studyreviewed by the institution’s Research Ethics Board. This paper is part of a larger study on beingthing-focused versus people-focused within design education. The subject of this paper is on thereflections themselves, adopting the Aronson advice to “reflect on the process of teachingreflection” [12]. The two research questions for this paper are as follows: I. Do students perceive reflections as useful? II. Does the act of reflecting change throughout the design process?This is an exploratory examination of 1,278 reflections that were recorded during these two yearsof design projects.Background InformationLand Acknowledgement and Positionality StatementsIn order to understand the context in which this paper was written, we offer the
Building and Motivating [B-TB] 3. Project Leadership [B-PL] 4. Identifying and Engaging Stakeholders [B-SE] 5. Project Organization and Context [B-OC] 6. Managing Global Projects [B-GP] 7. Virtual Project Management [B-VP] 8. Ethics and Professionalism [B-EP]Strategic KMs can be leveraged in advanced PM elective courses. The curriculum guidelineslists the following KMs for consideration: Strategic Project Management [S-SM], Supply Chainin Projects [S-SC], Legal Aspects in Project Management [S-LA], Business and CommercialAspects of Projects [S-BC] ,Governance in Projects [S-GV], Agile Project Management [S-AM]and Portfolio and Program Management Principles [S-PP]Mapping Knowledge Modules to CoursesIt is
, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityone of several different types of containers with different dimensions and thermal conductivities– e.g. glass bottles or aluminum cans (HXC = conduction). Figure 1 – Overview of the Brewery Process Design Project. Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova University Overall, this process utilizes almost all (~75%) of the heat transfer concepts taught in ourcourse, with a few minor exceptions (forced external convection, fin effects, and the NTUmethod). We also use this process to discuss process safety concerns pertaining to the naturalgas burner in the brew kettle and the ethical considerations associated with using river water as acooling fluid in
” but that’s an issue for another paper.As in any study, the observer is reluctantly part of the study. The results are those of only oneprofessor (myself) and, as with all observers, I see students through my own cultural filter whichI’m sure would vary from observer to observer. Because of my affinity for the students, I hopethis distortion has been minimized.In one of our Construction Management classes where “ethics” is an important topic, the morediverse the group the better understanding of “ethics”. In fact, the more diverse the group themore passion and fervor to the “ethics” discussion. Clearly, diversification in the classroommakes for an enhanced discussion. In fact, the students bring up issues for discussion that theprofessor
gauge theirinterest in future collaborations. The survey was conducted between March and June of2014 via USPS mailings.12 After synthesizing the Farmers’ Survey results, theresearchers saw opportunities to work with local farmers to continuously improve theRNEW curriculum.Besides the RNEW program, a Sustainability Concentration (SC) is being considered forthe MBA (Master of Business Administration) program. The SC concentration and theRNEW program have common needs to seek employers’ advice on sustainability as it isthe integration of environmental, social, governance, ethics, and economic issues into theculture, decision-making, value-setting, and operational processes of an organization.13Sustainability allows a corporation to manage a cost
that haveinquiry in the medical field. Stem cells therapy is one of the most differentiate and specialize to any type of cells, appeal thechallenging areas in the medical research. The goal of the stem scientists to use them in the medical field. Actually, the greatcells therapy studies is to improve the human enhancement and advantages that stem cells have will do a huge different in theto reduce some of the medical problems and diseases by using clinical application in near future.stem cells as a treatment. These research studies are must have Recent medical research studies show that stem cellan ethical values and moral criteria. This paper will highlight therapy has the potential to
] engineering projects, develop preliminary design solutions, and prepare a draft technical report. Students will learn necessary computer-aided design software and become familiar with engineering codes and standards." Old "Group design project of civil engineering systems requiring synthesis, data gathering,Dominion preliminary investigation, master planning, conceptual designs, layouts, support studies, costUniversity estimates and report writing. Emphasis will be on alternatives, constraints, economics, ethics [12] and professional practice, business and project management, public policy and leadership"VirginiaMilitary "Application of civil engineering
