majors after the freshman year.Many freshman classes are intended to develop specific student skills in areas such graphics andcomputer programming. Requirements from the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET)2 have resulted in the inclusion of topics such as teamwork, ethics, and theengineering profession at the freshman level.Design is also a component of many first-year engineering courses. The inclusion of design atthis level is probably one of the most-discussed topics in engineering education. A commonargument against design content at the freshman level is that without the mathematical andanalytical skills, student design projects tend to trivialize the detailed design steps. Crockett etal3 counter this argument by
countries. Anotherexample is an engineering ethics class assignment where students learn how to do businessethically in countries with different sets of laws and customs. Finally, we hope to provide someregular opportunities for significant international experiences like the internships described inthis paper. These initial efforts have been modest, but we plan to continue to enrich ourcurriculum with material on global manufacturing, in order to keep our program relevant to thedynamic manufacturing environment which our graduates face today. Most of the faculty in ourprogram have been to China at least once to learn first-hand about the manufacturingcapabilities, strengths, and weaknesses that exist in that country. First-hand experience is
processing, and engineering ethics. Email: paulleiffer@letu.eduRoger Gonzalez, LeTourneau University ROGER V. GONZALEZ, PhD, PE Roger V. Gonzalez, is a professor of Biomedical & Mechanical Engineering at LeTourneau University with specialties in Musculoskeletal Biomechanics and Dynamic Systems Modeling. He is also Adjunct Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware. Dr. Gonzalez is a registered Professional Engineer in Texas and is actively involved in collaborative research with several universities. Dr. Gonzalez received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The University
the EnvironmentTechnology and the Environment provides an overview of major environmental issues andconcerns associated with modern technology. This course examines technological innovationsand their impacts bringing together concepts from science, math, natural systems, governmentand policy, ethics, and individual behavior. The topics covered build from small scale (materiallevel) to large scale (systems level) as the semester progresses. This path allows students torecognize that the various stages involved with bringing technology to market (and phasing itout) each have impacts to be considered. The course builds on existing knowledge and choicesof everyday life, while plugging gaps and correcting factual misconceptions where necessary
Universities and Compatibility with K-12 Outreach “The mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduatestudents, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adultscommitted to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; toprepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service byproviding excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledgeand contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectualenvironment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, curedisease, and promote health, through sophisticated
the villagers to see some of the same faces year after year that will improve the long-term success of the projects. Furthermore, the experience gained by one class in implementing their design can used to improve the design of the next year’s class.• The sophomore design course is already linked to an ethics course. Therefore, there is already a course in place that can help to facilitate further discussion of the ethical implications of how the project will help or may even hinder the development of a community.• The pedagogical technique of “just in time learning” could be used in the sophomore class to teach the students the technical subjects needed for them to complete their design. It is hoped that a “tast
design background. The Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century1 and The Engineer of 2020:Visions of Engineering in the New Century2 document a call for broadly trained civil engineersconversant not only with mathematics, science and design, but also multi-disciplinary teams,professional ethics, communications, globalization, life-long learning, contemporary issues, pro-ject management, construction, asset management, business and public policy and administrationfundamentals, and leadership principles. Further, there is a push by the CEE profession overall topromote change in university undergraduate curricula by revising the basic civil engineering ac-creditation criteria to embrace as much of the breadth as possible. This
Borders (EWB-CU). EWB is an organization dedicated to partnering with disadvantaged communities toimprove their quality of life. In essays on this experience, 16% of the men and 27% of thewomen stated interest in joining a professional organization due to a desire to contribute tosociety. One female student stated: “I want to join a group to help me get involved in communityservice.” Another woman noted: “[The EWB group] really excites me with all the opportunitiesthat engineers have to change and help different parts of the world.” One part of the courseincludes a project on the technical, social, and environmental aspects of the Three Gorges Damin China. In the ethics module, students can read about moral exemplars, including a civilengineer
2006-695: WHAT IS TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY AND WHY DOES ITMATTER?David Ollis, North Carolina State UniversityGreg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering Greg Pearson is a Program Officer with the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, D.C. In that role, he develops and manages new areas of activity within the NAE Program Office related to technological literacy, public understanding of engineering, and engineering ethics. He currently serves as the responsible staff officer for the NSF-funded study, Assessing Technological Literacy in the United States, and the State Educators’ Symposium on Technological Literacy project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education. He previously
selections based on a Likert scale of well, very well, exceptionally well, or not applicablebased on the degree to which he/she believed their mentor(s) performed various mentoringpractices.ResultsThe responses provided by the participants to the qualitative open-ended questions on the surveyrevealed several common emerging themes. For example, when asked to describe what factors wereused to select a mentor student participant responses were as follows: 1) professionalism of the mentor,2) previous advising experience with mentor, 3) person demonstrated consideration for the student ingiven situations, 4) person was eager to share information to assist with pursuing degree, 5) commonresearch interests with the mentor, and 6) work ethics of the mentor
