schools, are responding to theseserious issues with training, task forces, student groups, counseling services, and concertedattempts to shift the culture towards openness and accountability [30]. Further, there areprograms that actually center social justice, community engagement, and humility regardingprivilege and power are growing. Some examples include the Colorado School of Mines, MercerUniversity, Oregon State University, and Villanova University [31]–[34]. These not onlydemonstrate care for people and the environment impacted by engineering projects, but alsoencourages students to care for each other.An Ethic of Care may provide a framework through which engineering faculty and staff atuniversities can improve their cultures to be more
, professional Page 13.917.15ethics would no longer describe the avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of the noble,excellent and good. We should explore beauty as an ethical duty, and virtue as the pursuitof beauty in our products and the effect they have on people. Hence, we might then notonly proscribe the unsafe and environmentally reckless, but also disdain the tawdry, dirty,ugly, or maliciously destructive. If Christians going into our fields were imbued with thissense of an engineer’s calling, it might shape their career choices and projects to whichthey devote their lives. If Christian scholars sought to further develop this understandingof
the further development and improvement of the program. • The outcomes important to the mission of the institution and the objectives of the program are being measured.Examples of evidence that can be used in assessment documentation are student portfolios,including design projects; nationally normed subject content examinations; alumni surveys thatdocument professional accomplishments and career development activities; employer surveys; and Page 8.134.2“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education
) for one class (n=9) and Page 23.1369.5between 2.6 and 3.9 for another class (n=13). Problem areas are shown to vary depending on thegroup, but for both classes as a whole, the lowest mean score occurred for the basic literacy issueindicating the writing’s “closing synthesizes the elements, supports the main idea and finalizesthe paper”.Additional conference papers include Rhoulac and Crenshaw’s 2006 study[15] of 15 technicalreports written by seniors in civil engineering at Howard University, as well as Poltavtchenkoand Tingerthal’s 2011 study[16] of 9 group project reports written by construction managementstudents at a public middle-sized
). Page 26.871.6Data CollectionStudents agreed to participate in a one-hour data collection session, with 30 minutes devoted toeach participant’s concept. Each participant was asked to bring a previously defined concept forthe project they were engaged in within their course, and all students had been previouslyrequired to complete some form of user or market research to inform their project. The entireexercise was audio and video recorded (Figure 2), and all sketches and notes the participantsgenerated were retained and scanned for further analysis.The empathic walkthrough method was conducted twice for each dyad, with each participant’sconcept serving as an encapsulated use of the method, approximately 30 minutes in duration.Dyad A was used as
motivations forparticipating, and what challenges they faced before, during, and afterward; (2) to identify anycultural differences they observed or experienced, including those related to communication,decision-making, project management, problem solving, and style of engineering; and (3) tomake recommendations for individuals beginning international assignments and for educationaland corporate institutions. Lessons identified include: 1. Try Not to Behave like an ‘Ugly American’ 2. Understand the Differences Between the US and the Other Country 3. Focus on Communication 4. Build Relationships, Build Trust 5. Implement A Learn-By-Doing Model of Education for International Work 6
, alternately, that can return to industrial cycles to supply high-quality raw materials for new products; • Transportation that improves the quality of life while delivering goods and services; • A world of abundance, not one of limits, pollution, and waste.Building on this, McLennan2 puts forward the following definition of sustainable design:“Sustainable Design is a design philosophy that seeks to maximize the quality of the builtenvironment, while minimizing or eliminating negative impact to the natural environment.”Sustainable design is seen as a philosophy, an approach to design that can be applied to anyobject or project. It tries to enhance quality which as McLennan (p5) argues is about “creatingbetter buildings for people, better
to favor some parts of their brain more than other parts in learning.Indeed, Kolb has devised a learning-styles inventory (LSI), which can determine the test-taker’spreferred learning style.1,23 Theoretically, this preference reflects something about the way inwhich a student would like to learn, but does not limit learning to only one part of the cycle.With this information in hand, it may be possible to determine why some students get excited byand excel at certain aspects of a project, whereas other aspects of the same project seem boringor too difficult. Since effective learning requires the whole brain,18 one goal of InnoWorks is tohelp students develop those parts of the learning cycle that they are less inclined to use.It can be a
in engineeringcomes from the capacity to resolve complex problems; with a scientific approach, engineeringwill achieve more efficiently its purpose of serving society. However, this faith in the power ofsciences can be described as an intrinsic characteristic of who practices sciences and resolvesproblems using its theories and methods. Thomas Kuhn suggests that a “normal” science has thecapacity to establish paradigms and more rigid definition of its field and its problems, rejectingthe vision of other disciplines and problems that are “just too problematic to be worth thetime.”57 Upon these assumptions, engineers could have projected an idealistic scientificengineering that overlooks other essential parts of professional work, such as
