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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Steve E. Watkins

2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections) Teaching Engineering Ethics Steve E. Watkins Missouri University of Science and TechnologyAbstractInstruction in engineering ethics is an important aspect of professional development. Foruniversities, it is an element of program assessment and is considered for accreditation. Forengineering students, it addresses relationships in professional life and is a topic for professionallicensure. A common instructional objective is for students to have an ability to continuedeveloping their ethical knowledge

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Sarah Jurak; Emil Jurak; Ramazan Asmatulu

biology differs from the biological sciences in that in thebiological sciences the cell is studied in order to understand how it works and in syntheticbiology they design and create a new cell. 2 Associated with these areas of research are concernsabout bioethics, responsible conduct and safety.Bioethics is “a relatively recent field of academic inquiry that deals with the ethical, legal, socialand cultural implications of the biosciences and their application in biotechnology.” 3 There areinherent safety risks involved with biotechnology and synthetic biology because these areas ofresearch involve designing new materials which have the potential of having unintended

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Timothy Burg; Pamela Mack; Ian Walker; Richard Groff

2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections) Building and Assessing a Hands-on Learning Experience for Robots in Business and Society Timothy Burg1, Pamela Mack2, Ian Walker2, Richard Groff2 1 Kansas State University,2Clemson UniversityAbstractAn undergraduate course is being developed for non-engineering majors to address the need forgeneral competencies in ethics, science, and technology. Robotics is a field of science that israpidly transforming our lives. Participants in the course will learn the history, mechanics andsoftware, and

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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expression,communication skills, technical skills, self-confidence building, computation skills, engineeringfundamentals, organizational skills, leadership skills, planning skills, professional ethics, andengineering judgment. Even though the main intent of a Capstone design course is to provide theskills and attributes mentioned above to senior engineering students, majority of the students donot demonstrate these skills in their Capstone design courses. It is the authors’ strong beliefs thatexperiential learning model should be incorporated much earlier in an engineering curriculum inorder for the students to experience engineering design process and design skills, supported bythe recent findings by Conger et al.8. According to Kolb6, “Learning