scholarly journals An Integrated Approach to Energy Education in Engineering

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9145
Author(s):  
Gordon D. Hoople ◽  
Diana A. Chen ◽  
Susan M. Lord ◽  
Laura A. Gelles ◽  
Felicity Bilow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Energy Education ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

What do engineering students in 2020 need to know about energy to be successful in the workplace and contribute to addressing society’s issues related to energy? Beginning with this question, we have designed a new course for second-year engineering students. Drawing on the interdisciplinary backgrounds of our diverse team of engineering instructors, we aimed to provide an introduction to energy for all engineering students that challenged the dominant discourse in engineering by valuing students’ lived experiences and bringing in examples situated in different cultural contexts. An Integrated Approach to Energy was offered for the first time in Spring 2020 for 18 students. In this paper, we describe the design of the course including learning objectives, content, and pedagogical approach. We assessed students’ learning using exams and the impact of the overall course using interviews. Students demonstrated achievement of the learning objectives in technical areas. In addition, interviews revealed that they learned about environmental, economic, and social aspects of engineering practice. We intend for this course to serve as a model of engineering as a sociotechnical endeavor by challenging students with scenarios that are technically demanding and require critical thinking about contextual implications.

Implementation of the Second-year course in an Engineering Professional Spine

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umar Iqbal ◽  
Deena Salem ◽  
David Strong
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Research University ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
First Year ◽  
Computer Engineering ◽  
Core Courses ◽  
Second Year ◽  
First Time ◽  
Academic Year

The objective of this paper is to document the experience of developing and implementing a second-year course in an engineering professional spine that was developed in a first-tier research university and relies on project-based core courses. The main objective of this spine is to develop the students’ cognitive and employability skills that will allow them to stand out from the crowd of other engineering graduates.The spine was developed and delivered for the first time in the academic year 2010-2011 for first-year general engineering students. In the year 2011-2012, those students joined different programs, and accordingly the second-year course was tailored to align with the different programs’ learning outcomes. This paper discusses the development and implementation of the course in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department.

scholarly journals TEACHING GEOMATICS FOR GEOHAZARD MITIGATION AND MANAGEMENT IN THE COVID-19 TIME

2020 ◽  
Vol XLIV-3/W1-2020 ◽  
pp. 131-138
Author(s):  
M. Scaioni ◽  
L. Longoni ◽  
L. Zanzi ◽  
V. Ivanov ◽  
M. Papini
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Field Campaigns ◽  
First Time ◽  
Academic Year

Abstract. Starting from the Academic Year 2018–2019, Politecnico di Milano university has established a BSc programme on “Civil Engineering for Risk Mitigation” (ICMR). This course is aimed at training students to cope with issues related to different types of natural and anthropogenic hazards, among which Geohazards are paid a primary attention. A “Workshop on Monitoring Techniques for Geohazards” is included to present different Geological, Geophysical and Geodetic techniques to be applied to landslides within an integrated approach. The use of active and problem-based learning techniques was one of the basic principles in the design of ICMR programme. This resulted in planning some visits and field campaigns to allow students to directly work on real case studies. The course has been scheduled for the first time in the second term of A.Y. 2019–2020, when the COVID-19 pandemics developed and prevented the lab activities in the field to be implemented as planned. The paper presents how the content and the organization of the course have been revised to try to reach the same learning objectives notwithstanding the limitations on the activities “in presence”.

scholarly journals INTRODUCTING A NEW ENGINEERING COURSE: A LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR STUDENTS AND FACULTY

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dare ◽  
Brian Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
First Year ◽  
Design Element ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

