Society for Engineering Education, 2017How Role-Playing Builds Empathy and Concern for Social JusticeAbstractThis paper describes an experimental first-year, two-term course designed by aninterdisciplinary team of faculty from engineering, humanities, social science, andentrepreneurship and innovation. The first term of our course, “HumanitarianEngineering Past & Present: Worcester, 1885,” puts students in the roles of actual peopleliving in a turn-of-the-century industrial city in central Massachusetts. While immersingthemselves in the roles of engineers, industrialists, elected officials, workers, scientists,public health officials, inventors, and city residents, students learn and practiceengineering concepts (engineering design
with the Student Success Programs (SSP) department. The director of the SSP has pledgedto match any start-up package that addresses URM retention issues. Moreover, the director of the SSPmeets with the NFLC to discuss best practices related to the retention of URM students.2.1.2 Providing a Welcoming EnvironmentFrom its inception, the NFLC was intended to be a “safe space” for new faculty to communicatestruggles and concerns. Intentional efforts have been made to create a welcoming environment.Facilitators begin each meeting by inquiring about participants’ experiences or trepidations related tothe topic of the day. This provides an encouraging atmosphere for faculty who need support, and alsogives the new faculty the opportunity to provide
using the Fink Model of Backwards Design10 we focused on helping faculty tothink differently about course design and instruction by going to the end of instruction, settingoutcomes, and working backwards to design the course. This faculty development workshop alsoincluded the component of social aspect of learning with other faculty in a learning community,21where they learned new content and strategies, observed demonstrations of new strategies andthen integrated what they learned, and taught a brief excerpt of a lesson to their peers andreceived feedback from the community of learners. Also used as an assessment tool for thisworkshop is an instrument called the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM),22,23 to measurehow workshop participants
opportunity for more breadth than depth). • Students will have interdisciplinary exposure.Results obtained in the workshop showed positive feedback from the industry. However, someareas of concern arose, and three of them are directly related to the selection of design coursesfor the major. In order to address those issues, the faculty involved are still working on a varietyof design options for students, considering the opportunity for more breadth of design coverage(design courses in multiple design programs at Purdue University). Ultimately, the goal for theDCI student is not to create practicing designers, but to allow students to establish a commonvocabulary and shared viewpoint. This awareness
Psychology. New York:McGraw Hill.36. Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Staus, and Giroux.37. Bazerman, M. & Tenbrunsel, A. (2013), 29.38. Diekmann, K., Galinsky, A., Sillito, S. & Tenbrunsel, A. (2010). An Examination of the Relationshipbetween Behavioral Forecasts and Interpersonal Condemnation in Two Organizational Conflict Situations.working paper, University of Utah.39. Clancy, R., Zheng, G., & Huang, D. (2015). An empirical, comparative approach to engineering ethics(education) in international and cross-cultural contexts: A study concerning Chinese engineering students’knowledge of and views concerning contents and concepts related to engineering ethics. ASEE 2016International Forum, New Orleans
the environmentalperformance of a product from raw material through production, use and end-of-life phase. Asenvironmental awareness increases, industries and businesses are assessing how their activitiesaffect the environment. Society has become concerned about the issues of natural resourcedepletion and environmental degradation. Many businesses have responded to this awareness byproviding “greener” products and using “greener” processes. The environmental performance ofproducts and processes has become a key issue, which is why some companies are investigatingways to minimize their effects on the environment. Many companies have found it advantageousto explore ways of moving beyond compliance using pollution prevention strategies
Paper ID #18725Challenges of a Professional Issues Course in Civil Engineering: ComparisonAcross Two YearsDr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the ABET assessment coordinator for the department since 2008. Professor Bielefeldt is the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a
to $2500 foronly one research presentation, and up to $2500 for only one faculty developmentopportunity (workshop, conference attendance) per year and only with a detailedprofessional development plan established with the department head prior to the currentyear of funding. Additionally, new assistant professors could apply for one grant in eacharea, associate professors on track to achieving full professor could apply for two out of thethree grants and full professors and long-term associate professors could only apply for oneout of the three faculty development grants.Initially the full and long-term associate professors expressed concern at the loss of anexpected college-wide benefit. However, further research into benefit use noted that
