. As with other disciplines, engineering typically subsumesethics, appropriating it as its own unique subfield. As a framing, ethics in engineering producesspecialized standards, codes, values, perspectives, and problems distinct to engineering thoughtand practice. These form an engineering education discourse with which engineers engage. It isepistemological in its focus, meaning that this framing constructs knowledge of properdisciplinary conduct. On the other hand, engineering in ethics as a framing device insists thatengineering become a specialized articulation of ethical thought and action. Here, “engineer” and“engineering” are not nouns but verbs, referring to particular processes and technologies fortransformation. One is not an
Development of an Alumni Success Instrument Linking Undergraduate Experiences to Graduate PathwaysAbstractHistorically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have made significant contributionstowards ensuring Black student participation, retention, and success in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and continue to play a critical role in the production ofgraduates within these disciplines. Additionally, the pedagogical approaches, principles, andvalues characteristic of the HBCU experience have led to tremendous gains and success inpromoting student achievement in STEM graduate programs. The dominance of HBCUs in thepreparation of Black students for graduate programs suggests a need to better understand
critical reflections in engineering education effective in assessinglearning outcomes? During this investigation, two additional topics of relevance emerged: c)Factors that contribute to successful implementation of reflection and d) The recognition of theneed for further research on reflection.a) Critical Reflections and Achieving Learning OutcomesThe literature reviewed indicated that educators sought diverse learning outcomes through use ofreflection, with many focusing on the development of skills beyond strict technical abilities, suchas teamwork [9][10]. It is interesting to note, however, that reflection upon these “soft” skills ormore consistent reflection over the duration of the project was, in some cases, associated withresults linked
held by FC leadership provedproblematic at different stages of the change process. One assumption is that positive assessmentdata is sufficient to persuade the rest of the college that the curriculum should be adopted. Asecond assumption is that the information resulting from the pilot is sufficient in deciding how thecurriculum can be improved for all students. And finally, there is an assumption that once the newcurriculum is institutionalized, the job of effecting “systemic reform of undergraduate engineeringeducation” is complete. This paper is one product from a qualitative study of the FC curricularchange process.IntroductionSince the earliest formal review of engineering education during the first International Congress ofEngineering in
theory then developed to become an essential part of fluid mechanics theory acrossdisciplines in engineering sciences [2]. The theory is described in many textbooks, for example[3, 4], and is briefly summarised in the Appendix A.Learning about boundary layers is challenging. We decompose the problem here into threesequential challenges which provide a kind of ‘problem definition’, to which this paper proposesand evaluates a solution.1.1 Three challenges in learning boundary layer theoryThe first challenge stems from the fact that boundary layers cannot be seen in everyday life.Despite technical information such measured data and theoretical results, the existence of thelayers is often not intuitively clear to students. Education
. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is an Associate Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He also leads the Global Engineering Education Collabora- tory (GEEC) research group, and is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. Dr. Jesiek draws on expertise from engineering, computing, and the social sciences to advance under- standing of geographic, disciplinary, and historical
among these demandsis the call for outfitting students – the future workforce – with so-called 21st-century skills [3].Most notably, these include skills of abstract thinking, critical reasoning, technicalcommunication, teamwork, lifelong learning, creativity, and leadership. A critical line ofresponse to equipping students with these skills has been pedagogical advances and instructionalinnovation at the course and curriculum levels. Student-centric, active-learning, and experientialeducational practices – such as flipped classes, project-based courses, undergraduate research,and work-integrated learning – have emerged as effective tools for supporting students’professional skill development in line with expectations of the modern workplace [4
Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research characterizes front-end design practices across the student to practitioner continuum and studies the impact of developed front-end design tools on design success.Thanina Makhlouf, University of MichiganEytan Adar Eytan Adar is an Associate Professor in the School of Information and in Computer Science & Engineer- ing. His research is at the intersection of human computer interaction (HCI), visualization, and large-scale data mining of human behavior. Professor Adar received his PhD in Computer Science from the Univer- sity of Washington. He worked at Xerox PARC and HP Labs as well as helping
acrossboundaries, disciplines, and knowledge domains based on the information and ideas they haverecognized through four discovery behaviors, including: Page 26.338.3 Questioning, or a passionate inquisitiveness of the surrounding world context Observing, or an everyday attentiveness to customers, products, and services Networking, or sharing and gathering ideas from a diverse group of individuals who may be part of an “internal” or “external” group Experimenting, or testing ideas by trying new experiences, disassembling artifacts, or piloting prototypesThe successful innovators Dyer, Gregersen, and Christensen studied
determiningconstraints. To this end, SoS engineers use a tool called Model-based Systems Engineering(MBSE). MBSE considers the given system as a whole and utilizes a set of models to representvarious aspects of the system. The trend in SoS is to use MBSE and Authoritative Source ofTruth as core digital engineering strategies to manage a large complex SoS and integratedproduct life cycle and supply chain management [10], [11], [12].In the second phase, the Abstraction phase, the system, project, and/or problem are abstractedinto a solution [13]. To this end, engineers decompose the system into smaller, moremanageable subsystems. In this way, SoS engineers can define the high-level framework (i.e., amodel) that addresses the given system to seek emergent behavior
College of Engineering at the Univer- sity of Notre Dame. She received her PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University in 2009. She also has a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. She has several years of industry design experience, but has since shifted her focus to engineering education with the first-year engineering program. Contact information: phone (574) 631-0972, fax (574) 631-8007, or email kmeyers1@nd.edu.Rachel Louis, Virginia Tech Rachel is a PhD student studying engineering education at Virginia Tech. She has her B.S. and M.S. degrees from The Ohio State University in civil engineering where she specialized in construction. Cur- rently, Rachel is working on research related to the identity of
able to design components and systems."Program Objective #D : " The electrical engineering curriculum will produce graduates who have broad laboratory skills, including extensive teamwork and hands-on practical abilities."Program Objective #E : " The electrical engineering curriculum will produce graduates who are aware of current and emerging technologies and professional engineering practices." Page 7.131.8“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual
make informed judgments, which must1 13 states require continuing education devoted to ethics / professional responsibility: Delaware, Florida, Indiana,Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Texas, Wisconsinconsider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societalcontexts.”The process by which individuals take a reasoned approach to making ethical engineeringdecisions have been described via a variety of frameworks including reflexive principlism [12]and a pragmatic approach [13]. In a widely applied model, the multistep process of ethicalreasoning begins with the step of identifying an ethical dilemma, continues through informationgathering, analysis, and
behaviors,which autistic students use to manage their symptoms. Autistic students may have difficultyduring discussions by interrupting others, going off on tangents, or appearing uninvolved. Thesestruggles may require coaching for all students, as neurotypical students may not be aware of theimplications of neurodivergence and neurodivergent students may need to learn specific skills[18]. As stated earlier, this is predicated on a student disclosing their disability, either formally toobtain accommodations or informally to their peers or instructors. Overall, a lack ofunderstanding and awareness of the strengths and challenges of various disabilities can lead todifficulties in teamwork and unfair assessment by their peers.All this is not to say
22.1255.4Timoshenko allows us access into a detailed and rich history of engineering education’sdevelopment during the first half of the tumultuous twentieth century. Universities, researchinstitutes, laboratories, scientists, faculty members and students have the most relevant place inthe Timoshenko’s autobiography As I Remember. In his narration, the Bolshevik Revolution,World War I, and the rise of Nazis in Germany are the context through which engineering andthe sciences go forward into a new technological era. Timoshenko also devotes many episodes toexplain his teaching and learning experiences and his vision about comparisons amongengineering curricula in different countries. He taught in Russia, Yugoslavia, and in theAmerican East, Midwest, and West
