large research Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationuniversity, a small religiously affiliated liberal arts college, and a small women's liberal artscollege. One of the goals for interviewing faculty members from many different disciplines wasto learn about the varying culture across engineering fields. This aids communication andteamwork in smaller schools with fewer faculty or broader departments (e.g., joint physics andelectrical engineering departments). Examples and ideas accumulated through these interviewswere used in the graduate course.At the beginning of their faculty careers, new
of the most relevant elements of the review is the student transcript evaluation. Using theexact language provided in each of the above policies, a one-page document was developed toexplain every detail in each of the student transcripts that were provided to the evaluation teambefore their arrival. The document addressed all issues that may raise concerns: courses takenwithout pre-requisites or co-requisites, transfer courses, course substitutions, changes in coursenames, etc. These documents were sent to the ABET evaluation team along with the transcriptsrequested. Keys for Criterion 1: Have a faculty advisor for each student. Enforce students to regularly meet with their advisor (e.g., advisement hold preventing them to enroll to classes
and who will educate later generations of teachers andresearchers. Second, graduate education contributes directly to the broader national goals of technological,economic, and cultural development. We increasingly depend on people with advanced scientific and technologicalknowledge in our collective efforts in developing new technologies and industries … and maintaining thecompetitiveness of industry. Our graduate schools of science and engineering are therefore important not only assources of future leaders in science and engineering, but also as an indispensable underpinning of national strengthshqà rvà à hvvtà urà prhvvà hqà vryyrphyà vtà rrqrqà à hqqrà hà tvtà htrà sà pvhyà hqÃeconomic concerns.” 2
funding from the NSF and other sponsors to develop award winningcase studies that would help faculty members make the necessary paradigm shift in engineeringand technology education so that their graduates are better prepared for the 21st centuryworkplace. Evaluation data shows that the multimedia case studies developed by LITEE havethe ability to bring real-world issues into engineering classrooms, improve the higher-levelcognitive skills of students, stimulate teamwork among students, and satisfy the majority of theABET 3a-k criteria in an exemplary fashion27, 8, 14.II.1. Multimedia Instructional Materials Developed by LITEE The Laboratory for Innovative Technology and Engineering Education (LITEE) teamconsists of faculty and students
programs willnormally be done at the same time; thus the program will be able to prepare for bothsimultaneously. Moreover, it is likely that there will be only a single self-study report. Mostimportantly, the draft accreditation criteria and associated guidelines have been designed tominimize the incremental resource requirements for advanced-level accreditation. For example,as the current draft ASCE Commentary states, “Successful project reports, theses, orcomprehensive exams approved by the faculty are some of the possible ways the program mightdemonstrate that its graduates have the ability to apply advanced knowledge.”7 Thus, there is noreason for any new assessment processes above and beyond those already existing in the currentdegree
institutional context helps to inform how communication instruction ishandled at the school level, local/departmental issues of enrollment, funding, and faculty attitudes andperceptions of technical communications ultimately shape the genesis, development, and growth of eachschool’s communication program. Page 10.701.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”This paper will describe three in-house engineering communications programs that have beenimplemented at the Georgia Institute of
University course, Whatis Engineering? A retreat was held in November of 2006 at Carnegie Mellon University toreview and comment on the results to date with over 20 attendees. A report was issued in April23, 2007 to the College Board and the National Science Foundation, entitled, Pre-AdvancedPlacement Plan. 33 The College Board issued an opinion in 2007.Phase II: Continuing an approved Institutional Review Board process, teachers, communitycollege and university faculty worked to develop an initial rubric for the design process throughfunding provided by a NSF SITE Research Experiences at the University of Maryland, atCollege Park (UMCP) and the University of Virginia (UVA). The initial rubric was developedduring the summer of 2008, and was
cases than with any other course group (see Table 4). The most significant result (at the 10%level) was on an ethically neutral case concerning the choice of materials (case 6). Two issuecases yielded results significant at the 20% level: one concerning data management (case 1) andone concerning mentorship (case 4). In the Spring 2007 semester, however, the instructor of theETP course did not spend time on environmental issues, and nanotechnology was discussed onlybriefly. It might be expected, then, that analysis focusing on case 2, which concerned possibleenvironmental risks from nanotechnology, did not yield significant results. Likert Differences by Cases Likert Difference (ETP - Control) Likert Difference p Value
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
universities in a variety of sizes and locations. A large majority of our students, bothfirst-generation and general population come from a rural background. The authors would alsolike to survey students deeper on the themes that emerged from the above data to gain a betterunderstanding of the issues facing first-generation students. If proposed changes areimplemented at WVU Tech, the authors will survey the students afterwards to see ifimprovements were made and if any new concerns have arisen.References[1] WVUIT Common Data Set 2017-2018. West Virginia University, 2017 [Online]. Available:https://planning.wvu.edu/files/d/8ed4b6a2-1eed-43c4-8c17-2992915bca00/wvuit-cds_2017-2018.pdf. [Accessed: 16- Mar- 2018][2] “Science and engineering indicators
