Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session - Virtue & Ethics in the Profession

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiamin Zhang, University of California, Riverside; Quoc Tuan Olivier Truong, University of California, Riverside; Neha Gutlapalli, University of California, Riverside; HSIN-LING HSIEH, Northern Michigan University; Dena Plemmons, University of California, Riverside

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

ethical choices made during these stories.”Our results suggest that with this holistic approach of using stories from traditional culture toteach virtue-based engineering ethics, there was more student interest and engagement in theteaching modules. Additionally, stories from traditional culture can serve as a new type of casestudy for teaching virtue-based engineering ethics.7 LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE WORKWith only 44 CHE students and 11 ENVE students who gave consent, our sample size is quitesmall. We will continue this research study in future iterations of the senior design course.Specifically, we plan to develop teaching modules to teach students ethical decision-making, forexample, by incorporating consideration of virtues in existing