Conference Session

Maker Spaces in Design Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Colton Daniel Brehm, Texas A&M University; Julie S. Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Astrid Layton, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

first time. Toolsin the connector role (seen in Table 2) can serve as launching points to other modules, but maynot necessarily promote further student interaction with tools in that module. Separating studentsinto cohorts informs on how to move makerspace users from ultra-peripherals and peripherals toconnectors, better connecting the makerspace and promoting student-student interactions byenhancing soft skills. Students that fulfill the connector role are more likely to feel confident inall types of makerspace tasks, and because the design process is often a team activity, connectorstudents are more likely to act as mentors to others. Connector hubs can be thought of aslaunching pads for the makerspace, made up of the most general nodes in

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Teaching Preparation in Graduate Programs

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Miguel Velez-Reyes P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Fenot Aklog, Columbia University; Dawn M. Horton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Yajaira Mejia, City College of New York; Ivonne Santiago P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Jorge E. González, City College of New York; Jeff Sivils, El Paso Community College; Harry Meeuwsen, University of Texas at El Paso; Fred Moshary, City University of New York; Joseph Barba, City University of New York

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

their professional lives.● Objective 2: Develop Fellows’ skills in traditional and innovative technology-based teaching and in cutting-edge interdisciplinary research.● Objective 3: Build Fellows’ soft-skills and provide mentoring training critical to success in academic careers.● Objective 4: Enhance Fellows’ research skills to become effective and contemporary researchers in ESE, and better teachers by incorporating real ESE problems into the classroom.● Objective 5: Contribute to the knowledge base and literature on the career decision-making and success of Fellows, particularly focused on barriers that affect Hispanic doctoral student selection of an academic career and the mitigation of those barriers.The partnership

Conference Session

New Developments in ECE

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University; Melinda Holtzman, Portland State University; Phillip Wong, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

curriculum with constant tensionbetween the need to cover ever-expanding technical topics and, at the same time, teach studentsthe “soft skills” that they need to be effective engineers. This ties into accreditation, with ABETissuing a new set of criteria for evaluation of engineering programs [5]. One new item thatABET explicitly calls for is the development of teamwork and project management skills: Criterion 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”Most programs are constrained to 120 semester hours or, equivalently, 180 quarter hours for theiroverall program. This limited the number of

Collection

Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

Authors

Christine E King, University of California, Irvine

Tagged Topics

Diversity

disseminated either or boththrough oral and/or written communication4. These activities are typically conducted over oneor two semesters, although future work is required to understand which duration is mostbeneficial for learning outcomes and available resources 5. Furthermore, the activitiesperformed throughout the capstone course are designed to promote soft and hard skills that arerarely taught in the traditional engineering courses 6.In order to promote the above soft skills throughout the capstone course, students are oftenrequired to work in teams on a real-world project. Previous research has found that the teamsize has a significant effect on learning performance7. For example, in a study conducted byChou and Chang7, it was found that smaller

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 1 Slot 5 Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Tojan Rahhal, University of Missouri; Miguel Elias Ayllon, University of Missouri

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Ch), working in the lab of Dr. Joseph M. DeSimone. Outside of her research efforts, she demonstrated commitment to service and leadership in the academic community, promoting awareness of issues regarding equality in science. She currently owns Alliance Professional Development (www.Alliance-Professional.com) where she works on providing customized workshops focusing on leadership, soft skills, and cultural awareness for companies and organizations. At MU she focuses on facilitating outreach, recruitment, retention, and overall success for all members of our community, especially those from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in engineering.Dr. Miguel Elias Ayllon, University of Missouri

Conference Session

Design Pedagogy

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alexander Pagano, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

in undergraduate mechanical engineering courses and found that themajority of these do not mention the use of requirements in the “planning and clarifying stage ofthe design process.” Interestingly though, the use of requirements is mentioned explicitly andimplicitly in later design phases, though students are, “left to assess, under their own judgment,how requirements should be used within design tools” [45]. Developing non-technical or soft-skills, such as those necessary for requirements development, is a well-documented need forsuccess in engineering industry [33], [41], [44], [46]. While engineering design experiences inthe freshman and senior year may contribute meaningfully to the development of design KSA,there is a disconnect

Conference Session

Design Teams 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Swapneel Thite P.E., University of New South Wales; Jayashri Ravishankar, University of New South Wales; Araceli Martinez Ortiz, NASA Headquarters; Eliathamby Ambikairajah, University of New South Wales

