students in the class provided anonymous feedback regardinghow various learning activities being used in the class are contributing to their learning (Table 2).Students were asked to “Please rate the following class activities on how effectively eachcontributes to your learning in this course” with a score of 1 indicating “Not helpful at all” and ascore of 5 indicating “Extremely helpful.”This initial student feedback suggests that utilizing diverse classroom activities for contentdelivery and hands-on practice in the software is generally effective for contributing to

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Briana Lowe Wellman, University of the District of Columbia; Ludwig C. Nitsche, University of the District of Columbia; Dong Hyun Jeong, University of the District of Columbia

time they graduate. It is recommended that academic programs adoptstudent outcomes proposed by accrediting bodies. UDC adopted the (ABET) student outcomes,which cover technical and soft skills. The following Student Outcomes have been adopted for thecomputer science program and are the Student Outcomes recommended by ABET CAC.Graduates of the program will have an ability to: 1. Analyze a complex computing problem and to apply principles of computing and other relevant disciplines to identify solutions. 2. Design, implement and evaluate a computing-based solution to meet a given set of computing requirements in the context of the program's discipline. 3. Communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts. 4