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Board 121: Lessons Learned: Mapping and Mobilizing Faculty Assets for Creating Faculty-Development Programs in Engineering Ethics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Portland, Oregon

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June 23, 2024

Start Date

June 23, 2024

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July 12, 2024

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Faculty Development Division (FDD) Poster Session

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

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Bono Po-Jen Shih Pennsylvania State University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0009-0007-8152-8614

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Bono Po-Jen Shih is an interdisciplinary scholar working in the intersection of philosophy, history, and sociology of engineering with an eye on contemporary engagement with engineering education and practice. His publications appear in Springer’s Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (PET) book series, the journal Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, and the Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine. He currently holds a postdoc appointment with two institutions at Penn State University—the Rock Ethics Institute and the Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education—to facilitate exchange and collaboration between philosophers and engineers. Prior to joining Penn State, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Science History Institute working on the history of engineering ethics education. Shih earned his PhD and MS in science and technology studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. He also has a graduate certificate in engineering education (ENGE) from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University.

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Sarah E Zappe Pennsylvania State University

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Dr. Sarah Zappe is Director of the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education and Assistant Dean of Teaching and Learning at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement.

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Abstract

The lessons-learned paper documents our ongoing project to create faculty development programs in engineering ethics, with an eye to sharing insights that may be transferable to other types of faculty development. To provide background for our project, the College of Engineering at Penn State University has an endowment having the goal of developing faculty competencies to integrate ethics into the engineering curriculum and assess student learning of ethics. Since the university and the College of Engineering are considerably large, comprised of many units with stakeholders in engineering ethics— including various departments, institutes, centers, and programs—getting to know our faculty, surveying their existing efforts, and identifying interest groups are foundational to the success of our faculty development programs. In the process, we referenced the asset-based community development (ABCD) approach and adapted it to our mission of faculty development.

This paper discusses the opportunities presented by the ABCD approach for faculty development. Even though we are still in the planning stage of faculty program development and only begun an initial step, we found that the ABCD approach’s focus on faculty assets and community development provides lessons learned for our initial plan to advance engineering ethics education. While our experience of faculty development is situated in engineering ethics and future work remains to be done to assess the impact of our projects, we suggest the ABCD approach may be applicable to other types of faculty development programs where knowledge, skills, experience, or professional interests play an important role.

Shih, B. P., & Zappe, S. E. (2024, June), Board 121: Lessons Learned: Mapping and Mobilizing Faculty Assets for Creating Faculty-Development Programs in Engineering Ethics Education Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/46678

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