Paper ID #29679Understanding Students’ perceptions of Dimensions of Engineering Culturein EcuadorDr. MiguelAndres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ Professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ in Civil Engineering and ArchitectureDr. Homero Murzi, Virginia Tech Homero Murzi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He holds degrees in Industrial Engineering (BS, MS), Master of Business Administration (MBA) and in Engineering Education (PhD). Homero has 15 years of international experience working in industry and academia. His research focuses on
educational research interests include effective teach- ing techniques for enhancing engineering education, global engineering and international perspectives, thinking and working in multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary ways, cyberlearning and cyber-environments, service and experiential learning, teaming and collaborative learning.Prof. Jose F. Oliden, Universidad Nacional de Ingenier´ıa JOSE F. OLIDEN, Eng is an Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronic depar- ment at National University of Engineering (UNI-Per´u). His educational research interests include effec- tive teaching techniques for enhancing engineering education, embeded systems, robotic and Sechatronic Systems, Satellital Systems and
Paper ID #25261Transversal Competency Level of Engineering Graduates Dictated by Euro-pean IndustryMariana Leandro Cruz, Delft University of Technology Mariana Leandro Cruz received the BSc and MSc degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the Instituto Superior T´ecnico, University of Lisbon. She is currently developing the PhD in engineering education at the Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering in the Netherlands. Her research interests include engineering education, competencies, competency measurement, and course develop- ment.Dr. Gillian N. Saunders-Smits, Delft University of Technology
, safety, and education), andpedagogical approaches that encourage awareness of and interest in these global issues. The ideais somewhat similar to Ruwanpura6 in having an international design project in capstone CivilEngineering courses.The course objectives are to: • Introduce students to open ended problems at the community level, • Help students develop the skills to solve those problems and provide holistic engineering solutions that are sustainable and appropriate to the community being served, • Help students develop cultural and social awareness, • Help students work in interdisciplinary teams, • Give students the opportunity to reflect on the importance of their community service • Give students a professional work ethic
Paper ID #17530Comparison of Two Project-Based Learning Experiences in Panama City,PanamaDr. Aaron Richard Sakulich, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Aaron Sakulich is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His research interests include the development of sustainable cementi- tious materials for infrastructure applications and international project-based learning. The recipient of a 2007 Fulbright award to Morocco, he is now the co-director of an off-campus project site in Panama City, Panama. c American Society for
) Kurt Becker, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Engineering Education, College of Engineering, Utah State University Kurt Becker is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University. His research includes engineering design thinking, systems engineering, engineering education professional development, technical training, and adult learning cognition. He is currently working on National Science Foundation funded projects exploring engineering design thinking and systems thinking, a USAID funded project in Egypt, “Center of Excellence in Water”, and Department of Education funded GEARUP projects in the area of STEM education related to engineering education. He has extensive international
,and can better present the uniqueness of their study programs.Lafayette College has engaged in an undergraduate engineering study abroad program which isnow entering its fifth year. The program was established with a firm set of institutionalrequirements guiding its development, including:(i) A semester-long experience.(ii) Immersion in an international, non-anglophile culture.(iii) A partner institution providing English language instruction for coursework.(iv) Participation allowing completion of all engineering degree requirements in four years.(v) Congruent structures, such as the semester schedule (academic calendar).(vi) Congruent academic programs in terms of quality assurance.This paper describes the developing
and building and manipulating 3D models collected by robots for visualisation purposes. He is senior member of the American Institute of Aero- nautics and Astronautics (AIAA), member of the American Helicopter Society (AHS), the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) and the Australian Association for Unmanned Systems (AAUS). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Comparison and Evaluation of Aeronautical Engineering Learning Outcomes using an Airborne Flight Laboratory and a Flight Simulator Laboratory.IntroductionTraditional teaching approaches in courses covering aircraft dynamics and control typicallyutilize theoretical
. Mc Gill (Ed.)Making sense of Experiential Learning (pp. 3-24). Guildford, England: Society for Research Into Higher Educationand Open UP, 19893 Westheimer, J., Kahne, J. and Gerstein A. School Reform for the Nineties: Opportunities and Obstacles forExperiential Educators, The Journal of Experiential Education Vol. 15, No. 2, (1992), pp. 44-49. Page 15.524.134 Beena Sukumaran, Kauser Jahan, Dianne Dorland, Jess Everett, Jennifer Kadlowec, Zenaida Gephardt, and StevenChin, “Engineering Clinics: An integration of research into the undergraduate engineering curriculum,” CURquarterly, Vol. 26, No. 3, (2006), pp. 115-1215 James Newell
Paper ID #44356Effective Strategies for New Faculty from the Perspective of an AssistantProfessor in the Early-Career StageDr. Yuzhang Zang, Western Washington University Yuzhang Zang is currently an assistant professor in the department of Engineering and Design at Western Washington University since Fall 2022. She was a visiting assistant professor at Valparaiso University from Aug 2021 to May 2022. Yuzhang received her Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng.) in Electromagnetic Field & Wireless Technology Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in 2014, Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at
