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Exploring Engineering Students' Perception of Sustainability and Ethics in Their Curriculum Across Disciplines

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Yousef Jalali

Sustainability and ethics are topics of significant, current importance in higher education. In engineering education, they take on even greater importance as engineers play a key role in addressing global issues. While multiple institutions have implement ...

2024

How to Support Students to Cultivate Psychological Safety in their Teams

Francesco Mondada, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Yousef Jalali

The importance of psychological safety in teams has been demonstrated in different settings. Team performance improves when team climate allows team members to be their authentic selves, to ask questions and raise concerns comfortably. However, it is less ...

EPFL2024

Project-Based Learning Approach for an Engineering Course: Challenges and Learnings of Teaching Transversal Skills

Jamie Paik, Iris Capdevila Tristan, Yousef Jalali

Project-based learning (PBL), as one of the effective teaching and learning approaches in engineering education, can create opportunities for students to address problems with real-world applications, integrate and apply knowledge, and practice and develop ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

CREATING EXPERIENTIAL ACTIVITIES TO TEACH TRANSVERSAL SKILLS IN YOUR COURSE WITH A BACKWARD DESIGN TEMPLATE

Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima, Yousef Jalali

Providing authentic experiential learning activities is an important part of educating responsible engineers. In addition to disciplinary knowledge and skills, it is important that our graduating engineers achieve fluency in transversal skills. The trident ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

Psychological Safety In Practice: Guidelines And Insights For Different Stakeholders In Higher Education

Yousef Jalali

Interpersonal dynamics have a major influence on team processes and outcomes. Psychological safety, in particular, is one of the foundations of effective teamwork. While there has been a recognition of the importance of psychological safety in team setting ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

Learning Outcomes, Benefits, and Challenges of International Research Experiences for Students (IRES): An Exploratory Study of an IRES Program in China

Yousef Jalali

Despite the increasing number of international programs targeting students’ learning of research and intercultural skills, there has been limited holistic investigation of students’ experiences employing both qualitative and quantitative methods. In this s ...

University of Rhode Island2024

What Role Do Tangibles Play in Fostering Design Thinking Skills? An Exploratory Study

Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Yousef Jalali, Natascia Petringa, Mary Jean Bürer

Despite the importance of using artifacts during the design thinking process, there is a limited understanding of the influence of tangibles with lower perceptual richness on design thinking skills within educational settings. It is speculated that tangibl ...

2023

Are engineering teachers ready to leverage the power of play to teach transversal skills?

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Yousef Jalali, Natascia Petringa

What conceptions do teachers hold about learning activities to develop students’ transversal skills? This qualitative exploration at a research-intensive engineering school draws on interviews and focus groups to explore teachers’ ideas about developing in ...

2023

Bringing Visibility to Transversal Skills in Engineering Education: Towards an Organizing Framework

Siara Ruth Isaac, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Yousef Jalali

Professional engineering work occurs in dynamic, complex contexts that require engineers to leverage various skills beyond their technical competencies to work productively with different stakeholders. Problem-solving is not merely a technical endeavor; ed ...

2022