the 2012 and 2009 analyses. The open factor analysis of our second data set reveals a new conception of the teacher role which complements the existing transmission and conceptual change ori- entations. This new instructor orientation focuses on challenging student conceptions to achieve intellectual growth. We also explore shifts in conceptions of teachers, exploring the impact of the in- service pedagogy courses we have been delivering together with the other initiatives within the Faculty of Science and Technology which aim to equip academics with a richer pedagogical palette as they pursue their teaching and learning activities. We demonstrate a statistically significant shift in staff approach towards conceptual devel- opment
-observation reflection summarizingthe objectives of the class session, special techniques or strategies used, and issues ortopics/events of concern. The video is then reviewed by a Teaching and Learning Expert (TLE)and two peer faculty in sequence. The two faculty reviewers are able to see the commentsprovided by the TLE, and the second reviewer can also see the first reviewer’s comments.Videos are reviewed using annotation software which timestamps the comment to theappropriate point in the video. Finally, the OoR reviews their own teaching session with all ofthe comments and composes a post-observation reflection. Prompts are provided to inspirereflection and provide purpose for the VAPR process; the reflection prompts are provided in theData
Polytechnic Institute community with regards to the use of instructional technologies in teaching and learning. Kate also collaborates with academic departments concerning the policies, planning, and man- agement of e-learning and blended initiatives on campus.Rachel LeBlanc, Worcester PoIytechnic Institute Rachel LeBlanc is the Executive Director of Corporate and Professional Education at Worcester Polytech- nic Institute. She manages the portfolio of non-traditional academic programs for the University including online programs, corporate education, and professional education. Rachel has over fourteen years of ex- perience working with faculty and industry experts to create education solutions to meet business needs. She
results would transfer across institutions. Second, weadded a new dimension – transparency of policy and procedure – to the model and tested it formen and women faculty. Model constructs, methods, and prior experimental results are describedin the following section.Factors that contribute to faculty career satisfactionInstitutional leadership refers to the effectiveness of the department chair. Department chairs –as distributors of resources and shapers of climate – have significant influence on faculty jobsatisfaction1,3,4,6-8,11,34. Research suggests that women are sometimes excluded from the innercircles of power within a department, and thus, may not benefit from chair leadership to the sameextent as men. This factor is especially significant
preferences,with the goal of understanding this alignment within the context of the actual approaches facultyreport using in their classrooms. Our research question for this paper is: to what extent doesfaculty-student alignment on issues of teaching and learning correlate to faculty use of specificpedagogical practices? Our working hypothesis, tested below, is that faculty background and pastexperiences as learners shape their teaching practices, meaning that faculty-student alignmentalong the learning dimension helps us understand teaching decisions.Literature Relevant to this ResearchMeasures of learning preferencesA wide range of instruments to characterize learning preferences has been proposed in the pastfew decades, all of them draw both
its lackof relevance to the engineering disciplines, and Walther, Kellam, Sochacka, & Radcliffe showedvia focus group interviews that this type of separate ethical education, taught bynon-engineering faculty, “conveys the sense that this content was not part of professionalengineering, since it was isolated from the rest of the curriculum…”7 While some departmentshave a dedicated seminar course on ethical and societal impact issues, such as in the computerscience department, this practice is not widespread, and most departments include a discussionof ethical and societal issues in modular form, and most often in the capstone design course inthe senior year.A number of review articles have recently been written synthesizing the impact of
Paper ID #18125Incorporation of Ethics and Societal Impact Issues into First-Year Engineer-ing Course:: Results of a National SurveyDr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the ABET assessment coordinator for her department since 2008. Professor Bielefeldt is the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice
