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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Tuesday June 27, 9:15 - 10:45

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Cynthia Bauerle; Lisette Esmeralda Torres-Gerald; Carrie Hall

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Paper ID #39735Using a Framework to Define Ways of Integrating Ethics across theCurriculum in EngineeringDr. Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University at RaleighCynthia BauerleLisette Esmeralda Torres-GeraldCarrie Hall ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Using a Framework to Define Ways of Integrating Ethics across the Curriculum in EngineeringEthics are an important part of engineering and computer science education for many reasons,ABET accreditation being only one. Historically, engineering ethics have been taught as a part ofa specific class, often outside of the engineering

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _ Monday June 26, 1:30 - 3:00

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Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University

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Paper ID #40015Redesign of an Engineering Failure Course to Incorporate LearningObjectives in Diversity, Ethics and InclusivityDr. Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University Dr. Halada, Associate Professor in Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at Stony Brook Uni- versity, directs an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program in Engineering Science. He designs educational materials focused on nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing and engineering adaptation for climate change. He also works with faculty from other disciplines to explore the integration of STEM and liberal arts education

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _ Monday June 26, 1:30 - 3:00

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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necessitates taking the contextsof action into account in instructional design. From the perspective of assessment, “ethics inaction” is problematic for instructors who encounter students only in the classroom context. It isnonetheless quite useful because it provides an integrative, non-hierarchical framework thatallows us to think about engineering ethics education on a larger scale than we ordinarily do. Italso opens up the possibility of recognizing the structural factors that have made it difficult tointegrate ethics into the engineering curriculum on a systematic basis.Despite an abundance of resources available to support engineering ethics instruction, includingcases provided through the Online Ethics Center (OEC), “the engineering literature

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _Monday June 26, 11:00 - 12:30

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rosalyn W. Berne, University of Virginia; William J Davis, University of Virginia; Kent A. Wayland, University of Virginia; Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia; Caroline Crockett, University of Virginia

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Michigan. Her educational research interests include conceptual understanding of electrical engineering concepts and assessing the impact of curriculum changes. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Incorporating Giving Voice to Values (GVV) into an Engineering Ethics CourseAbstractThe Department of Engineering and Society instructors at the University of Virginia recentlydeveloped a new course on Engineering Ethics aimed at second- and third-year students. Unlikeprevious courses in the department, the mid-level course emphasizes micro-ethics and employsthe Giving Voice to Values (GVV) framework. The emphasis on micro-ethics is timely andappropriate

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Tuesday June 27, 1:30 - 3:00

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Koehler, Wake Forest University; Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University; Adetoun Yeaman, Wake Forest University

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SO4,7 SO2,3,4,5,6,7 Figure 2: Framework connecting character virtues to ethical decision-making in engineeringIII. Study ContextIn 2017, Wake Forest University (WFU) launched its newest undergraduate program, aDepartment of Engineering targeted at offering an interdisciplinary BS Engineering degree.Delivery of the curriculum was happening in the midst of developing the program and vision,and it became clear that this was an opportunity to reimagine and redefine engineering educationand engineering graduates. Virtues like empathy, courage, intellectual humility, integrity, self-awareness, justice, purpose, curiosity, creativity, compassion and authenticity were identified asbeing essential to the kind of engineering graduate

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Tuesday June 27, 1:30 - 3:00

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Youna Jung, Northeastern University; Jacob Ray Johnston, Virginia Military Institute; Aidan Noonan

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computer science depend on persona and identity, it is critical that everyindividual working in this area have an acceptable level of ethical awareness and sensitivity, andthey must be able to make an ethical decision whenever they face an issue [2]. To achieve this,we need to teach computer and information ethics to students from undergraduate programs,along with theories and technologies in computer sciences. Recent research shows us that ethicseducation improves students’ ethical awareness and sensitivity as well as moral reasoning [3]–[4]. While many undergraduate computer science programs include ethics in their curriculum,the teaching methods, topics, target students, credit hours, and instructor expertise vary [5]–[8].There is an urgent

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Tuesday June 27, 9:15 - 10:45

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tori Wagner, University of Connecticut; Landon Bassett, University of Connecticut; Jennifer Pascal, University of Connecticut; Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh

