ethical issues often arise in environmental science when decisions have to be made in the face of scientific uncertainty. Explanation that ethical issues that arise in environmental decision-making in the face of scientific uncertainty often include who should have the burden of proof and what quantity of proof should satisfy the burden of proof. Explanation of ethical issues that often arise in environmental economics, particularly in cost-benefit analysis. Description of ethical issues that arise in economic analysis of environmental problems include: (a) whether money should be the only measure of value, (b) whether there are distributive justice issues that should be considered when claims
primary and secondary schools do not seem able to produce enough students with the interest, motivation, knowledge, and skills they will need to compete and prosper in such a world.”The American Society for Quality commissioned a market research firm to study teacherknowledge and passion for math and science. The results show that students feel their teachersdo a poor job of discussing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers and/orencouraging students toward the STEM disciplines, even though they consider their teachers tobe knowledgeable about math and science: “Although 85 percent of students said their teachers deserve at least a ‘B’ when it comes to knowledge about science topics, 63 percent of
week. In addition, they were required tosubmit a typed, one-quarter to one-third page paragraph answering a stated question or choiceamong questions (see Appendix B). These questions were designed to overlap with the coursecontent for the week, and the nature of the questions evolved during the semester in response tostudent performance and feedback. Toward the end of the semester, we also offered studentsopportunities to re-write previous paragraphs for a higher grade. Students were given no in-classinstruction in paragraph writing, but on the course web site we provided students with resourcessuch as documents about writing, links to online writing guides, and student-produced examplesof well-written paragraphs. These materials were accessed
,2001.[3] Tufte, Edward R., Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1990.[4] Frankel, F.C. and DePace, A.H. Visual Strategies, A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists and Engineers Page 23.1271.10Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2012.[5] Ferster, B. Interactive Visualization: Insight through Inquiry, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts andLondon England, 2013[6] Sorby, S.A. "Educational Research in Developing 3-D Spatial Skills for Engineering Students," InternationalJournal of Science Education, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 459 - 480, 2009.[7] Sorby S.A. and Veurink, L. “Raising the Bar? Longitudinal
writing in the context of engineering discipline may provide a link between writing andengineering24 and thus may aid students in transferring writing skills learned to other engineeringcontexts requiring writing.In response to these concerns, other approaches to improving the communication skills ofundergraduates have been developed, including (a) requiring students take general technicalcommunication courses taught within English departments, (b) establishing communication labsproviding assistance with students’ writing on a voluntary basis, and (c) providing discipline-specific intensive writing courses. Required technical communications courses taught in Englishdepartments may present opportunities for engineering students to be exposed to
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following way,“Uh...I did, uh, a little bit of research to just, just give people preface, and that was on theeconomic side, specifically. And then, um, involved in planned discussions, obviously gave input,and also set up the mechanism where people could ask questions via text.” He also helpedmoderate small group discussions which he described as, “[B]asically, uh, just trying to keepanybody from kind of grandstanding within the discussion and being, like I know, that somebodycan even be a professor, as a student we are kind of supposed to tamper them down and allow a lotof different voices to come out, generate questions, compile those questions, and kind of move ahandful to the top.” As a result, even though Way characterized his role as a small
their codesof ethics is provided in Appendix B. Third, students were provided with one-page summaries ofthe same six ethical theoretical frameworks previously listed in the first approach (ethicalegoism, fairness or justice theory, Kantianism, rights theory, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics).These “one-pagers” are provided in Appendix C. As the final pre-work step, students wererequired to take a quiz on the ethical frameworks to ensure they could recognize general tenets ofeach framework. Sample questions from this quiz are provided in Appendix D.Under Approach 2 students were individually required to research and write ethical analyses ofengineering disasters that they chose separately based on a common theme (e.g., another themecould be
gaining an appreciation of aesthetics.Thus there appears to be ample evidence of initiatives introducing engineering students to artisticconcepts (Enduring Design), having engineers contribute to the development of objects of art(Technology Art Studio), and engaging engineers as performers (the sonic objects described byCarnegie et al). These initiatives, however, do not appear to engage engineers as artists.Introducing the Leonardo ProjectThe circumstances in play in the EE Department in the fall of 2015 were these: (a) a replacementfor Design Methodology was imperative; (b) Flaubert’s detailed notes and frameworks fromMadame Bovary provided a hitherto-unappreciated perspective on the design process in the arts;(c) a review of literature pointed
Engineering. (2004). The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century.Washington, DC: National Academies Press.9 National Academy of Engineering. (2005). Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education tothe New Century. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.10 Rojter, J. (2004). The role of humanities and social sciences in engineering practice and engineering education.Proceedings, Annual Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE) Conference, Towoomba,Queensland, Australia, September.11 Russell, J. S., Stouffer, B., & Walesh, S. G. (2000). The first professional degree: A historic opportunity. Journalof Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 126(2), 54-63.12 Sharma, R. K. (2013
