promote youth’s understanding andengagement in environmental sustainability, social justice, and decision-making in an AI-enabledfuture. However, the traditional approach to defining engineering that has guided engineeringpractices is insufficient because it fails to embrace these realities. Therefore, the need for a newframework that reflects these realities is overwhelming. This paper introduces a new theoreticalframework called socially transformative engineering that not only captures these missingelements but also values and incorporates the diverse perspectives and experiences of students. Inparticular, this framework draws upon the legitimation code theory and justice-centeredpedagogies and builds on three tenets (reasoning fluency
engineering students through community building (Evaluation) AbstractOver the past twelve years, the ESTEEM program, funded by the NSF S-STEM, at University ofCalifornia Santa Barbara (UCSB) has supported 161 low-income undergraduate students inengineering. This paper emphasizes the students’ changing needs and what they foundsupportive over time with a special focus on the shifting needs for community building before,during, and after COVID-19 pandemic remote learning. Without additional support, low-incomeengineering students, who often reflect additional intersecting minoritized identities and are morelikely to be the first in their family to attend college, leave the field at
their needs.BackgroundThere is a long history of engagement of academics with communities [1-4]. Historically someof this work was termed service-learning (SL) where the goal was for students to reapeducational benefits from credit-bearing activities through a process of reflecting on their work,while community partners also benefited from the collaboration. SL work often faced challengeswith equitable benefits and power sharing. SL in engineering is now often being framed underthe larger umbrella of community engagement (CE). CE is a broader idea that encompassescommunity partnerships in co-curricular activities (such as Engineers Without Borders studentchapters). CE work can also be focused on scholarship and research, termed CommunityEngaged
opportunityto introduce our physics class students to humanitarian application as well. QueensboroughCommunity College introduced servicing learning via the quotation from US Government Learnand Serve America 1 "Service-Learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integratesmeaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience,teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities." Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityCollaboration between faculty and community partner in designing a project based on thepartner's specific goals and needs is an important aspect. The pedagogy in teaching servicelearning with the New York Public Interest Research Group
’ learning capability throughindividual development and peer engagement. The course design allows students to activelyparticipate in learning as a “resident” living in a “neighborhood”. Besides the traditionalindividual work, various group activities are performed inside one group and among multiplegroups, or the “households”. Students feel more obligated to better performance and high-qualitylearning outcomes. Another focal point of this study is the assessment of student learning underthe proposed course frame, where tailored tutorials and guidance are vital. Although supportfrom the teaching team is essential in this “neighborhood”, we still want to put students in thecenter as the leader of their study. The ongoing data collection reflects the
researchers to the field—for example, in National ScienceFoundation Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (RIEF) grants, and CAREER BroaderImpacts and Educational Plan activities—which require traditionally-trained faculty to developengineering education research skills. Reflecting this shift, the number of qualitative researcharticles in engineering education reflects the increase in interest in qualitative methods and theneed for introductory material for pivoting researchers. It has been the norm for engineeringeducation researchers to partner with emergent and pivoting engineering faculty members tomentor them through this transition, but the process is often time- and resource-intensive. To meetthis need, we have developed this primer on
what they learned and how it applies to the real-world. These qualitative data wereanalyzed using thematic analysis to detect patterns within the reflections. The results show that the bio-inspired projects engaged students by connecting theory, practice, and application when teachingmathematically intensive engineering subjects, while also instilling an entrepreneurial mindset amongstudents, enhancing their creativity by combining art and STEM, and sharpening their professional skills.The study concludes with details related to the instructor’s intervention and lessons learned so that otherengineering instructors can easily replicate in the classroom.1. Introduction1.1 Problem IdentificationFor engineering students, it is very important to
engineering services” as this was the intent of the terminology they used. Thischange will be reflected in future editions of the CEBOK.The preface goes on to state: All civil engineers, including students studying civil engineering, those who teach civil engineering, early career civil engineers, those who mentor early career engineers, those who employ civil engineers, those who design civil engineering projects, those who lead and manage groups of civil engineers and civil engineering projects, and those who conduct research in civil engineering should be interested in the CEBOK3, as we all, as members of an amazing and exciting profession, should be committed to and supportive of preparing the next