, time, and performance and; 5. Become aware of ethical and societal concerns relating to the problems being solved.Using ABET’s concept of outcomes based learning, there should be learning outcomes that aremeasurable and targeted to help the students in reaching the stated objectives. The learningoutcomes for the workshop are listed below.The student will: 1. Apply the Lean LaunchPad process to engineering design; 2. Analyze a problem, and identify and define the requirements appropriate to a solution; 3. Design, implement, and evaluate an engineering design to meet desired needs; 4. Function effectively on teams to accomplish a common goal; 5. Understand professional, ethical, legal, security and social issues and
critical and timely technical and non-technical skills will be identified by workingclosely with industry partners and then will be incorporated across the curriculum, including innon-technical courses. This comprehensive approach will allow the required competencies to beintroduced and emphasized in courses in order to support students’ development throughout theireducational pathway. An example of such a course specifically designed to focus on bothtechnical and non-technical skills is RCBC’s SOC-160 course, Society, Ethics, and Technology.This course provides students with a framework for understanding the ways in which technologyaffects society and to further understand the social, ethical, global, environmental, andprofessional
Senior Professor in the College of Engineering and Information Sciences at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois. Dr. Khan has more than thirty-two years of experience in research, instruction, curricula design and development, program evaluation and accreditation, management and supervision. Dr. Khan received an MSEE from Michigan Technological University, an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management, and his Ph.D. from Colorado State University. His research interests are in the areas of Nanotechnology, Fiber Optic Communications, Faculty Development, and Social and Ethical Implications of Technology. He is the author of many educational papers and presentations. He has authored/coauthored the following books
, teamwork, ethics, life-long learning, knowledge of contemporary issues, and anappreciation for the impact of engineering within global and social contexts. "Portfolios...offerthe most comprehensive information for measuring many outcomes and are conducive toevaluating professional skills" (Shuman et al., 2005).The constructivist pedagogical approach implicit in these ePortfolio applications enables studentsto generate their own meaning while also allowing faculty assessment of student performance inindividual courses and over a longer undergraduate career. A high quality ePortfolio combinesthe attributes of social networking media, blogs, and more traditional paper-based portfolios.They include artifacts that serve as evidence of achievement, and
be completedduring one semester. The first six experiments are relatively easy to perform and they are lesstime-consuming. However, the latter experiments are long and take considerable amount of timeto complete. In the ELEG 1021 course, twelve of the sixteen experiments are completed duringa semester. Two weeks are scheduled for mid-semester and final examinations. Another week isdevoted to discussion of engineering ethics and an ethics quiz. Institutions may have to make athoughtful decision with regard to experiments their students may perform during a semester or aterm.6 ASSESSMENT RESULTSThe students who took the ELEG 1021 course completed surveys. The survey results areavailable for the following semesters: (i) spring 2015, (ii) fall
. Courses taught include undergraduate finite elements, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and engineering economics and ethics, and graduate finite elements, numerical methods, thermodynamics, statistical me- chanics, plasma fundamentals and gas dynamics.Dr. Bradley Davidson, University of Denver Dr. Bradley Davidson is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and director of the Human Dynamics Laboratory at the University of Denver and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He holds a BS in civil engineering from Tennessee Tech, an MS in engineering mechanics from Virginia Tech, and a PhD in biomedical engineering from the Virginia Tech–Wake Forest
States. He is a licensed professional engineer in multiple states. Dr. Barry’s areas of research include assessment of professional ethics, teaching and learning in engineering education, nonverbal communication in the classroom, and learning through historical engineering accomplishments. He has authored and co-authored a significant number of journal articles and book chapters on these topics.Dr. Beth Lin Hartmann P.E., Iowa State University Beth Lin Hartmann is a senior lecturer in construction engineering at Iowa State University. Hartmann served 20 years in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps before joining the faculty at Iowa State in 2009. She currently teaches the civil and construction engineering design-build
in a team (82.9%), written communication skills (80.3%),leadership (72.6%), and strong work ethics (68.4%), were the top five attributes out of a total oftwenty attributes they want to see on their graduates resume. These attributes are general innature and not very specific to any field of study. Analytical/quantitative skill, initiatives, andverbal communication skills were tied at 67.5%. In addition, the top two attributes that have thehighest influence factors among 12 were ‘Has completed an internship with your organization(4.6/5)’ and ‘Has internship experience in your industry’of attributes (4.4/5). Attribute ‘Major’(3.8/5) was the third, 3.0 or above GPA (3.4/5) was the third, and the last attribute ‘Has studiedabroad’ (2.2/5) in
connect to the local clean tech energy start up community.3.4 Incorporating the NEET Ways of Thinking --- cross-school initiativesA major effort of the current school year is building bridges to other schools within MIT.NEET has identified resource experts from across the Institute to help develop pilot modules for theNEET Ways of Thinking3. This is detailed in Table 1 below. Work has begun on four of the Ways ofThinking --- Self-learning, Personal Skills (ethics), Critical Thinking and Creative Thinking (see Figure1 below), with the goal of piloting them in the NEET seminars and projects in 2019-20 and beyond.Figure 1: Implementing the NEET Ways of Thinking in Threads with Cross-School PartnersWe started with a Self-learning module that was
