Ethical Decision-Making Frameworks for Engineering Education: A Cross-Disciplinary Review
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Minneapolis, MN
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August 23, 2022
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June 26, 2022
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June 29, 2022
- Conference Session
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Engineering Ethics Division: Approaches to Ethics Education (Part 1)
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14
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--41669
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https://peer.asee.org/41669
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1102
Paper Authors
Vignesh Subbian The University of Arizona
Vignesh Subbian is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Systems and Industrial Engineering, member of the BIO5 Institute, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Center for University Education Scholarship at the University of Arizona. His professional areas of interest include medical informatics, healthcare systems engineering, and broadening participation and promoting servingness in engineering, biomedicine, and computing, particularly at land-grant and Hispanic Serving Institutions. Subbian’s educational research is focused on asset-based practices, ethics education, and formation of professional identities.
Linda Shaw
colleen halpin University of Arizona
Abstract
Given the ever-expanding complexity of the types of ethical decisions that engineers now confront, traditional approaches to the development of ethical behavior in engineering students may no longer be sufficient. A dedicated focus on ethical decision-making within the engineering curriculum might help students avoid ethical lapses in judgment with potentially serious consequences. The field of engineering is certainly not alone in grappling with increasingly complex ethical dilemmas that require equally complex ethical decision-making processes, nor are engineering educators the first to struggle with the question of how best to prepare their students. While the practice of engineering is unique and seemingly very distinct from that of other professions, it may be useful to examine the frameworks that other professional fields have developed to address the question of how best to prepare students to make good ethical decisions, particularly when confronted with modern complex ethical dilemmas. In this paper, we will review existing theoretical schema and frameworks in use within the social sciences, business, non-discipline specific frameworks, and engineering. We will also include an examination of the relevancy of the frameworks and theories reviewed to Engineering Ethics Education.
Subbian, V., & Shaw, L., & halpin, C. (2022, August), Ethical Decision-Making Frameworks for Engineering Education: A Cross-Disciplinary Review Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41669
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