engineers. Because Make to Innovate is open tostudents from the freshman level to the senior level, we hope to reinforce these skills throughouttheir academic career continuously.ConclusionWe believe that the Make to Innovate program is helping our students in learning additional skillssuch as professional skills, manufacturing skills, and moving a design to reality. These skills willhelp our students in becoming better engineers and give them experience that can help them intheir future careers. The data we have collected so far have shown that we are making an impacton students and that employers have taken notice of the benefit of the program. As with anyprogram though, continuous assessment and improvement are needed to keep the
apost-survey the last week of class, administered for course improvement purposes. However,only students that consented to participate in the research study have their responses analyzedand presented in this paper. The surveys ask questions about the students’ level of comfort in theclassroom, sense of belonging within many contexts, engineering identity, skills and abilities,intent to continue engineering in college and as a career, and some math confidence questions.Since reflection questions were assignments in the class, all students submitted them as part oftheir coursework. But, only the responses from consenting research participants are included inthis research dataset. Students who dropped the course after attending multiple class
listed in Table 1. Note that weuse the title “Professor” for all faculty members on our team, both teaching line and tenure line,without implying that this is their official university rank. Professors A, B, C, and D are allmembers of the academic faculty at their institutions. Professors A and B have reached thehighest teaching faculty rank at their university, Professor C is an early career non-tenure trackTable 1: Research team and roles. Research Team Role Selected Demographics Member Professor A Lead author and professor (teaching Female, white (non-Hispanic), faculty) teaching the third-year course heterosexual, cisgender, not
Paper ID #29709A Study of the Effectiveness of Using Hands-On Active Learning Exercisesin a Production Operations Management CourseMajor Steven Hoak, United States Military Academy Major Steven Hoak currently serves as an instructor at the United States Military Academy in the Depart- ment of Systems Engineering, focusing on engineering management. He is a career Army Aviation and Acquisition Officer. He holds a Master degree in Nuclear Engineering (Air Force Institute of Technol- ogy), a Master of Business Management (Mississippi State University) as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the United
theentrepreneurial journey to designing programs that allow students to have founder experiencesand launch their own business ventures. The intention of these programs is for engineeringstudents to gain a skillset and orientation towards being more innovative and entrepreneurial intheir careers once they leave the university, whether they choose to try to immediately start acompany or not.Many of the activities that are designed into entrepreneurship programs, however, result instudents experiencing varying degrees of failure with the most extreme case being student-launched ventures that fail. While entrepreneurship programs typically talk about embracingfailure and learning to fail fast, it’s unclear what impact these failure experiences have
PBSL efforts may offer two additionaladvantages. First, since students are addressing concrete needs in an interprofessional workingenvironment, the interprofessional PBSL experience may help foster mature attitudes towardsprofessional practice. Second, the array of challenges, joys, and rewards associated with servingthe community in an interprofessional team may promote career readiness and confidence inone’s training and aptitude.The need for interprofessional education and collaborative practice is not unique to engineering.Training programs for pre-service professionals in allied health specialties, such as clinicalexercise physiology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and athletic training, benefit frominterprofessional experiences
, highly considered by ANU's HE leadership as a critical aspect. In fact, there is along-term partnership of ANU's minor with five or six community organizations beyond EWB.A few social enterprises have been established by alumni, which are working both domesticallyand internationally, broadening the students opportunities to undertake internships or researchprojects, including Abundant Water with programs in Lao and Timor Leste, which helps remotecommunities stop diseases by providing access to clean water, and Enable Development, whichworks with empowering people with disabilities [21].Finally, HE at ANU is not compulsory but restricted to interested students. The evidenceprovided in the benefits for a professional career and consistent
-shelf engineering ethics textbooks, produce a mix of factors thatmay result in the common finding that students often become measurably less ethical as theyprogress through their undergraduate career [9], [10].In response to this, the College of Engineering at Boise State University is taking advantage ofsystemic curricular change efforts made possible by an NSF sponsored RED grant(Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments) to its Department ofComputer Science [11]–[17], and adapting innovations from that project to other engineeringdepartments. This manuscript describes efforts in the Department of Mechanical and BiomedicalEngineering and Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering. These efforts
deeper and more critical exploration in one or two targetedcourses may provide a combination that yields appropriate student education on ESI.IntroductionChemical engineering students, like all engineers, need to be educated about ethics and societalimpacts (ESI), in order to prepare them for their careers. Accreditation requires this knowledge,with the new ABET criteria 3 outcome (4) acknowledging the interconnected elements of ethicsand societal impacts: “an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities inengineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact ofengineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts” [1]. Inaddition, the Chemical Engineers Body of Knowledge