A Task Force was created by the Faculty of Engineering at the University of New Brunswick in September 2004 charged with creating a new course for all first year engineering students to be delivered for the first time in September 2005. The course, to be taken by approximately 270 students, was to integrate material from other first year courses, introduce the students to working in teams, contain a substantial design element through a design project, and introduce communication skills. Nine professors from throughout engineering “volunteered” to help develop and deliver the course. In this paper we own up to what we did wrong during the first two years of delivery of this course, and (naturally!) counter this by celebrating our successes. Students are assessed based on a combination of individual and team submissions, with some submissions being oral and others written. This paper will outline the complex assessment scheme we initially used, and how we later simplified it. Rubrics were used to evaluate many of the course assignments. For most of the instructors, this was the first time they had used rubrics and so it was a learning experience to both develop and apply them. We show how we adapted their use in the second year of delivery after the experiences of the first year. We were pleased with the way that the assessments were mostly built around the design project – this helped the students grasp why clear communication is vital and enabled them to obtain continual feedback on the project. We were also delighted that an element of social responsibility was introduced into the course by making the project an international “Engineers Without Borders” project based in Africa. We believe this added an additional dimension to the course and especially the project. The professor-delivered skits were especially popular! Delivered by two wannabe actors, they introduced the students in a humorous manner to the different types of engineering that are taught at UNB. Engineering students at UNB have to commit to their specific engineering field from their first day at UNB, so these skits were included to ensure the students were exposed to all the UNB engineering disciplines. We conclude the paper with our plans for delivery of the course in September 2007 and beyond.

Framework of Competencies for Internationalizing Engineering Curriculum

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-32
Author(s):  
Fola Michael Ayokanmbi
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
International Assignments ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Global Engineering ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
The Impact

The globalization of corporate activities requires corporations to function through their international network of subsidiaries and has major implications for engineering education. Hence, it is imperative that engineering students have a global view of engineering practice because engineering solutions have impact across geographical borders. The cultural, geographic, social, and economic realities of the global economy require that modern engineers be competent in foreign language and culture in order to succeed in the global business environment. Equipping engineering students with social and cultural competencies would provide students, who may potentially work on international assignments, with the ability to collaborate with foreign nationals and successfully function in a global engineering environment. This paper examines the impact of globalization on engineering and technology education and discusses the competencies required to ensure that engineering and technology students are adequately prepared to make them more effective in foreign environments.

scholarly journals Student perceptions and reported use of video recorded lectures in engineering courses

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Steele ◽  
Cheryl Schramm
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Circuit Analysis ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Survey Tool ◽  
Video Lecture ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The Impact

Between 2008 and 2010 an introductory circuit analysis course for second year engineering students had its lectures recorded (2008 was audio only, other years were by video) and the recordings were made available to registered students as a supplemental resource. Attendance to lectures was still required. In 2011 an introductory programming course was recorded in a similar way. In each of these offerings the students were anonymously surveyed at the end of the course using an online survey tool with most questions using a five point Likert category scale. The survey looked at the perceived usefulness of the recordings, the approach to watching and the impact on attendance. The responses showed strong support to having video lecture capture and the reported use of the videos was to watch selected material. There was a difference between the courses on the impact on attendance, with the circuit analysis course indicated little impact on attendance, whereas the responses from the other course indicates more missed lectures due to the availability of recordings.

scholarly journals Is It All about Efficiency? Exploring Students’ Conceptualizations of Sustainability in an Introductory Energy Course

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7188
Author(s):  
Laura A. Gelles ◽  
Joel Alejandro Mejia ◽  
Susan M. Lord ◽  
Gordon D. Hoople ◽  
Diana A. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Energy Current ◽  
Second Year

Engineers are increasingly called on to develop sustainable solutions to complex problems. Within engineering, however, economic and environmental aspects of sustainability are often prioritized over social ones. This paper describes how efficiency and sustainability were conceptualized and interrelated by students in a newly developed second-year undergraduate engineering course, An Integrated Approach to Energy. This course took a sociotechnical approach and emphasized modern energy concepts (e.g., renewable energy), current issues (e.g., climate change), and local and personal contexts (e.g., connecting to students’ lived experiences). Analyses of student work and semi-structured interview data were used to explore how students conceptualized sustainability and efficiency. We found that in this cohort (n = 17) students often approached sustainability through a lens of efficiency, believing that if economic and environmental resources were prioritized and optimized, sustainability would be achieved. By exploring sustainability and efficiency together, we examined how dominant discourses that privilege technical over social aspects in engineering can be replicated within an energy context.

