Conference Session

Professional Formation and Career Experiences

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Jake Walker Lewis; Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

resulted from engineering projects [4, 5].It is clear that what is needed in practice is ethical behavior, and that regulations to policeengineers’ ethical behavior via professional licensure are not sufficient [6]. The first nationalexam required on the path to become a licensed professional engineer (PE), the NCEESFundamentals of Engineering Exam (FE), includes questions that relate to ethics [7]. Prior tobecoming a PE, some states also require exams to test ethics (e.g., [8]) and thirteen states requirecontinuing education in ethics and/or professional practices to maintain PE license [9]1.However, one cannot assume that ethics knowledge will translate into ethical behavior, nor iseither the FE or PE encouraged across all engineering