. Structured deliverables provideguidance as to what elements of a design process may be appropriate to move through theengineering design process. The scaffolding to emphasize prototyping and adoption of aprototyping mindset may help as a pedagogical tool [33]. Artifacts that are created in thesecourses reflect tangible evidence of activity. From the idea to realization, there are means todescribe the role, purpose, and creation of prototypes. Gerber & Carroll [19] describe theconnection and process of prototype creation. Houde & Hill [20] discuss different types ofprototypes as what do prototypes prototype (function, looks-like). Makerspaces also provideadditional context for the tools, mindsets, and community of practice [21-23, 11].Design
make use of Hofstede's dimensions, which in an original studyyielded four dimensions of culture that distinguish countries from each other [9]:Individualism, which is the capacity to belong to a group and to work collectively.Power distance reflects the relationship between dependence and the degree to whichgroups can accept an unequal distribution of power. Uncertainty avoidance considershow individuals cope with uncertainty. And masculinity assesses the emotional rolesamong members of society and estimates how much a society is driven by competitionand success [20]. However, through new research in 23 countries, Hofstede added afifth dimension called long-term orientation that reflects the encouragement of futurereward-oriented activities
and intuitively.Lib [1] described a series of steps used to develop high levels of skill in a sport. These stepsincluded drills and practice, a coach, and most importantly by playing the sport. Lib contrastedthese steps to a conventional engineering classroom approach wherein a person is being talked toabout the sport and rarely, if ever, plays. In the context of the engineering classroom, formationof engineers, and development of subject mastery we summarize these simple steps proposed byLib as: 1) a series of iterative tasks repeated many times until correct, 2) by working with expertswho observe and instruct and correct and provide a structure of iterative and progressiveconstructive failure, and 3) by reflecting on their progress and
lesser emphasis on social and ethical skill developmentmay reflect student preferences [4]. In their survey of 6,176 undergraduate students (39%majoring in STEM, 26.5% beginning in STEM and then changing their major to another field,and 30% never majoring in STEM), they found that those students that remained in STEMreported that their career goals were more important than social change, a response which wasnot reported by their non-STEM peers. This is a concerning result, when we consider theprofound responsibilities that accompany the role of an engineer. As Nair and Bullet propose [5],it is necessary to create an educational experience that allows for ethical considerations “to bebrought up naturally”. In this way, we allow for the students
lectures andbreakout discussions, reflecting on actionable steps to promote justice and equity in both the CoEcommunity at Penn State and across the global engineering workforce. The goal of this inauguralsummit was to empower and educate the entire CoE community, from students to faculty, to staffand alumni on equity and inclusion related issues in industry.DRT student leaders sought to provide a greater variety of topics as part of the 2022 EngineeringEquity Summit. The hybrid format of the summit consisted of two sets of concurrent sessionsoffered both virtually and in person with the goal of maintaining accessibility for attendees. Theevent was compressed to a one-day, 5-hour event, and centered around the theme of Mentorship,aligning with the
in Civil and Environmental Engineering. As a result, theCE/ENVE faculty collaborated with the student leaders to integrate social and environmentaljustice into the CE/ENVE program educational objectives (PEOs). PEOs reflect the goals thatprogram graduates will achieve within a few years of graduation, reflect the mission of theDepartment, and provide guidance for specific student learning outcomes in the classrooms. Assuch, they are the principle tool for guiding lasting and significant modifications to thecurriculum. As part of the student-initiated PEOs revitalization, additional educationalobjectives were incorporated, including: resilient, sustainable, and safe design; systems-thinking;and, inclusive communications. This paper discusses
Conceptual Site ModelsAbstractIn environmental engineering site remediation projects, community perception of environmentaland health risks can influence a project’s scope and design. Therefore, community engagement iscritical to shaping an engineer’s definition of an environmental problem. However, lower-levelundergraduate engineering curricula rarely address the incorporation of community input intoenvironmental engineering problem definition, as environmental engineering coursework tendsto utilize pre-defined problems to develop and assess technical knowledge and skills. Upper-level courses that do include community participation in environmental engineering design tendto be reflective, having students evaluate the social impact of a pre-defined
