Publications de Siara Ruth Isaac

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Sustainability and Ethicality are Peripheral to Students’ Software Design

Pierluca Borsò, Siara Ruth Isaac, Bryan Alexander Ford, Aditi Kothiyal

The conceptual design phase is a fascinating moment to observe how a design task is interpreted, as the (often implicit) relative importance students accord to the various requirements and constraints offers a window into the thinking underpinning their de ...

Tempus Publications2023

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

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

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

Undergraduate group projects: Challenges and learning experiences

Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey

Working in groups and managing projects are important professional skills for engineers, and there is a growing demand to teach and assess such skills. But what should be taught and when? Tuckman’s famous “stages of development of performing groups” provid ...

2015

Does gender-sensitive teacher training have a place in Engineering Education? Assessing pedagogical training as a step towards gender-inclusive curricula

Ingrid Le Duc, Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

Teaching advisors work to sensitize teachers to use inclusive teaching pedagogy because it facilitates learning to all students and makes teachers aware of how the gender composition of a class and its management can promote or hamper student learning and ...

European Society for Engineering Education2018

The Teaching Toolkit: design of a one-day pedagogical workshop for engineering graduate teaching assistants

Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

Through their role in labs, exercise/recitation sessions and tutorials, graduate or doctoral teaching assistants play a significant role in the education of engineering students. Yet doctoral assistants frequently get little pedagogical training, what trai ...

2019

The Formal and Hidden Curricula of Ethics in Engineering Education

Ingrid Le Duc, Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Cécile Hardebolle

In recent years, a commitment to professional ethics and professional responsibility has been included among the learning outcomes required of engineering education programmes in many counties. So, how should engineering ethics be taught? There is evidence ...

2015

Students' learning strategies, motivation and project-management skills during interdisciplinary projects in Covid times

Siara Ruth Isaac, Julien Delisle, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Helena Kovacs, Marc Lafuente Martinez

In this study, we investigated an interdisciplinary project-based learning program. Students were confronted with interdisciplinary challenges in the form of complex and authentic problems, like building a racing car or making a mobile laboratory for genet ...

Technische Universität Berlin2021

TRANSVERSAL SKILLS THAT PROMOTE SUSTAINABILITY - AN EXPERIENTIAL ACTIVITY FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS

Siara Ruth Isaac, Vittorio Rossi, Joelyn de Lima

This workshop addresses two major preoccupations in engineering education: the need to integrate sustainability and transversal skill development. In addition to knowledge about sustainability, engineering students require skills for effectively integratin ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

DRONE GAME THAT HIGHLIGHTS ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABILITY IMPLICATIONS OF DESIGN DECISIONS

Siara Ruth Isaac, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno

This paper reports on the development of a brief scenario-based challenge to prompt engineering students’ reflection about the broader impacts of their design decisions, and thereby increase their ethical sensitivity and motivation. The game scenario asks ...

CDIO conference proceedings2023

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

How to Support Students to Develop Skills that Promote Sustainability

Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima

Sustainability should be integrated into everything we do, including engineering and student projects. This experiential activity uses the selection of materials for a wind turbine to engage participants in a contextualised negotiation of multiple facets o ...

EPFL2024

Distinctly Human - Student's Perception of Transversal Skills in Engineering Curriculum

Siara Ruth Isaac, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Joelyn de Lima

Through their participation in accreditation procedures, engineering educators are well versed in documenting transversal skills addressed by individual courses and across programs. But to what extent do students perceive support for the transversal skills ...

2024

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

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

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

Transversal skills priorities and curricular support as experienced by engineering students on their path to becoming responsible engineers

Siara Ruth Isaac, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Joelyn de Lima

Transversal skills (TS) are fundamental to both work effectively autonomously and with others in society. They are key to educating responsible engineers able to assess and proactively respond to issues and opportunities. As evidenced by recent course syll ...

2024

Enacting Our Values - Steps Towards a More Sustainable and Inclusive SEFI Community

Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima

Our mission of educating responsible engineers requires a diverse and inclusive community where sustainability is a shared commitment. This workshop engaged participants in considering what it means to be a sustainable community and how this interacts with ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

Pedagogical support services and academic developers at French universities

Siara Ruth Isaac

Numerous programmes have been implemented to improve the quality of French higher education but the paucity of learning-focused objectives has resulted in contradictory initiatives. Expanding pedagogical development activities for professors, as emphasised ...

2012

Educating Engineering Students to Address Bias and Discrimination Within Their Project Teams

Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

What training should engineering students receive to enable them to contribute to reducing bias, discrimination and the persistent lack of diversity in engineering? Collaboration is central to professional engineering work and, consequently, teamwork and g ...

2023

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

Siara Ruth Isaac, Vittorio Rossi, 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

How to Support Students Giving Each Other Constructive Feedback, Especially When It Is Difficult to Hear

Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima

Being able to deliver feedback to peers is a key management skill and something engineering students report finding difficult, due to the relational and emotional implications. This experiential activity provides students with emotional management strategi ...

EPFL2024

Increasing the Perspectives of Engineering Undergraduates on Societal Issues through an Interdisciplinary Program

Ambrogio Fasoli, Denis Gillet, Antonin Danalet, Ingrid Le Duc, Alexis Berne, Luca Bragazza, Delphine Preissmann, Samuel Bendahan, Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Jérome Feige, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Adrian Christian Holzer

To tackle the challenges of the 21st century, future scientists and engineers have to understand the interplay between societal challenges and technical solutions as early as possible in their education. They also have to develop the communication and the ...

Tempus Publications2016