of Washington Ryan is a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Washington’s interdisciplinary Individual Ph.D. Program and a research assistant at the UW Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT). His research interests include: engineering education, ethics, humanitarian engineering, and computer modeling of electric power and renewable energy systems.Dr. Jim L Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington Dr. Jim Borgford-Parnell is Associate Director and Instructional Consultant at the Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching at the University of Washington. He taught design, education-research methods, and adult and higher education theory and pedagogy courses for over 30 years. He has been involved
situations that were not the specific ones studied? What is involved in making an SOI effort significant? Did it involve contradicting something considered “true”? What is involved in making an SOI effort ethical (e.g., being mindful of how other work is represented, being mindful of inclusion/exclusion)? Challenges and What kinds of challenges did you experience? Did an SOI framing help or hinder you? advice What kinds of challenges did you experience regarding publishing or communicating your work? What help do you wish you had? What advice would you offer to others? Outcomes What was
the X-Planes”, looks at two companies trying to meet thesame design goals from two very different approaches and emphasizes the importance of proper Page 12.560.8analysis and dealing with design tradeoffs. Another is a film which presents engineering disastersthat often have resulted in the loss of life and property and diminished engineering credibility.Homework associated with each varies from answering questions about the topic to in-depthanalysis and class presentations. For example, in the disasters movie each Major Design Projectteam is assigned one of the disasters to further research the technical and ethical issues that wereinvolved
in. I found I had a better understanding of the infrastructures in urban Denver and their social ramification than those in remote tribal areas of India and other parts of the developing world. I also found myself relieved to be back in the realm of applied research in sustainable development, as the dynamics of donors, benefactors, beneficiaries and their varying agendas in international service projects had caused me to lose much sleep over their ethical ramifications. For Anu Ramaswami (University of Colorado Denver), coming to the United States wasnot the “dramatic culture shock” that leaving the country was for the American-born participants.The United States “in all its complexity” provided an opportunity to pursue
are strong analyticalskills, practical ingenuity, creativity, communication competencies, lifelong learning, agility,flexibility, resilience, high ethical standards, professionalism, business and management skills,and leadership skills. Discussions of these attributes strongly suggest that the engineer of thefuture must be able to work effectively with others on projects that require interdisciplinarythinking and skills.The goal of the P360 study is to identify and analyze the curricular, pedagogical, cultural, andorganizational features that support engineering education that appear to be aligned with thegoals of the Engineer of 2020. The study concentrates on three attributes that appear to becentral to the goals of the engineer of 2020
experience. A study of the impact of the implementation of the EC2000 accreditationcriteria on a nationally representative sample of engineering programs suggests, however, thatsome knowledge and skills have been more successfully integrated in the undergraduatecurriculum than others (Lattuca, Strauss, & Volkwein, 200626; Lattuca, Terenzini,& Volkwein,200627). Following EC2000, program chairs reported the greatest changes in emphasis incommunication, teamwork, societal contexts, and ethics, with 75 to 90% of chairs indicatingsome or significant increases in emphases on these topics. About 60% of chairs reported someor a significant increase on contemporary issues. Faculty members, who reported on a singlecourse that they regularly teach
and acceptance of thestudents and make sure they are included in department activities. Integrate more diversityactivities into engineering curriculum by requiring that all freshman and first year graduatestudents take two-hours of diversity education.Faculty Diversity through New Teaching Post-Docs and Assistant: Host orientation for newTAs each fall and provide ongoing training seminars for teaching assistants wanting to developtheir teaching skills. Provide training to new Teaching Post-docs and Assistants to help themdevelop and improve their teaching skills. Survival Skills and Ethic programs can help post-docsand TAs to enhance their career growth and success at present and future.Foster a sense of belonging for minority students in the
(primarily in the Midwest), the KEEN program provides access to vital resources for buildingquality entrepreneurship education programs. In addition, KEEN provides grants to institutionsfor the development of entrepreneurship curricula, modules, and extracurricular activities. AtLTU, the grants provide the funding to develop new innovative interdisciplinary programsfocused on developing the “entrepreneurial mindset” on campus. The skills associated with the Page 22.1189.4entrepreneurial mindset are communication, teamwork, leadership, ethics and ethical decision-making, opportunity recognition, persistence, creativity, innovation, tolerance for
