development of laboratory apparatus and experiments in the areas of mechanics of materials and dynamics of machinery for undergraduate engineering programs. He has advised on over forty (40) Senior Design Projects and his teams of students have received five (5) National Championships and three Best Design Awards. In the recent years, he has challenged himself with the creation of an effective methodology for successful Invention and Innovation. He was part of a 14-member multi-disciplinary team to design and create the "Society, Ethics, and Technology (SET)" course at TCNJ in 1994 and has taught multiple regular and Honors sections of this course since then. He led a multi-disciplinary team of faculty from TCNJ's School of
that students gained an increased appreciation for (andunderstanding of) both the science/technology and ethical trade-offs in energy systemchoices. Our assessments (via remote oral presentations, online quizzes, electronic homework,and recorded videos) found that students, regardless of discipline, met course learningobjectives despite the limitations of a remote format.IntroductionAccording to the United Nations [1], “climate change is the defining issue of our time” – almostevery facet of our lives will be affected by either our changing climate or our attempts to adapt tothese changes. The impacts will be disproportionately felt by the most vulnerable populations inthe world [2], who not only had little responsibility for historical
1.86 2.86 -1.00 3.30 4.00 -0.70 Project management 2.63 3.13 -0.50 2.00 2.43 -0.43 2.00 3.00 -1.00 Ethics in science 2.88 3.13 -0.25 2.14 2.57 -0.43 1.90 2.60 -0.70Students felt they knew more about all items in Table 7 after their participation in the REU(based on all difference scores having a negative value). Reviewing all three cohorts, participantsfelt they learned the most about poster design, rating their knowledge after the REU more thantwo points better than before the REU. Students also felt they learned a lot about preparingresearch presentations, interpreting research findings, presenting research findings, the
ideologicalseparation of technical and social concepts thus reducing inequality in the field? Similarly,McGee and Bentley describe a desire in black and Latinx STEM students to practice equity andjustice within and outside their career and coined this concept as ‘equity ethic’ [12].Interestingly, Swan, Paterson, and Bielefeldt suggest that women and minorities tend to invest inand benefit from involvement in service-learning in engineering due to their potential for socialimpact [13]. Is it possible that student involvement in HEPs could create an equity ethic whichleads to more inclusive practices in their career? Lastly, Reynante details a connection betweenstudent involvement in community engagement, a field closely related to humanitarianengineering, and
] describes white feminism as “an active form of harm, not simply a by-product of self-absorption”; this harmful approach “liberates privileged women while keeping other structures ofinjustice intact” (p. 4). These are the harms we aim to prevent.Someone reading this may think the use of the word harm is an extreme choice in engineering education.After all, we, as engineers, are members of a privileged discipline highly esteemed in society. Ethics is atthe core of what we do because our actions protect and keep people safe. We engage in extensive trainingto prevent deaths in the air, sea, and land. Our disciplinary brand revolves around reliability, precision,and consistency. We are rational. Engineering departments, colleges, and professional
, Think Like an Adversary, and Keep it Simple. The six cybersecurity concepts and topicsabout online safety, cyber ethics, and digital ethics were reinforced in the curriculum activities, as shownin Table 1. 5 Common Sense, https://www.commonsensemedia.org 6 CYBER.ORG, https://cyber.org6 Table I Camp curriculum overview incorporating the GenCyber Concepts and additional related cyber topicsCATEGOR TOPICS EXAMPLE ACTIVITIESYC1: Defense T1: IoT Network Security: What are the varying levels of - Instructor Presentationin Depth security? How are firewalls, antivirus software, VPNs used to - PBS game
academic resilience and perseverance. For studentveterans in engineering programs, many of their former military experiences prepare them todevelop clear and effective communication skills and teamwork capacity, which are highlyvalued in engineering fields [9] [10]. Based on their prior military experiences, student veteransare also likely to possess a strong work ethic and a keen interest in practical problem-solving.What student veterans bring into the engineering classroom and engineering field is not limitedto demographic diversity or professional dispositions and skillsets. Based on their prior militaryexperiences, student veterans enrich STEM program environments by sharing their first-handknowledge of real-life issues and pragmatic insights
course in embedded systems or Internet of Things (IoT).MethodsIn the new module, the students work in teams of two to program the Arduino microcontroller tomonitor a sensor and to activate an output when given condition occurs. The context for theactivity is that the device should have the potential to save energy. The lab handout, which isincluded in the Appendix, explains that “the objective of this experiment is to design, build, anddemonstrate an electrical device of your choice that has the potential to save energy, and toexplore the economic, safety, environmental, and ethical factors that relate to the device.” Thebackground section of the lab handout explains that reducing power consumption has importantenvironmental and economic
assistant at the Tufts’ Center for Engineering Education and Outreach.Dr. Darshan Karwat, Arizona State University I am an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and The Polytechnic School at ASU, where I run re-Engineered, an interdisciplinary group that embeds peace, social justice, and environmental protection in engineering. I am originally from Mumbai, India, but feel equally at home in Michigan or Washington, D.C. (and now, the Valley!). I studied aerospace engineering (specializing in gas dynamics and combustion) and sustainability ethics at the University of Michigan. I then spent three years as a AAAS Fellow in Washington, D.C., first at the U.S
