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Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Deborath Silva, Colorado School of Mines; Justin Stephen Fantasky, Colorado School of Mines

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Paper ID #13318Social Justice in Control Systems EngineeringDr. Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines Kathryn Johnson is an Associate Professor at the Colorado School of Mines in the Department of Elec- trical Engineering and Computer Science and is Jointly Appointed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s National Wind Technology Center. In the fall 2011, she was a visiting researcher at Aal- borg University in Denmark, where she collaborated on wind turbine control research and experienced Aalborg’s Problem-Based Learning method. She has researched wind turbine control systems since 2002, with numerous

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel J. Biezad P.E., California Polytechnic State University

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Paper ID #11544Ethics Education as Philosophical History for EngineersDr. Daniel J. Biezad P.E., California Polytechnic State University Daniel J. Biezad is professor emeritus in the aerospace engineering department of the College of Engi- neering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly). He received the B.S. in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT-1966), the M.S. in astronautical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT-1972), and the Ph.D. in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from Purdue University (1984). He has received the

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bhavna Hariharan, Stanford University

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Paper ID #13957Practicing care in global engineering with underserved communitiesDr. Bhavna Hariharan, Stanford University Bhavna Hariharan is a Social Science Research Associate at the Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. Her field of inquiry is Engineering Education Research (EER) with a focus on engineering design for and with underserved communities around the world. For the last nine years, she has worked on designing, implementing and managing environments for interdisciplinary, geographically distributed, collaborative research projects among scholars, and

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; Thomas M. Philip, University of California Los Angeles

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intentions with the technology they are building. If someone takes their technology and uses it, you know, in a bad way that’s more on the person who used it. That’s my personal opinion (shrugs shoulders) anyways.Asked if in his future job he personally will have to grapple with the social impact of his designs,he says that he would like to be involved in that discussion. But says that engineers might belimited by their mindset: Engineers can be closed minded. We are very technically oriented. We don’t really think a lot about our impacts...I think it’s just how our brain works...Because I don’t come from an engineering [familial] background, I think about it. I would like to have some say in how [my

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bill D Carroll P.E., University of Texas, Arlington; Bob P. Weems, University of Texas, Arlington; Bahram Khalili, University of Texas, Arlington

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compromised ID, document, or picture is largely irreparable. Consideration of userinterface (UI) design issues and their future modalities, along with case studies where a UIcontributed to an incident, are valuable to a maturing engineer. Unlike topics with socialconnections, software reuse and open source are challenging areas to discuss since trade-offsinvolving cost, intellectual property, and quality. 6.4. Career PlanningStudents are very engaged in this segment of the course since “planning what is next aftergraduation” is on the mind of most of them while taking this class. We help them explore theiroptions which usually fall into one of the following three paths

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Madhumitha Ramachandran, University of Oklahoma; Diana Bairaktarova, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Anna Woodcock, California State University San Marcos; Othman Mohammed Bawareth, University of Oklahoma

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. Journal ofEngineering Education, 94(4), 383-390.[2] McGinn, R. E. (2003). “Mind the gaps”: An empirical approach to engineering ethics, 1997–2001. Science andEngineering Ethics, 9(4), 517-542.[3] Colby, A., & Sullivan, W. M. (2008). Ethics teaching in undergraduate engineering education. Journal ofEngineering Education, 97(3), 327-338.[4] Phase, I. I. (2005). Educating the Engineer of 2020:: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century.National Academies Press.[5] O’Fallon, M. J., & Butterfield, K. D. (2005). A review of the empirical ethical decision-making literature: 1996–2003. Journal of Business Ethics, 59(4), 375-413.[6] Valentine, S. R., & Rittenburg, T. L. (2007). The ethical decision making of men and women executives

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology; Julie E. Sharp, Vanderbilt University

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.32When selecting a case, the instructor should keep these characteristics in mind :1. The case should be appropriate for the students; it should match the students’ skill level or knowledge of the course topic. For example, mechanical engineering seniors may be more experienced with certain discipline-specific subject matter than first-year students and could handle a case requiring more advanced knowledge. Furthermore, each student should be able to relate to the issue so that no one person or small group is disenfranchised.36, 372. A case should be complex enough to engage students in problem solving. Even if the case is simple, it should be complex enough to generate group discussion and alternative solutions to the problem posed

