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Peace, Conflict, and Sustainability: Addressing Global and Ethical Issues in Engineering Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert J Muscat, Global Peace Services USA; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Peace, Conflict, and Sustainability: Addressing Global and Ethical Issues in Engineering EducationEngineers play central design and policy roles globally in infrastructure and construction projects-- in transportation, power generation, irrigation, mining and other sectors. Particularly indeveloping countries, this may thrust them into violent conflict situations arising fromgeopolitical disputes, rival claims over resources, unequal distribution of benefits and costs, orpower struggles. Conflicts among communities, peoples, and nations can arise from manycauses. Engineering programs and projects may themselves be among the problems at issue.Where efforts to bring about peaceful

Conference Session

Assessing Social Responsibility & Sustainability

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan E Canney PE, Seattle University; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Mikhail Russu

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strategies. Inter-rater reliability for the code book wasexamined. Codes focused on the type of course (engineering course, humanities course, seniordesign, first-year), the topic of the course (e.g. sustainability, energy, religion, ethics), andteaching pedagogy (e.g. service-learning, case-studies, project-based).It is concerning that 42% of the engineering students indicated that no courses in theirundergraduate studies influenced their views of social responsibility. Of the seniors whocompleted the survey, 37% indicated that no courses had influenced these views. Of those whowere influenced, the most common courses were engineering courses (44%) and humanitiescourses (44%). Doing design work (11%), projects (9%) and service learning (8%) were

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University; Frazier Benya, National Academy of Engineering; Karin Ellison, Arizona State University; Rachelle D. Hollander, National Academy of Engineering; Kelly Laas, Center for the Study of Ethics, Illinois Institute of Technology; Simil L Raghavan, National Academy of Engineering

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Engineering & Policy from Washington University in St. Louis.Dr. Frazier Benya, National Academy of Engineering Frazier Benya is a Program Officer in the National Academy of Engineering’s Center for Engineering Ethics and Society (CEES). She manages the projects run by CEES including the Online Ethics Center (OEC) for Engineering and Science website. Her work at the NAE has focused on ethics education for engineers and scientists; climate change, engineered systems, and society; energy ethics; and ethical and social issues with advancing military technologies. She received her Ph.D. in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine from the University of Minnesota in 2012 and her M.A. in Bioethics, also from the

Conference Session

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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considerations in our core courses. I reflect on lessons learned from twoassignments in two different core courses, each implemented in the larger context of engineeringat a liberal arts college. Here introducing a social justice dimension of sustainability was a smallpart of a larger effort to integrate liberal education into core courses.One module introduced students in a first year Mass and Energy Balances course to the tool ofLife Cycle Assessment (LCA) for developing and analyzing green products and processes, whilesimultaneously offering a critique of green consumerism which was incorporated into studentLCA projects. A key learning outcome was that students understood not only the promises of thetool but also its limitations and when it is and is

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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A. J. Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Valorie Troesch, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Jonathan T Riehl, Michigan Technological University; Douglas E. Oppliger P.E., Michigan Technological University; Mary A. Fraley, Michigan Technological University

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, Michigan Technological University Valorie Troesch, J.D., is a Ph.D. candidate in the Rhetoric, Theory, and Culture Program in the Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University. Her research interests are in engineering ethics pedagogy and, specifically, applying and testing a phenomenological approach to teaching ethics and using qualitative methods to measure learning outcomes. She has taught Engineering Ethics at Michigan Tech for many years and initiated a pilot project working with faculty in Engineering Fundamentals to redesign the ethics module used in first year engineering fundamentals coursework. Troesch also has a background in assessment and evaluation.Ms. Amber Kemppainen, Michigan

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ryan C. Campbell, University of Washington; Ken Yasuhara, Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching, University of Washington; Denise Wilson, University of Washington

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work explores engineering ethics empirically in a “developing world” context through aframework of care ethics. Care ethics, a.k.a., the ethic(s) of care, is particularly suitable for the“developing world” context because it helps draw attention to imbalances of power (e.g.,inequality, differential opportunity, and limitations on autonomy) that are often neglected byother ethical frameworks. In this work, we selected one element of care ethics (responsibility)and operationalized it in several ways: the language of responsibility; notions of paternalism; andawareness of key, influencing stakeholders. These lenses were developed and refined iterativelyby employing them in case study analyses of two design project reports written by teams