Engineering Student Entrepreneurial Mindset Assessment(ESEMA) [32]-[33] and the interdisciplinary skills, reflective behavior, and recognizingdisciplinary perspectives scales from the Educating the Engineer of 2020 Student Survey [9],[34], which, for the remainder of the paper, will be referenced as a measure of interdisciplinarycompetence [9].Interdisciplinary NarrativeAn 8 week humanities narrative discussing topics of genocide and crimes against humanity,mainly focusing on the Holocaust and its link to engineering, was used as the case study for thisclass. This topic was selected because of the connections that can be made between Naziengineers and scientists, and their involvment with the crimes commited during the Holocaust.Due to the structure
similarities to and differences from others, gainingincreased cultural self-awareness, and developing relationships with culturally different others.Integral to the Story Circles methodology are built-in reflection, feedback, and debriefingsegments that harness participants’ comments in an egalitarian process, honing team members’skills to identify, analyze, and evaluate qualitative data provided by their peers. Notably, theStory Circles methodology has been tested in both in-person and online modalities and in fiveworld regions, but never with a group of engineering students. Furthermore, it was foundeffective with participants of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and levels of IC, a boonin engineering courses with a diversely prepared
communication with students, including students' access to iPads over the summer. Since themain goals of the program were to increase student opportunities to engage with biomedicalengineering and science research topics and experiences, it was not necessary to request thatstudents learn new software for email, video meetings, and online learning platforms. Instead, itwas decided to train the instructors of the program on the platforms already used by the students,rather than the students on the platforms used at the University of Minnesota. This allowed for amore effective use of time spent toward meeting program goals. A reflection regarding the easeand efficiency of using school-implemented technology and programs is provided at the end ofthe
tiered PD model features a scaffolded series of reflective and activity-oriented modules toincrementally enrich the instructional practices and mindset of HSI STEM educators andstrengthen their repertoire of strategies for engaging culturally diverse students. Scaffolding thattranslates culturally responsive theory to practice spans each of the four distinct topic modules ineach tier. Each topic module in a tier then scaffolds to a more advanced topic module in the nexttier. Tier 1, Bienvenidos, welcomes HSI STEM educators who recognize the need to better servetheir Latinx students, and want guidance for small practical activities to try with their students.Tier 2, Transformation through Action, immerses HSI STEM educators in additional
IEC Social Justice Workshop Series (Anti-Racism Practice in Engineering: Exploring,Learning & Solutions or ARPELS) was organized to occur before and after the 2021 Electricaland Computer Engineering Department Heads (ECEDHA) conference series in March 2021 todisseminate results and recommendations to representatives of over 230 ECE departments fromthe US and Canada, and recruit participants for additional sessions. The overarching goals of the3-part workshop series were 1) building capacity in understanding and embracing anti-racistmethods; 2) inspiring self-reflection and organizational review around equity and inclusion and3) launching transformational change at both the individual and systems levels.All sessions were organized
adjustments of the program to fit 1 credithour structure, as well as student impact in the three cohorts. The program has served majoritywomen students and continues to strive for representation of minoritized students in the fields ofComputer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering.We also share evaluation results from the first cohort, as well as results from the reflectionscollected starting with the second cohort. These reflections show the ways in which students areimpacted by the program as well as areas of improvement.Finally, we discuss what aspects of ERSP at UIC are working well so far and have translatedwell from the original program, and which aspects need further adjustment and improvement.ERSP BackgroundThe Early Research
sophomore chemical engineering courses impacts students’engineering identity formation and self-efficacy development. To analyze the impacts of theintervention, this project employs design-based research (DBR) approach to guide thedevelopment, implementation, and evaluation of materials and methods reflecting theproposed synergistic model for a course and program design. Implementing up-to-dateindustry-relevant problems into the course will foster student-industry-faculty engagement (PI,engineering Co-PI, and course instructor), develop student knowledge, skills, and abilitiesneeded in the chemical engineering world today and in the future, and support professionalidentity formation. Moreover, industry-student engagement through the methods
