Conference Session

Graduate Ethics Education & Professional Codes

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech; William Joseph Rhoads, Virginia Tech; Siddhartha Roy, Virginia Tech; Erin Heaney, Clean Air: Organizing for Health and Justice; Glenn Andrew Ratajczak, Clean Air Coalition of Western New York; Jennifer Holly Ratajczak, Clean Air Coalition of Western New York

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,discoveries, and products is crucial for ethical practice. It contends that listening canfacilitate transformational engagement between engineers and the public by a)challenging stereotypes on both sides, b) foregrounding the technical and ethicalrelevance of diverse knowledges, c) exposing relationships of structural inequality thatprivilege technical expertise, and d) replacing such relationships with partnerships oftrust that generate meaningful and effective solutions.Transformational listening lies at the heart of a graduate engineering ethics course atVirginia Tech and future online teaching modules, funded by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF). The goal is for students to experience the cognitive leap thatethnographic research methods can

Conference Session

Graduate Ethics Education & Professional Codes

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Craig Hanks, Texas State University, San Marcos; Dominick Esperanza Fazarro, The University of Texas at Tyler; Jitendra S. Tate, Texas State University, San Marcos; Walt Trybula, Texas State University & Trybula Foundation, Inc.; Robert J.C. McLean, Texas State University

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research lab will serve as the training site on health and safety issues of nanomaterials. Dr. Tate is a mechanical engineer by training and has 16-plus years of academic and two years of industry experience. His research areas include developing, manufacturing; and characterizing the high-performance polymeric nanocomposites for rocket ablatives, fire-retardant interior structures of mass transit and aircraft, lighter and damage-tolerant wind turbine blades, and replacement of traditional composites using bio-based materials. He has mentored under- graduate African-American students under NASA-PAIR at NC A&T University, an HBCU, and Hispanic students under H-LSAMP at Texas State. He is a member of AIAA, ASME, ACMA

Conference Session

Teaching Approaches for Ethics

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory A. Rulifson, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Whitney Thomas, University of Colorado, Boulder

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professional world, as well as how faculty can be facilitated to engage students in engineering service more effectively.Dr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt, Ph.D., P.E., is a Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, & Architec- tural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has been on the faculty since 1996. She serves as the ABET Assessment Coordinator for the Department. Professor Bielefeldt teaches introduc- tory courses for first year engineering students, senior capstone design, and environmental engineering specialty courses. She conducts engineering education research related to learning through service (LTS), social responsibility, sustainability

Conference Session

Teaching Approaches for Ethics

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Raridon, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Deborah K. Nykanen P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato; Marilyn C. Hart, Minnesota State University- Mankato; Winston Sealy, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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the seminar vary from week to week as well as during each class where the MAX facultymentors regularly take turns serving as the lead instructor. The seminars include large and smallgroup discussion as well as guest presentations from other university faculty and staff, industrypartners, or alumni scholars. This adaptive structure is motivated by best practices, especiallyfor a diverse STEM community with four scholars participating as distance learners.4-10 Eachsemester, the seminar course is structured around a multidisciplinary group project addressing adifferent societal issue pertinent to STEM majors. For two recent semesters, these projects havefocused on ethical issues.Ethics AssignmentsThe first semester (spring 2013) focused on

Conference Session

Ethical Behavior in Academia and Beyond

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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-based Directory of Open Access Journals maintains a list of some 10,000 legitimatejournals, fully peer-reviewed for quality control, licensed by Creative Commons, and searchableby database.10 In addition, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association has developed amission statement that details best practices for open access publications; its website alsoincludes an ethics code.11RecognitionPredatory journals run the gamut of slick to shoddy. What they all share, however, is publicationthat comes at a hefty cost to authors.Email SolicitationsInitial contact with potential authors usually consists of an email such as that displayed in Figure1. Rarely are these emails tailored to the recipient’s field of expertise; they are merely

Conference Session

Understanding our Students & Ethical Development

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Mee Joo Kim, University of Washington-Seattle; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Elizabeth Burpee

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thatengineering educators take advantage of the inherent possibilities for developing critical thinkingwhen constructing activities related to service learning. Romkey & Cheng32 identify EngineersWithout Borders as one aspect of a framework that includes engineering and society courses andengineering design activities. Although these factors support the student’s ability to developcritical thinking skills, appropriate instruction and curriculum design remains a cornerstone ofskills development.29One of the oft-neglected tools for developing critical thinking skills in engineering students iswriting. Writing can enhance critical thinking and problem-solving skills, which is especiallyimportant when coupled with the fact that engineers in practice

Conference Session

Understanding our Students & Ethical Development

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. McBride-Pluskwik, Iron Range Engineering, a program of Minnesota State University, Mankato; Puteri S. Megat Hamari, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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resources practices, an ethical problem exists. Withoutthe business-provided greenhouse, the capacity for aquaponics food production would bediminished, and fewer people would benefit. This discussion was more meaningful to the studentsthan a published ethical case since it directly impacted the work of the team on their project.Another example of project-related ethics discussion arose from a team working on anentrepreneurial project. The goal of that project was to design a workable, marketable productduring the semester. Ethics discussions arose during the design and product development stages.For example: Due to cost to manufacture, will the product only be available to wealthierfamilies? What will be gained from this product and what will be