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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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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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, dispositions, and worldviews. His dissertation focuses on conceptualizations, the importance of, and methods to teach empathy to engineering students. He is currently the Education Di- rector for Engineers for a Sustainable World, an assistant editor for Engineering Studies, and a member of the ASEE Committee on Sustainability, Subcommittee on Formal Education.Ms. Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology Sarah Brownell is a Lecturer in Design Development and Manufacturing for the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She works extensively with students in the mul- tidisciplinary engineering capstone design course and other project based elective courses, incorporating

Conference Session

Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaofeng Tang, Penn State University; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Institutionalizing Ethics: Historical Debates Surrounding IEEE’s 1974 Code of Ethics Contribution to the special session “Non-canonical Canons in Engineering Ethics”IntroductionConsider this case. Three engineers work for a governmental department which oversees theconstruction of a large-scale public transit system. Having participated in the project for anumber of years, they find serious problems in the management and deployment of theengineering work, which have led to a waste of public funds and pose a threat to the safety ofcommuters. After reporting their concerns to their direct managers, they receive only vagueresponses and witness no

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David A. Rogers P.E., North Dakota State University; Orlando R. Baiocchi, University of Washington, Tacoma; Paulo F Ribeiro, UNIFEI

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, social science, etc.), the objectives of the courseincluded a focus not only on the ethical concerns of the new technologies, but also on anunderstanding of the technologies. As the course is scheduled again for next academic year, a newtextbook and a new approach for the presentations and the research project will be used.The university central administration conducted an assessment of this course. In the 2014-2015academic year, students were asked to complete various statements: The course was: excellent (33%), very good (25%), good (33%), fair (8%). The intellectual challenge was: excellent (33%), very good (42%), good (25%).With a possible high rating of 7.0, the average intellectual challenge question was 5.5. A finalquestion

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tobias Rossmann, Lafayette College

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This seminar course was offered as part of the Byrne Freshman Seminar program atRutgers University. A Byrne Seminar is a one-credit course designed to introduce first-yearstudents at Rutgers-New Brunswick to academic life. Byrne Seminars are open to all first-yearstudents and are closed to all other students. Most Byrne Seminars tend to focus on a professor’sresearch interests where the students consider many of the same questions and issues the facultymember deals with in their research work. Each seminar is unique; some include work in alaboratory on campus, and others might require the completion of a creative group project. Mostseminars involve an out-of-class excursion, to see a play in New York or visit a museum inPhiladelphia. Broadly

Conference Session

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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government agencies. In 2010, Dr. Lambrinidou co-conceived the graduate level engineering ethics course ”Engi- neering Ethics and the Public,” which she has been co-teaching to students in engineering and science. She is co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) research and education project developing an ethnographic approach to engineering ethics education. Page 26.322.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Canons against Cannons? Social Justice and the Engineering Ethics ImaginaryAbstractWhat if social

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Greg Rulifson, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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academics first and everything else last”), in addition to their courses having very little socialcontext. This may be indicative of a typical problem in engineering education – first-yearcourses are interesting and project-based, but then in the second year, all the intense prerequisitesmust be taken, which limits students’ abilities to engage with social issues within or outside theircourses. Additionally, some students chose to be more involved with sororities or sports teams Page 26.643.6rather than volunteer groups, and their schedules did not allow for both activities.Table 2: Demographics of Students Interviewed and EPRA Survey Results

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradley J. Brummel, University of Tulsa; Jeremy S. Daily P.E., University of Tulsa; Jason T Stauth, Dartmouth College

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traffic crash reconstructions wherestudents used concepts from engineering dynamics to determine specific answers to how theevent occurred. This project was part of the lab component of a junior level Machine Dynamicscourse. The student completed the analyses and consolidated their findings in a report followingUS Code 26 (Rule 26 report). A Rule 26 report should disclose the data and other informationconsidered by an expert including exhibits and charts. The report should reflect the testimony tobe given by the expert and must be signed by that expert. We have used versions where thestudents either worked alone or in teams. The student was then then “hired” by a law studentwho was role-playing an attorney and deposed to render their opinion on