. ≠ It is such a trivial part of the equation that it is meaningless. Do something in that arena Page 15.152.10 or suck up to the administrators and you will survive the process. ≠ It's not, really. Our OES-L work is highly interdisciplinary, with more social science than engineering. ≠ OES-l is based on accountability to institution mostly. ≠ Personal ethics of the people involved. ≠ Probably is not specifically addressed. We are likely to believe the person in what they say their accomplishments are. ≠ Projects by faculty and their students. ≠ The students are considered the community, so faculty
. Usprech has worked to incorporate hands on cellular/tissue engineering design into the SBME undergraduate curriculum and teaches courses in professionalism and ethics, and engineering and design.Prof. Karen C. Cheung, University of British Columbia Karen Cheung received her B.S. and PhD. degrees in Bioengineering from the University of California, ´ Berkeley. She did her postdoctoral work in microtechnologies at the Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de Lausanne, Switzerland. She is a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of British Columbia.Dr. Agnes Germaine
, including section chair, newsletter editor, Zone IV chair, Board of Directors, and member of various national committees. She is active in the Engineering Technology & Engineering Ethics Divisions and received three Society awards: Fellow (2008), James H. McGraw Award (2010), and Frederick J. Berger Award (2013). Her research interests include engineering ethics, engineering and the Holocaust, and electronic communications media. Dyrud received a B.A. (University of the Pacific) and an M.A. and Ph.D., both from Purdue University. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014
participation in the study would haveno effect on their course grades. Furthermore, the GPA of students who opted to participate was notobtained, but students who participated had reputations of possessing a strong work ethic. Eightstudents participated, six of them of senior standing and two of junior standing. Prior to the day of thestudy, students were sent a pre-survey and based on their answers were then split into control and Proceedings of the 2022 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX Copyright © 2022, American Society for Engineering Education 4experimental groups to
contribute to the mentor’s project.We created a Slack workspace for the SECURE program and individual channels for eachproject. This way, students could communicate easily with mentors and other students.Additionally, students wrote a brief weekly report, highlighting their work from the past week ina couple of paragraphs, and posted this in Slack for everyone to read. All students joined avirtual Zoom meeting each week to discuss professional development topics, includingcommunication, teamwork, design skills, research skills, ethics, innovation and creativity.Individual project groups also met in virtual meetings as needed to update one another andmentors. These meetings fostered open discussion of the project and development of new goals.As
efforts and redefine the engineering canon as sociotechnical. She has a background in environmental engineering and received her Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Utah State University with a research focus on the ethical and career aspects of mentoring of science and engineering graduate students and hidden curriculum in engineering.Dr. Amy Walker, University of Texas at Dallas Amy V. Walker is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education in the Erik Jonsson School of Computer Science and Engineering, and a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. Amy received her BA(Hons) in Natural Sciences (Experimental and Theoretical Physics) in 1995 and her PhD in Chemistry in 1998
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parents have always beenproponents of education and the doors it can open which has shaped my work ethic. The studentswe researched helped me gain a better understanding of how I view my and others’ approach toengineering and what defines success.Coding and Analysis ProceduresDuring the analysis process researchers read through both interviews to familiarize themselveswith the data [22]. Two main researchers were involved in the coding process. These researcherscoded roughly three quarters of one interview together, and then coded the remainder of the sameinterview individually. Nearly 200 codes were created in the first pass of the first interview.These unique codes were then reduced to six collated codes for the codebook to capture theentirety
concurrent incorporation of multiple decision analysismethods and associated tools. The system architecture enhancements to the currently ABETaccredited curriculum aligns it even stronger with the specified ABET Criterion 3 StudentOutcomes, 2022-2023 shown below [31]: 1. Ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics. 2. Ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors. 3. Ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences. 4. Ability to recognize ethical and professional
does a scientist look like?,” Future Science, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 401–403, Mar. 2022, doi: 10.4155/BIO-2022-0033.[7] E. O. McGee, D. Naphan-Kingery, M. L. Miles, and O. Joseph, “How Black Engineering and Computing Faculty Exercise an Equity Ethic to Racially Fortify and Enrich Black Students,” J Higher Educ, vol. 93, no. 5, pp. 702–734, 2022, doi: 10.1080/00221546.2022.2031704.[8] K. C. Thiem and N. Dasgupta, “From Precollege to Career: Barriers Facing Historically Marginalized Students and Evidence-Based Solutions,” Soc Issues Policy Rev, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 212–251, Jan. 2022, doi: 10.1111/SIPR.12085.[9] M. Jura and I. Gerhardt, “Examining the Effectiveness of an Online Summer Bridge Course
