different rationales. The first rationalerelates to preparation for professional decision-making, an ability to recognize ethical problemswhen they arise, an ability to practice “defensive” [preventive] ethics, and familiarity withprofessional standards for ethics. Students who raised this rationale also articulated theimportance of being in a practice of ethical problem solving. A second rationale raised by onestudent is that teaching ethics is “a way for the engineering department to be sure that we receivemore of a liberal education than solely a technical education.” Two students raised a thirdrationale, the personal development afforded by an education in ethics.B. Essential ElementsElements that students saw as essential parts of an ethics
personal career goals. iii. Students develop an engineering mindset that demonstrates constant curiosity, makes connections between disparate bodies of information, and seeks opportunities to create value.Approach to Developing Content & AssessmentsGiven that this was a redesign project, the instructors had a body of existing course material touse as a starting point for our new version of the course. Many existing lectures, lessons,activities, and assignments were used as a skeleton for the new course material. Keeping with thespirit of the backward design process outlined above, the instructors worked to revise, revamp,and rewrite course materials to connect back to
well academically, and they had a cumulative GPA of 3.383. With respect to programs, the students have evaluated the seminars positively. The2008 freshman cohort reported that they were actively participating in many of the careerservices (Career Services Center - 88%) and academic assistance programs (Center for AcademicSuccess - 77%) that would impact their academic success, professional development and overallbalance of life.IntroductionFulfilling the need for college graduates in science, engineering and technology has beenidentified as a critical element in maintaining the United States’ progress and leadership in acompetive, technology driven world economy1. Unfortunately, overall enrollment in engineeringdegree programs has declined
large contextual projects as part of their coursework) contributed to the developmentof a professional identity amongst recent graduates. Similarly, for undergraduate students, designexperiences [24], participating in technological innovation competitions [25], enjoyment ofelements of professional engineering practice [26], and engagement in engineering-relatedactivities [27] predicted undergraduates’ engineering identity.A sense of belonging is more associated with positive social and relational experiences. Bothformal and informal mentoring, especially for underrepresented students, were important forfostering belonging [11, 28, 29]. Peer mentors with the same identities as mentees could beespecially effective [30, 31]. Actions of faculty
and construction (AEC) students. In February 2019, Andrea received the prestigious National Science Foundation NSF - CAREER award to research professional identity development processes in undergraduate AEC women. She has also received grants from East Coast Construction Services, Engineering Information Foundation, and the Na- tional Association of Home Builders. Dr. Ofori-Boadu was selected to participate in the 2019 QEM-NSF INCLUDES summit. In 2018, she was selected as a 2018 National Science Foundation - NC A & T ADVANCE IT Faculty Scholar. She also received the 2018 CoST Teaching Excellence Merit Award. Dr. Ofori-Boadu received both the 2017 NC A & T - CoST Rookie Research Excellence Award and the
at the end of the fallsemester. There was a positive, significant difference in how the students interacted with thefaculty and graduate teaching assistants, interacted with their team members, their study habitsand in their confidence and determination to become an engineer. This demonstrates the sense of Page 7.120.9community for all students. Impressed with comments from faculty and students alike, the Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationcollege, in fall 2001, placed a peer
electroniccomponents into a course called Victorian Media Studies. In these cases, the library serves theinteresting role of ‘gap-bridger’, bringing these more engineering-friendly tools into practice inthe humanities.The low barrier to entry of the MaKey MaKey (which is essentially ‘plug-and-play’) combinedwith library support, enabled a Communications faculty member, Nicholas Taylor, to develop aclass assignment using MaKey MaKey in collaboration with a librarian, Brendan O’Connell, forhis Communications and Technology course. Students produced videos in which they builtphysical representations of intellectual concepts from the course using MaKey MaKey. Theyused the MaKey MaKey as an experimental communications medium, learning about both self
instructions compared to the 2019 in-person bootcamp was thatthe students who were not willing to reach out to the faculty or the student assistant for help,would get stuck for a while which also resulted in less engagement. In an in-person bootcamp,supervision and identifying the students that needed additional help was significantly easier.Therefore, the number of students who could complete this part of the project was lower than lastyear. A solution to this issue could be creating groups of two students similar to the in-personbootcamp, asking students to work with each other, and joining their Zoom breakout roomsevery 15-20 minutes to see their progress. On the third day, students designed a path for their robots to follow and developed the