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan L. Murray, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Amber M. Henslee, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Douglas K. Ludlow, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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plagiarism and paraphrasing exists among students (92% ofrespondents) who reported having had previous training or education about academic integrity.These students tend to be recent high school graduates, with very high standardized test scores,and class rankings who undoubtedly learned about plagiarism and reference citations previouslyyet they struggled with the concept on the short quiz.This initial research project used questions from a previous study by Belter and du Pré1. Whilethe questions provide evidence that many of our students do not understand plagiarism, thequestions did not prove to be as rigorous or detailed as would be desired for our research project(i.e., given the wording of some items, and current students’ experience with

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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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interest in socio-scientific issues, and how they saw the role ofethical reasoning in their future profession as an engineer.Brief field notes taken after each interview helped in the preliminary data selection. Two of theinterviewed students, Tom (a junior-year engineering major) and Matt (a junior-year computerscience major), talked about weaponized drones as part of their interview. They had writtenabout this topic in their sophomore year as part of a capstone research project in the STSprogram. Besides the thematic congruence, another thing that caught our attention was that bothstudents regarded drone warfare to have negative consequences but, to different degrees, wantedto absolve the designing engineers of bearing responsibility.One of us

Conference Session

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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projects related to reducing turbine loads and increasing energy capture. She has applied experiential learning techniques in several wind energy and control systems classes and began engineering education research related to social justice in control systems engineering in fall 2014.Dr. Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines Jon A. Leydens is an associate professor in the Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines, USA, where he has been since 1997. Research and teaching interests include communication, social justice, and engineering education.Dr. Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines Dr. Barbara Moskal is a Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and the Director of

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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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University, University Park Dr. Sarah Zappe is Research Associate and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement and testing. In her position, Sarah is responsible for developing instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support for educational proposals and projects, and working with faculty to publish educational research. Her research interests primarily involve creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship education.Dr. Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Thomas A. Litzinger is Director of the

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Assessing Social Responsibility & Sustainability

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark H Minster, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard A House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Brackin P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Corey M. Taylor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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”). Professional codes of ethics and ABET requirements are sometimes applied, withsustainability introduced as a design constraint.3 In our experience, these professionalrequirements are often treated only in senior design projects, and then only as items on achecklist. Optional minor and certificate programs may exist for those engineering students whoare interested, but even here crucial tensions often go unexplored between definitions ofsustainability (between weak and strong sustainability4, 5, between “technological sustainability”and “ecological sustainability”6, between “eco-efficiency” and “eco-effectiveness”7, or betweensustainability and sustainable development8, 9, 10, 11) and even between areas of the triple bottomline.3 Missing, too, are

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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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Paper ID #11190Ethics for BeginnersDr. Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology Marilyn Dyrud is a full professor in the Communication Department at Oregon Institute of Technology and regularly teaches classes in business and technical writing, public speaking, rhetoric, and ethics; she is part of the faculty team for the Civil Engineering Department’s integrated senior project. She is active in ASEE as a regular presenter, moderator, and paper reviewer; she has also served as her campus’ representative for 17 years, as chair of the Pacific Northwest Section, and as section newsletter editor. She was named an

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey

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over forty (40) Senior Design Projects and his teams of students have received five (5) National Championships and three Best Design Awards. In the recent years, he has challenged himself with the creation an effective methodology for successful Invention and Innovation. Professor Sepahpour did his undergraduate studies at TCNJ and has advanced degrees from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He is the recipient of two (2) Best Paper Awards from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Divisions of Mechanical Engineering (ME) and Experimentation and Laboratory Oriented Studies (DELOS). He has served as the Chair of the Divisions of ME and DELOS of the ASEE. Prof. Sepahpour is an active member of

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Assessing Social Responsibility & Sustainability

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Gannon, Montana State University; Ryan Anderson, Montana State University; Justin W Spengler, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University

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Paper ID #12177Exploring Contemporary Issues in Sustainable EnergyDr. Paul Gannon, Montana State University Associate Professor, Chemical EngineeringDr. Ryan Anderson, Montana State UniversityMr. Justin W Spengler, Montana State UniversityDr. Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University Carolyn Plumb is the Director of Educational Innovation and Strategic Projects in the College of En- gineering at Montana State University (MSU). Plumb has been involved in engineering education and program evaluation for over 25 years. At MSU, she works on various curriculum and instruction projects including instructional development for faculty

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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; Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Joseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University