continuous improvement principles [19], faculty decision-making in teaching andlearning [20], and the impact of personal and environmental factors on faculty perspectivesregarding ethics and societal impacts [21]. These studies highlight how both internal factors(e.g., departmental culture, peer faculty, institutional missions) and external factors (e.g.,accreditation agencies, professional societies, industry, and government) shape the educationalenvironment and instructional practices in engineering education. Second, this research draws on the WRC/FB [13], [17], [22] to complement the APM byfocusing on how engineering faculty members' racial consciousness influences theirequity-oriented practices. It highlights how systems of power and
responsible-in-charge, and to develop and leadentities for innovation in infrastructures. Students at senior level or higher academic status areable to make the connection between such long-range goals and specialized fields of civilengineering. The course mentioned above includes introductory topics in civil engineeringpractice and entrepreneurship. These topics include business, economy, management,professionalism, leadership, and ethics. Discussions cover professional engineering, leadershiptheory and practice, project management, engineering economy, financial analysis, business,contracting and law, public policy and administration, and engineering ethics. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV
career goalsof a new researcher in EERRecommendations: (a) lobby for support by identifying institutional- or program-specific issuesthat the proposed EER can potentially alleviate; (b) obtain approval to participate in the advisingof graduate students in the social sciences prior to submitting EER grant proposals.7. Research ethicsChallenges: Although ethics are generally universal among all scientific fields, the authors facedseveral unexpected issues rooted in the ethical conduct and dissemination of results related toEER studies. These included (a) assigning students into control and treatment groups, (b)withholding student artifacts, and (c) publishing results in social science journals.Control and treatment groups. The authors carried out
women in engineering and technology. Dr. Bhaduri has an interdisciplinary expertise with a Ph.D. in Engineering Education and Masters degrees in Statistics and Mechanical Engineering, from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include: future of work, women in technology, assessing the impact and effectiveness of inclusion and diversity initiatives as well as employing innovative, ethical and inclusive mixed-methods research approaches to uncovering insights about the 21st century workforce.Natalie Anna Foster, Sisters in STEM - Saguaro High School Natalie Foster is a current high school senior at Saguaro in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is the president of the school’s FRC robotics club and has been a member of the team
Proceedings of the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.[7] Gupta, A. (2017, June). A practitioner account of integrating macro-ethics discussion in an engineering design class. In 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.[8] Hess, J. L., & Fore, G. (2018). A systematic literature review of US engineering ethics interventions. Science and engineering ethics, 24, 551-583.[9] Winiecki, D., & Salzman, N. (2019, January). Analyzing and Working-Out Ways of Addressing Problems of Social-Justice in an Engineering or Computer-Science Context. In 2019 NSF REDCON (Revolutionizing Engineering & Computer Science Department CONference), Arlington, VA.[10] Gupta, A., Turpen, C., Philip, T., & Elby, A
Humanities and Social Sciences (HUSS), the ROI TF recommends adding a 0-credit hourCo-op Preparation course to prepare students uniformly better for co-ops and careers. Mostuniversities require an Ethics course (Ethics, Ethics for Professional Managers and Engineers,Technology as a Service to Humanity, etc.), we should therefore consider the same. The TFfinally recommends making two of the HUSS courses chosen by the BSCO Committee and onefree elective chosen by the student.The IF TF recommends, according to the results of our survey, for our BSCO program to focuson improving students’ problem-solving skills and self-learner skills because these skills will beparticularly important in their future careers. Our students should be mastered in C/C
learningobjectives. These items were including leadership theory, psychometric testing, projectmanagement, emotional intelligence, leading across cultures, ethics, leading teams, problem-solving, and conflict management. The survey prompts for these items were “Please rate yourlevel of knowledge for these listed leadership concepts,” ”To what degree are you interested inand want to learn more about these leadership topics?”, and “Please rate your level ofcompetence for these skills or knowledge” on 5-point Likert-scale ratings. Finally, two questionswere asked to measure students’ leadership identity.Analysis. Two types of statistical analyses were used to answer the research questions. First, tounderstand differences in leadership identity development for
program. The SPW had no academic credit, but the students were required to participate andpass before starting their research. The workshop was held weekly in the first six weeks of starting the I-RISE program in each academic year. It included interactive discussions on topics such as researchprotocols, research ethics, data collection, writing professional technical statements, writing professionalresumes, discussion about budget management, mock interviews, dressing for job interviews, and supportin securing internships. Since the participants in the I-RISE program were freshmen and sophomores, theforgoing topics aimed to give students new perspectives and skills that aided them in carrying out theirdownstream research activities under faculty