include primingstudents for subsequent ‘design spine’ courses and their final-year BME capstone experience, anddeveloping interactive project-based teaching at scale. The two faculty who teach this course(Frow, Smith) have co-developed the content over the past two years; we also meet biweeklyduring the academic year with faculty members teaching the other BME ‘design spine’ courses, tocoordinate program content and learning outcomes across courses.Our semester-long course focuses on global healthcare markets and device design for low-resourcesettings. The course revolves around an open-ended, team-based design project (Smith et al. 2005).A core aim is to foster curiosity and creativity1 in students’ first formal experience of engineeringdesign
Page 25.1322.2translated into a local decision to expand the “humanistic-social” program at MIT to eightsubjects, or one course taken during each semester of a student’s career.7From the standpoint of MIT’s history, the most significant consequence of Compton efforts wasthat it placed MIT squarely within the path of the U.S. science mobilization effort during WorldWar II. As recounted on many occasions, MIT garnered a lion’s share of the total OSRD wartimeexpenditures, a significant portion of which was dispersed across the institute.Origins of the SurveyVarious accounts make it clear that sponsored research was on the minds of many faculty atMIT. Still, as an indication of MIT’s vestigial orientation towards being an undergraduateinstitution
traditionally marginalized engineering students from an asset-based perspective. Homero’s goal is to develop engineering education practices that value the capital that tra- ditionally marginalized students, bring into the field, and to train graduate students and faculty members with the tool to promote effective and inclusive learning environments and mentorship practices. Homero has been recognized as a Diggs Teaching Scholar, a Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence Fellow, a Global Perspectives Fellow, a Diversity Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, and was inducted into the Bouchet Honor Society. Homero serves as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Chair for the
et al., [5] performed an exploratory on a non-traditional first year college student’sexperiences with messaging about engineering by an administrator, engineering faculty, and anacademic advisor. Their ethnographic research revealed tensions between the career goals of thestudent and the prioritization of national economic strength, an emphasis on quantitative andtechnical aspects of engineering practice over social or qualitative aspects, and a focus on theimportance of producing a large number of engineers to bolster the workforce over theeducational goals of the students. The messaging is created and reinforced by individuals atdifferent levels of the university system. This work underscores the need for criticalintrospection by
when architecture majors enroll in engineering coursesin the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) accredited degree programs. Theproblem deepens when the setting changes from a public institution to a private liberal artsinstitution. In response to these scenarios, the author explored the question, “What is thepersonal nature of the liberal arts in engineering courses and programs from a teacher’sperspective?” To examine this condition, a personal experience narrative was performed todescribe the journey of being a faculty member teaching engineering and architecture courses inABET and NAAB accredited programs, while inside public and private institutions. Theprimary purpose was to explore the nature of liberal arts in engineering
another woman or an acquaintance. It is obvious that the role model fromchildhood in the face of relatives offers obvious advantages, but this is not the only way.People are inspired by the career paths and achievements of various persons. And this instillsin women, especially at the beginning of the career path, a deep conviction that they canachieve similar heights in STEM (Q54).Table 3. Comparison of answers of interviewees with intrinsic ability versus when they had a role model Intrinsic ability Role model “The predisposition to subjects of STEM fields “My role model is a former student of the leading influenced my decision to study at
science students and graduates in making the transition from academiato a career in professional practice. Institute programs address those issues which make adefinitive difference between true success and failure in an engineered project.Issues in Professional Engineering Practice ProgramIn 1992 in response to the concerns voiced by the practicing engineering community, the GeneralElectric Fund and the Institute for Professional Practice sponsored the development of a coursecalled Issues in Professional Engineering Practice. The intent of the course is to draw uponpracticing engineers and allied professionals to assist engineering schools in raising the level ofstudent awareness regarding potentially disruptive non-technical issues in