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choose not to undertakean engineering project in that time or place).While we might count it a victory for some of the non-canonical canons to move, in time, intothe accepted professional society codes, that is the not the primary purpose of creating thisalternative stream of ideals in engineering ethics. Rather we hope to illuminate the politicalnature of the process, the ways insider-outsider dynamics play out in professional societies, andthe contestation of what counts and does not count as engineering.IntroductionWhat are the processes by which professional societies develop Codes of Ethics, and how doesinstitutional power shape both processes and outcomes? Who counts as a moral agent? Who issubject to the code? Does the existence of a code

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shiyu Liu, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Irene B. Mena, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Kirsten S Hochstedt, Penn State University; Tricia Bertram Gallant, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego

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Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement and testing. In her position, Sarah is responsible for developing instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support for educational proposals and projects, and working with faculty to publish educational research. Her research interests primarily involve creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship education.Irene B. Mena, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Irene B. Mena has a B.S. and M.S. in industrial engineering, and a Ph.D. in engineering education. Her research interests include first-year engineering

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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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studies, and discussion. Course instructors presented the Code of Ethicsfor Engineers from the National Society of Professional Engineers. Students were then presenteda variety of short ethical scenarios on projected slides and had to make their own ethicaljudgments using clickers. The voting results were presented on the screen, and the results werediscussed as a class in light of the Code of Ethics for Engineers. Students also examined a fewcase studies by viewing an interview with an engineer who attempted to stop the Challengertakeoff and news footage covering the Challenger and Columbia explosions, as well as aninterview with a survivor of the Deep Water Horizon oil rig explosion and associated newscoverage.Creative Fiction

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edwin R. Schmeckpeper P.E., Norwich University; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Patrick D. Pedrow P.E., Washington State University; Jay Patrick McCormack, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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class period to review and discuss the results. The detailed facilitation plan forimplementing the EPSA in a course is shown in Appendix E, table E-1.At Norwich University all assessment of the student discussions was conducted in real-time, Page 26.1689.4during the discussions. Instead of using electronic voice recorders as is typically done by theresearchers on the NSF sponsored project, all data was collected as the discussions took place,  with the assessors simply writing tally marks and notes directly on the relevant portion of theEPSA Rubric.The students in each class were divided into teams. Some members of the team were assignedthe role of

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melodie A. Selby PE, Walla Walla University

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knowledgeregarding its use.4 However, it is a general test and does not assess discipline-specific issues.16 There have been several attempts to develop engineering-specific tests to assess moraljudgment. At conferences in 2003 and 2004, initial results of a study to develop a test werereported.11,15 The reports seemed promising, but Barry and Ohland reported that the principalinvestigators were no longer working on the project and had no immediate plans to resume thestudy (p. 384).4 Davis and Feinerman developed a method of comparing ratios of pre- and post-tests Page 26.240.5developed by the instructor. This method allows instructors to customize

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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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other engineering instructors share my sentiment of being a novice in reconciling thesocial and technical worlds of the engineering science course. To us, it is tempting to abandonthe pursuit of reconciling these worlds. Though we may agree such integration would benefitstudents’ professional preparation, the tension of the social/technical paradox might be a placethat the instructor wishes to avoid. I find Palmer’s guidance to be a useful conceptual tool here.We may long to embody and project a coherent integration between the technical concepts weare drawn to and the social world that we live in. Until we find that integration, however, we can“live out the resolution” of the social/technical paradox that accompanies our profession, thereby

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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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College of Engineering experienced an enrollment growth of more than fifty percent, an increase of research expenditures from under $10M per year to more than $40M per year, and a growth of the faculty of about sixty percent. Over the same period, capital projects totaling more than $180M were started and completed.Bob P. Weems, University of Texas, Arlington Bob Weems is an associate professor in the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering at UTA, com- mencing his career in 1985 after completing a PhD in CS at Northwestern University. His present inter- ests are in algorithms, data structures, online computation, and preference-based matching. He served as the department’s associate chair from 2001-2010. He

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #11150Ethics and Text RecyclingDr. Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology Marilyn Dyrud is a full professor in the Communication Department at Oregon Institute of Technology and regularly teaches classes in business and technical writing, public speaking, rhetoric, and ethics; she is part of the faculty team for the Civil Engineering Department’s integrated senior project. She is active in ASEE as a regular presenter, moderator, and paper reviewer; she has also served as her campus’ representative for 17 years, as chair of the Pacific Northwest Section, and as section newsletter editor. She was