Lenzini Steel: The Impact of Transfer Pricing and Taxes on International Operations

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-387
Author(s):  
Bradrick M. Cripe ◽  
Anthony Harmon ◽  
Timothy D. West
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Transfer Pricing ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Parent Company ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Pricing Decisions ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACT Lenzini Steel is an inter-disciplinary case that uses four inter-company transactions (ICTs) to demonstrate how the cost/managerial concept of transfer pricing can impact financial and/or tax disclosures on an international stage. The goal is to strengthen students' managerial/cost accounting, tax, and/or financial accounting skills by asking them to examine a transfer pricing case from the different technical perspectives. The case tells the story of an Italian parent company with significant cash flow inflexibility. It needs an infusion of cash from its U.S.-based subsidiary to remain viable, while limiting tax exposure. Students may face any or all of these issues: (1) How can the parent company best obtain the cash it so urgently needs? (2) What are the tax consequences of management's decisions to obtain this cash? (3) What are the financial accounting implications of these decisions? (4) How will they communicate potentially bad news? When using the case, instructors can use an integrated approach (consider cost/managerial, financial, and tax accounting issues), or focus on the learning objectives that most align with their course. The case has been successfully used with M.Acc., M.B.A., and E.M.B.A. students to demonstrate the implications of management's transfer pricing decisions, the impact of judgment in critical thinking, and how problem solving represents leadership.

scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF GLOBALIZATION (AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF IRAN’S AGRICULTURE)

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-210
Author(s):  
Nima Ajam ◽  
Reza Moghaddasi ◽  
Amir Mohammadinejad
Keyword(s):  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Distributed Lag Nonlinear Model ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

Growing development of various industries and the necessity for paying attention to sustainable development, on the one hand, and undesirable effects of environmental pollution on various agricultural and social aspects of countries, on the other hand, have caused environmental protection to be one of the main concerns of policymakers. Accordingly, in recent decades, a large amount of theoretical and empirical research has focused on the methods of improving environmental quality and related effective factors. This research mainly aims to investigate the impact of globalization and agricultural value-added on the amount of pollution arisen due to CO2 emissions in the agricultural sector in Iran. For this purpose, a distributed lag nonlinear model is used over the period 1979-2016. The results indicate that positive agricultural value-added and globalization shocks have a direct and inverse relationship with CO2 emissions, respectively. At the same time, a negative shock in agricultural value-added reduces the pollution of this sector. Moreover, the results indicate significant asymmetry between agricultural value-added and pollution in this sector. The results were obtained by the NARDL method, which is used for the first time to estimate the effect of agricultural value-added and globalization on pollution arisen from CO2 emissions in the Iranian agricultural sector.

The specifics of shadow economic activity in Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 1896-1915
Author(s):  
E.R. Ermakova ◽  
O.M. Lizina
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Shadow Economy ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Reproductive Process ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Current Period ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Impact

Subject. The article addresses the specifics of shadow economic activities in reformed Russia in the context of systemic transformations. Objectives. We focus on determining the role of shadow economy in the reproductive process, identifying and understanding the specifics of underground economic activity of the Russian economy. Methods. The study rests on general scientific methods (scientific abstraction, unity of historical and logical, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, comparison and analogy) and special methods of cognition (monetary methods). We employ the systems and integrated approach. The official statistics, regulations, works of leading researchers on shadow economy expansion, resources of reference and legal systems like Garant and ConsultantPlus serve as the study's information base. Results. We present a retrospective rapid analysis of the extent of shadow economic activity in the domestic economy, establishing the relationships with the processes that take place at different stages of the country's development. We also reveal the specifics of shadow economy relations in Russia, factors that play a key role in expansion for a particular period, a shift to another form of shadow economy. The study characterizes the current period of development, assesses the impact of external shocks on shadow economy expansion. Conclusions. The current period is characterized by the digitization of shadow relations, the shift of corruption to the upper echelons of power, the continued outflow of capital abroad, and increased penalties for underground activities.

Assessing the sustainability of the Siberian Federal District regions

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 891-908
Author(s):  
T.A. Smirnova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Siberian Federal District ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Empirical Analyses

Subject. This article deals with the issues of functioning of the region as a system. Objectives. The article aims to identify the problems of the region's functioning as a system, develop methodological tools to monitor the sustainable development of the Siberian Federal District territories, and determine the the impact of socio-economic and environmental factors on the sustainable development of the region as a whole. Methods. For the study, I used the methods of theoretical, statistical, and empirical analyses taking into account an integrated approach. Results. The article reveals the impact of some individual components of regional development on the sustainability of the territorial system as a whole. Relevance. The results of the study can be used to analyze the sustainability of regions' development.

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