overloaded with physics, mathematics, and science. In support of this position, theU.S. Department of Education [2] has made explicit to educators that graduates with thestrongest scientific expertise in their field may find themselves at the margins of a globalworkforce in dire need of international, multicultural, and multilingual competencies. How has globalization impacted the engineering profession? And why the currentcurriculum has become outdated? The first question can be answered with an example: thechallenge that distance in space used to represent to human interactions has virtuallydisappeared. Today, meeting clients or managing projects at distant locations no longer requiresphysical displacement, and if physical displacement is
AC 2012-3668: REFLECTIONS ON INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE OFSTUDENTS AND PROFESSORS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGDr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University Brian P. Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering mechanics from Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Self has taught in the Mechanical En- gineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year, he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include collaborating
Perspectives from Europe and Asia on Engineering Design and Manufacture, Jiang, Y.X.T., and Juster, N., Eds., Kluwer, pp.225.336.13. Pollard, J.D., Devon, R., McKay, A., and Bilen, S.G., 2002, Teaching Design Through International Collaborations, Proceedings Int. Conference on Engineering Education, 2002.14. Devon, R., Saintive, D., Hager, W., Nowé, M., and Sathianathan, D., 1998, Alliance by Design: An International Student Collaboration, Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education 1998 Annual Conference, Seattle, 1998. Session 2544.15. http://www.asme.org/Communities/International/LatinAmericaCaribbean/Latin_America_Caribbean.cfm16. http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/9/17. http://www.asme.org/Communities/International
international perspectives of engineering, andexperience a new culture in an international location. The instructor believes EngineeringMarvels delivered this experience and much more. Students learned engineering concepts, andthey gained confidence and independence while traveling abroad.Engineering Marvels was a study abroad course designed for a four-week term at Washingtonand Lee University (Lexington, VA). With no prerequisites, it was designed for students of anylevel and any major to learn about basic engineering concepts, engineering history, and culturalinfluences of engineering. For this four-credit course, students studied engineering marvels oncampus for the first two weeks of the term. Then, they traveled to London, England toexperience
sustainable support for a base number of fellowships. These connections Page 22.596.10through the Board of Stakeholders ensured the initial funding of 10 fellowships. Beyond that,additional funding was sought from internal University entities such as the Office of the Provostand Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science (who has sponsored a fellowshipfor an engineering and computer science student). As the students’ education is enhanced byparticipation in such programs, a case can be made to academic units for financial support.Finally, competitive grants are offered through organizations such as the National CollegiateInventors and
educational experience at BYU. Questions Specific to College of Engineering and Technology As a result of participating in this international program: 7. My view of what I might do in my career has expanded. 8. I have a better understanding of globalization. 9. I know better how to communicate across culture. 10. My leadership abilities have been increased.For convenience, questions have been re-numbered for discussion in this article. All questions, except question 6,have a seven-point Likert scale (1=strongly disagree, 4=neither disagree or agree, 7=strongly agree) followed by anopen-ended section for specific examples.The survey was emailed to all student participants near the completion of their program as inprevious years. However
motivations forparticipating, and what challenges they faced before, during, and afterward; (2) to identify anycultural differences they observed or experienced, including those related to communication,decision-making, project management, problem solving, and style of engineering; and (3) tomake recommendations for individuals beginning international assignments and for educationaland corporate institutions. Lessons identified include: 1. Try Not to Behave like an ‘Ugly American’ 2. Understand the Differences Between the US and the Other Country 3. Focus on Communication 4. Build Relationships, Build Trust 5. Implement A Learn-By-Doing Model of Education for International Work 6
graduates.20 Validatingpsychographic measures that can assess these values is important to evaluating how well thegeneral university education is molding a next generation of consumers and professionalscommitted to more sustainable practices. However, within engineering, such psychographicmeasures also allow us to understand how well instruction in the ABET student outcome relatedto sustainable practice is likely to be internalized and pursued by engineering students throughlifelong learning: “an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability.” 21The National Academy of
use of case studies, debates, simulations, group discussions, multimedia,documentaries, and other approaches. Adopting these techniques can offer students a rich andbeneficial learning experience.ConclusionGiven current environmental concerns, education in the sustainability area has becomefundamental. More specifically, engineering educators must provide learning experiences tostudents that allow them to become stewards of the environment and adopt relevant sustainablepractices as part of their profession. Therefore, an understanding of how the current form ofeducation influences the understanding of students is important.Towards this goal, the current study examined the differences in the perspectives of freshmanengineering students and
. The primary focus of her research concerns assessing the response structure of test scores using item response theory methodology.Dr. Tricia Bertram Gallant, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego Dr. Bertram Gallant is a Lecturer with the Rady School of Management and Director of the Academic Integrity Office at UC San Diego. She is also the Outreach Coordinator for the International Center for Academic Integrity (Clemson University). Page 26.767.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Faculty Perspectives about Incorporating