dialogue about the ethics of the Grand Challenges – boththe specific challenges described and the process that produced them. May the conversationcontinue.References1. Ross, P. (2010). Space Exploration: Science, Engineering and Social Impact in a Freshman Technical Communication Course. ASEE Annual Conference.2. Johnson, G. and Siller, T. (2010) A 21st Century Undergraduate Engineering Education Program. ASEE Annual Page 22.1677.9 Conference.3. Savilonis, B., Spanagel, D., and Wobbe, K. (2010). Engaging Students with Great Problems. ASEE Annual Conference.4. Bottomley, L., Lavelle, J., and Martin-Vega, L. (2010
SocialStudies of Science Annual Meeting. The study drew upon psychological studies on college students’ epistemologicaldevelopment. Some important work in this body of literature include: Perry, W. G. 1970. Forms of intellectual and Page 24.1374.16ethical development in the college years: a scheme. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Belenky, M.F., Clinchy, B.M.,Goldberger, N.R., & Tarule, J.M. 1986. Women's ways of knowing: the development of self, voice, and mind. BasicBooks, NY. Baxter Magolda, M. B. 1992. Knowing and reasoning in college: gender-related patterns in students'intellectual development. Jossey-Bass. King, P. M., &
AC 2011-928: USING HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY TO PROMOTE ANUNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPACT OF ENGINEERING SOLUTIONSAMONG ENGINEERING STUDENTSMichael Geselowitz, IEEE History Center Michael N. Geselowitz is Staff Director of the IEEE History Center. Immediately prior to joining IEEE in 1997, he was Group Manager at Eric Marder Associates, a New York market research firm, where he supervised Ph.D. scientists and social scientists undertaking market analyses for Fortune 500 high-tech companies. He is also a registered Patent Agent. He holds S.B. degrees in electrical engineering and in anthropology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from Harvard University. His
were given a set of questions to prompt their thinking about thecreation of, and the connections between, the archival materials (Appendix B).After studying their collection as a group, the students were re-distributed into new groups withone student representative from each collection. The students presented findings about theiroriginal collections: Who or what was the collection about? When were these items created? Forwhat purpose or for whom were these items created? As a group, they were asked to discusswhat each collection might have to say about science or engineering during its time of creation.They were also asked to think about what information was missing from the collections, whichwould have helped them to better understand the
the overall rubric is acceptable. However, there is some variation in thereliability of each skill. In particular, we see a. High reliability for 7 of the skills, b. Good reliability for an additional 4 skills, c. Reasonable but lower reliability for 8 skills.Schools will be able to use the results of this study to identify the most reliable parts of thisrubric and to enhance the reliability between different raters using the rubric. Further, theseresults will be used, in conjunction with both formal and informal user feedback, to improve theoverall reliability of this rubric, and specifically, the reliability of those skills showing lessconsistency among raters.IntroductionSince the Accreditation Board of
a response that is organized and coherent. There is no “correct” answer.3. a) What does the term “social considerations” mean in the context of engineering practice? Please briefly define and give an example. b) What about the following additional types of considerations: political, economic, cultural, environmental, ethical? Please briefly define and give an example of each.4. How have social, political, economic, cultural, environmental, and ethical issues typically been considered in your engineering (or other) education? Please discuss each in turn. Please provide a detailed response to the above question (e.g., a paragraph or two as needed). Please express
-longengineering design projects courses. First Year Engineering Projects introduces students to theengineering design process and to problem-solving while working in teams. Second YearEngineering Projects, Engineering for the Community, is a sophomore-level course in whichstudent teams are assigned a client and must prototype a product that solves that client’sproblem. Third Year Engineering Projects, Invention and Innovation, is a junior/senior levelclass in which student teams design a product and a business in parallel. Team size for projectsclasses typically ranges from four to six students. See Appendix B for course descriptions.Research QuestionsThe primary research question addressed in this study is “How do skill-building workshopsaffect
literature.25-26 These criteria include having no more than twolines for the sentence assertion headlines, supporting those headlines with relevantgraphics, and having as few words as possible for the bodies of the slides. As shown inTable 2, the average number of words per slide was 19.3, and every slide in the assertion-evidence set had a relevant graphic. Appendix B presents the assertion-evidence slides.Not reflected in this collection is that some of the slides included simple animationswhich took the form of presentation of additional details of graphics on nine of the tenslides (the animations followed the choice of “Appear,” which the assertion-evidenceliterature recommends). In developing the topic-subtopic slides, we followed the
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Paper ID #27406Just Add Context? Analyzing Student Perceptions of Decontextualized andContextualized Engineering Problems and their Use of Storytelling toCreate ContextDr. Nicole Farkas Mogul, University of Maryland, College Park Nicole Mogul is a professor of engineering ethics and Assistant Director of the Science, Technology and Society at the University of Maryland, College Park. Co-author, David Tomblin is the Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program of College Park Scholars at the University of Maryland, College Park. Co-author, Tim Reedy, is a graduate assistant in the Science, Technology and Society