AC 2011-908: STEM INTEGRATION IN A PRE-COLLEGE COURSE INDIGITAL ELECTRONICS: ANALYSIS OF THE ENACTED CURRICU-LUMAmy C. Prevost, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ms. Prevost is a doctoral student in Education Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research is focused on the STEM career pipeline, especially related to engi- neering, engineering education and the molecular biosciences. In addition to her work in education re- search, she is also the Director of scientific courses at the BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute in Madison, WI, where she coordinates curricula in the area of molecular biology.Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison Mitchell J. Nathan, BSEE
education, and understand how students and faculty learn these curricula. She also researches student engineering identity; instructor pedagogical knowledges, approaches, and belief systems; engineering competencies required for engineering practice; sociotechnical thinking; relational methodologies for engineering and technological development; and the development of engineering education as a field in Canada. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Decolonizing engineering curriculum on stolen land: Settler amnesia within engineering educationAbstractIn line with the LEES division theme, “Engineering Education for Truth and Reconciliation”,this paper reflects on
, Adrienne Decker, Tom McKlin, and Kathy Haynie. 2019. A gap analysis of noncognitive constructs in evaluation instruments designed for computing education. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. 706–712.[20] Justus J Randolph, George Julnes, Erkki Sutinen, and Steve Lehman. 2008. A methodological review of computer science education research. Journal of Information Technology Education: Research 7, 1 (2008), 135–162.[21] Devashree Saha. 2009. Empirical research on local government sustainability efforts in the USA: gaps in the current literature. Local Environment 14, 1 (2009), 17–30.[22] Kate Sanders, Judy Sheard, Brett A Becker, Anna Eckerdal, and Sally Hamouda. 2019
Group.Dr. Octavio Mattasoglio Neto Neto Undergraduate in Physics (1983), master in Science (1989) and phd at Education (1998) all of them from Universidade de S˜ao Paulo. Professor of Physics at Mau´a Institute of Technology, since 1994 and President of Teacher’s Academy of the same Institute, ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Elaboration of a Contextualized Event for teaching eigenvalues and eigenvectors in the Control and Automation Engineering programIntroductionResearch in Mathematics Education, for example, [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] have explored thesubject of Linear Algebra
coordinators were able to increase the number of participants in the program from 60participants in 2019 to 64 participants in 2020. 2. C-TECH2 OVERVIEW AND CONTEXT C-Tech2, short for “Computers and Technology at Virginia Tech,” is a two-week residentialengineering camp for high school women at a large research university. This camp uses arigorous application process to choose rising female high school juniors and seniors participantswho wish to learn more about engineering. The camp aims to expose participants to the variousdisciplines of engineering, science, and technology commonly offered at undergraduateinstitutions through many different activities that they engage in. These activities include ateam-based engineering
during the semester. The qualitative data will allow us to track what themes emerge as towhy students do or don’t see themselves as an engineer after going through the designedprojects.Discussion and ConclusionWe anticipate that with enough iteration and implementation of alternative projects, we will beable to develop course materials that will help to broaden conceptions of engineering to includethe full breadth of the field of engineering, which may help students situate their own identityinto the field of engineering. The benefits of this are numerous, the biggest of which is thatstudents who see themselves as engineers are more likely to stay in engineering [29]. To this end,it will allow us to understand how we might further broaden
analysis process through analytical memoing and dialogue. Adiscussion was held on the experiences, beliefs, and values of the benefits, challenges, andrealities of cross-race mentoring in engineering academia. Per the guidance of Lincoln and Guba(1985), the positionality of the researchers must be clarified because it directly influences how astudy is conducted, as well as the findings and interpretations. The research team included ademographically diverse group of faculty, administrators, and one doctoral student, all withdisciplinary homes in educational leadership or engineering. The research team has benefitedfrom formal and informal mentoring, particularly from White men who championed the menteesas students and faculty and pointed to