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Brenda Read-Daily, Elizabethtown College

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. Stephanie argued that it wasn’t safe for her work to be tested on humans and that deliberately erasing someone’s mind is wrong. Mr. Richardson responded with the fact human testing is necessary in any field. He then argued how joining the company would cure mental illness. (Decker, Hooper, Gorenberg)Some groups had engineering characters struggle with the social impacts of ethical decisionsoften driven by a desire for technological advancement. The following was written by a group ofinternational students from France, Germany, and Brazil, and has some basic grammar issues. Because of the iClone’s cost of production and maintenance, only the richest and middle class will be able to afford it. After its release one

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kirsten S Hochstedt, Penn State University; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Tricia Bertram Gallant, University of California, San Diego; Robert G. Melton, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Shiyu Liu, Pennsylvania State University

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Paper ID #11425The Impact of Faculty Development Workshop on Students’ Understandingof Academic IntegrityMs. Kirsten S Hochstedt, Penn State University Kirsten Hochstedt is a graduate assistant at the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Edu- cation. She received her M.S. in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in educational and psycholog- ical measurement at Penn State University and is currently a doctoral candidate in the same program. The primary focus of her research concerns assessing the response structure of test scores using item response theory methodology.Dr. Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State

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Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech; Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech

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each person in a caring and respectful fashion, mindful of individual differences and cultural and ethnic diversity. Engineers promote clients’ socially responsible self-determination. Engineers seek to enhance clients’ capacity and opportunity to change and to address their own needs. Engineers are cognizant of their dual responsibility to clients and to the broader society. They seek to resolve conflicts between clients’ interests and the broader society’s interests in a socially responsible Page 26.322.11 manner consistent with the values, ethical principles, and ethical standards of the profession. ● Value

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Assessing Social Responsibility & Sustainability

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Richard A House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Alexander T. Dale, Engineers for a Sustainable World

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viable.For us, this starts with developing a community of support to give faculty the confidence toeffectively introduce wicked problems into their existing courses. Through this community,faculty may leverage one another’s expertise in order to expose students to real-world wickedproblems. In the spirit of holistic engineering education, our hope is to enable instructors toconfidently develop their students’ non-technical skills which are integral for generatingsustainability-minded leaders of the future.5,6Research MethodsIn this paper, our primary research objective was to develop a valid and reliable psychometricinstrument that measures a series of sustainability-related learning objectives that are central toWPSI. Our second objective was to

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Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #12743Pushing the Boundaries of Mass and Energy: Sustainability and Social Jus-tice Integration in Core Engineering Science CoursesDr. Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech Donna Riley is Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech Page 26.1286.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Pushing the Boundaries of Mass and Energy: Sustainability and Social Justice Integration in Core Engineering Science CoursesAbstractMy presentation, part of a special session panel discussion on integrating social

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Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James L. Huff, Harding University

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textured examples of content found inthermodynamics courses, which elicit engineering students to engage, analyze, and reflect on acertain engineering science topic, drawing on scientific, personal, and social-scientific evidence.However, such resources that guide an instructor to integrate technical content with a complexsocial reality are certainly an exception rather than a norm.Reflective Practice versus “Best” PracticeWith this background in mind, we return to the question that began the former section: Whyattempt to humanize signals and systems? Or in other words, why attempt to guide students inlearning well-established technical concepts as integrated with a complex, value-rich, socialreality? These are questions that the reader might have

Conference Session

Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

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, become inherently about social justice.Interestingly, this separation of institutional locations where engineering science and research areallowed to live (and not to live) is reflected in NSF’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates(REU) program. Of the 640 REU sites currently listed, only 4 include community colleges(nsf.gov).The processes and people involved in this definition also influenced what went in theengineering curriculum and what stayed out. For example, Rolston and Cox argue that by takingthe “mind out of the shop” and into the university, engineering educators throughout the 20thcentury recreated a class division with significant social justice dimensions: “The shift in focus of engineering training from the job