themes into the following dimensions ofcivic responsibility: personal and professional, virtue and obligation, and non-maleficence andbeneficence. We close by connecting these findings to frameworks used to study other forms ofresponsibility in engineering education.IntroductionCivic responsibility reflects individual responsiveness and engagement with community needs.Thus, civic responsibility aligns with the mission of many universities to graduate engagedcitizens. For example, the mission statement of the Association of American Colleges &University is “to advance the vitality and public standing of liberal education by making qualityand equity the foundations for excellence in undergraduate education in service to democracy”[1]. Many
research and foster discovery in science and engineering [6]. Consequently, the originalCyberAmbassadors curriculum incorporates activities, examples and exercises that are centeredin the context of exploratory research. This type of research is generally found in academicsettings, such as research universities and non-profit institutions, as well as in government-funded laboratories. Designing the curriculum to reflect the language and positions common tothese settings (e.g., investigator, research group, graduate student, postdoc) is an important partof the constructivist and sociocultural pedagogy embraced by the CyberAmbassadors project[7]–[9]. In this approach, learning takes place most effectively in contexts that are familiar andrelevant
Final Straw” that wasfocused on accessibility of straw materials within the disability community. For this module,groups of students considered the unique design needs of a marginalized stakeholder who relieson the material properties of single-used plastic straws (e.g., individuals with strength andmobility issues) to recommend an alternative material for the straw (e.g., paper, metal, silicone).In doing so, they must consider the larger economic, environmental, and social impacts of theirmaterial recommendation, and also consider how engineering design and public policy canunintentionally exclude vulnerable populations. Curricular content (e.g., homework, midtermquestions) as well as researcher reflections were used to assess this module
Engineering students develop competencies through classroom learning, work-integratedlearning outside the classroom, and extra-curricular activities on and off campus [1-3]. In twoways, current engineering education research (EER) does not adequately reflect these multipleinterlinked experiences that contribute to competency formation. Firstly, while much EER hasbeen devoted to students’ classroom learning [4, 5], less emphasis has been placed on work-integrated learning and the synergies arising from learning inside and outside classrooms.Secondly, the potential of existing data sources, such as administrative data, academic recordsand student surveys which engineering schools routinely collect, remains relatively untapped.These data sources are
integrity, communitybuilding and course engagement. The overall course grades should be distributed among shortquizzes, weekly reflections, course projects and group assignments instead of depending solelyon exams to effectively eliminate plagiarism and cheating in an online course. Chances ofcheating and plagiarism in online courses can also be reduced by utilizing availabletechnological tools such as quiz randomization and originality checking. Other concernsregarding students’ interaction and engagement can also be addressed with a proper coursedesign. The sense of community in an online course can be promoted through group projects,utilization of discussion board, and the continuous communication between instructor andstudents via email, new
meeting the low-cost requirements in such markets. The project was a part of thecourse requirements for a manufacturing processes course. The paper highlights how the studentssuccessfully worked in a virtual environment, engaged the client, designed the part and had the designedparts fabricated and shipped to the clients. In addition, the critical role of technical staff in providinghands-on learning experiences as well as in completing a project, particularly in a pandemic, ishighlighted. Key lessons learned from the perspectives of students, instructor, technical staff, and clientwere gathered through reflections and interviews.Key words: pandemic, projects, design, online, virtual environment, manufacturing processes, onlinelearning
. Students were provided with a spreadsheet,shown in Figure 3 below, which they used to track their time (and other parameters) on varioustasks. Analyses of these data included: (i) identifying up to three aspects of their daily lives thatthe student wanted to focus on to look for any trends in the data or correlations between differentparameters; and (ii) interpretations of the weekly trends in the data. At the end of each week,students were required to write a one-page reflection on their usage of time, quality of time spenton various activities, and their analysis. Students were also encouraged to reflect on theirstrengths and weaknesses and strategies they would adopt to make changes or improvements. Proceedings of the 2021