engineers, students will be comforted to know they can achieve success inengineering and be prepared for the issues they will face in the field. By including social contextfor engineering design, the next generation of engineers will create socially conscious designs andfight for equity in their future careers. This inclusion of social context should be in the forms ofcase studies, debates, or role play, capstone projects rather than just historical examples, whichwill teach students how to critically think about such issues and consider ways in which largersocial structures serve to empower or disenfranchise people. Furthermore, education shouldinclude inclusivity training to discuss issues of equality and inclusion, including gender equity inthe
largerresearch project. The instructor did not ask students to use SolidWorks or any other drawingsoftware; the students came to this decision on their own. We include a description of this team’suse of SolidWorks because this process, while not typical of student work in the full data set,does provide an example of productive beginnings of making assumptions. We do not claim thatall students will or should demonstrate particular forms of emerging engineering judgment;rather, we believe that developing a diverse portfolio of forms of emerging judgment will help usrecognize additional forms of emerging judgment.In the transcript below, Greg recognizes that the SolidWorks sketch might be manipulable, andasks Kevin to try lowering the chair seat. The team
Paper ID #38113Work-in-Progress: Developing an Interactive, Immersive,360-Degree Virtual Media for Enhancing Student Learning inAdditive ManufacturingXiangxiong Kong Dr. Xiangxiong Kong is the Assistant Professor of Engineering Science at Coastal Carolina University. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Kansas. Kong currently teaches a few entry-level engineering courses, engineering mechanics, and capstone design courses. Before joining Coastal Carolina University, Kong had years of experience in civil engineering in both industry and academia. His research interests lie in the areas of
decisions and critique the accuracy of the information. Students who evaluate well can provide reflections on approaches taken to solve a problem and demonstrate their ability to assess underlying concepts in the process of choosing the best among multiple alternative solutions. ● Create: putting elements together to produce a new pattern or original work. In engineering, the previous levels of the taxonomy culminate to the design of a component or system that invokes all previous levels of the taxonomy. Such efforts to create are often stimulated in capstone design classes but can also be invoked in smaller projects in lower- level courses.Promoting the integration, design, and evaluation capabilities of students is
diversity education into first year is an obviousimmediately achievable goal, with many programs already incorporating some elements atpresent. Another obvious place to include a deep dive in diversity would be in courses on ethicsand professionalism, or in co-op and capstone experiences. Here lessons about diversity can bereadily applied in workplace contexts, and future employers can readily build on educationaloutcomes in industry training settings. Finally, we must seriously consider how to build diversityeducation into the engineering core courses. One easily implementable way to do this would beto identify and highlight achievers in the field who are members of diverse groups. Studentscould do this as an assignment initially, and profiles
projects provide this in a significant way, but a capstone course provides onlyone experience with a particular project. It is valuable to introduce the idea in smaller ways,when possible. Reciprocating engines provide a good vehicle for tying together manyengineering concepts. All students are familiar, at least as users, with piston engines. Theirpracticality is therefore obvious. Thermodynamics, heat transfer, combustion, fluid mechanics,mechanism design, material science, strength of materials, and electrical circuits are all needed toproduce an operating engine. Seeing this connection directly can provide motivation for study ofthe individual subjects, and a realization that required courses are not completely unrelated.Goals and Integration
. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa D. McNair is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Research in SEAD Education at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.Dr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the
’ ethical formation. Theresearch question that we seek to address is, “In what different ways and to what extent doesparticipation in departmental engineering and science courses cultivate STEM students’ ethicalformation?” We define ethical formation in terms of several skills and dispositions, includingempathy [10], civic-mindedness [11], and ethical reasoning [12].This study is part of a larger project that strives to explore the effectiveness of integratingcommunity-engaged pedagogy and ethical reflection in the science and engineering curriculum[13]. During the 2018-2019 academic semesters, a subset of faculty from the courses surveyed inthis study participated in a faculty learning community focused on ethics instruction andcommunity-engaged
, &Lee (2006) found that nearly all workplace problems are complex and ill-structured. Studentsoften only encounter complex ill-defined problems at the end of their four year engineeringprogram and enter the workforce without these critical skills requiring more on the job training.3How can we prepare students to solve these ill-defined complex problems that they willencounter as working engineers? The Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT (VaNTH)Engineering Research Center attempted to answer this question in a Biomedical Engineeringcontext. The VaNTH project designed a biotransport engineering curriculum to help studentsdevelop innovation and efficiency.4,5,6 Innovation was operationalized as the adaptive ability toperform well in