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

pedagogies to develop an onlineT&L framework that aims to emulate an industrial team environment to better prepare freshgraduates. The blueprint provided in this framework can be beneficial to the academiccommunity to design courses that have sufficient flexibility and resources to incorporate themodular structure to develop T&L skills in students.References[1] M. Singh and M. Sharma, "Bridging the skills gap: Strategies and solutions," IUP Journal of Soft Skills, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 27, 2014.[2] A. A. Hussin, "Education 4.0 made simple: Ideas for teaching," International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 92-98, 2018.[3] T. Pham and E. Saito, "TEACHING TOWARDS GRADUATE ATTRIBUTES," Innovate

Conference Session

Labs and Experiential Learning

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Gurcan Comert; Zulfikar Berk, University of South Carolina; Robert Petrulis; Balaji Iyangar; Esmail M Abuhdima, Benedict college; Negash Begashaw, Benedict College

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Labs and experiential learning

designed problems and activities. However, in the summer of 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the program had to be transitioned into a virtual research experience. In this study, we reflecton our experiences as supervising faculty, and the results of pre- and post-experience surveys completedby four groups of undergraduate researchers. In contrast to previous years’ REUs, team interactions werenot possible in the virtual environment, and activities were mainly training programs. Students were ableto work with previously collected real data and write code. The participants’ final presentations weretechnically better than those in the previous two years. Regarding the development of so-called soft skills,student engagement, team working skills

Collection

Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Briana Lowe Wellman, University of the District of Columbia; Ludwig C. Nitsche, University of the District of Columbia; Dong Hyun Jeong, University of the District of Columbia

time they graduate. It is recommended that academic programs adoptstudent outcomes proposed by accrediting bodies. UDC adopted the (ABET) student outcomes,which cover technical and soft skills. The following Student Outcomes have been adopted for thecomputer science program and are the Student Outcomes recommended by ABET CAC.Graduates of the program will have an ability to: 1. Analyze a complex computing problem and to apply principles of computing and other relevant disciplines to identify solutions. 2. Design, implement and evaluate a computing-based solution to meet a given set of computing requirements in the context of the program's discipline. 3. Communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts. 4

Conference Session

Pre-K12 Track - Technical Session II

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Ardice Hartry, University of California, Berkeley; Maia Werner-Avidon, MWA Insights; Sherry Hsi, Concord Consortium; Ariel J. Ortiz, Lawrence Hall of Science; Kathryn Chong Quigley, Lawrence Hall of Science

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Pre K-12 Education

, working with teams, timepressures, personal experiences).EvaluationQuestion#4:Whatdidparticipantslearnaboutengineeringprocess?In addition to emphasizing the design process, TechHive also exposes participants toengineering. In interviews, some participants mentioned that participating in the programincreased their awareness of soft skills associated with engineering and helped them recognizethe complexity of the engineering design process. All interviewees recognized that what they doin TechHive is engineering and several said participating in the program helped shape their ownidentity as engineers.There were two key ways in which participants mentioned that the program affected how theythink about engineering. First, several participants

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Tuesday 5-Minute Work-in-Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brandon B. Terranova, Drexel University; Christopher M. Weyant, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Steven Wrenn, Drexel Unviersity, Chemical and Biological Engineering Department; Youngmoo Kim, Drexel University, ExCITe Center; Lunal Khuon, Drexel University; Kristin Imhoff, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Kevin Ayers, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Antonios Kontsos, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Leonid Hrebien, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); James E. Mitchell, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.)

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

the projects,and self-evaluated their relevant knowledge and abilities before and after the projects. Earlyresults presented in this paper indicate an improved level of student satisfaction with the newcourse structure and the pilot mini-projects.IntroductionThe goal of introductory general engineering laboratory courses is to engage, challenge andexcite first-year students about engineering. This report discusses the restructuring of a three-quarter general engineering laboratory course sequence (ENGR 101/102/103) to ensure thesegoals are met, while improving soft skills and student understanding of engineeringconcepts. The effort, guided by faculty representatives from each department in the college,included the development of two