’ previous experiences with college writing.These results paint a rather bleak picture of our engineering undergraduates’ education aswriters. As Figure 4 indicates, many students will likely receive no disciplinary writinginstruction until their 3rd year of study. All of our students will be required to write at some pointin their undergraduate careers. However, considering the rate at which students place out of thefirst-year composition course and the lack of writing instruction in engineering courses havingwriting components, some students may never receive any writing instruction, disciplinary orotherwise, during their entire college career.Ideally, writing would be integrated throughout the curriculum by incorporating writinginstruction and
150 articles and chapters, her research centers on the intersections of career, gender communication, lead- ership, and resilience. Fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, she has received numerous awards for her research, teaching/mentoring, and engagement. She is working on Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, the Transforming Lives Building Global Commu- nities (TLBGC) team in Ghana through EPICS, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of ethics in design through NSF funding as Co-PI. [Email: buzzanel@purdue.edu]David Torres, Purdue University, West Lafayette David is a fourth year
Formative Feedback CoachingIntroductionFaculty development, as it relates to teaching and learning, has been a persistent challenge inhigher education. College faculty generally begin their careers with no formal training in teach-ing and, consequently, ‘teach as I was taught’ is the starting point for most new faculty. Respon-sibility for faculty development of teaching, therefore, falls to an administrative unit of theuniversity. Many institutions have successful faculty orientation and mentoring programs, butthose programs often fall short of moving new teachers to effective practice in engagement peda-gogy using active learning strategies. Modifying the practices of experienced faculty is particu-larly difficult.This paper explores how faculty
great area, but it's less than 15% of the courses that students take in an undergraduate career… then in the other 85% it’s completely invisible, you're going to think, as an engineering student, just doesn't matter. This broader impacts, if it had really mattered, my professors would have mentioned it more. But we’re trying to change that culture.Teaching ESI throughout the educational experience conveys the inherent interconnectedness ofethical decision-making and engineering. A psychology professor who teaches at a privatereligiously affiliated baccalaureate college with arts and science focus [26] developed an ethicscourse for computer science students that is integrated into the program. He described how thewhole department bought
implementation of a socio-technical laboratory, one that emulates anexperience of global engineering fieldwork.IntroductionThe practice of engineering is a profession that engages the material world. The work engineersundertake requires being in and around the processes, artefacts, and users of the solutions theydevelop. This necessarily leads to being involved in investigations “in the field” where a widerange of technical and non-technical data is gathered or generated, and situational awareness iscentral to their analysis and recommendations based upon the conclusions drawn in the givensituation. During their career, most engineers have undoubtedly faced the urgent matter of beingsent to an installation site or to visit a supplier to investigate a
. Lang’s current research interests focus on identifying, assessing, and developing key skills, knowledge, attitudes, and other intrinsic and extrinsic factors required for engineers to effectively lead others, particularly other engineers and across cultures.Dr. Meg Handley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Meg Handley is currently the Associate Director for Engineering Leadership Outreach at Penn State University. Previously, Meg served as the Director of the Career & Corporate Connection’s office at the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University. Meg holds a PhD in Workforce Education at Penn State, where she focused on interpersonal behaviors and their impact on engineering leadership potential
Hatcher c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 An Introduction to the Integrated Community-Engaged Learning and Ethical Reflection Framework (I-CELER)Abstract Cultivating ethical Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics researchers andpractitioners requires movement beyond reducing ethical instruction to the rational explorationof moral quandaries via case studies and into the complexity of the ethical issues that studentswill encounter within their careers. We designed the Integrated Community-Engaged Learningand Ethical Reflection (I-CELER) framework as a means to promote the ethical becoming offuture STEM practitioners. This paper provides a synthesis of and rationale for
fixate the project as soon as possible.Students also reported in the survey how, even though coordinating and understanding otherdisciplines' priorities was challenging, it still provided them a real-life experience of what theywould encounter in their careers. It was very interesting to monitor the evolution of the mutualperceptions of their roles during the project with students either gaining a better understanding ofeach other’s roles and priorities, or even of their own roles on the project. With the increasing useof integrated PDMs in the industry, this module presents a valuable platform for students fromdifferent
EWBprojects, with their explicit social justice mission, has already been shown to have a positive effecton students, attitudes towards community service, and career expectations [2–7]. Other work hasdocumented the effects of service learning participation on meeting ABET learning outcomes [6]and providing global engineering competencies [8, 9]. While the benefits of service learning forstudent education are enticing, there is also some evidence that participation in projects with localcommunities, in contrast to internationally-based field work, can achieve the same studentoutcomes in terms of technical and professional skills [10, 11].Integration of service learning into the curriculum also necessitates the consideration of impactson the