our institution. We have alsoanalyzed the impacts bias and stereotyping on student learning, student experience and sense ofbelonging, as well as on team productivity. Our findings, consistent with Meadows et al. (2015)and Wolfe et al. (2016), showed that women and students of color experience higher rates ofhaving their ideas ignored or shut down, having their voices silenced, being assigned work tasksdeemed less valuable, having to deal with a domineering teammate, and having their work gounacknowledged or credit stolen by another teammate (Pfeifer and Stoddard, 2018).In the quote below, a white female student at our institution reflects on what Meadows et al(2015) have identified as, ‘task assignment bias’, when students assign themselves
, critical reflection, social justice, innovation.Ms. Laura Mae Rosenbauer, Smith College Laura Rosenbauer is an engineering major and landscape studies minor at Smith College. She is a research assistant on the national and international capstone survey efforts and the development of CDHub 2.0. She is also assisting with a new research collaboration to study the transition from capstone design to work. She was a summer intern at the Urban Water Innovation Network, where she studied the thermodynamic and hydrologic properties of pavements. She is interested in a career in civil engineering.Mr. Sidharth Arunkumar, New Mexico Tech Sidharth Arunkumar is pursuing his Masters in Mechanical Engineering at New Mexico Tech. His key
already on the market. In order to have a successful crowdfunding campaign, our product needs to differentiate itself to get people to fund our project versus buying a product already on the market. FIGURE 3. EXAMPLE OF AN ANSWERED CONSTRAINT-SOURCE MODEL QUESTION.The design attributes are grouped into sections, as indicated in Table 1. Within its section, eachattribute is listed with an eliciting, reflective question. Students are asked to respond bothquantitatively and qualitatively. On the quantitative side, the CSM provides the
common learning styles of engineeringstudents and traditional teaching styles of engineering professors”21 all of our students completedFelder’s learning styles inventory, wrote about the impact of their learning preferences, and wenoted which learning styles were more or less likely to make use of Video AI. We found that ourstudents were predominately active/sensing/visual/sequential learners (see Figure 7) which issimilar the “average” engineering student according to Felder. 200 180 Verbal 160 Reflective Intuitive
beneficial for guests in attendance (transient members of the community;see below), as well as for review of video data from IRIFs.Instructions that are given to the presenting students for their ~25-30 minute PowerPoint ™presentations reflect our design of the IRIF as an activity system for a cross-disciplinarycommunity. First, students are to include both (i) a description of the context/motivation for thework and explanation of key terminology or concepts that may be unfamiliar to attendees whowork in other disciplinary areas and (ii) presentation in reasonable detail of a research “nugget,”e.g. a recent accomplishment/milestone, nascent hypothesis, newly proposed protocol, etc. (i.e.subject matter that might also be presented within a meeting of
morality as the determination of right and wrong behavior while ethics is the processby which morals are synthesized into a coherent system. Furthermore, we adopt three primarypropositions: 1. Morality is intimately involved with everyday experiences; 2. Morality and Ethics can, and should be taught; 3. Moral reflection is an important daily occurrence – Socrates The first proposition is in responses to students (and faculty, administrators, staff, etc.)who consider their daily activities to be outside the range of activities to which moral judgmentsshould be applied. This is what allows students to excuse plagiarism – it is a common activity towhich such esoteric philosophical musings as considerations of
emphasizingand supporting engineering education research. These developments parallel a number of other,broader trends, including efforts to promote engineering education research by the EuropeanUnion’s thematic network on Teaching and Research in Engineering in Europe (TREE).The Australasian conference and journal had consistently high ratios of qualifying papers. Due toreasons discussed in more detail below, we expect these trends to continue into 2008. Qualifyingpapers at the ASEE Global Colloquium, on the other hand, ranged from a low of 25% in 2007 toa high of 44% in 2008. These variations likely reflect yearly changes in the location, thematicfocus, and organization of this conference series.Research Activity by CountryCountry-of-origin
AC 2009-1404: "REAL OUTREACH EXPERIENCES IN ENGINEERING":MERGING SERVICE LEARNING AND DESIGN IN A FIRST-YEARENGINEERING COURSEChristopher Williams, Virginia Tech Christopher Bryant Williams is an Assistant Professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University with a joint appointment in the Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Education departments. Professor Williams is the Director of the Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems (DREAMS) Laboratory. His joint appointment reflects his diverse research interests which include design, methodology, layered manufacturing, and design education.Richard Goff, Virginia Tech Richard Goff is an