Conference Session

New Tools for Teaching Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hector Erick Lugo Nevarez, University of Texas, El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso; Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso; Randy Hazael Anaya, University of Texas, El Paso; Herminia Hemmitt, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

challenging according to the students’ feedback. The interaction between Staff with students is considered as the assessment and assignment of managing the printers. The staff must know from front to end how the printers work, tutor the students that will aid in overseeing/troubleshooting the print models. The staff should be able to educate the part-time students how to provide one to one or a huge class of students, the proper workshop for 3D designing and printing. The part- time students should develop soft skills such as replying emails with proper feedback on how could the model be optimized for 3D printing and professionally answer students’ question in 3D designing and printing.CHARGE SYSTEM:“If you want 3D printing you have

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Practices

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly B. Demoret P.E., Florida Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

TimeCardsystem appears be a useful tool to confront “social loafing” or “freeriding”- where some studentsfail to contribute their fair share of the work. This system may be particularly helpful forCapstone instructors with large classes and large teams who are seeking greater visibility onteam processes and more quantifiable data for evaluating individual effort.Introduction and BackgroundThe practice of engineering requires individuals to work with others towards a common goal,and engineers spend a surprisingly large amount of time interacting with other people tocoordinate and complete work [1]. Capstone Design is typically a team endeavor that allowsengineering students to practice "soft skills" such as teamwork and communication that areessential

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology; Todd M. Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kali Lynn Morgan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. (2007). Engineering as lifestyle and a meritocracy of difficulty: Two pervasive beliefs among engineering students and their possible effect. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.[6] Boyes, M. C., & Chandler, M. (1992). Cognitive development, epistemic doubt, and identityformation in adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 21(3), 277- 303.[7] Itani, M., & Srour, I. (2015). Engineering students’ perceptions of soft skills, industry expectations, and career aspirations. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 142(1), 04015005.[8] Trevelyan, J. P. (2011, October). Are we accidentally misleading students about

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Gross, Kettering University; Diane L. Peters, Kettering University; Stacy Lynn Mann, Kettering University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

. 402-7.[19] National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies, The engineer of 2020:Visions of engineering in the new century. 2004, Washington, DC: National Academies Press.[20] Clarke, M. "Addressing the soft skills crisis." Strategic HR Review, Vol. 15 no. 3, 2016,pp.137-139.[21] Tech Directors. "Career Directions," 10, 2003, pp. 22-23.[22] Dewey, J. How We Think. A Restatement of the Relation of Reflective Thinking to theEducative Process (Revised ed.), Boston: D. C. Heath. 1933.[23] Daley, B. “Novice to expert: An exploration of how professionals learn.” Adult EducationQuarterly Vol. 49 no. 4, Summer, 1999, pp 133-147.[24] Kaufman, H. G. “Obsolescence and retraining of technical professionals: A researchperspective.” The Journal

Conference Session

EMD Curriculum Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Ozgur Erol, Stevens Institute of Technology; Anithashree Chandrasekaran, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

range from the technical, such as knowledge and application ofscience and engineering science as well as design competencies, to so-called "soft skills" such asrelating to effective teamwork, communication skills, ethics, life-long learning, etc. Programoutcomes are used to ensure that the program curriculum is aligned with the program objectives.The program outcomes are linked to the School of Engineering-level Curriculum Outcomes18.The outcomes of all programs are also designed to be consistent with the requirements of Criteria3 of ABET Engineering Criteria 2000.The Course Outcomes Assessment process at Stevens includes a two-pronged approach - thecourse survey and the Student Performance Assessment (SPA). The course survey solicitsstudents

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Sullivan, East Carolina University; Rick Williams, East Carolina University; William Howard, East Carolina University; Jason Yao, East Carolina University; Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

TheEngineer of 2020. Professionals who graduate with engineering degrees of any discipline maydirectly use their undergraduate technical knowledge as well as use, in more general terms, theirengineering problem solving approaches in many fields. Today’s engineers work in traditionalas well as non-traditional fields perceived completely different from any design theory studied inthe classroom. Many industries, from mainstream business and consulting to design andmanufacturing, desire to hire engineers for their learned way of thinking and ability to applyavailable resources to improve quality of product, service and thus human life. A well-roundedengineer, with effective technical knowledge and analytical skills as well as effective soft skills

Conference Session

Direct Measures of Student Performance

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. The hybridnature of the course has also been well received with the students who are not accustomed toonline, hybrid, or distance learning within the college of engineering at the author’s homeinstitution. Finally, the course serves as a direct assessment vehicle for the soft programoutcomes. As such, this course can serve as a model for other institutions that are trying to coveradditional “soft skills” in a typically packed technical