software tool I haven’t used before, and it might help me get a summer job. If I do, maybe I can buy my own flight home for Christmas and save my parents some money. I am excited about learning how project management works, because I had some really disorganized teams in high school and want to do better...The two student examples above are truncated; in the actual activity, each would continue tospeak for several minutes, often with pauses and hesitations. Nevertheless, the differences inapproach are apparent (sustainability, teamwork, future-oriented, new to machining vs.experience, career-oriented, reflecting on high school experiences, etc.). The combination of theOpen Sentence and the open time for each person to speak
changingconditions, and made decisions informed by constraints. Particularly, we sought to identifylearning frameworks that fit the data well and would help us improve the design and assessmentof the activity in later iterations. We found that the learning frameworks of metacognition anddiscrepancy resolution combined to explain most student activity relative to our learningobjectives, and these frameworks suggest several points of improvement for the design andassessment of the simulation game.IntroductionResearch shows a disconnect between academia and industry in terms of engineering educationand practice (Johri & Olds, 2011). In particular, early career engineers believe that “engineeringwork is much more variable and complex than most engineering
prepare these individuals to demonstrate resilience, and be life-long learners[1]. Life-long learning is critical for the development of engineering graduates who will be ableto address the Engineering Grand Challenges [2] and other wicked problems of our ever-changing world. In parallel with this mission, universities also work to address student needsrelated to retention and inclusion. To add further complexity, engineering students now pursuean ever-widening range of career paths after completing their undergraduate degree. Onecommon thread across these competing demands are the needs for engineering education toholistically develop resilient individuals who can maintain motivation, invest significant effort intheir learning, and persist in
, and those thatare missing, in the problems that students solve, and are exhibited in the solutions they create.Then, we use the results to define a set of guidelines that would contribute to improve the realismof SDP’s, both in terms of their problem definition and of the evaluation and assessment ofstudents’ solutions.Introduction Research suggests that engineering education and practice are disconnected [1]. Inparticular, early career engineers believe that “engineering work is much more variable andcomplex than most engineering curricula convey” [2]. Successful engineering, in practice, isdriven by the skills necessary to solve open-ended, ill-structured problems, such as problemformulation, communication, people management
. Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette Tamara J. Moore, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education and Director of STEM Integration in the INSPIRE Institute at Purdue University. Dr. Moore’s research is centered on the integration of STEM concepts in K-12 and postsecondary classrooms in order to help students make connections among the STEM disciplines and achieve deep understanding. Her work focuses on defining STEM integration and investigating its power for student learning. Tamara Moore received an NSF Early CAREER award in 2010 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012. c American Society for
deepening the educationalexperience to equip graduates to succeed in the diverse global economy. Educating students tothrive in their careers with the technological, societal, cultural and environmental complexitiesthey will face requires new approaches. Modern discussions in engineering education consideradding required time to graduation to add time into the packed curriculum to address theseissues. Extended time to graduation is fraught with problems in today’s reality of the high costof education and political pressures especially with state supported institutions. An alternative isto consider new pedagogical approaches that can add efficiencies into the curriculum wherestudents can learn and gain experiences that will carry them successfully
way.These skills are not assessed by any direct measurement, but are nonetheless important forsuccess in an engineering career. They can usually only be achieved through practice andexperience.Service-learning (S-L) is both a form of experiential learning for students and a teaching tool forfaculty. Students in S-L courses partner with community-based organizations as a way to learnthe course material with a fresher and more informed perspective while meeting and servingcommunity needs. Faculty who teach S-L courses are able to integrate classroom andcommunity goals resulting in an enrichment of their course experience, lifelong communitybonds and engagement for their students, and strengthening local and global communities. In thecase of the
recommended for cultivating a CoP. Staff who consult themwill find that these resources provide a comprehensive introduction to this new method ofcollaborative learning.In addition to the Community of Practice - EduTech Wiki, The University of British Columbia’sCentre for Learning, Teaching and Technology maintains a Communities of Practice webpagethat provides resources for CoP facilitators and a thorough annotated bibliography oncommunities of practice.Using the LMS for Staff Training & DevelopmentBecause of the many advantages of making training materials accessible online, the LMS has thecapacity to serve as a valuable reference staff training and development tool for the DalhousieLibraries.Brightspace can be considered a career planning tool
interpretability,although without achieving a simple structure [31] (see table 8).Table 8: Rotated Component Matrixa of the study of language attitudes among UNVundergraduate students, using Varimax rotation * Questionnaire items 1 2 3 h2 13. Learning Spanish is/could be a pleasant experience for .833 .274 me 4. I am interested in learning Spanish. .826 .701 15. Learning Spanish is useful. .814 .716 7. Being able to speak Spanish will help further my career .770 .527 8. The fact that Spanish are the largest minority group in .766