engineering, highway design. engineering management, geographic information systems, and land surveying. He has served in numerous leadership positions in ITE, ASCE and TRB. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Impact of Calculus Peer Mentoring on Leadership Development and Math Self-EfficacyIntroductionPilot ExCEL Calculus SequenceWe have recently piloted a three-semester Calculus experience for scholars in the Excellence inCivil Engineering Leadership (ExCEL) program, which is sponsored through a National ScienceFoundation (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) grant. The goal of the ExCEL
‐year, multi‐institution study of women engineering student self‐ efficacy," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 98, no. 1, pp. 27-38, 2009.[9] Q. A. Blanco, M. Carlota, A. Nasibog, B. Rodriguez, X. V. E. Salana and F. Gagani, "Probing on the Relationship between Students' Self-Confidence and Self-Efficacy while engaging in Online Learning amidst COVID-19," Journal La Edusci, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 16- 25, 2020.[10] J. Heo and S. Han, "Effects of motivation, academic stress and age in predicting self- directed learning readiness (SDLR): Focuses on online college students," Education and Information Technologies, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 61-71, 2018.[11] N. Ramo, E. Hald and A. Huang-Saad, "Synchronous vs. asynchronous vs
the Atlas Planning Environment”, IEEE Proceedings of theInternational Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC’04).[6] Jacob Devlin, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova, “Pre-training of DeepBidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding,” Proceedings of the 2019 Conference ofthe North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human LanguageTechnologies, Volume 1 (2019) Association for Computational Linguistics; Minneapolis,Minnesota.[7] Sung C., Dhamecha, T.I., Mukhi, N. (2019) Improving Short Answer Grading UsingTransformer-Based Pre-training. In: Isotani S., Millán E., Ogan A., Hastings P., McLaren B.,Luckin R. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2019. Lecture
institutions to advance work on project-based learning. She believes project- based learning holds significant potential for increasing the diversity of students who succeed in college and who persist in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, and she views her work with the Center as contributing to education reform from the inside out. She holds an M.A. in Developmental Psychology from Clark University and a B.A. in Psychology from Case Western Reserve University. Her background includes working in the field of education evaluation, where she focused primarily on the areas of project-based learning; STEM; pre-literacy and literacy; student life; learning communities; and professional development. She has
customized learning. Journal of Information Technology Case andApplication Research, 19:2, 75-80. Retrieved fromhttps://doi.org/10.1080/15228053.2017.1345214Spina, Eric. (2017, April 4). President Eric F. Spina’s Inaugural Address. Retrieved from:https://udayton.edu/news/articles/2017/04/inaugural_address.php on Dec. 31, 2019.Staley, D. J. & Trinkle, D. A. (February 2011). The changing landscape of higher education.Educase Review 46 (1), 16-33.Yedidia, M. & Bickel, J. (2001). Why aren’t there more women leaders in academic medicine?The views of clinical department chairs. Academic Medicine, 75(5): 453-465.Appendix A – Example of a Faculty Members Professional Strategic Plan (PSP)The PSP was created from the PDT that contains additional
AC 2009-1169: USING SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION, VISUALIZATION, ANDCOMPUTER-SIMULATION TOOLS TO ENHANCE TEACHING AND LEARNINGOF ENGINEERING ELECTROMAGNETICSRadian Belu, Drexel UniversityAlexandru Belu, Case Western Reserve University Page 14.1333.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Using Symbolic Computation, Visualization and Computer Simulation Tools to Enhance Teaching and Learning of Engineering ElectromagneticsAbstractIn this paper we will review various technologies and techniques in simulating anddeepening understanding of abstract and highly mathematical subjects such aselectromagnetics. Specifically the paper describes some of
included.BackgroundThe demographics of engineering student populations have changed and an increased number ofstudents are entering engineering programs with little to no prior hands-on experience. Thisleaves them at a disadvantage both in terms of success in mastering the curriculum and level ofcompetitiveness for internships [1, 2]. As these students move through a typical engineeringcurriculum, a focus on abstract theory and mathematical concepts over physical applications andmeasurable observations will fail to give them the necessary hands-on experience, reducing thechances that the information will be retained over the long term [3]. Students who have specificlearning styles that favor physical experimentation and real-world experience are also left at
, Virginia Tech Lisa D. McNair is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Research in SEAD Education at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.Dr. Kenneth Reid, Virginia Tech Kenneth Reid is the Assistant Department Head for Undergraduate Programs in Engineering Education at Virginia