the team failed.Each individual student also writes a detailed personal reflection on how their actionscontributed to the team’s failure. This technique has been extremely effective in minimizingresentment among students and allowing students to experience failure in a “safe” environment.An alternative scenario for failure is that one or two individuals on the team fail to complete theirportions of the project, putting the successful efforts of the remainder of the team at risk. Thekey to resolving this issue is to identify potential failure points as early as possible. The structureoutlined above allows for evaluation of individual performance since the research andprototyping phases of the project are performed by individuals and graded
in1016, the effects of the annual mass flow across the earth control surface can be consideredinsignificant.Significant energy fluxes do cross the boundaries of the defined earth thermodynamic system.Approximately 177,500 terawatts (terawatts = 1012 Watts) of short wave radiation,predominately solar radiation from a black body of about 6,000 degrees centigrade6, enters theupper atmosphere. About 50,000 terawatts is reflected back into space7 as described by Equation58. E& r ? aE& i (5)where E& r is the rate of reflected energy flux, a is the albedo or reflectivity of the earth, and E& i isthe rate of incident energy impinging on the earth. The average
current information can be garnered. A second trend which also reflects larger social trends, is the demand for a more "consumer oriented"approach to education. This requires shifting the focus of education from teaching to learning; from instructorto student. Curriculum content and methodologies which were once based on the expertise and preferences ofthe instructor, shift towards the needs and preferences of the learner. In its pure form, this trend would havestudents in the role of designer, researcher, and problem-solver, responsible for their own learning, andcreating their own paths through course content. Instructors shift from a 'sage on the stage' to a 'guide on theside' as they help direct student inquiry, facilitate research and
each unit’s content linked to the projects that are a part of theWATER program. We wanted students to be ready to “hit the ground running” armed withbackground knowledge since we would not be holding class sessions in Benin. Each unit ofcontent required completion of a study guide. Other course assignments have includeddevelopment of a teaching plan; participation in teaching water testing and filter manufacturingactivities; and reflective journaling. Students were assigned to interdisciplinary groups todevelop and implement teaching plans. These plans were developed before travelling to Benin,reviewed by course faculty, and revised as needed. Students also could negotiate individualizedprojects with the instructors.The reflective journaling
technology education curriculum. The projectused engineering design challenges in order to lead teachers into experiencing the engineeringprocess, the application of mathematics and science in order to optimize solutions, predict theirbehavior, and analyze solutions, and to reflect on their learning and the implementation process.The Bridges for Engineering Education professional development was highly rated byparticipants as useful and beneficial. It is interesting to note that three of the most important Page 11.762.7things learned by the public school students who participated were:1. Engineering is a very intellectually demanding process.2
master’s, so we expect a lot. You can do many things on your own. We’re not going to teach you everything, you know a lot of it.’”Trisha’s advisor had discussions with her and made recommendations about her ideas, but leftthe decisions up to her. Edward experienced an advisor who did not provide structured orsupported autonomy, “will not teach him everything.” Edward came away from his first meetingknowing that his advisor had high expectations, but would not provide support to meet thoseexpectations irrespective of Edward’s level of competence. Nonetheless, Edward did expresssome level of autonomy in his work and the precedence that Edward’s advisor set at thebeginning of his program is reflected in the structure of Edward’s
graduate students who will work as GTAs, aworkshop specifically about creating a reflective teaching statement, and additional workshops thatmay be more tailored to each participant’s discipline.Additionally, participation in a six-week-long pedagogy seminar is also required and provides a greatopportunity for students to learn more about teaching methods across disciplines. The pedagogyseminar is designed so that students from diverse disciplines may learn about general teachingstrategies and new strategies that are emerging, compare and contrast teaching strategies that areused in their own disciplines, as well as design a full syllabus for a class they would want to teach inthe future. The seminar fosters open discussion about effective