Paper ID #18124Incorporation of Ethics and Societal Impact Issues into Senior Capstone De-sign Courses: Results of a National SurveyDr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Environ- mental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the the ABET assessment coordinator for her department since 2008. Professor Bielefeldt is the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice
shared vision, developing possible tangible outcomes, writingoperating procedures, selecting an appropriate platform for communication, and facilitatingreflection and changes to practice.1. IntroductionThe benefits of mentoring as a form of faculty professional development are well established,and there are many different structures in which mentoring can occur. The most traditionalstructure is that of a formal mentoring program, pairing senior and junior faculty. Although thistraditional structure has many advantages, there is a hierarchy in the relationship that mayprevent the mentee (i.e., junior faculty member) from sharing important challenges and concerns,especially if the mentor is involved in key decisions such as tenure and promotion
-only) to an active learning course inthe fall 2016 semester. The instructor was a new faculty member and had previously taught thecourse in a traditional, lecture-only manner. In our work, we provide an approach for coursetransformation that is simple and effective with highly positive results that new faculty can easilyadopt and replicate in their respective engineering courses.2. Literature ReviewWhen considering the use of active learning, faculty members commonly have concerns aboutstudent acceptance, content coverage, preparation time, and logistics, and research has shownthat the likelihood of adoption of new, research-based instructional approaches is directly relatedto the ease of implementation (Prince et al., 2013). This is
analyzing this data after the semester had concluded.Thus, while it may be understandable that an undergraduate assistant might be hesitant to presentan error to faculty, none of the 75 graders using this answer key reported a suspected error to theappropriate faculty.A number of additional issues are best understood by looking at specific examples of studentwork. Three examples of student work are shown in Figure 4, along with the equations for thelines of best-fit that each student had determined in previous steps and the marks assigned byboth the first author and by the official undergraduate grader. Student A: Student B: Student C: y=0.2956x+0.1089 y=0.2939x+0.1339
students. As a basis for this work, the librarians have surveyed andinterviewed faculty and instructors about their perceptions and needs related to OERs. Based onthis work, the authors suggest best practices for liaison librarians in engineering and otherspecialized fields who wish to incorporate OERs into their outreach work.IntroductionIn 2016, the associated student body at Washington State University put forward a CourseMaterial Cost Reduction Initiative1, calling on instructors and administrators to identifystrategies for reducing students’ financial burden. Among other things, the studentsrecommended creation of a university task force to consider the issue, introduction of an open-source program, faculty education on the cost of course
faculty themselves and the perceptions their institutions have of them. Givencurrent findings, we anticipate a large and concerning gap between the two sets of beliefs.AcknowledgementsThe author thanks Blackburn College's Faculty Research fund for sponsoring this research, andAnneliese Darow, Jalaa Hoblos, Kate Lockwood, and Laura Wiedlocher for their assistance.Bibliography[1] R. Starkman., (2016, April 28). "Stanford computer science launches a new masters ofeducation", in The Huffington Post [Online]. Available:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ruth-starkman/stanford-computer-science_b_9713220.html[2] S. Zweben and B. Bizot, "2015 taulbee survey," in Computing Research News: CRA, 2016[3] J. Tims, S. Zweben, Y. Timanovsky, J. Chu Prey, "ACM NDC
Paper ID #18356Supporting Veteran Students Along Engineering Pathways: Faculty, Student,and Researcher PerspectivesLt. Col. Brian J Novoselich P.E., U.S. Military Academy Brian Novoselich is an active duty Army Lieutenant Colonel currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy (West Point). He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech in 2016. He holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and West Point respectively. His research interests include capstone
scientists frommultiple research disciplines as new needs arise. Most often QMRA is performed by engineersbecause it is computationally intensive to mathematically model dynamic physical, chemical andbiological processes from source to adverse health outcomes in a receptor. Risk assessmentprovides a science based interface to policy and requires that the science is adequatelycommunicated to diverse stakeholders. Few engineers possess the necessary skills in the socialsciences to adequately address issues of human behavior that affect risks associated withexposure to pathogenic agents or responses to health risks. Quantitative information isparticularly challenging to communicate, but can greatly improve decision and policy making.QMRA methods have
