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2023 CIEC

Authors

Gary Mullett

that alsoaddress the manufacturing space. However, most of these projects or Centers are focused onaddressing new technologies being employed in the manufacturing industry (hence, the term“advanced manufacturing”) not the implementation of digital technologies. Topics like additivemanufacturing, micro-nano technologies, autonomous technologies, advanced digital literacy,and so forth, are areas typically packaged for two-year faculty professional developmentactivities.If there is a systemic project to address the major issues that have been outlined in this paper, thisauthor is not aware of it. Of course, the reason for that has been touched on in the prior section ofthis paper. Given that present curricula of two-year manufacturing technology

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2023 CIEC

Authors

MADDUMAGE KARUNARATNE; Christopher Gabany

consideration ofpublic health, safety, welfare, global, cultural, social, and economic factors”. These termsholistically address the professional responsibilities and ethics of the engineering profession, andappropriately are not generalized, or lumped in to an “Engineering Ethics” exercise. Rather, thisUniversity addresses each of the terms, to explore and teach ethics in creative ways. Eachoutcome phrase/term (e.g. consideration of global contexts, consideration of societal contexts,etc.) is carefully examined, researched, and addressed, through faculty collaboration, studentfeedback, and Industry Advisory Committee involvement. Furthermore, each component ofethics, the understanding of each term, elicits a unique exposure to the student.Finally

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2023 CIEC

Authors

Sarah (Yin Yin) Tan; John Irwin

their latest responses in the program.As shown by Pokhrel and Chhetri [2], students’ social skills and professional skill development ineducation systems have been disrupted by the COVID pandemic. Lacking hands-on, laboratoryexperiences may lessen students’ self-efficacy [3] and student confidence in pursuing a career goalmay be reduced by decreased confidence in self-efficacy and professional skill development [4]. Aresearch from the same university as our ETS scholars’ also indicated that “providing meaningfulpractical experiences was a critical concern for both faculty and students” and students commentedon their hand-on experiences during COVID transition as from “unexpected” to “unsustainable” [5].Therefore, with the implementation of HIP

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2023 CIEC

Authors

Mohammad Moin Uddin; Keith Johnson; Craig Leendert

perspectives and concerns of underrepresented students about the CAD OER course. The survey will also identify issues and challenges with OER, which will help the team to create appropriate resources and support for the students in future semesters. We hope that our model and student outcomes will encourage other faculty members in the department to adopt OER materials in their courses.ConclusionETSU prides itself on putting people first and using open and affordable course materials alignswith this value. Aside from the apparent financial benefits, the proposed OER courses will alsohelp remove some material barriers to student success. For instance, students have immediateand early access to course materials. The whole

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2023 CIEC

Authors

Vatsal Maru; Adam Lynch

estimate the competency of faculty within an institution by their individualacademic credentials, number, or amount of grants as well as the number of conferences and peerreviewed articles, citation count of each article, or the impact factor of the journal in which thearticles are published. While it certainly has its own concerns, the h-index is still the mostcommon measure of an individual researchers measure of both citation impact and productivity[4]. Next, for an individual student one may determine competence by combined information oftheir degrees, the awarding institutions, and the grade point average (GPA) for each degree [5].How can industry compare engineering graduates from different institutions in differentcountries, much less