that integrates thevideo, transcript text and codes. Classroom sessions were segmented into clips, and clipswere coded to reflect the points of interest noted in our research questions, in a mannersimilar to Nathan et al., 2009. Our coding framework delineated two dimensions that areespecially relevant here: A. Concepts mark engagement with “big ideas” from STEM, such as: modeling in engineering; force and work in science; and algebra in mathematics. We separately note whether math concepts are explicitly integrated for students during instruction. B. Skills address process-oriented tasks that are important for doing practical Page
AC 2011-634: HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN ENGLANDAND WALES BETWEEN 1955 AND 1966. THE CONTRIBUTION OF THEBRITISH ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING INDUSTRY TO ITS DEVELOP-MENTJohn Heywood, Trinity College Dublin Professorial Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin formerly Professor and Director of Teacher Ed- ucation in the University. During the period of this paper was a lecturer in radio communications at Norwood technical College, Senior Research Fellow in Higher Technological Education at Birmingham College of Advanced Technology, and Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow in Higher Education at the University of Lancaster. Has an MSc in Engineering Education from the University of Dublin
, they were asked to describe any resistance that they faced. Follow-up questions inquiredabout other presentation styles that participants observed from peers and superiors and thoughtsthat participants had about spreading the AE approach to industry and graduate research. The fullquestion tree for the survey can be found in Appendix A and a sample survey can be found inAppendix B. Because the sample size of this exploratory study was small, we did not attempt to measurefor any statistical significance. Instead, we sought solely to gather responses to our three researchquestions to determine whether we should pursue a larger and more formal study.Results: Students Using Assertion-Evidence Style in Professional Settings As
education.Critical thinking: conventional perspectivesOne of the earliest attempts in framing a comprehensive definition for critical thinking has beenmade by Robert H. Ennis.30 Influenced by the work of John Dewey, Max Black, and B. OthanelSmith, Ennis proposed 12 aspects of critical thinking and initiated the mainstream criticalthinking movement.31 Ennis, in his groundwork, assumed that critical thinking is teachable as ageneral skill, and there would be improvement of critical thinking as a result of deliberateinstruction.30 Ennis later revised the definition of critical thinking and included disposition inaddition to skills to highlight the importance of one’s tendency to think critically. He definescritical thinking as “reasonable reflective thinking
Paper ID #13876Not engineering to help but learning to (un)learn: Integrating research andteaching on epistemologies of technology design at the marginsDr. Prashant Rajan, Iowa State University Prashant Rajan is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Communication Studies Program at Iowa State University. He has a B. Eng. in polymer engineering from Pune University, an M.S. in materials science and engineering from the University of Cinainnati, and a Ph.D.in Organiza- tional Communication with Ph. D. minors in research methods and critical-cultural theories from Purdue University. He is
Paper ID #7610The T-shaped Engineer: Connecting the STEM to the TOPProf. Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University Joe Tranquillo was the second faculty member in the new Biomedical Engineering Program at Bucknell University and helped build an accredited department with seven faculty and 60 undergraduate students. His teaching interests are in biomedical signals and systems, neural and cardiac electrophysiology, and medical device design. Nationally Tranquillo has published or presented over 50 peer reviewed or invited works in the field of engineering education. In 2012 he was a founding faculty member of the KEEN Winter
?. Journal of Engineering Education, 101(1), 95. 4. Jesiek, B. K., Sangam, D., Thompson, J., Chang, Y. & Evangelou, D. (2010). Global engineering attributes and attainment pathways: A study of student perceptions. In Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. 5. Troy, C. D., & Essig, R. R., & Jesiek, B. K., & Boyd, J., & Trellinger, N. M. (2014). Writing to learn engineering: Identifying effective techniques for the integration of written communication into engineering classes and curricula (NSF RIGEE project) Proceedings of the 2014 ASEE Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://peer.asee.org/22796 6. Essig, R. R., & Troy, C. D
. Appendix B shows the associated learning outcomes. These resources wereposted on Blackboard for students to use as a reference as they completed their final laboratoryreports. Statistics tracking (a feature of Blackboard) recorded the number of times modules wereaccessed. Additionally, students’ perceptions about the effectiveness of the modules wascollected at the end of the course through a questionnaire.Table 2: Online modules deployed on format and function of Laboratory Reports. See Appendix B for associated learningoutcomes. Module Module Topic: Number 1 Structuring your laboratory report: Front matter, body, and back matter 2 What is a letter of transmittal? 3 Responding with appropriate detail: The abstract
absence versus critical engagement : problematics of the crit in design learning and teaching. Art, Des. Commun. High. Educ. 2, 143–154 (2000).5. Horton, I. The Relationship between Creativity and the Group Crit in Art and Design Education The Relationship between Creativity and the Group Crit in Art and Design Education. Creat. or Conform. Build. Cult. Creat. High. Educ. (2007).6. Blair, B., Blythman, M. & Orr, S. “Critiquing the Critique”: A 2 year ADM-HEA funded project. (2008). at Page 26.1707.11 7. Using Peer Review to Help Students Improve Their Writing. The Teaching Center, University of
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