Paper ID #15223Future Time Perspective and Self-Regulated Learning: Multiple Case Stud-ies in Industrial EngineeringMs. Justine Chasmar, Clemson University Justine Chasmar is a coordinator in the Academic Success Center and a PhD candidate in the Engineering and Science Education Department at Clemson University. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Clemson University.Dr. Lisa Benson, Clemson University Lisa Benson is an Associate Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University, with a joint appointment in Bioengineering. Her research focuses on the interactions between student
undergraduate engineering education are provided by the relevant accreditingorganizations, examples of which are ABET in the USA, and Engineers Australia (EA) inAustralia. Competencies may be expressed implicitly or explicitly and they are embedded withinthe graduate attributes sought through an accredited education process. The substantialequivalence of accreditation systems and accredited programs across international boundarieshas been recognized in the Washington, Sydney and Dublin Accords. Competencies for Future Engineers Corporations and employers have frequently pointed to a lack of professional awareness andlow levels of communication and teamwork skills in engineering graduates [11-14]. These issueshave led ABET [15] to transform their
Paper ID #26787Homework Assignment Self-Grading: Perspectives from a Civil EngineeringCourseDr. Kevin Chang P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow Kevin Chang, Ph.D., P.E., is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Univer- sity of Idaho, where he is focusing on traffic operations and safety, transportation security, and engineering education. Prior to his current position, Kevin was a traffic engineer with the King County Department of Transportation where he managed the Traffic Management Center and supervised the implementation of neighborhood transportation plans, livable communities, and
regulate one’s own emotions and one’sgeneral awareness of the self as similar to, but also distinct from, the other.9 In sum, theseprocesses can, but do not necessarily, result in an empathic understanding of the internal state(i.e., feelings, thoughts, perspectives) of another. Although the empathic understanding is notalways accurate13,14, it may result in affective feelings of empathic concern15 or emotionaldistress16, which if regulated effectively10 can inspire helping behavior11,17. Some authors evendepict this helping response as part of empathy15. In the context of engineering, this helpingbehavior is often portrayed in the form of caring for stakeholders2,18 or developing user-appropriate design solutions5,8, but may take other forms
Paper ID #16169Work in Progress: Developing a Quantitative Instrument for Measuring Un-dergraduate Engineering Students’ Future Time PerspectivesCatherine McGough, Clemson University Catherine McGough is currently a graduate research assistant in Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University. She obtained her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University in 2014. Her research interests are in undergraduate engineering student motivations and undergraduate engineer- ing problem solving skill development and strategies.Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Assistant Professor of
collection, data analysis, and data mining methods. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #31779Dr. Al-Bayati’s research findings have been published in the American Society of Civil Engineers’(ASCE) Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE’s Journal of Practice Periodicalon Structural Design and Construction, and National Safety Council’s Journal of Safety Research. Dr.Al-Bayati actively serves on the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Construction Safety Committeeand International Damage Incident Group (IDIP). IDIP aim is to share ideas on how to develop an inter-national exchange
Paper ID #18030Putting Diversity in Perspective: A Critical Cultural Historical Context forRepresentation in EngineeringDr. Stephen Secules, University of Maryland, College Park Stephen received a PhD in education at the University of Maryland researching engineering education. He has a prior academic and professional background in engineering, having worked professionally as an acoustical engineer. He has taught an introduction to engineering to undergraduate engineers and to practicing K-12 teachers. Stephen’s research interests include equity, culture, and the sociocultural dimensions of engineering education
institutions of higher education.Dr. Camilla M. Saviz P.E., University of the Pacific Camilla Saviz is Professor and Chair of Civil Engineering at the University of the Pacific. She received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University, an M.B.A. from the New York Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Davis. She joined Pacific in 1999 and is a registered Professional Engineer in California. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Civil Engineering Department Head Perspectives on the Civil Engineering Program Criteria and the Body of Knowledge, 3rd EditionAbstractThe American
Education, 2016A Civil Infrastructure System Perspective – Not just the Built Environment1 IntroductionBased on a perceived need within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at theUniversity of Utah to increase faculty and student awareness of 1) the national infrastructurecrisis and 2) a departmental-wide pedagogical approach to engineering instruction with a moreholistic, global understanding of infrastructure systems, three faculty members attended the 2ndAnnual Infrastructure Education Workshop on Pedagogies of Engagement in InfrastructureClassrooms. Hosted by the Center for Infrastructure Transformation and Education (CIT-E), over30 national faculty members participated in a three-day, best-practices teaching seminar
Paper ID #46695Engineering Just Futures: Preparing Undergraduate Engineers to IntegrateTechnical, Sociocultural, and Environmental Perspectives [Work-in-Progress]Dr. Jacob Pleasants, University of Oklahoma Jacob Pleasants is an Assistant Professor of Science Education at the University of Oklahoma, where he studies the intersection of science, technology, society, and the environment within the context of STEM education.Dr. Moses Olayemi, The University of Oklahoma Moses Olayemi is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Pathways at the University of Oklahoma. He is the Founding President of the African Engineering Education