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frederick Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William Eccles, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Bruce Ferguson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Daniel Moore, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mihaela Radu, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Terry Schumacher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; David Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mark Yoder, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Edward Wheeler, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

increased student responsibilities in the latter two courses. Students provide thecritiques of many of their colleagues’ first drafts of written documentation; this frees the faculty to focus on thedesign process and to help teams hone their later drafts. No formal data has been collected, but anecdotal dataindicates strong faculty support for the revised design sequence—both from an educational point of view and from aworkload point of view.Though faculty support for the course is strong and widespread throughout the ECE department, not all facultymembers are willing or qualified to teach the design courses. The teaching of “soft skills” associated with designcourses makes many faculty members uncomfortable; they prefer the mathematically-based

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 2

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arlie Hall, University of Kentucky; Lawrence Holloway, University of Kentucky

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

have been taught regularly since that time.In 2003, under a grant from Ford Motor Company, some of the courses were moved into asummer “boot-camp” format. This allows the students to take two courses simultaneouslyduring a 4 week intensive summer session. Since no other courses are taken during each session,students are available for involvement throughout the day. This allows multiple plant visits,extensive factory simulation exercises, and team projects. Students indicate that the experienceis very intense but worthwhile. Employers indicate a strong demand for the students,appreciating the students’ mixture of theory and application, and the mixture of both technicalknowledge and soft-skills knowledge (organizational theory, leadership, and

Collection

2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Otily Toutsop, Morgan State University; Paige Janae Harvey, Morgan State University; Kevin Kornegay, Morgan State University; Edmund Himmie Smith, Morgan State University ; Marcial Tienteu; Vinton Amsley Morris, Morgan State University; Dennis Ndati, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute; Aaron A Mcclenton; Andre Latte Dean Jr., Morgan State University School of Engineering

] Elhadi, S., Marzak, A., Sael, N., & Merzouk, S. (2018). Comparative Study of IoTProtocols.[15] Garg, Hittu and Mayank Dave. “Securing IoT Devices and SecurelyConnecting the DotsUsing REST API and Middleware.” 2019 4th International Conference on Internet of Things:Smart Innovation and Usages (IoT-SIU) (2019): 1-6.[16] Pal, Shantanu et al. “Security Requirements for the Internet of Things: A SystematicApproach.” Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) 20 (2020): n. pag.[17] Noah, J. B., & Abdul Aziz, A. (2020). A Systematic review on soft skills developmentamong university graduates. EDUCATUM Journal of Social Sciences, 6(1), 43-58. Retrievedfrom https://ejournal.upsi.edu.my/index.php/EJOSS/article/view/3485[18] Erdil, D. C., & Bowlyn, K. N

Conference Session

Approaches to Active Learning

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Yim, University of Pennsylvania; Katherine Kuchenbecker, University of Pennsylvania; Paulo Arratia, University of Pennsylvania; Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania; John Bassani, University of Pennsylvania; Jonathan Fiene, University of Pennsylvania; Jennifer Lukes, University of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. They also rely onstudent input to help design and improve the curriculum every year. This paper describes theapproach we have taken at the University of Pennsylvania, which integrates selected teaching Page 13.81.3techniques into a cohesive mechanical engineering curriculum aimed at facilitating our students’development into competent, motivated, independent engineers.ProgressionFull curriculum integration has several advantages over labs that are simply tied to individualcourses. The most obvious benefit is the potential for projects to apply integrated concepts thatcross many courses. At the same time, soft skills such as teamwork

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston; Raresh Pascali, University of Houston; Miguel Ramos, University of Houston; William Fitzgibbon, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

has unveiled the 14 Grand Challenges that are awaitingengineering solutions www.engineeringchallenges.org/ in energy, infrastructure & theenvironment, health & medicine, security, and in technology and tools for research and forinstruction & learning. A common thread in the 14 Grand Challenges lies in ensuring that theeducational system equips engineers with the skills needed to tackle these grand technicalproblems. At the recent March 2-3, 2009 NAE Summit in Durham, North Carolina, several ofthese challenges were discussed, and the imperative of having strong math and scientificfoundations, a knowledge of business and entrepreneurship, an awareness of the globalenvironment, and soft-skills development in engineering education was