the Trolley Problem (e.g.,Geisslinger, Poszler, Betz, Lütge, &Lienkamp (2021)) followed by a discussion about self-driving cars. A class activity, adapted fromThe Moral Machine experiment (Awad et al., 2018) presented students with several dilemmaswhere a self-driving car has only two options, both would result in persons or animals beingharmed or killed. Students submitted their choices individually and then discussed the results ingroups followed by a whole class discussion. The students then were introduced to the Ethics ofConnected and Automated Vehicles: Recommendations on road safety, privacy, fairness,explainability and responsibility, published by the Publication Office of the European Union, toprovide further information
41% Figure 1. Student Location Survey Results Unknown 11%This survey data was used to inform the development of the studio exercises and projects, as well asproactively address student mental and physical health during their studies. Details will be providedlater in this paper.Modular Curriculum StructureWork to shift ENGR 112/121 to a flipped-classroom model was accelerated, and, inspired by priorwork at the University of British Columbia [10], the curriculum was re-structured into seven distinctmodules. Three modules were part of ENGR 112, while four modules were part of ENGR 121 (Table3). Each module had a duration of three or four weeks, with the exception of the Ethics
path.Workshops provide students in our learning communities the tools to manage challenges thatimpact their performance as engineers. By engaging new student engineers in active workshopsas part of an intentional onboarding process, we introduce them to many of the supportsavailable. Each program also has workshops throughout the semester which connect to variousprofessional aspects of engineering including but not limited to inclusivity, communityconnection, and work-life balance. For example, students attend a workshop titled “ActingEthically.” Through framing the session with the example of the 2007 I-35W MN BridgeCollapse, students are able to use a “real-life” example of a local catastrophe to learn theprinciples of ethics. Group discussions are
outcomes used by ABET to evaluate engineering programs. Specifically, outcomes2, 3 and 4 can be found below: an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs withconsideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social,environmental, and economic factors an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations andmake informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global,economic, environmental, and societal contextsFinally, the project seeks to provide a systematic approach that can be institutionalized thusoffering academic institutions an option
. All of these changes weremade in consultation with the larger ERSP team including Dr. Alvarado at UCSD. In the ERSPmodel, grading is based on several items including the final report; however, for ourimplementation of a 1-credit course, we found that the final report was the primary deliverablefor the semester and thus the grading was based only on the final report. The course topics thatwere not covered in ERSP at UIC due to time restrictions included: ethics in research, oralcommunication, peer-review (reduced time from 3 classes to 2 classes), and basic statistics andhypothesis testing. We also had to remove the following in-class exercises due to timerestrictions: final proposal presentation and reflections.One of the components that was
engineering design process; importance of mathematics,chemistry and computers in engineering; engineering mechanics; data analysis; publicsafety; ethics; professional licensure; and career searches. Content varied from material thatwould be included in freshmen engineering courses to material that introduced advanced(upper-level) engineering courses. The portion of the SBP program involving industryprofessionals as guest speakers consisted of three panel discussions and three stand-alonepresentations. The three panel discussions invited guests from different career stages asfollows: (a) early career professionals, (b) a recent winning senior design team fromComputer Science in TAMUK’s COE, and (c) seasoned engineers. Each panel had four tofive
increase in the rating ofknowledge. Knowledge in the role of an engineer, engineering ethics, international issues, anddesign thinking were among the highest ranking (Figure 6). By the end of the design challenge,more than 75% of students agreed that engineers should have some or a lot of responsibility intackling global challenges (Figure 7). Responsibility in resource consumption, climate change,and meeting SDGs were among the highest ranking. The endline survey results show a clear shiftin student mindset after participating in the design challenge. Figure 5: Student self-evaluation of their skills before-and-after the design challenge, from the endline survey.Figure 6: Student self-evaluation of their knowledge before-and-after the design