, skills, and ability to solve complexproblems and to produce excellent solution(s) within the structure of the team. This concept wasfurther developed to include defining team and task, team climate, communication, and reflection(for a detailed description, please see Table 1)23-26.Design competence focused on finding and evaluating variants and recognizing and solvingcomplex design problems. These were further defined as having the ability to discover and designmultiple solutions to a given problem and to effectively evaluate those solutions to determine thebest solution, and having the ability to see the overall picture of a complex design problem, thenbreaking it into smaller, more manageable parts to solve while keeping the overall problem
reflect distinct characters that result from different political, intellectual, andprofessional influences on engineering education. In particular, engineering ethicseducation in China has demonstrated a stronger emphasis on theoretical knowledge,whereas ethics teaching in the US focuses more on ethical decision-making inengineering practice. We suggest that the differing emphases result partly from Chinesescholars’ attempt to establish engineering ethics as an academic discipline, and,compared with its counterpart in the US, a weaker professional identity for engineers inChina. We conclude this paper by summarizing lessons engineering ethics educators in bothcountries might learn from each other. We also suggest a few questions for
on talent. The Cronbach’s alpha was also applied to the full data set.The negative questions were adjusted by subtracting each response from 7, thus ensuring equivalent scale. Theresulting fit between matched pairs of positive and negative formulation is interpreted as a measure of confidence intwo aspects of the student responses: (1) the extent to which students are reading and interpreting individualquestions; and therefore (2) the reliability of the entire data set as a reflection of student opinion.Results of Analysis of Survey Responses Multiple analyses were pursued relative to these data. These included basic assessment of the reliability ofthe data, as well as consideration of the data as separated by such groupings as
involvement for some time asan essential aspect of meaningful learning” [6]. On the heels of the critique of traditionalapproaches to teaching and learning came the movement towards student engagement and activelearning in engineering classrooms. Studies focused on approaches such as cooperative learning,problem and project based learning, learning communities and service learning sought to supportthe idea of increasing student engagement [5], [10]. In addition, engineering educatorsrecommended specific changes be made to the engineering curriculum to reflect the importanceof actively engaging students [11]. However, despite various studies on this issue “the engineeringcurriculum has been slow to respond” [12, p. 286]. Some scholars [13] attributed
systems problems.In this paper, the hands-on activities were designed for the students to immerse themselves into asystem, participate in the system, and experience the behavior of an operating system first-hand.These activities are sometimes thought of as games; however, these games were connected to thefirst three of the learning objectives. The students led games and participated in games. The teamthat led the games was responsible for obtaining structured written feedback from theparticipants, developing their own reflective feedback and developing a full written report of thegame.Roadmap for Using Hands-on Discovery Activities (HODA) in a CST CourseIn 2017, Hands-on Discovery Activities (HODA) were incorporated into an existing CST
. Their plans, actions, policymaking,reflections, and frustrations all aim to explore possible reactions to the challenges brought bythese dominant images. 1It is worth noting that the idea of dominant images is not an empirical concept. In other words,the dominant image active learning in American engineering education does not necessarily inferthat most American engineering schools and programs have adopted or developed active learningwell. Rather, dominant images often have normative value. Engineering programs and facultymay have different feelings about active learning, but active learning as a social image is relevantto their educational
failure Learning from failure (LFF) Establishing the cost of production or delivery of a service, including Cost of production (CoP) scaling strategies Building, sustaining and leading effective teams and establishing Effective teams (ET) performance goals Table 2. Assessment Outcomes for the Four Modules Module AO1 AO2 AO3 AO4 Thinking Articulated creative Reflected on the Applied divergent- Applied an ideation
found eachproject and reflected on the integration of prior coursework into their design projects. Finally,student design reports were scored by instructors and students self-reported design mastery,using a common rubric.Results and Discussion: After completing each integrated project, students demonstratedimproved design knowledge and cognizance of integrating prior coursework knowledge intotheir designs. Students also reported significant confidence gains in four major areas: (1) designprocess and approach, (2) working with hardware, (3) working with software and interfacingwith hardware, and (4) communicating results. Focus group responses support the observedquantitative improvements in student design confidence. Further, instructor scoring