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An NSF grant is described that supports the development, assessment, and dissemination of "micro- insertions " designed to integrate ethics into the graduate engineering curriculum. In contrast to traditional modular approaches to ethics pedagogy, micro-insertions introduce ethical issues by means of a "low-dose" approach. Following a description of the micro-insertion approach,...
The Louisiana State University (LSU) communication across the curriculum (CxC) program is a campus-wide initiative that seeks to integrate four key communications components (spoken, written, visual and technological) into existing curricula. The LSU College of Engineering has served as a pilot for implementation of the CxC program at the discipline-specific level. Central to the program is a process...
We introduce Student Engineers Reaching Out (SERO), an EPICS team at the University of Notre Dame committed to Service Learning founded in engineering curricula. Two SERO case studies highlight the framework, implementation, challenges, and shared benefits of our unique Service Learning course developed specifically for engineers. The first study demonstrates the progressive refinement of a single...
Most future engineering and technology graduates will work on complex projects in a team environment requiring multiple skill sets. These are critical skills that the future engineer must acquire to readily adapt to the global work environment. Assessing effective teamwork skills as part of the ABET process is very important. To effectively assess how teams work, categorization of skills and an understanding...
Concept inventories play a growing role in assessing student understanding in engineering curricula. A common application of concept inventories is a pre/post- test assessment in a course. For this reason, it is important to confirm the validity of any new concept inventory, i.e., to verify that the inventory measures what it is designed to assess. The signals and systems concept inventory (SSCI)...
It is acknowledged that most current engineering curricula can not keep up with technological developments, and that time constrains limits what material can be incorporated to it; topics of High-Density Digital Systems Design for the electrical and computer engineering programs is no exception and decision about which material is included is always a matter of discussion between how deep should technical...
Student development of self-directed learning skills is critical for success in today's rapidly-changing engineering world. The details of how instructors may best foster engagement in life-long learning, however, are unclear; many educators have struggled to define, implement, and assess lifelong learning in engineering curricula. We present a framework for student autonomy that may serve as a useful...
Situated learning in professional practice is increasingly recognized as a key component of engineering curricula. One challenge in this context is to establish a reflexive link between the students' learning at university and their experiences in practice. This paper proposes the accidental competency discourse as an alternative tool to support students' experiential learning through reflection on...
A case study of the Montreal Massacre was employed in a core engineering thermodynamics class, using two video news clips to spur discussion about the event and about the intersection of gender identity and feminist politics with the engineering profession. In the pilot test of our lesson plan, students discussed strategies for addressing overt and subtle sexism, negotiating questions of dress in...
A workshop was held that brought together researchers from the fields of engineering education and sociology in order to examine what is known, and what needs to be known, about the social dynamics of campus change, specifically within engineering colleges. The goal of the cross-disciplinary working group was to develop a research agenda that will provide a context for examining the social and organizational...
Maroon model introduced in (Shivakumaraiah, 2006) describes the need to equip engineers with skills to deal with people from diverse backgrounds due to increasing number of international engineering students in US universities and globalization of industry. This paper present an analysis of the impact of Maroon model and increasing number of international engineering students on engineering education...
This paper describes an ongoing study of pedagogies to help students understand the issues associated with cross-cultural communication and develop strategies for collaborating with colleagues around the globe. With the need for engineering students to work in a global marketplace established, engineering educators now face the challenge of developing teaching strategies to help students communicate...
Today's engineering educators widely agree that engineering curricula need to incorporate a larger emphasis on design. ABET has instituted the requirement that programs build continuous improvement loops around student learning outcomes, including the ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. Success at this enterprise depends on having appropriate assessment tasks,...
A framework is presented for implementing feminist pedagogy along with demonstrative examples from engineering curricula. The framework for incorporating the values of feminism into the learning experience focuses on three aspects: 1) learning management strategies, 2) assessment and evaluation strategies and 3) strategies for critiquing existing power structures and the engineering process. Feminist...
Most engineering curricula include survey courses that expose students of one discipline to other areas of engineering. Civil and mechanical engineers have long been required to take at least one course from the electrical engineering department that offers instruction in the basic concepts of areas such as circuit analysis, digital logic design, power distribution systems, and motors. Many of these...
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