Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

clicking for online advertising. There were two educational projects. The firstexamined belief revision through animated sequences using cases from I, Robot. The secondwas a web tutorial for novice users on machine learning in music recommendation systems. Thisproject ultimately formed the basis for one student‟s thesis work on human interfaces for musicrecommendation systems. Finally, seven students chose to write their own words of fiction.Students were allowed to write fiction in their native language so peer-review was used to betterevaluate the creative works. Technical topics addressed included: 1) Turing Tests and anexamination of intelligence, cognition and consciousness, 2) the limits of knowledge and logic:How much can we know? 3) belief

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

K.L. Jordan, Michigan Technological University; Anahita Pakzad, Michigan Technological University; Renee Oats, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

class, while others justneed a book in hand) and that online learning makes it easier for students to cheat and gethigher grades compared to students in a traditional classroom setting. Comparing onlygrades is not conclusive. Students and faculty tend to believe that even if both groupsearn the same grades, long term retention is going to be higher in the students who sit in aclassroom and interact with others. Page 22.642.6Q8. Does internet based learning help foster strong peer-to-peer relationships andcollaboration?In general, students and faculty were neutral on this subject. They all agreed thatrelationships depend the individual, and that it is

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Justice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rodney W. Trice, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

engineering leaders from across the United States and abroad and to prepare themfor work in technical fields. As evidenced by employers’ interest in our graduating engineersand consistently high rankings by its peers and national news magazines, Purdue University doesa good job of imparting technical knowledge to its students. However, while technicalcompetence is necessary, it is not a sufficient condition for the engineer of 2020 to be successful,as noted in a recent NAE document,1 and as acted upon recently in the College of Engineering.2Within the engineering and scientific community, it is difficult to overestimate the importance ofacting with high ethical standards in global, social, intellectual and technological contexts.When this attribute

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin S. High, Oklahoma State University; Steve Harrist, Oklahoma State University; Scott D. Gelfand, Oklahoma State University, Department of Philosophy

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

AC 2011-2419: TOOLS TO CRAFT ETHICAL BEHAVIORMartin S. High, Oklahoma State University Marty High is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University. His aca- demic interests include teaching in all areas and at all levels of chemical engineering with a focus on instruction in thermodynamics and mass transfer. His research interests are in the areas of mass transfer in polymeric systems, corrosion modeling, equation of state development and refinery catalysis. Marty also writes in the area of sustainability and on the intersection of law, science and society. He received his engineering education at Penn State (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) and earned his law degree (J.D.) from the

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown; Lea Campbell, University of Houston, Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineer in the group. d) At the next design meeting, focus the agenda on the impact of J. T.‟s behavior on the success of the project and threaten to speak with the project manager if he does not “shape up.” e) Have another senior-level engineer in the group have a private conversation with J. T. about his work.The final unit looks at the nuances of teaming within a virtual environment in which fellow teammembers may be located in a distant country and may come from diverse backgrounds. Toolswhich can be used to support and enhance virtual collaboration are explored. Discussion boardsand collaborative writing and editing within a course management program or via a documentediting program like Google Docs are used to

Conference Session

Ethics in different disciplines

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana Bairaktarova, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

chosen representing both individualachievement (summative)18 and assessments to assist student learning (formative).18 Two kindsof summative individual assessments will occur in this course. On the first day of the course eachstudent will be presented with a short case to identify ethical dilemma, to name possible courseof action, and to evaluate the consequences of actions taken. Then again on the last day of classthe same case will be discussed with each student and the same questions will be asked. This willprovide students with a measure of progress in the areas of the content. The reflection journalsthat students will write throughout the semester will also act as a kind of informal summativeassessment. Grading will measure a student’s

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Ricco, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

seminal work left unread by engineers dabbling in phenomenology and existentialism.(20) Aswith some great works, the actual writings of Husserl on philosophy are as revealing as how heoutlines previous philosophies to differentiate himself. Husserl argues that there are fourimportant revolutions in history of thought: Socratic/Platonic arguments based on logos and itssubsequent development into scientific thought; the Cartesian revolution; the transcendentalrevolution of Kant, whereby the only source of necessity is subjectivity and thus followsknowledge; and finally, the phenomenological revolution, which incorporates the form of andcontent of acts of knowing into a subjective framework. Descartes, according to Husserl’s history, believes

Conference Session

Sustainability and Humanitarian Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

addition, it was of interest to evaluate ifstudents in the environmental engineering course had a greater “sustainability ethic” compared totheir peers in the civil engineering course. On the initial “defining the discipline” assignment, anincreasing percentage over time of the civil engineering students included sustainability in theirdiscussions, 17% to 31% from 2008 to 2010. In comparison, 35-37% of the environmentalengineering students included sustainability. In 2009 and 2010 the second course module onsustainability did not increase the percentage of students who discussed sustainability as part ofthe fourth homework assignment on ethics; the percentage of the ethics essays that included theterm sustainable and/or sustainability were 29-47

Conference Session

Ethics in different disciplines

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

AC 2011-32: FAMILIARIZING THE UNKNOWN: THREE UNUSUAL EN-GINEERING CASESMarilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology Marilyn Dyrud is a full professor in the Communication Department at Oregon Institute of Technology and regularly teaches classes in business and technical writing, public speaking, rhetoric, and ethics; she is part of the faculty team for the Civil Engineering Department’s integrated senior project. She is active in ASEE as a regular presenter, moderator, and paper reviewer; she has also served as her campus’ representative for 17 years, as chair of the Pacific Northwest Section, and as section newsletter editor. She was named an ASEE Fellow in 2008 and received the James H. McGraw Award in 2010