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Commonality of Failure Modes in New Engineering Program Development

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

End Date

June 28, 2023

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 12

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

Page Count

13

DOI

10.18260/1-2--43241

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https://peer.asee.org/43241

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165

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David Robert Bruce University of Ottawa, Canada Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0003-3806-0247

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Dr. Bruce has a passion for technology development with a focus on empowering society through altering perception and perspective by including new ways of looking at engineering.

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James Borrelli Stevenson University

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Gennifer Smith University of San Francisco

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Michael G. Lerner Earlham College

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Michael Lerner is a computational biophysicist and convener of the Department of Physics, Engineering and Astronomy at Earlham College. He teaches introductory, intermediate and advanced courses. His research focuses on detecting and targeting the drivers of cancer metastasis, as well as simulating and understanding biological molecules. He actively develops and maintains a set of resources to help decolonize physics curricula.

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Anne Raich DePaul University

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Prof. Raich is an Associate Professor and Director of Engineering at DePaul University. Her teaching interests are in structural mechanics and analysis, structural design, and computational methods and applications. Prof. Raich received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Abstract

In accordance with Kanban philosophy, there is no failure if something is learned from the experience. In a world of 'fail forward', 'fail fast' or 'Move fast and break stuff', innovation from a trial-and-error approach involves implementing/operationalizing changes gleaned from these trials. The Entrepreneurial Minded Engineering Resource Group for Educators (EMERGE) is a community of individuals starting engineering programs facilitating one another through workshops and other formal and informal gatherings. From a commonality in the EMERGE cohort we often trumpet our successes, but for the betterment of future programming we can help ensure efficient programming development by sharing our failures.

Surveys were developed by program members of the EMERGE network to find commonality in failure modes experienced by the emergent programming and to discuss the prevalence of themes from this survey. In reflection of the discovered prevalence of obstacles or temporary failures, a discussion of ways in which developing programs have solved the most common challenges and strategies for dealing with currently unresolved issues are presented.

It is hoped that by having more open and transparent publication of the challenges faced and solutions found that more effective program development in emergent engineering programs can be realized.

Bruce, D. R., & Borrelli, J., & Smith, G., & Lerner, M. G., & Raich, A. (2023, June), Commonality of Failure Modes in New Engineering Program Development Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43241

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