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2024 CIEC

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MADDUMAGE KARUNARATNE; Christopher Gabany

merits of the relevant factors, and whatleads toward the best course of action. This paper describes several reasons why teaching ethicsto undergraduate engineers is important, and how the students should discern what are, and whatare not, ethical decisions. This paper also lists several benefits of practicing ethics at theworkplace for the individual employee and the organization as a whole.Graduates need to know their relevant professional organizations and the expected professionalbehaviors from the members. ABET also outlines various human aspects that may be impactedby engineering solutions,and how ethical considerations help make the best decisions. Theauthors discuss how electrical (EE) and computer (COE) engineering majors are taught

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Elizabeth Gross; Diane Peters

everyone on the team. When asked whether the practice of engineering was whatthey envisioned that it would be, many said that the amount of teamwork involved was differentthan they expected. Undergraduate experiences made them believe that they alone would workon a process or project, but they said that the practice is much more interdependent than theyexpected.DiscussionThe statistically significant areas where returners had higher levels of self-efficacy (Synthesizeinformation to reach conclusions that are supported by data and needs; Identify the safetyconcerns that pertain to a project that you are working on; Analyze the tradeoffs betweenalternative design approaches and select the one that is best for your project) all imply theapplication

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Nathan Luetke; Orlando Ayala

collection of additional information,consideration of external constraints, and thoughtful reflection on the solution process. Theseskills are recognized as crucial for future engineers in their daily professional lives. However,there are concerns from employers and researchers that undergraduate students may not beadequately prepared to address such problems upon graduation [1‒3]. To make things worse,courses in thermofluids require a robust understanding of mathematics and extensively utilizephysics to explain physical systems. Heat transfer, in particular, introduces complex subjects thatmay appear even more difficult for students studying engineering technology.There have been some attempts at addressing the students’ problem-solving abilities

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Otilia Popescu; Dimitrie Popescu; Murat Kuzlu

as for getting the necessary insight forthose who would like to pursue graduate degrees and get involved in research associated withthese degrees. How students get hands-on experience varies widely among colleges, programs,and individuals. A lot of programs make efforts to introduce hands-on approaches in their coursesthrough labs and project-based courses. The senior (capstone) projects are for most of theengineering programs the most comprehensive projects, asking the students to go from statingthe problem to formulating and designing a solution and to actually build and test the proposedsolution. Often, the senior projects are initiated from industry collaborations. Another way togain practical experience is to encourage and support

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Md. Ali Haider; Jody Alberd

to share their experiences and insights about IIoT implementations in various sectors. Their real-world perspective can be invaluable to students.9. Group projects • Assign group projects that require students to design, implement, and present an IIoT solution for a specific industry problem. This allows them to apply what they've learned in a practical context.10. Resources and reading materials • Provide students with relevant textbooks, articles, and online resources that cover IIoT topics in depth. Encourage them to explore these materials for further understanding.11. Regular assessments • Use quizzes, exams, and assignments to assess students' comprehension of IIoT

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Mark Pagano; Lorne Arnold; Heather Dillon

has the opportunity to participate in these processesfor brand new programs being developed from scratch. For example, preparing for an ABETvisit just after your very first cohort of students graduates or having the privilege to develop acourse from the ground up that has been designated to meet a specific internal campus criteriaare more unique opportunities for university faculty. These rare opportunities did indeed presentthemselves at the University of Washington Tacoma (UWT) after the state authorized, andfunded two new baccalaureate ME and CE programs in the fall of 2021 and 2022 respectively.Furthermore, fall 2022 was one author’s first year back in the classroom after 28 years serving inadministrative roles and was also the first year

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Jay Porter; Alok Verma; Mohamed Gharib; Andrew Moore

&M University’s main campus and itsGalveston campus, was intended only for the Galveston campus and was designed to address theneed for mechatronics education in the maritime industry. The curriculum leveraged most of itscoursework (>75%) from the main campus, with a few specialty courses taught by the localdepartment in Galveston. While in principle, this new degree is valuable and addresses a uniquearea of industry need, it has proven difficult to offer in practice.Thus, it was recently decided that rather than try to adapt the main campus’s multidisciplinarydegree to the needs of the Galveston campus, a new approach was needed. To increase theflexibility of the electro-marine engineering technology degree and avoid the duplication

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2024 CIEC

Authors

David Labyak; Scott Wagner

. Topics include best safety practices with respect to; riskmanagement, lockout/energy isolation, fluid power and electrical symbols, basic circuit designand machine design, and sequence of operation involved with automation controls andmechanical motion.Collaborations with industry partners have helped influence courses in the newly establishedgraduate certificate in Manufacturing Engineering and the Master of Science in ManufacturingEngineering at Michigan Technological University. This assessment reviews how courseassignments and student evaluations will be used to assess the level of meeting course learningobjectives.Industry 4.0 Concepts CourseWith Industry 4.0 being a popular advanced manufacturing topic, Industry 4.0 STEM educationresearch

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2024 CIEC

Authors

H. Bryan Riley

from this research and for this population of students, that humaninteraction with a live instructor has greater receptiveness than electing to use an interactiveresource (i.e., ChatGPT). However, as additional tools of the kind are launched, like Khanmigo,an AI tutor by Khan Academy, this paradigm may change [23]. We acknowledge that additionalresearch is needed to determine the impact of student use of Gen-AI tools for achieving studentlearning outcomes (SLOs) and best student engagement practices that support student learning,and how teachers must tailor instructional practices to accommodate student Gen-AI use. Aprimary result of this research investigation leads to the conclusion that students must have abaseline knowledge of solving

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Marilyn Barger; Richard Gilbert; Sidney Martin

Engineering Education ETD 345Cybersecurity Skills for Manufacturing TechniciansThe term “cyber hygiene” has been coined to help organizations and the public understandcommon cybersecurity threats and how best to avoid them. One definition of cyber hygiene is “areference to the practices and steps that users of computers and other devices take to maintainsystem health and improve online security. These practices are often part of a routine to ensureidentity safety and other details that could be stolen or corrupted” [3]. There are many onlineresources to help individuals and organizations of all sizes understand the risks and implementbest practices for their

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Gary Mullett; Lara Sharp

technology and will continueas long as technology evolves. The debate is always about what topics to add and which topics tode-emphasize or eliminate. It still tends to be a roadblock to change and problematic if there is aneed for a paradigm shift in the curriculum.To the second point, most faculty that teach advanced manufacturing or mechanical engineeringtechnology have backgrounds that do not include any familiarity with the modern digitaltechnologies that are the enablers of Industry 4.0/smart manufacturing. As a matter of fact, untilrecently if one was a graduate of a traditional four-year mechanical engineering college onewould most likely also not have had any courses concerning these topics. It has only beenrecently [13] that there have