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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Aiman Kuzmar

Ethics at Various Engineering Programs Aiman Kuzmar, Ph. D., P. E. Assistant Professor of Engineering, Penn State FayetteThe profession of engineering and society have a profound interaction. Engineers servethe societies they live in by offering them practical solutions to their technical problems.They have to do so in the most efficient way and in an ethical manner. The importanceof ethics in engineering has been well established and awareness about this importancehas been on the rise in recent years.Traditionally, with a few exceptions, institutes of higher education did not includediscrete educational components on ethics in their engineering curricula

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Fani Zlatarova

Diversity in the Development of Computing Projects Fani Zlatarova Elizabethtown College, PAAbstractDeveloping projects in computing-oriented courses is a well-known practice. However, the dynamicnature of the computing sciences poses new challenges for students and their instructors. They have adirect influence on the diversity in the project development aspects: diversity of the project types, topics,goals, participation, presentation, assessment, applications, and ethical issues introduced in the project.The concrete academic environment should be also considered when assigning projects of different types.The job market of computing

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Seamus Freyne

most of these main themes have some connection with theothers.On the basis of the number of responses, the main themes were assigned a rank of onethrough ten. The top three themes throughout the five years of the survey were energy,environment, and infrastructure. Students frequently expounded on the need to findalternative energy sources that are practical, clean, abundant, renewable, and safe. Wemust, say the students, protect our natural resources and curb climate change, and ournation’s aging infrastructure needs vast improvements. The next seven themes, whichincluded quality of life, vehicles, leadership and ethics, national security, medicine, space,and education and research, changed rank periodically. In any case, students

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Stefan A. Robila

ofview (and are either victims of larger incidents or the disclosers of their own information), in theInformation Security course the students view it mainly as computing professionals asked to prepareagainst and handle such events.3.1. Computer Security CourseAccording to the university catalogue, the course is a survey of topics related to internet and intranetsecurity. It introduces the undergraduate students to many contemporary topics ranging from dataencryption, computer authentication, network security, to cyber-warfare and security ethics. The coursewas developed based on Pfleeger & Pfleeger’s textbook [17] with some materials from [18], followingNSA recommendations on terminology and content. An important component of the course

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Shaina Slonim; Richard Puerzer

example, a score of one can mean there arezero connections and a score of five can mean there are sixteen or more connections, depending on thecase. This rubric can be used to evaluate all of the tools. As an analogy for connections, let me refer to the case of the Challenger and the ethics associatedwith it. As we know, the Challenger exploded during its launch. Blame for this accident is not easilyassignable. Some say the company who made the parts that malfunctioned, others say NASA. Anexample of a connection a student might develop is that the company who made the malfunctioning partshad poor ethics because even though they knew the part could fail, they decided not to say anything toNASA and to allow the shuttle to take off as

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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R. Barat; G. DiBenedetto; T. Boland

A New Freshmen Engineering Design Experience in Chemical Engineering at NJIT R. Barat, G. DiBenedetto, and T. Boland Otto York Department of Chemical Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ 07102IntroductionThere is a general recognition of the need to give their students considerable training beyond the standardknowledge of a particular engineering fieldi. Students must now have the ability to think critically andcommunicate effectively, to work in multidisciplinary teams and have good interpersonal skills, and toexhibit a broader professional and ethical

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Graham Walker

which they are expected to be. The order ofthe lecture material is therefore factor and level selection, experiment design, instrumentation selection,equipment design and construction, experimental practices, data accumulation, data processing, andtechnical communications. At the equipment design and construction phase the students are expected to use standardmaterials such as metal, wood and plastic, however, a three dimensional printer is also available, whichallows small models to be constructed and tested rapidly. This is specifically useful when models have tobe built for wind tunnel testing. Finally, at the time when the students are about to start performing their experiments a lecture onexperimental ethics is presented

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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John C. Giordano; J. Scot Ransbottom

, we seek to identify and value differencesamong our cadets and to leverage those differences to enhance understanding for the group. We also seekto help cadets to value the differences among their peers, subordinates and leaders. The need to produceleaders of character is a direct complement to the academic requirements. USMA’s educational process focuses on the development of the whole person. The academic, military,physical, and moral/ethical development of each cadet is accomplished through an immersive 47 monthexperience. The stated goal of the academic program [3] is to enable graduates to anticipate and respondeffectively to the uncertainties of a changing technological, social, political, and economic world. As aresult, the curriculum