from many issues, such as perceptions ofethics transgressions, lack of information, and misinformation. Developing shared vision can co-opt resistant faculty and fold them into the change process, giving them input as well as theopportunity to learn more about it (Luthans, 2002). Embracing faculty and other stakeholders asfull partners through a shared vision process is a proactive way to expose concerns and strategizeabout incentives for change adoption. While visioning for the change project might be a site ofcontestation and conflict (Hargrave and Van de Ven, 2006) which can be a barrier for the REDleaders’ success in instituting change, the process is also an opportunity for RED leaders, faculty,staff, and other stakeholders to dialogue
first year course sequence is a gatekeeper or barrier. Students arehighly aware of such courses and when they perceive they’re being “weeded out,” their behaviorchanges (Suresh, 2007). Administrative Concerns Administrative issues are handled by one centralized director, with autonomy to directteam members to tasks as needed. The lack of an assistant director is intentional and protectstenure-track faculty members from over commitment to administrative responsibilities beyondroutine committee work. The director positive answers to the assistant dean in the college ofengineering, as the courses themselves are housed under the dean’s office, and not any onecollege. Housing within departments Every team member has a home
Australia and New Zealand to identify how capstone courses areimplemented outside the United States and what strategies can be shared across countries. As intheir United States counterpart, the 2015 Australia and New Zealand surveys includedquantitative, categorical, and open-ended questions on capstone course information, pedagogy,evaluation, faculty, students, projects and teams, expenses and funding, sponsors, and respondentexperience and opinion. This paper presents highlights of the resulting data by country, drawingcomparisons where possible across countries: Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.Overall, the essence of capstone design courses in the three countries is quite similar; there arevariations in implementation details, but
Paper ID #19667Engaging Engineers in Inclusive Cultural Change Through a New Method,Articulating a Succinct DescriptionEmily E. Liptow, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Emily Liptow is an AmeriCorps VISTA member at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. She is involved with a variety of diversity and inclusion efforts in the College of Engineering ranging from student support programs, faculty bias awareness trainings, and inclusive cultural change. She is a recent Industrial and Systems Engineering graduate from Ohio State University, where she was also very involved with
Paper ID #18467Inclusive Engineering Identities; Two New Surveys to Assess First-Year Stu-dents’ Inclusive Values and BehaviorsDr. Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez, West Virginia University Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez is an assistant professor of educational psychology in the department of Learning Sciences and Human Development in the College of Education and Human Services at West Virginia University. In her research, she is interested the assessment of student learning- particularly the assessment of academic growth, advanced statistical modeling, issues related to diversity and inclusion in engineering, and the evaluation of
become allies. An alternativeapproach to advocating for STEM faculty diversity may be achieved by connecting to the need toimprove student performance. Leveraging the female stereotype of nurturing, collaborative, fair,caring, etc. to connect to students in the classroom can increasing the student’s self-efficacy.Female faculty stereotypes are directly reflected in the IR Dimension, specifically addressingEffective Motivation and Interpersonal Concern. Lowman’s 2-D Model of Effective Teaching isa new justification for increasing STEM faculty diversity.
toward cross-cultural trainingprograms. The purpose of the investigation was to determine whether or not faculty membersbelieve that cross-cultural training programs helped them to advance their skills while interactingwith culturally diverse background colleagues; and, to identify what behaviors and actionsfaculty need to exhibit in order to successfully collaborate with their colleagues in a cross-cultural environment within the educational setting. The positive experience from a good trainingprogram is key. Faculty members must be encouraged to explore interests in the differentcultures and new approaches for collaborating. The design and delivery methods of a cross-cultural training program are essential and should cover faculty concerns