Conference Session

Questions of Identity

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Jordan, Baylor University

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Liberal Education

2006-1013: A VIRTUE ETHICS APPROACH TO ENGINEERING ETHICSWilliam Jordan, Baylor University WILLIAM JORDAN is Professor and Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Baylor University. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He has an M.A. degree in Theology from Denver Seminary. His Ph.D. was in mechanics and materials engineering from Texas A & M University. He teaches materials oriented courses and his main research area deals with the mechanical behavior of composite materials. He also writes and does research in the areas of engineering ethics and engineering education. He is a registered metallurgical engineer in the

Conference Session

Recent Developments in Engineering Ethics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marilyn Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

2006-513: INDUSTRIAL ETHICS TRAINING: A LOOK AT ETHICS GAMESMarilyn Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology Page 11.753.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Industrial Ethics Training: A Look at Ethics GamesAbstractFederal legislation mandates that US businesses develop ethics training programs for theiremployees. Starting in 1991 with the US Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which were revised in1995, 1999, and 2004, and continuing through the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, passed in thewake of Enron, WorldCom, and other corporate scandals, businesses have had to implementethics training or risk substantial penalties. Industry has responded to the

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Contemporary Issues

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Davis, Illinois Institute of Technology; Heinz Luegenbiehl, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

2006-538: ENGINEERING ETHICS AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES: KATRINAIN THE CLASSROOM AND BEYONDMichael Davis, Illinois Institute of TechnologyHeinz Luegenbiehl, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Page 11.561.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006Michael Davis February 24, 2006Getting an Ethics Charge out of Current Events:Some Doubts about Katrina1 On August 29, 2005, “Katrina” was still only the name of an unusually largecyclonic storm (a “category-4 hurricane”). A few days later, it had become shorthand fora complex economic, political, and social disaster. A long stretch of the Gulf coast hadbecome more

Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton; Caroline Baillie, Queens University-Kingston

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Liberal Education

of Education for Peace, Democracy and SustainableDevelopment and suggests modifications to the ABET criteria; proposes an engineeringcode of ethics based upon the notion of community in a morally deep world; anddescribes an engineering design algorithm consistent with the new code.Key words: Integral model, morally deep world, ethics, designIntroductionThe phrase, “a revolution of the heart,” is taken from the Catholic Workers movement,founded in the 1933 by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, a movement grounded in therecognition of the dignity of every human being and dedicated to promoting social justiceand peace.1 The present work seeks to bring the concepts of social justice and peace intoreform discussions ongoing in both engineering and

Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven VanderLeest, Calvin College

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Liberal Education

takingresponsibility for a mistake requires internal fortitude – it takes guts! Robert Furey sees humilityand pride not as much as opposites, but as necessary complements to each other: “Humility andpride compose a dialectic; each concept gives the other meaning. Without humility, pridebecomes arrogance and conceit. Without pride, humility becomes passivity and complacency.”21Personal humility is important for an engineering professional. We can find expectations forpersonal behavior related to humility in many engineering codes of ethics. For example, mostengineering codes of ethics indicate that engineers must act within their area of competence andhonestly indicate any limitations in their expertise. The Institute of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineers

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College; Lionel Claris, Smith College

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Liberal Education

field in western science, and of non-Western thermodynamic technologies • The ability to relate thermodynamic principles to everyday life • The ability to think critically about thermodynamics and engineering ethics • The ability to assess and direct their own learning, and to reflect on that process.Liberative pedagogies were employed in thermodynamics because of their emphasis on process,with attention to the establishment of a community of intentional learners, and buildingtransformative student-student and student-faculty relationships. The use of such pedagogies canaddress a series of contradictions in traditional engineering education that are implicitly at workwhen learning becomes detached from student experience

Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Schreier, University of Dayton; Carl Eger, University of Dayton; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton

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Liberal Education

Opportunities of Service-learning (ETHOS)program at the University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio) is founded on the belief that engineers aremore apt and capable to serve our world when they have experienced opportunities that increasetheir understanding of technology’s global linkage with values, culture, society, politics andeconomy. ETHOS seeks to provide these opportunities by means of curriculum integratedservice-learning programming. Such educational programming – classroom projects, studentorganization activities, collaborative research and international technical immersion – facilitatesholistic learning, ethical engineering practices, perspectives of technology integration andappropriate technology transfer. To appropriately measure the value

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hilkat Soysal, Frostburg State University; Oguz Soysal, Frostburg State University

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Liberal Education

‚ Economical Basic ‚ Networks ‚ Political Sciences ‚ Processes ‚ Ethical ‚ EnvironmentalFigure 1 Block diagram illustrating the interaction of mathematics, basic sciences,technology, and society through social transformationThe course starts with a discussion of the scientific methodology. The maincharacteristics of sciences are explained and differences between science, non-science,and pseudo-science are discussed. The Planning Committee defined “scientificreasoning” as shown in the textbox

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Pinar Menguc, University of Kentucky; Ellie Hawes, University of Kentucky; Jane Jensen, University of Kentucky; Ingrid St. Omer, University of Kentucky

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Liberal Education

“foundations” course of the“Nanotechnology Track” of the Honors Program. The second course focuses on the “Artand Science of Small,” whereas in the third course we explore social, cultural, ethical,socioeconomic, financial, and industrial implications of technology, all intertwined withengineering dreams.The overall objective of HON101B was to give a larger-than-life philosophy ofengineering to our freshmen students. Having a course designed around nanotechnologywas quite effective for that purpose. Indeed, the course attracted more than just theengineering freshmen, as we had many students from physics, biology, and chemistry aswell as from anthropology and physical therapy. In keeping with the Honors Program, thesequence of courses is writing

Conference Session

Questions of Identity

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ollis, North Carolina State University

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Liberal Education

recreation. The personal context connectseasily, since the current student generation is probably more surrounded and immersed intechnology than any predecessor. This need for connection, or bridging, using context is not new, of course.Florman’s first book, Engineering and the Liberal Arts, argues for the bridge analogy tocreate specific linkages to arts9. Thus, history of technology is a bridge to history, ethics abridge to philosophy, and sound a bridge to music. The intrigue and pleasure of exploringa “liberal education” I opportunistically pursued with the arrival of the ABET EC 200criteria, which attempt to spell out not only the technical but the interpersonal andpersonal attributes of a modern engineer. A survey program organized in