ofimportant program learning outcomes, while over 67% identify internships and community-based projects as useful in “evaluating the graduates’ potential for success” [2, p. 18], and half ofthe employers target them as the place where institutions should devote the most resources forassessment [2]. Experiential learning environments provide places where “knowledge is created throughthe transformation of experience” [14, p. 41], while enhancing their learning experience [13]. Itis an authentic assessment environment that more closely simulates later types of learningsituations, and is “one of the truest forms of active learning” [16, p. 80] where students candemonstrate their knowledge and skills, and receive valuable feedback from the
Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and the Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead). She completed her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) studying product development decision-making during complex industry projects. Dr. Olechowski completed her BSc (Engineering) at Queen’s University and her MS at MIT, both in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Olechowski and her research group Ready Lab study the processes and tools that teams of engineers use in industry as they design innovative new products. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020
a particulartheme of inquiry, as well as the Senior Capstone project.”2 The freshmen inquiry course onDesign & Society is one of nine themes offered.In Fall 2002, SJSU began their MUSE program for incoming freshmen. MUSE was designed tobridge the gap from high school to college. MUSE includes academic seminars on a variety ofsubjects that help the freshmen students gain skills that are necessary to academic success. Inaddition, all MUSE classes are certified in one of SJSU’s General Education areas. Therefore,students taking the MUSE seminars receive three units of General Education credit. Theseminars qualify in one of the following areas: B1 (physical science), B2 (life science), C1(arts), C2 (letters), D1 (human behavior), or E
common tohave a scaffolding of courses built upon each other, creating a pre-requisite driven critical path ofsequenced courses. As an example, for computer engineering at Iowa State there is currently asix-semester sequence of required pre-requisite courses that starts with students taking anintroductory digital logic course and ends with a two semester senior design capstone experience.In addition, before students can take the introductory digital logic course
communication and business components in the engineeringprofession and includes a multi-disciplinary capstone design experience for which teams areeligible for student venture grants administered by the institution. Several multi-year grants havestrengthened the program through workshops, keynote speakers, faculty curriculum awards,student venture grants, and faculty incentives to work with industry sponsored student teams. Page 15.403.2Specifically, the College of Engineering received an invitation to participate as part of a largerinitiative to develop the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN). The invitation alsoprovided funding to develop
education, design and selection of materials, general materials engineering, polymer science, and characterization of materials. His research interests are in innovative education in engineering and K-12 engineering outreach. He worked on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in developing modules for Physics and Chemistry and also a course on Engineering Capstone Design. He has also co-developed a Page 15.1149.1 Materials Concept Inventory for assessing fundamental knowledge of students in introductory materials engineering classes. He is currently working on NSF projects
Paper ID #10445Characterizing and Addressing Student Learning Issues and Misconceptions(SLIM) with Muddiest Point Reflections and Fast Formative FeedbackProf. Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen J. Krause is professor in the Materials Program in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of bridging engineering and education, capstone design, and introductory materials science and engineering. His research interests include strategies for web-based teaching and learning, misconceptions and their repair, and role of formative feedback on conceptual change. He has co
their design activities may differ significantly from their actualperformance in solving “messy” open-ended problems. In the Pacific Northwest, multi-university participants in aNational Science Foundation supported project (Transferable Integrated Design Engineering Education, TIDEE)have implemented and disseminated a Mid-Program Assessment instrument for assessing engineering studentdesign competency. One part of the instrument requires student teams to document (e.g., self-report) their designdecisions and processes while engaged in a design task. These written self-reports are scored using a rubric thathas demonstrated a high inter-rater reliability. We are interested in comparing the scores derived from these self-reports with measures of
engineering and education, capstone design, and introductory materials engineering. His research interests are evaluating conceptual knowledge, miscon- ceptions and their repair, and conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge of students in introductory materials engineering classes. He is cur- rently conducting research with NSF sponsored projects in the areas of: Modules to Promote Conceptual Change in an Introductory Materials Course, Tracking Student Learning Trajectories of Atomic Structure and Macroscopic Property Relationships, and Assessing the Effect of Learning Modes on Conceptual Change.Michelene T.H. Chi, Arizona State University Micki Chi is a
U.S. Air Force. After completing his Ph.D. in 2002, he returned to the Air Force Academy where he has been on the faculty ever since. The current focus of Dr. Wood’s research is the continued development of empirical testing methods using similitude-based approaches. This approach provides significant potential for increasing the efficiency of the design process through a reduction in required full-scale testing and an expansion of the projected performance profiles using empirically-based prediction techniques. Dr. Wood’s research also includes the development of micro air vehicle systems using innovative conceptual design techniques for current technology implementations, as well as futuristic projections