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they are at the post-conventional level of moral development, this may suggest thatthey are able to make moral judgments based on abstract principles and values [8]. In this case,an ethics education program may focus on helping students to deepen their understanding ofthese principles and apply them in a variety of different contexts.To assess our current ethics education curriculum, we used the EERI as a pre-test and a post-test.The pre-test was intended to assess students' baseline knowledge and understanding of ethicalprinciples, while the post-test was administered after students completed an ethics educationprogram. We used the EERI to assess students’ growth in engineering ethics understanding atboth the course and program level to

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Tuesday June 27, 1:30 - 3:00

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, Colorado School of Mines; Qin Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh; Ryan Thorpe

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Editor for Engineering Studies, and Executive Committee Member of the International Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum. Dr. Zhu’s research interests include global and international engineering education, engineering ethics, engineering cultures, and ethics and policy of computing technologies and robotics.Dr. Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh Scott Streiner is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department, teaches in the First-Year Engineering Program and works in the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Scott has received funding through NSF to conduct research on the impact of game-based learning on

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _ Monday June 26, 1:30 - 3:00

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Umair Shakir, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Justin L. Hess, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Matthew James P.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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, no. 2, pp. 343–351, 2004, doi: 10.1007/s11948-004-0030-8.[15] N. H. Steneck, “Designing teaching and assessment tools for an integrated engineering ethics curriculum,” in FIE’99 Frontiers in Education. 29th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Designing the Future of Science and Engineering Education. Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.99CH37011, Nov. 1999, p. 12D6/11-12D6/17 vol.2. doi: 10.1109/FIE.1999.841685.[16] J. Borenstein, M. Drake, R. Kirkman, and J. Swann, “The Test of Ethical Sensitivity in Science and Engineering (TESSE): A Discipline Specific Assessment Tool for Awareness of Ethical Issues,” presented at the 2008 Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2008, p. 13.1270.1-13.1270.10. Accessed

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _Monday June 26, 11:00 - 12:30

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeff R. Brown, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Chad Rohrbacher, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Taylor Joy Mitchell, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University ; Leroy Long III, Sinclair Community College - Dayton; Jenna Korentsides, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Joseph Roland Keebler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach

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creator of this case study has a specific“answer” to the problem in mind. Burns et al. [ 19] agree saying “If a case is constructed by‘hinting’ at how to examine a set of predetermined principles, the student is being handed acontext that is built to reduce the disagreement to such a fundamental level that no actualsituation could ever resemble it. Most of the serious moral work is already done”. Conversely,when approaching narratives–whether on the page or a podcast – students share an implicitacknowledgement that bias, interpretation, and analysis are an integral part of the genre and,thus, look at the characters and their actions rather than searching for a specific answer to aproblem.The critical narratives we used for this particular study

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Monday June 26, 3:15 - 4:45

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laurie A. Pinkert, University of Central Florida; Jonathan Beever, University of Central Florida; Steven Kuebler; Lakelyn E. Taylor, University of Central Florida; Eve Vazquez, University of Central Florida; Victor Milanes, University of Central Florida

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Paper ID #38245[Full Research Paper, Ethical Engineering in Industry and AppliedContexts] Responsibility and Accountability: Faculty Leaders, EthicsFrameworks, and Disciplinary EnculturationDr. Laurie A. Pinkert, University of Central Florida Laurie A. Pinkert is an Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Central Florida. Her research examines the role of communication practices and writing infrastructures in disciplinary development within fields such as engineering.Prof. Jonathan Beever, University of Central Florida Jonathan Beever is Associate Professor

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Monday June 26, 3:15 - 4:45

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Madeline Polmear, Vrije Universiteit Brussels

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. As indicated by the first theme, ethics is an espousedvalue, but that value is not always reflected in the curriculum. With ethics only visible in selectengineering courses, the importance of ethics to engineering education and practice might not becommunicated to students. One implication of this finding is aligning purported values withcurricular requirements. Given social-technical dualism within engineering culture and thepriority of technical subjects [26], the limited visibility of ethics or its separation from technicalcourses can continue to reinforce this false dichotomy. Another tension arises when ethics isnarrowly constrained to academic integrity. Although an important component of emphasizingethical behavior, academic integrity

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Monday June 26, 3:15 - 4:45

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jiaojiao Fu, Peking University

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Peking University.References[1] Lin J, Yi FQ. “Future-oriented Engineering Ethics Education”. In: Research in Higher Education of Engineering (2021), pp. 1-11[2] J. R. Herkert, “Continuing and emerging issues in engineering ethics education and research: integrating microethics and macroethics”, In: IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2004., Denver, CO, USA[3] Herkert J R. “Engineering ethics education in the USA: Content, pedagogy and curriculum”. In: European Journal of Engineering Education (2000), pp. 303-313[4] Robert E. McGinn. “ ‘Mind the gaps’: An empirical approach to engineering ethics, 1997- 2001”. In: Science and Engineering Ethics(2003), pp. 517-542[5] Steve Roach, Jules Simon. “Teaching and assessing