SPSU. The institution and faculty have used this component of boundary work as ameans of exercising Gieryn’s concept of expulsion where “boundary work excludes rivals fromwithin by defining them as outsiders.”53 The expertise of “applied” and “hands-on” educationalexperience has allowed the ET programs at SPSU to demonstrate their superiority overengineering. An ET faculty member writes They (ET degrees) train the students for real engineering jobs. They have hands on courses and students also learn computer packages and programs necessary for the jobs. Employers do not need to train the graduates. The graduates have found real engineering jobs because they have learned both theoretical and hands on stuff. The
course and the capstone e-team experience as described above and special seminars each semester. This first year class has35 students selected from over 600 applicants with a combined average SAT of over 1400. It isexpected that this program will grow in both quality and quantity of students. At the steady statethe program is expected have over 250 students enrolled. A faculty implementation team iscurrently exploring the possibility of a graduate program that integrates a Masters of BusinessAdministration (MBA) and Masters of Engineering (MEngr.) again using the e-team project asan integrating theme.5. Infrastructure Requirements – faculty, staff, facilitiesThe three programs (iP3, IDA and IBE) described above emphasize the integrated
FloorFigure 4 shows that during this particular session, the undergraduates had the floor for themajority of the time, followed by their near-peer graduate mentors and then the faculty. The factthat the students control the floor for substantial periods of time is consistent with the nature ofthe RCS. This differs greatly from usual classroom instruction, in which the instructortraditionally dominates the floor. In the studio, the undergraduates play a more active role intheir own development. However, note that there are more undergraduates than mentors, andmore mentors than faculty, so on a per person basis these numbers still indicate that the facultyand mentors play an active role in driving the discussion.The role activity analysis can be
) greater interest in pursuing IT business ventures, and (3) more en- trepreneurial knowledge and skill than comparable students who do not participate in NEW- PATH? • Are NEWPATH students more likely to pursue IT startup career positions after graduation than comparable students? • Which NEWPATH program components are most critical at producing outcome effects?Quasi-experimental design: The outcome evaluation design consists of administering a pre-and post-test survey to each incoming cohort of NEWPATH students and to a comparison group ofstudents who attended the initial recruitment meeting but did not become members of NEWPATH,then administering a post-test survey at the end of the following academic year to both groups.The pre
identify their ownstrengths and areas for personal development. Collaborative learning also takes place, asstudents learn from their own team members, and from observations of other teams.Student evaluation and feedbackIn the 2013 student survey, students have clearly said that they enjoyed the project activities,and the hands-on tasks. Three methods were employed to gather student opinions – an onlinesurvey (147 responses received), face-to-face discussions by staff from the Department ofTeaching and Learning (over 300 students participated), and course feedback. Students saidthat the projects, Stream online support (especially, the weekly study plans), practical andapplied activities, class discussions, problem solving exercises, and field trips
peer reviewed conference proceedings articles in these areas. He has B.S. in ME, and both M.S. and Ph.D. in IE. He is a member of ASEE, INFORMS, and a senior member of IIE.Dr. Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and In- dustrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on design tools
the purpose of helping provide insight for further research direction ofculturally contextualized STEM curricula for Tohono O’odham students. The research questionguiding this work is:How do Tohono O’odham Wa:k community members perceive engineering in the context oftheir community and culture?Researcher RoleMy life experiences and beliefs shape my research role. I am a Tohono O’odham woman, bornfor the Diné (Navajo). I am a first-generation college graduate, an engineer, an engineeringeducation PhD student, and a mother. Growing up on the Navajo Nation, my parents and eldersencouraged me and other Native people to pursue higher education. We were encouraged topursue education for the purpose of helping Native people, community, and culture
affective as well as effective cultural mediators andambassadors, students acquire an understanding of how a language other than their ownproduces and distributes knowledge within socio-cultural communicative frameworks.As we learned in the spring of 2006, the piloting of a unique collaboration between Civiland Environmental Engineering and Humanities provided a forum for generating furtherreflection on the benefits of cross-disciplinary efforts for both students and faculty. Wediscovered, for example, that cross-disciplinary literacy as a framework for advancinglanguage acquisition and engineering service learning also encouraged language andnon-engineering students to integrate an international field experience into theireducational career goals