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston; Wajiha Shireen, University of Houston; Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston; Miguel Ramos, University of Houston; William Fitzgibbon, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

; learning. A common thread in the 14 Grand Challenges lies in ensuring that theeducational system equips engineers with the skills needed to tackle these grand technicalproblems. At the recent March 2-3, 2009 NAE Summit in Durham, North Carolina, several ofthese challenges were discussed, and the imperative of having strong math and scientificfoundations, a knowledge of business and entrepreneurship, an awareness of the globalenvironment, and soft-skills development in engineering education was made clear. However, inthe authors’ opinion, it has also become clear that out of the typical 4-year plan, the roughly 2 ½years worth of engineering courses are not sufficient to do justice to both the theory and thepractice of engineering, let alone all the

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Oakes, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

learning in engineering education can be broken into the professional skills (whatsome called “soft” skills) and the technical skills, More evaluation has been done on theconnection of service-learning with the professional skills. Evaluations from the PurdueEPICS Program showed students reported learning teamwork and communication as partof their participation of engineering design teams21. A study of students participating onglobal design projects at WPI documented their development in the areas of life-longlearning and showed gains based on their experiences33. There has been a great deal of Page 14.381.5research around the impact on students

Conference Session

Curriculum in Electrical Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University; George Wright, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

) ≠ What attributes are necessary to be a successful product/system developer? (ie, technical skills, “soft” skills, personality) ≠ What educational components would serve the future product/system developer best? (While we know that companies will probably not hire new graduates directly into product/system development roles, we want to prepare them with an interest in this area, and the skills to maximize the likelihood of success.) Page 14.1101.2An immediate action that resulted from working with these industrial experts was the need todevelop a more holistic approach to product development. It was recognized that for

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships, Teaching Strategies & Collaborative Networks (IUCEE, IFEES, LACCEI.... )

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andy Ward, Ohio State University; Ann Christy, Ohio State University; Robert J. Gustafson; Jessica D'Ambrosio; Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

International

≠ Benefits community low ≠ Global setting gives a broader impact ≠ Develops need for soft skills ≠ Promotes social awareness Engineering Education in Distance Learning Positives Negatives ≠ Reduce geographical boundary ≠ Lack of flexibility ≠ Can be cheaper ≠ No direct feedback ≠ Accessibility ≠ Infrastructure needs ≠ Large audience - cost effective ≠ Expensive - poor economic model ≠ Convenience ≠ Student isolation ≠ Continuing education

Conference Session

Assessing Design Course Work

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; Edward Blicharz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Peter Dominick, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

to teaming skills. Below we reiterate the overall approach and describe thedetails of the Sophomore Year implementation.Outline of the Teaming Thread and AssessmentOur approach is to develop team skills through a series of engineering design courses. Thecurriculum at Stevens Institute of Technology has a design or design-related course everysemester12 with the four courses in the freshman and sophomore years (Engineering Design 1thru 4) being of particular importance to the early development of various “soft skill” threads,including teaming. These first four design courses are core engineering curriculum courses; laterdesign courses in the sequence are disciplinary, culminating in the two-semester capstone designproject.The subject of team

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in CHE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Blowers, University of Arizona

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

coursework while they have the satisfaction of progress. And, as social problemsmount due to resource constraints, the ability to help others through their profession is anotherstrong motivator.There are certain core skills that students must have in a discipline in order to become successful.Fostering those skills can be done through longitudinal advising. It is assumed that graduateswill be technically competent in their selected fields. However, students must have strongwritten and oral communication skills. These skills can be strengthened in students bysuggesting they participate in writing workshops, become student ambassadors or tour guides, orthrough tutoring other students. Teamwork is another "soft" skill expected in students.Encouraging

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics V

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Donald Chinn, University of Washington, Tacoma

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

predict effectiveness. Bailey and Stefaniak3used surveys, interviews, and focus groups to determine what employers in the IT industry valued asimportant non-technical skills for employees. They identified both soft skills and business skillsmentioned by the 325 IT professionals surveyed. A panel at the ACM Conference in 1978 presented skillsets of what industry looks for in new hires – among these skills are math ability, software developmentknowledge, problem-solving, team skills, initiative, diversity, and versatility14.Several resources exist for teaching issues of professionalism and ethics. Among these are exercisescompiled by the working group on integrating professionalism into the curriculum11. An exercise aboutresearching types of