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _ Monday June 26, 1:30 - 3:00

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rosalyn W. Berne, University of Virginia

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by some toexpand the established boundaries of life as defined include technological creations.Also, a topic of more recent interest: laboratory grown meat [29]. Although STS andother academic fields have begun to take an interest in non-human animals, the topic isthinly addressed in engineering ethics literature. And yet, as the primary source oflearning and training for aspiring engineers, engineering education has a responsibility toinclude in its curriculum ethical considerations of animal welfare in the development anddeployment of new engineered systems, and in existing engineering systems.Resources for a new engineering ethicsA good place to introduce engineering students to the idea of engineering with a focus onethics and animals

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Tuesday June 27, 1:30 - 3:00

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dayoung Kim, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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practical ethics,” Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 21, pp. 767-787.2015.[14] I. M. Goldin, K. Ashley, R. L. Pinkus, “Validity and reliability of an instrument forassessing case analyses in bioengineering ethics education,” Science and Engineering Ethics,vol. 21, pp. 789-807. 2015.[15] Q. Zhu, C. B. Zoltowski, M. K. Feister, P. M. Buzzanell, W. C. Oakes, & A. D. Mead, “Thedevelopment of an instrument for assessing individual ethical decision-making in project-baseddesign teams: Integrating quantitative and qualitative methods,” Proceedings of the 2014 ASEEAnnual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN. 2014.[16] P. W. Odom, & C. B. Zoltowski, “Statistical analysis and report on scale validation resultsfor the Engineering Ethical

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Monday June 26, 3:15 - 4:45

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shreya Kumar, University of Notre Dame; Megan Levis, University of Notre Dame

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and counting. • Ethics at work has also created a YouTube channel 16 with a series of videos for courses on work and the good life, ethical and professional issues in computer science, technology self and society, and the archaeology of hacking. These short 2-10 minute explainer videos can be used as preparatory material for courses.IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM SPACE THROUGH INTERVIEWS AND SURVEYSIn this section, we describe some details of our multi-step approach towards determiningsentiment and challenges to integrating ethics-based content in an engineering curriculum asperceived by both faculty and undergraduates. We were intentional in engaging undergraduatestudents to conduct this work, as the design and articulation of the

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Tuesday June 27, 9:15 - 10:45

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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C.J. Witherell, Grand Valley State University

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understanding, students must critically examine the importance ofengineering in their field [20]. Ethics should be reconceptualized “as an integrative force ratherthan a discrete requirement” [22]. Students should actively participate in their ethics education,and it should not be separate from their engineering education. It must be relocated “from theperiphery of the curriculum to its core by empowering students to investigate ethics in the waysthat are most meaningful to them” [20]. A proven methodology for doing so is a “modified versionof the Critical Incident Technique (CIT), which asks students to locate an ethical problem in afilm, text, or TV program, and then briefly to describe the problem, analyze its ethical dimensions,and indicate

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Tuesday June 27, 1:30 - 3:00

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh; Qin Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andrea Gammon, Delft University of Technology; Xianghong WU; Ryan Thorpe

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, MA from Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, and BA from Fordham University.Dr. Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh Scott Streiner is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department, teaches in the First-Year Engineering Program and works in the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Scott has received funding through NSF to conduct research on the impact of game-based learning on the development of first-year students’ ethical reason- ing, as well as research on the development of culturally responsive ethics education in global contexts. He is an active member of the Kern Engineering Entrepreneurship Network (KEEN

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _Monday June 26, 11:00 - 12:30

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alice Fox, Stanford; Benjamin C. Beiter, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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and better communicate to students how all engineering decisions should be madewithin the broader moral landscape, as opposed to a select few decisions. An engineeringeducation integrated with ethics as a way to make longer-lasting systemic change [13], [12].Incorporating experiences such as community outreach and guest speakers helps, in part, toframe an education in the ethical issues beyond the workplace [16]; however, this is just anextension, albeit a very valuable one, of the current education strategy. More recent papershave proposed game-based learning experiences, or ‘playful learning’ as a way for students toimmerse themselves in ethical issues and consider them from new perspectives [9], [8]. Thesestrategies provide an alternative