. Percent of courses 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 1. solve complex engineering problems 2. apply engineering design 3. communicate effectively Contribute 4. ethical & professional responsibilities Assess 5. teamwork & planning 6. experimentation and analysis 7. acquire new knowledgeFigure 7. Percentage of 72 courses which use kinetics and reactor design to contribute to and toassess ABET Student OutcomesNine courses reported on the contribution to
applying components of the engineering design process, as well ascommunications, teamwork skills, and the human factors (such as equity and ethics) that go intothe business of engineering. The entire class discussed these concepts for the first half of eachsynchronous session. The second half of the sessions took place in team breakout rooms forfurther discussion and applicational activities.Student support: Friday class time was dedicated to teaching team support, either through virtualmeetings or in-person studio support. As studio capacity was decreased due to COVID-19, arotating schedule of teams could attend in-person studio time with the teaching assistants to workon their projects or to seek general academic support. Throughout the semester
-learning community where students learned about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in en- gineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Unconscious Bias in Peer Ratings of International Students’ Contributions to First-Year Design Projects?AbstractPeer ratings are often used to help award individual grades from team projects. It is thereforeimportant to understand the extent to which these peer ratings may be influenced by unconsciousor implicit bias
work15 in an environment that mimics the actual construction management process. ¾ To integrate within the revised course the following topics: Construction Terminology and Accreditation, Ethical Dilemmas, Resume and Career Plan, Engineering and Tech Expo (visit and summary paper), Professional & Trade Organizations, and Guest Speakers.MethodologyThe basic methodology for the development and delivery of the revised CM&E 111 is presentedbelow. ¾ The author attended the ACCE2 Mid-Year Meeting held in Phoenix (February 2012) to discuss first-year construction management courses with construction management program directors at the Baccalaureate Program Chairs Meeting. Approximately forty- five (45) ACCE
synthesizing results into a theory for climate change. Afternoons arespent in explicit metacognitive reflection, learning about a variety of affective and metacognitiveconcepts that affect learning. By hosting the field school concurrently with the IMPRESS summerexperience, participants could engage in a hands-on experience with logistical and ethical aspectsof classroom video data collection and management, as they pursued research questions ofinterest.Given the distributed nature of the ongoing research after the field school, participation in thismodel is targeted at high autonomy individuals and groups, who are often somewhat isolated attheir home institutions. Over four years, the number of participants has grown each year from sixin 2014 to
initiatives[27]–[29]. At UNL COE there are many initiatives aimed at augmenting engineering education to includenot just technical skills, but also leadership, intercultural appreciation, teamwork, self-management,service & civic responsibility, and understanding of engineering ethics [30]–[33]. Our interdisciplinary team includes a variety of engineering disciplines, student services staff toimplement direct support efforts, and a social science researcher who is expert in broadening participationresearch and evaluation. Further, our team is likely to be successful due to having broad institutionalsupport at the college level. This effort has strong potential to be successful and lead ultimately to a morediverse college across multiple
objectives and for their future success as a Bioengineer.The overall mission of the Bioengineering program at UCSD is to provide students with anexcellent education that enables successful, innovative, and lifelong careers in bioengineeringindustries and professions. The overall educational objectives are to provide students with amodern bioengineering education, consisting of depth, breadth, and creativity in the central areasof bioengineering, its underlying sciences, and related technologies; effective communication,learning, and teamwork skills that facilitate bioengineering practice, continued professionaladvancement, and adaptation; and a recognition of professional and social responsibilities,including sensitivity to ethical and health
@letu.edu.Paul Leiffer, LeTourneau University Dr. Paul R. Leiffer is a professor in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology at LeTourneau University and chair of the Engineering Department, where he has taught since 1979. He is co-developer of the program in BioMedical Engineering. He received his B.S.E.E. from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Drexel University. Prior to joining the faculty at LeTourneau, he was involved in cardiac cell research at the University of Kansas Medical Center. His professional interests include bioinstrumentation, digital signal processing, and engineering ethics. Email: paulleiffer@letu.eduThomas
[3]: (a) An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering (b) An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data (c) 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 (d) An ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams (e) An ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems (f) An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility (g) An ability to communicate effectively (h) The broad education necessary to understand the
currently pursuing research in ethical and moral development in the engineering profession and how that relates to student learning.William Davis, The Citadel William Davis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. He obtained a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Alabama, M.S. from Auburn University and earned a Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Davis is a member of ASEE, American Society of Civil Engineers, Institute of Transportation Engineers and Transportation Research Board. He serves as Chair of the Education and Student Chapter Committee for the
