Durfee, J. K., & Saad, H. S. (2016, June), A Cohort Study on the Effectiveness of Ethics Education in Engineering & Engineering Technology Programs  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.26277

\bibitem{asee_peer_26277}
  Durfee, J. K., \& Saad, H. S. (2016, June), \emph{A Cohort Study on the Effectiveness of Ethics Education in Engineering \& Engineering Technology Programs}
  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  10.18260/p.26277

Jason K. Durfee and Hani Serhal Saad.  "A Cohort Study on the Effectiveness of Ethics Education in Engineering & Engineering Technology Programs".  2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2016.  https://peer.asee.org/26277 Internet.  05 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_26277}
  Jason K. Durfee and Hani Serhal Saad.
  "A Cohort Study on the Effectiveness of Ethics Education in Engineering \& Engineering Technology Programs".
  \emph{2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2016.
  https://peer.asee.org/26277 Internet.  05 May, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - A few years ago our university underwent a major overhaul of the manner in which professional ethics was taught in our engineering and engineering technology programs.  One change was to ensure that ethics topics were included in all core courses.  Another change involved the addition of an ethics module to a history of technology course taken by all students in our programs.  The ethics coverage in our senior capstone course was also improved and this included the use of an ethics examination available on the website of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE).  The NSPE exam was used as an assessment tool as well as a source for further discussion on professional ethics.  Soon after these changes were implemented a cohort study was begun in order to assess the effectiveness of these changes.  Knowledge of professional ethics was assessed in a freshman course taken by engineering and engineering technology students.  Later, when these students were in their senior capstone course they were assessed again and the results were compared.  This paper describes the process used in the cohort study as well as the results derived from that study.  Data from the study seems to indicate very little change in an individual student’s understanding and ability to apply professional ethics over the course of their college experience.

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