. were evaluated. conducted/completed. Solution was not placed into context Solution is not placed into context; Solution is described in context with Solution is placed into context and is on how it affects or is affected by however some indication of how this some indication of how this solution described with regards to its affect (or how itContext larger ethical, global, societal, solution is affected by ethical, affects (or how it is affected by) larger is affected by) larger ethical, global, environmental, reglatory, etc. environmental, societal, regulatory
stakeholders) as customer relations.Also, within interpersonal skills, there were 29 listings that explicitly mention the need for heability to work in teams.In addition to the previously mentioned skills, behavioral attributes were also mentioned in thejob listings. Some of these attributes included a growth or learning mindset, self-motivation andethics. In fact, 11 listings explicitly mentioned the need for ethics or integrity, such as“demonstrated commitment to ethics and integrity.” Finally, leadership skills were not frequentlymentioned, which would be expected as our scope was entry-level positions. Yet, 7 listingsincluded some requirement in leadership skills, ranging from just mentioning “leadership skill”to “experience with leadership in
be a source of renewable or reusable energy. Using the knowledge we already had onfluid mechanics and our new information about engineering ethics, we decided as a group to pursuea form of hydropower.The project was completed throughout the latter half of the course which allowed us to draw fromthe experiences we had in class. Homework and classwork were continually assigned to helpimprove our knowledge of certain aspects of the engineering design process. Every one and a halfweeks, the groups were required to complete a milestone–an evaluation of the final project’sprogress–and a checklist of requirements. This provided students with the opportunity to properlymanage their time while also simultaneously learning skills that would be
the following ABET-specified student outcomes: an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data; 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; an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams; an understandingof professional and ethical responsibility; and an ability to communicateeffectively. We discuss more detail below concerning each outcome:- 1: An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of
computer ethics have evolved in the CS discipline over the past 50 years and found thatinterest in the topic only spiked around 2017-2018, despite the topics being explored to someextent in the mid-1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s [7].Researchers have addressed the issue of academic misconduct in the CS discipline in a variety ofways. One approach is the creation of CS specific policies to address the unique nature of work inthe discipline, which is often not covered by institution level policies for student conduct. Forexample, a study proposed a model for developing and implementing an academic ethics policy(which encompasses academic integrity) that specifically addresses the challenges imposed byinformation technology, through evidence-based
ofengineering leadership research first assumes that leadership can be taught and therefore aims toidentify qualities, skills and styles in order to guide curricular and co-curricular programming.The framework by Farr et al. [33] contains both trait-like attributes such as “big thinker”,“ethical and courageous” and practiced skills and behaviors, such as “uses power wisely andgood communicator.” Their proposed leadership qualities framework is intended to supportassessment and development of engineers’ leadership abilities. While the classification ofleadership (for example, skills, competencies, qualities, attributes, themes etc.) varies betweenand even within works, what is valued in engineering leadership converges on a few commonattributes. Handley
university research ethics board). One section of students(n = 28) was exposed to a 10-minute lecture with engaging slides and an enthusiastic delivery,followed by a hands-on activity to replicate an image of a circuit to light one LED, then threeLEDs. The time to complete the two-part activity was recorded for each participant, and thenparticipants completed a survey to assess their technical knowledge of the functionality ofbreadboards and whether they enjoyed the activity. The second section (n = 41) read the storybook,then completed the same timed activity, and concluded with the same survey.The instrument had two qualitative items (What is a breadboard? What is the red rail generallyused for?), a mixed-methods question with three items
. Introduction to Legal and Ethical Issues in Cybersecurity,5. Special Topics in Cybersecurity,6. Senior (Capstone) project in CybersecurityWe offered two cybersecurity courses for all non-Computer Science (CS) majors at the university during2020-21 academic year with very low enrollment. At this moment, we have only three students pursuingthis Cybersecurity for All minor. We are working with various department chairs and college deans andwe expect this enrollment to grow. Also, we offered all courses for our cybersecurity concentration forCS majors, and currently approximately 30 students pursuing the Cybersecurity concentration. Also, wehave graduated 15 students from this concentration.Goal 3: Conduct Cybersecurity professional development activities