engineering curriculum today must meet the requirements for the global engineer, studentsare prepared: 1. to face challenges of globalization 2. to develop effective communication skills 3. to be acquainted with cultural literacy 4. to consider social, ethical, environmental and economic issues 5. to ensure quality, information preciseness and manage human resources Page 13.478.3 6. for life-long learning,The EE curriculum at IIT, Kharagpur was totally revised in 2002. Table 1 shows a comparisonof EE curricula before and after 2002. Table 1: Comparison of EE Curriculum at IIT, Kharagpur before and after 2002 Sl
designed to avoid failure. The ethical implications of engineering failures are also discussed, and students individually research and report on a recent engineering failure (of their own choosing), providing a brief failure report and presentation.Modules 2 and 3 (the “mousebot” and fuel cell) have been recently redesigned to expand theopportunities for active (hands-on) and problem based learning. For example, students areencouraged and directed to optimize the designs by customizing construction and materials, anda “studio” approach has been incorporated into nearly one quarter of the classes for the course.This allows student groups to freely explore ideas and develop skills with supervisory assistancefrom the
the integration of academic subjectmatter with service to the community in credit-bearing courses, with key elements includingreciprocity, reflection, coaching, and community voice in projectsiv. Reflective activities helpstudents process their experience and gain insight into the service they perform, the concepts thatthey are reinforcing, and the connection between the twov,vi,vii. When S-L is used effectively inan academic class, students typically benefit in a number of important ways, includingmotivation for learning, teamwork, communication, synthesis of multiple technical concepts,understanding of engineering ethical responsibilities, and civic engagementi,ii,iii.As shown in Table 1, S-L can help educators to fulfill ABET Criterion 3
a. Mastery of the knowledge, techniques, skills, and modern i. An ability to understand professional, ethical, and
perceived as “real engineering”, which highlights an historically strong set of beliefs aboutpolitically or socially agnostic technical work coming into conflict with a systems approach [5](see also [11]).Riley et al. [12] point to limitations of service learning education in engineering generally, i.e.,limited student engagement with questions about the social, economic, and political interests metby the service learning framework. Relatedly, while Bielefeldt et al. [13] find that environmentalengineering faculty bring more topics about ethics and societal issues into their courseworkrelative to their peers in such fields as mechanical and civil engineering, they also find thatenvironmental engineering faculty perceive ethics and “broad impacts
engineering (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data (c) 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 (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams (e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility (g) an ability to communicate effectively (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a
notexplicitly reflected in the rubric’s criteria. Specifically within the chemical engineering literature,many key themes were already reflected in the rubric, with the exception of uncertainty. Fromthe electrical and mechanical engineering literature, themes such as industrial ecology,technological adaptability, e-waste, and user experience were missing from the rubric. Inaddition, design for “X” (DfX) approaches, such as design for disassembly, were commonlydiscussed in the electrical and mechanical literature.3 Affordability and Ethics Innovation Equity (Across Disciplines
isparticularly suitable for implementation in engineering courses because its benefits are consistentwith student learning outcomes specified by the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET), specifically the following strands from criterion 3 (ABET, 2015): (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data; (c) 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; (d) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams; (e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve
to meet 7 outcomes.Outcome 4 states “Design appropriate solutions in one or more application domains usingsoftware engineering approaches that integrate ethical, social, legal, and economic concerns”. Itis through this outcome we expect students to design solutions that address ethical, social, legal,security, and economic concerns. The importance of security in the curriculum guidelines can benoted from the change in SE education Knowledge Areas. In the 2004 Curriculum Guidelines forUndergraduate Degree Programs in Software Engineering [4] security was listed as an area ofstudy. However in the 2014 Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs inSoftware Engineering [5] there is now an increase in the visibility of software
is resolved in favor of students’ learning, increasing thelikelihood that partner communities are left with inappropriate and unusable solutions.6To address these tensions and make sure that communities also benefit from these programs,many scholars have proposed elaborate frameworks and philosophical commitments toinform the practice of humanitarian engineering projects. For instance, Amadei andcolleagues published a model comprising 10 guiding principles for Sustainable HumanitarianEngineering projects. 9 The principles stress the importance of following ethical andprofessional codes and collaborating with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.Another model for HE is Engineering for Social Justice (E4SJ)10 which provides six
Director of Research at the Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, University of Toronto. Her research interests include engineering leadership in university and workplace settings as well as ethics and equity in engineering education.Mr. Mike Klassen, University of Toronto Mike Klassen is PhD Candidate in Higher Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He was a long-time team member at the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead). Mike has an MA in Higher Education and a BASc in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto.Jamie Ricci, Indspire Jamie Ricci is currently a researcher at Indspire, Canada’s largest charity supporting