(including legal and security issues, and professional development), to expand the assessment approach used to better align with our ABET assessment procedures, and to make the modules reusable for other faculty in the department. This new set of modules was initially taught in the Spring of 2015 and is being taught again in Spring 2016. The current modules incorporate softwareengineering 8specific material developed by Vallor and Narayanan , material on legal and ethical issues 10(similar to material from Baase), and content from various other sources (including the ACM/IEEE Software Engineering Code of Ethics). The major emphasis of our
forth this technology understand the societal and ethicalimplications of this new technology. The National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network(NNIN) is an integrated collective of 14 universities with open facilities that support nanoscalescience and engineering research. The NNIN facilities train and support approximately 4,800users per year. The network offers a unique opportunity for research in societal and ethical issues(SEI) as well as providing SEI information to users. The goals of the NNIN’s SEI efforts are to:1) develop societal and ethical consciousness within the user community and the broader NSEcommunity and 2) broaden the exploration of the ethical and societal implications of NSE atNNIN and in the broader NSE community. To
requirements, publication/presentationreview, and intellectual property rights. While providing a more holistic experience, thehandling of these issues often presents a further challenge of balancing the primary educationalmission and scope of the projects against sponsor expectations for value from their investment ofeffort and financial resources. Furthermore, Michigan Tech views these project experiences tobe a potential IP generator through student development of new products and technologies thatcould then ideally be commercialized through licensing or new business start-ups. How rights tothis student generated IP are negotiated then becomes a key factor in allowing for this possibility.For industrially sponsored projects, this results in an
Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where students learned about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in en- gineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 High School STEM Teacher Perspectives on the Importance and Obstacles to Integrating Engineering Ethical Issues in their
issues raised in the scenario between what they scenario. Examples include, but are not limited include, but are not limited to: connecting and how those limitations affect their analysis. do and do not to: personal experiences or information read/heard Examples include, but are not limited to: Status know. recognizing information that is new to them, elsewhere, recognizing that personal checking assumptions related to personal beginning to ask questions, injecting their own experiences may or may not
to academia without unduly jeopardizing their careers constituted a new challenge for Black women who aim to be intellectuals within academia [13, p. 16].Patricia Hill Collins wrote the above excerpt from Black Feminist Thought over thirty years ago(2001, original published in 1990). In 2018, the estimated WOC faculty in engineeringdisciplines in ASEE institutions was 5.6%, “up” from 2.8% in 2005 [21]. African American andBlack women made up 0.5% in 2018 [21].Given this concerning and continued underrepresentation, mentorships in which a Black womansupervises a white woman may be limited and/or new. White mentees must recognize the powerthat comes with cultural capital and historical privilege to challenge the academic
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 #31773Achievements, Issues and Recommendations of Quality Assurance inEngineering Education within Colleges and Universities in Mainland Chinaunder the Background of Program AccreditationDr. Ming Li, Beijing Foreign Studies University Ming Li is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Education, Beijing Foreign Studies Univer- sity, Beijing, China. He received B.A. in Qingdao Agricultural University, M.Ed. in Shandong Normal University, and Ph.D. in Beihang University. From March 2013 to June 2013, he studied in School of En- gineering Education at Purdue University as a visiting scholar. After obtaining
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
. Page 15.761.4The traditional end-of-semester surveys provided another opportunity to gather feedback on anumber of areas of concern. While this assessment technique is subjective, it neverthelessprovided the faculty with a measure of the student’s perception regarding these critical area oftheir education. For functioning effectively on teams, students responded to the followingquestions: a1. “Based on the classroom instruction and discussions, this class enhanced my ability to function on teams.” a2. “The peer evaluations served well to assess how well my team functioned.” a3. “The group projects aided in improving my ability to function on a team.” Function
“To improve safety and enjoyment of life.” Function/need related “To develop new, more efficient, and more functional methods of accommodating the needs of society at large.” Solve societal problems “To solve issues in our infrastructure and societal well-being…” Public health Safety “…keeping the safety of society is a paramount issue.” Make world better place “Make things better for society”Sustainability Environmental and/or sustainability impacts 0.478Technology Develop technology and/or make technology useful to life; 0.643 “Use my skills in math and design to make factories and machines