.) (c) Ability to design a system, • The system and/or process design consideration component, or process to meet based on the P3 (Planet, Prosperity, and People) desired needs within realistic (Fig. 1) constraints such as economic, • Relation of challenge to the P3 environmental, social, political, • Research activities that promote and incorporate ethical, health and safety, sustainability principles. manufacturability, and sustainability (d) Ability to function on • Most engineering programs have little or no multidisciplinary teams opportunities for students to work with students
• Hands-on activities of the class such as the second (bridge design) projectMore than 80% of the students had the hands-on activity as their first choice and the team workingaspect of the class as their second choice or vice versa. To focus our study on the questions thathad more variability in the responses, we eliminated these two questions (i.e., hands-on activitiesand teamwork) and re-ranked the other 5 questions: • Orthographic drawing (Visualization) • Sustainability and ethics • Term Project (Entrepreneurship, creativity, and customer interaction) • Traditional physics, math, and mechanics • Communication (Writing and presenting)We studied the relationship between the students’ personality types and their interests in the above5
aspect of human dimension (both self and others) in a science/engineering course like MS can be a daunting task. Learning outcomes could be “activelyparticipate in class discussions; avoid plagiarism in report writing and properly cite publishedsources; work in teams on mini-project, swapping roles as team member and leader; andconduct peer assessment of project team members.” Learning activities could be lecture andclass discussion on team work, and professional and ethical responsibility (includingplagiarism, citation and referencing); and project presentations and discussions. Assessmentmethods could be keeping records of active class participation (individual and group); recordsof meetings with project teams for individual and team work
working.Specifically, outcome 2 is that they would demonstrate “an ability to apply engineering design toproduce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, andwelfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors [1].” Outcome 4requires “an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situationsand make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions inglobal, economic, environmental, and societal contexts.” Arguably outcomes 3 and 5, whichexpect that engineering graduates demonstrate the abilities to communicate with a range ofaudiences and to work effectively as team members, also require a working understanding ofmulticultural
for the changing nature of the job. Perhaps firefighters are prepared for the variety ofproblems in the field, but they do not have the capability to react at the moment and respondappropriately.Simulation (e.g. virtual reality simulation) can provide a safe, ethical, and cost-effectivealternative to practice in certain real fire scenes. This can serve in two ways: it can give a betterunderstanding of new trainees’ behavior and how can be shifted to safe behavior and offertrainees the opportunity to have effective and component training. By using simulations ofvirtual buildings with virtual fire environments, trainees can interact with a changingenvironment simulate various work-related procedures and/or judge whether a building design
audiences 4. an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts 5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives 6. an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions 7. an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning
engineer- ing. She is also staffing the Roundtable on Linking Academic Engineering Research and Defense Basic Science. She also co-edited a resource collection translating research on women in science and engineer- ing into practical tips for faculty members and worked on LinkEngineering, an online toolkit to support PreK-12 engineering education, and the Online Ethics Center, a website that supports ethics education and science and engineering. She earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Cognitive and Human Factors Psychology from Kansas State University and a B.A. in psychobiology and political science from Wheaton College in Massachusetts.Mr. Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering Greg Pearson is a Scholar (ret
Paper ID #28693Defining Workforce Development: Launching a Career from CAREERDr. Madeline Polmear, University of Florida Madeline Polmear is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida. Her research interests include workforce development and engineering ethics education.Dr. Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida Denise R. Simmons, Ph.D., PE, LEED-AP, is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. She holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in
course, as is technical and plane stress. The realistic constraints reading related to laboratory experience such as economic lifelong learning and will include material factors, safety, ethical responsibility. testing, analyzing, and reliability, aesthetics, troubleshooting. ethics, and social impact. How Design Courses ProgressSurvey MethodIn order to quantitively measure the success and achievements of the implementation of adesigned-based project that challenges freshman students to
Paper ID #23311Engagement in Practice: Tensions and Progressions of a Robotics Service-learning ProgramMr. Matthew Aruch, University of Maryland College Park Matthew Aruch is the Assistant Director of the Science Technology and Society Program and PhD candi- date in International Education Policy at the University of Maryland College Park.Dr. David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park David is the director of the Science, Technology and Society program at the University of Maryland, Col- lege Park. He works with STEM majors on the ethical and social dimensions of science and technology. David also does public
bioengineering, service learning, universal design, tissue and protein engineering labs, bioengineering ethics, leadership, and capstone proposal writing and design. She is committed to enhancing diversity and inclusivity in en- gineering, and creating opportunities for undergraduate students to engage in K-12 educational outreach. Dr. Hendricks has over a decade of experience leading educational outreach and summer camp programs at both Duke University and the University of Washington.Dr. Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington Ken Yasuhara is an instructional consultant and assistant director at the Office for the Advancement of Engineering Teaching & Learning (ET&L) at the University of Washington. He completed an