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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rigoberto Chinchilla, Eastern Illinois University

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Engineering Ethics

committees at EIU and has been awarded several research grants in his career. Page 23.294.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Collaboration between Private Sector and Academia: Are We Compromising Our Engineering Programs?Abstract A central theme in the past ASEE Main Plenary in San Antonio, Texas,was the need to prepare our students for an “effective industrial practice.” Mostpanelists stressed the fact that “nowadays companies do not want to spend toomuch in training.” The direct implication at the end of the plenary was thatacademia was somehow “obligated” to supply

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica A Kuczenski, College of San Mateo / San Francisco State University

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Engineering Ethics

study is to compare the attitudes and practices regarding ethics ofundergraduate engineering students from three different institutions, and also against thosereflected by national surveys. For this study, a survey was written and delivered to undergraduateengineering students at three different institutions regarding their perception of ethics at schooland in the workplace, along with specific ethical behaviors during their college careers. Thesurvey was conducted anonymously; thus, the survey data is only available en masse for eachschool population polled. Results from this study found that high numbers of students, nearly50% to over 90%, of students have done, considered and know others who have engaged inunethical behaviors, especially at

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mona Itani, American University of Beirut

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Engineering Ethics

asunderstanding that safety, health, and public welfare considerations supersede the loyaltyand faithfulness to one’s employer.This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the inclusion of videos in an appliedethics course namely engineering ethics by examining the video experience of ethicsstudents in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at the American University ofBeirut. Effectiveness was not measured in terms of grades or performance but in terms ofachieving the course objectives which most importantly include a good understanding ofethical concepts and relating them to real life in order to be able to apply them in thefuture in ones career. The course objectives that were tackled by the shown videos arelisted below and listed again

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University

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Engineering Ethics

healthcare process improvement. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Schell spent over a decade in industry focused on process improvement and organizational development. This time included roles as VP of Strategy and Development for PrintingforLess.com, VP of Operations Engineering for Wells Fargo Bank, leadership and engineering positions of increasing responsibility with American Express, where his last position was Director of Global Business Transformation, and engineering positions with the Montana MEP. Page 23.723.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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engineering students, undergraduate non-engineering students, graduate students,to engineering faculty. The durations included 2 hours, 1 day, 1 semester, 2 years, and astudent’s entire undergraduate career. Of the 13 cases analyzed, 9 had a general orientation, notrelating explicitly to a given engineering discipline. 3/13 cases were designed towards civil andenvironmental engineering students, and 1/13 was aimed towards civil, environmental, andmechanical engineering students. The professorate leading the course was more variable.Engineering instructors had backgrounds or were teaching in biomedical, civil, environmental,mechanical, electrical and/or computer engineering. Liberal instructors included professoratefrom English, education, and

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division - Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frank E Falcone, Villanova University; Edward F. Glynn P.E., Villanova University; Mark Edward Graham, Villanova University; Mark Doorley Ph.D., Villanova University

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Engineering Ethics

: As one of our strategic initiatives to improve the undergraduate program and to better prepare our students for their professional careers, we are investigating means for Page 23.508.7 improving our engineering ethics program. As you are likely aware, most if not all of our students currently are required to take an ethics course from the ethics department. A study that we funded 3 years ago to look at that approach indicated that while the students were getting a good fundamental introduction to ethics principles, they were not getting an opportunity to understand these principles and apply them in an

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David K. Ware; David J. Ahlgren, Trinity College; Harvey F. Silverman, Brown University

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Engineering Ethics

importanceof ethical thinking. The students are told that careers can be ruined, fortunes can be lost andmarket values can be shrunk – sometimes to the point of complete liquidation in bankruptcy –when people ignore ethics. They are also told that we will not be discussing ethics in a highlytheoretical or philosophical manner, both because time does not permit such a discussion in asingle short lecture, and because the lecture’s intent does not call for it. In addition, they are toldthat the lecture is not so much about engineering ethics as it is about business ethics for Page 23.449.4engineers. That is, the focus is not on technical engineering