there was much discussion at the general facultysessions concerning what is more important in a Construction Management faculty position-professional field experience or a PhD in an appropriate area (such as Civil, Mechanical,Electrical Engineering, Architecture, Business, etc.). Since Construction Management is anapplied profession the majority of the attendees believe that the professional field experience ismore relevant than the PhD.Even though practicing Construction Management professors carry this belief back to theirrespective campus’ there is a current need to develop new Construction Management professorsdue to the expanding professional need of the construction industry. It was reported at the 43rdInternational Conference of the
. Miller is Professor Emeritus in the Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where he has taught graduate nuclear engineering for 35 years. He is the author of more than 125 technical papers and has made more than 1,000 presentations to the public on issues concerning energy, the environment, radiation, and nuclear power. He is a registered Professional Engi- neer in the state of Missouri and a certified Health Physicist. His Ph.D. was in nuclear engineering from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is currently a Research Scientist at the Missouri University Research Reactor.Ms. Gayla M. Neumeyer, University of Missouri Research Reactor Gayla Neumeyer is Manager of energy
followed by effective changes of theevaluation process. Page 26.1421.21. IntroductionThe Electrical Engineering Technology Program has adopted the student learning outcomeslisted below. These outcomes were developed in consultation with the faculty and the IndustrialAdvisory Board. Students that graduate from this program will: 1. Apply modern technology tools, such as software and test equipment, to analyze, simulate, design and improve electrical systems. 2. Apply digital and analog electronics to existing and new components, subsystems, and systems. 3. Apply microprocessors/microcontrollers to existing and new components
2006-2177: STATUS AND EXPERIENCES OF MINORITY GRADUATESTUDENTS, POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS, AND FACULTY IN SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS DISCIPLINESLaRuth McAfee, State University of New York-Stony Brook Postdoctoral Engineering Education Researcher, National Academy of Engineering Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Technology and Society 1999 University of Michigan Graduate (B.S.E.), Chemical Engineering 2005 MIT Graduate (Ph.D.), Chemical EngineeringDavid Ferguson, State University of New York-Stony Brook Distinguished Service Professor Chair, Department of Technology and Society Joint Appointment, Applied
industry you can never go back.”Second, participants were concerned about financial impacts of entering academia and indeed,several participants did accept a lower salary, sometimes significantly lower, at their faculty job.A second participant reported, “When I got the final number [pay rate] it was such a shock […] Ireduced my salary by one-third and I’m working much harder because I have to prepare all thesecourses that I have never taught.” The first participant echoes, “So taking a step down when youstart in a new field … it’s something that, it’s not easy.”Third, all participants experienced gender discrimination as students in academia. This posed abarrier to their confidence regarding on-ramping back into this environment. The On-Ramps
of power differences and subsequent framing of notions of fairness, faculty membersmay be unwilling or unable to change the organizational conceptualization of fairness.Fifth, the literature emphasizes that the head has a responsibility to focus on and promote thegood of the department as a whole, which we will refer to as ‘collective good.’ For example,Hecht et al. (1999) emphasize ‘collective success’ (61, p. 30). They assert that issues such ascourse scheduling should begin with ‘collective considerations’ (p. 78), and that heads shoulddevelop a ‘shared culture within the department concerning how work will be distributed andhow individuals will support the mission and goals of the department’ (p. 82). Morespecifically, for instance
quarter for theAdvocates and Allies group, targeting male faculty) may impact the latter, however. Meetingonce a quarter is beneficial in that it provides time to reflect on issues between meetings, but itmeans that participants will be exposed to new material at a slower pace (particularly given thatthe related workshops and distinguished lectures will likely cease with the end of this academicyear with the expiration of the grant). It is anticipated that project leaders will have to providemore assistance to the Advocates and Allies group until they develop a stronger understanding ofissues, resources, and potential projects.A mixture of quantitative and qualitative measures have been used to assess and evaluate theprogram, including an annual
. Following the above successes an evening event was planned so that engineers, sponsors, andstudents could gather socially. This provided a chance for sponsors to hear about the experiencesof the APC attendees and to find out about other student projects on campus. Students notalready involved in the effort were encouraged to attend, especially freshman and so phomoreswho would be likely interns and conference attendees in the future. Donations from industry,staff, and faculty members present allowed the student meals to be subsidized. The dinnerreceived great attendance and support making it a new annual e vent. Along the same lines Fall2001 marked the first issue of the Energy Tidings newsletter. This publication is intended toshowcase student
resolve important questions and to plan and coordinate work.Requires the use of advanced techniques and the modifications and extension of theories, precepts and practices ofthe field and related sciences and disciplines. The knowledge and expertise required for this level of work usuallyresult from progressive experience.Direction Received. Supervision and guidance relate largely to overall objectives, critical issues, new concepts, andpolicy matters. Consults with supervisor concerning unusual problems and developments.Typical Duties & Responsibilities. One or more of the following: 1) In a supervisory capacity, plans, develops,coordinates, and directs a large and important engineering project or a number of a small projects with