’ lack of foundational technical writing skills[2].In this paper, we share examples of how we incorporated writing throughout a first-yearengineering course. Four different writing activities are detailed: a description and analysis ofcalculation results from a weekly problem set, a technical memo that reports results of a groupexperiment, a student success activity about time management, and a self-reflection activityabout the student’s path into the engineering profession. All the writing activities addressinstructor observed course content knowledge gaps. These activities are selected to illustrate arange of examples showing how instructors can incorporate writing into engineering coursesfrom a short activity added to an existing weekly
. They are given around half an hour to come up with thedesign in pairs, and upload it on the course Learning Management System (LMS) webpage. Theinstructor later explains - after allowing some student frustration - that this task will not be gradedbut it will be revisited later in the semester. A sample student solution is given in Figure 1.Figure 1: Sample student work from initial design of comparator (done on the first day of lab).In the ninth week of the course and after all the material of arithmetic operation and combinationallogic is explained, students explore multiple alternative solutions of designing a digital absolutevalue comparator. Then, they are asked to revisit their initial design ideas and reflect on theknowledge gaps covered
workshop contents. 2) Predict. Written and verbal questions were made to elicit predictions and see the level of prior knowledge and ascertain if adequate. 3) Experiment. Materials are manipulated to carry out guided experiments and check whether any predictions were proved correct. 4) Confront. Through reflective and comparative questions, predictions are compared with observations and experimentation.Instructors (professional practice students) guided school students to clarify doubts withoutgiving concrete answers but inviting discussion and self-reflection so that children may betterunderstand certain phenomena and concepts.2. Workshop structureThe workshop structure was based mainly on Interactive Lecture Demonstrations
approach to learning2. Cognitive presence is defined as “the extent to which learnersare able to construct and confirm meaning through sustained reflection and discourse”3. CoIassumes that learning occurs at the intersection of the three presences – social presence, teachingpresence, and cognitive presence. Cognitive presence represents the means to support and maintaina purposeful learning community, which in our case is the environment of the research learningmodules. It is operationalized through the Practical Inquiry Model (PIM) based on phases ofDewey’s reflective thinking and a collaborative inquiry process2. The PIM provides practical waysto evaluate the nature and quality of critical reflection and discourse through the following four
. We begin with some notes on research methods and a description of the case study.The findings follow with a discussion of the conditions we believe to have contributed. We havechosen to use the third person voice below to minimize confusion. Additionally, will do not usecapital letters for elizabeth west by her request.Research MethodsThe research practice used in this case study was participatory action research (PAR);participants chose to be researchers who were in action and reflecting together on their processof self-discovery and learning. As described by Ledwith [3], this method is characterized by"working with people in reciprocal, mutual relationships." It includes the distinct characteristicsof "rejecting the alienating methods of
presentation to anaudience of the high school and university faculty and industry professionals in May 2022.3. Healthcare Innovation mentorship program: The mentorship program supports eleven highschool students who are interested in learning about challenges in healthcare and provides themwith opportunities to see what their future path could be. Students selected for this program (a)attend a seminar series hosted at SCU, (b) participate in quarterly group meetings with a facultymentor, and (c) write a reflection paper. Towards the end of the mentorship, students willparticipate in a design challenge, working in teams to rapidly prototype, iterate concepts, andpresent potential solutions to an important healthcare problem.Program success was measured
,empathic orientation, and empathic mental processes.”While Clark et al. [4] focused on quantitative measures of empathy used in organizations,researchers have also used qualitative procedures to measure or assess empathy, including in thecontext of engineering. For example, Walther et al. [24] used student reflection data to identifyengineering students’ empathic formation and guided by an empathy in engineering model [2]and Sochacka et al. [25] used reflection data to identify how empathic communication isinfluenced by mental models. Other scholars have focused on assessing empathy’s manifestationin engineering design. For example, Fila, et al. [26] identified empathic approaches to design byusing a think-aloud protocol and thematic coding
scarcity in the “Hungry, Hungry, One Thing,” produced U.S. by importing hippopotamuses to People”[11] by This American Life, Louisiana in the early 1900s 14 Feb. 2014 How do you solve From “The Bad Show,” Weighs chemist Fritz Haber’s chemical a problem like produced by RadioLab, 9 engineering feats and war crimes Fritz Haber?12 January 2012MethodsThe results presented in this paper are limited to a qualitative grounded theory (GT) approach toanalyze Question 4 (Q4) and reflections. Researchers limited analysis to Q4 because it mostdirectly required students to connect the narrative to the field of engineering. Researchers werealso interested in student perceptions of