popularity of the successful FEH program thus far has fueled a noticeableincrease in the FEH student population. For example, there were about 70 honors students whostarted the FEH sequence in fall quarter of the 1998-99 academic year. A total of 250 honorsstudents began the FEH sequence in fall quarter 2002. Historically, FEH was always able toprovide a significant amount of instructional support to each student, but with such an increase indemand for the program, staffing at all levels—faculty, graduate teaching associates, andundergraduate teaching assistants—becomes more challenging. Several aspects of FEH,including the hands-on lab experiences, were originally designed with a smaller population inmind; population growth has strained resources
that comes with experience, causingindividuals to make less analytic, rule-based judgments and more quick decisions based on their priorexperiences [10], [21]-[23], [25]. While we cannot teach students the experience of an industryprofessional within a classroom, we can attempt to advance their skills acquisition by exposing them tothe situational context that may influence their judgments and attempt to make them more involved in theoutcomes of their decisions. Implementing frameworks such as the cognitive apprenticeship frameworkwhich focuses on novices learning the problem-solving process of experts from experienced professionalsmay be useful in addressing this gap [19]. Our future research in this area hopes to explore the impact ofsuch
) Training of in-career high school SMET teachers in engineering education, primarily through participation in a one - week summer institute and bi-monthly workshops alongside engineering Graduate Fellows; 6) Establishment of a Galileo virtual engineering community using computer infrastructure resources at the University of Connecticut as a major venue for project planning, communication and resource/experience sharing for all participants in this project and the education community in general; 7) Development of a “Master of Engineering Education” degree to provide engineering graduate students interested in exploring teaching careers, or secondary school
: A Case StudyThe context of this case study is the development of a technology-focused, transdisciplinaryprogram at a large research-intensive Midwestern university. This program is part of a largerinitiative supported by the university to experiment with new educational approaches. The visionfor this initiative was to prepare students to succeed across their future career—which mayinclude jobs that do not exist today. A group of interested faculty fellows were charged withinvestigating new educational approaches that met the values of: (a) viewing the student as awhole person; (b) welcoming diversity and access for all; (c) student autonomy; (d) risk-takingas an important component to learning; and (e) openness fostered through sharing
: Word cloud visualization of the college-level challenges faced by the participantsIn addition to a word frequency query, a coding analysis was performed on the responses toquestion M1 from the matching survey to distill this qualitative information. In doing so, fourinductive codes were generated by the researcher while reading and sorting the data: academics,path uncertainty, personal and social struggles, and time balance. The “academics” code wasused to label any struggles related to coursework, such as low grades, dropping courses, or poorstudy habits. The “path uncertainty” code broadly labels any lack of clarity in students’ academicor career trajectory in engineering, such as being unsure about their major or having troublefinding an
mixed signals; even with a stated high level of interest, leadership developmentthere is often haphazard4. For example, none of the engineering graduates surveyed by Watson5were provided any formal training in leadership by their employers. As Kumar and Hsaio 6 cleverlyconcluded, engineers must learn “soft skills the hard way.” In academia, the situation hashistorically been little better. There is sparse room for leadership education in crowded curriculaat universities, and few engineering faculty members have the knowledge or skill for teachingleadership4,6. Unsurprisingly, there are significant deficiencies in engineering education for thesocial skills needed in the workplace7. It is generally accepted that students will have to
“The perceived diminishedrelevance of Computer Science is being driven by two complementary phenomena: computingapplications are being viewed less as applications of computing technology and more as integralcomponents of everyday tasks, and the field of computing is examining itself in an effort tounderstand how to prepare students for rapidly changing careers increasingly integrated withother disciplines.” These types of observations require that educational program administratorsand other computing professionals continually review the evolving field of computing in aneffort to understand how to prepare students for rapidly changing careers increasingly integratedwith other disciplines.3. Reasons for Loss of IT JobsIt is true that the high