has not previously been discovered – qualitative researchers often havelittle or no concrete idea of what meanings, patterns, or relationships between themes will beidentified in a new data set. They are asking the research question because the meaning is unclearand requires new data and interpretation to provide meaning. At the same time, a qualitativehypothesis may still exist at a higher level: even that “X type of data about Y topic/phenomenonfrom P participants will generate meaningful answers to my research question.” Then, the DataCollection stage requires clear, ethical (e.g., IRB approved, if including human participants), andstructured data generation just as quantitative research; however, qualitative data comprises wordsor
for mentoring and to providefaculty training in optimizing mentoring relationships for mentors with their mentees at all levelsof their research careers. The Academy is based on the research mentoring curriculum, ”EnteringMentoring”, an evidence-based curriculum from the Center for the Improvement of MentoredExperiences in Research (CIMER) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Course topicsinclude aligning expectations, assessing understanding, promoting professional development,cultivating ethical behaviors, promoting mentee research self-efficacy, enhancing work-lifeintegration, and articulating a mentoring philosophy and action plan. 37Plans for Evaluation and ExpansionWe are currently designing a peer-to-peer mentoring certification
thinking and practice essential for CEE systems development. Contentincludes sustainability in professional codes of ethics, and models and rating tools forsustainability, environmental impact, and social equity assessment. During this module, the 3Csof EM are discussed and then referred back to throughout the semester. In the second module, thestudents study how to apply optimization, multiple criteria and uncertainty evaluation tools. In thethird module, the students study and apply engineering economic decision analysis tools. In thefourth and final module, which occurs across the entire semester, the students research, evaluateand recommend changes to a large-scale system to enhance its sustainability and performance byapplying the tools they
careers: Leaky pipeline or gender filter?” Gender and Education, 17(4), pp. 369–386, 2005.[2] R. Suresh, “The relationship between barrier courses and persistence in engineering.” Journal of College Student Retention, 8(2), pp. 215–39, 2006/2007.[3] T. Armstrong, Neurodiversity: A Concept Whose Time Has Come. Da Capo Press. 2010. p. 3.[4] T. Armstrong “The Myth of the Normal Brain: Embracing Neurodiversity.” AMA J Ethics.17(4): pp. 348-352, 2015. doi:10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.4.msoc1-1504.[5] C. L. Taylor, A. Esmaili Zaghi, J. C. Kaufman, S. M. Reis, and J. S. Renzulli, “Divergent thinking and academic performance of students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder characteristics in engineering
to fulfillment of the necessary KSAs for responsible charge.Employers know there are gaps, especially in “professional skills” (communication, writing,ethical responsibilities, etc.) and wonder what to do about it. The CEBOK3 identifies each ofthese skills and defines the attributes that are gained through mentored experience and life-longself-development to fulfill them. What is needed is a program that translates the content of thePG, ME, and SD outcomes into a format that employers can understand and use to develop theirearly-career civil engineers. ASCE is currently developing such a program (described later in thispaper)These concerns are further exacerbated by shifts in workplace culture as workers demand moreflexible schedules and
women students’ sense of belonging in engineering. In addition to hiringmore women faculty, Ethiopian universities may want to infuse professional development effortsthat enhance ethics, professionalism, and democratic culture (especially for men students andmen faculty), this implies creating a harassment-free culture. Thus, the engineering college, theuniversity, and the government of Ethiopia may listen to the women students’ advice andrecommendations to improve women students’ sense of belonging to make engineering a saferand more inclusive space for all students.AcknowledgmentsMany thanks to the faculty: Drs. Brooke Coley, Debalina Maitra, and a graduate student, BalaVignesh Sundaram for insightful feedback that helps us to improve the
form the basis of the study results, as discussed in the next section.6.4 Ethical and Trustworthiness ConsiderationsEthical considerations were addressed by obtaining informed consent from the participants andensuring that they were aware of the purpose of the study, their rights as participants, and thepotential risks and benefits involved. Confidentiality and anonymity were maintained byassigning pseudonyms to the participants and storing their data securely.Trustworthiness considerations were addressed by conducting an interrater reliability test. Toenhance the dependability and consistency of the analysis, the researcher enlisted a second coderto code a portion of the data independently. The interrater reliability score of 87% was