Conference Session

Innovative Approaches to Ethics Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn Bowers, Gonzaga University; Ellen M. Maccarone, Gonzaga University; George D. Ricco, Gonzaga University

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Engineering Ethics

 semester of the program is organized as a traditional course in which students learn software engineering techniques that they apply to their projects, including requirements engineering, risk assessment, estimation and scheduling, project management, and design and development approaches for large­scale software projects. Students are expected to create project plans, give presentations, and develop working prototypes of their software by the end of the semester. Traditionally, the second semester has consisted of fewer software engineering topics, and a greater emphasis on using class time to allow students to work on their project through various in­class exercises. These exercises cover a range of topics designed to help students complete

Conference Session

Ethics Instruction in Context: Civil and Construction Engineering and Engineering Technology

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason K. Durfee, Eastern Washington University; Hani Serhal Saad, Eastern Washington University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

believe is engaged in fraudulent or dishonest enterprise, unless such enterprise or activity is deemed consistent with applicable state or federal law.11. Engineers having knowledge of any alleged violation of this Code, following a period of 30 days during which the violation is not corrected, shall report thereon to appropriate professional bodies and, when relevant, also to public authorities, and cooperate with the proper authorities in furnishing such information or assistance as may be required.12. Engineers shall undertake assignments only when qualified by education or experience in the specific technical fields involved.13. Engineers shall not affix their signatures to plans or documents dealing with subject matter in

Conference Session

Case and Scenario in Engineering Ethics Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Engineering Ethics

, the team members introduced other faculty members toEPSA, who then independently implemented the EPSA method in their courses.Implementation of the EPSA MethodThe faculty members responsible for the “Professional Issues” course at Norwich Universityhave been using the EPSA scenarios for the past four years. The detailed facilitation plan forimplementing the EPSA method in a course was presented in a previous ASEE paper.1The students in each class were divided into teams. Some members of the team were assignedthe role of discussant and others assigned the role of observer. The discussants were responsiblefor conducting the discussion. The observers were each assigned one or two dimensions of theEPSA rubric to use to assess the discussions. All

Conference Session

Innovative Approaches to Ethics Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed B. Trabia, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Julie A. Longo, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

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Engineering Ethics

assistance to the campus and community, and maintains the collec- tion in assigned subject areas. Her current research interests include information literacy instruction and assessment, the impact of student affect on learning, data literacy, and data management planning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Training Graduate Engineering Students in EthicsAbstractThe Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegasembarked on providing ethics instruction to incoming graduate students in the form of amandatory workshop. The College has a diverse graduate student population, including asizable international component, who are enrolled in several M.S. and

Conference Session

Ethics Instruction in Context: Civil and Construction Engineering and Engineering Technology

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George C. Wang, East Carolina University; John St James Stewart Buckeridge, RMIT University

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Engineering Ethics

a wide diversity of professionals and skilled workers, including engineers,architects, general contractors and multitudes of subcontractors, numerous manufacturers andsuppliers. For a construction project, it is normal to have several thousand, or tens of thousandsof activities which need to be carefully planned and coordinated and this involves managingquality, costs, schedules, safety, resources, and more importantly, personnel and reputations.Those who are in the construction industry may undertake projects for both private and publicinterests. The industry also interacts with multiple facets of government at the federal, state andlocal level. Engineers and contractors will be intimately involved in the designs, amendment oftechnical

Conference Session

Ethics Instruction in Context: Civil and Construction Engineering and Engineering Technology

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

based on on-line course learning system and cited references Resource as listed on Course Management System Consulted Cited ASCE What Went Wrong Why, 92 pg report21; pdf (listed first) 13 9 28 ASCE Lessons of Katrina 2015 Ethics Commentary ; link 6 2 Baillie Catalano Eng Society Social Justice – ethics; Ch4 Hurricane 8 1 Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans29; pdf Fields Disaster Planning Post Katrina – Wicked Problem,30 8 pg; pdf √ 11 5 22 House of

Conference Session

Ethics Instruction in Context: Civil and Construction Engineering and Engineering Technology

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hossein Ataei P.E., Syracuse University; Ossama M. Salem, University of Cincinnati

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Engineering Ethics

PROJECTCIE 475 – Civil & Environmental Engineering Senior Design Project, or capstone project, is afour-credit senior-level capstone core course. Senior students of both civil engineering andenvironmental engineering majors must take this course in order to graduate. This is a Project-Based-Learning (PBL) course where students work on planning, designing, cost estimating,scheduling and preparing a comprehensive report and final presentation for a real-world industryproject. This course is normally taken after the CIE 401. It encompasses almost all of the ABETlearning outcomes (a-k or 1-6) and, hence, engineering professionalism and ethics is covered inthe course in order to better prepare the graduating civil and environmental engineering class

Conference Session

Case and Scenario in Engineering Ethics Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

refer to the ship as the “Babel at sea”; 29 crew membersstruggled to understand each other and the captain. As Squires notes, lack of a common languagemay have contributed to the confusion regarding evacuation procedures.29Pollution IssuesA more serious ethical consideration is the substantial environmental pollution wrought by cruiseships. Although several US states (Alaska, Maine, Washington, and California) have restricteddischarges within their coastlines and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) forbidsdumping of plastics in oceans, there is currently no comprehensive international plan for dealingwith what is becoming an increasingly vexing problem. “Beyond three nautical miles, there arevery, very few rules,” notes a Seattle

Conference Session

Socio-Technical Issues in Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Catalano, Binghamton University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

write about it and finally to share with the rest of the class. As their instructor, I sharemy particular hero’s journey pointing to the many obstacles and rewards, enemies and friendsthat I encountered along the way.Several purposes are motivating this exercise. First, students have to pause, take a step back andreflect on their own particular journeys—where they came from, where they are and where theyare going. Secondly with the sharing of these stories in class, once again the need to listenquietly to others without judging or planning counter arguments is reinforced.Assessment of the ApproachDuring the last week of the semester, students were asked to reflect upon the experiences theyhad in the combined design and ethics course and

Conference Session

Case and Scenario in Engineering Ethics Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elisa L. Warford, University of Southern California

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Engineering Ethics

actually responsible, and what kind of institutional failure allowed sucha plan to be implemented. 2. Is simple to understand yet is complex enough to engage students in the problem solving process. 3. Allows for more than one right answer and viewpoint. 4. Can be discussed in one 75-minute class period. 5. Is not overly long or complex. 6. Allows “the instructor to prepare without feeling overloaded.”8I divide the students into groups, give them a few minutes to read the case, and have them followthe instructions written on the case study. They discuss the case in their small groups, and thenwe reconvene to discuss the case as a class.Ethical analysisThe central issue in the case study is whether vehicle code software should

Conference Session

Case and Scenario in Engineering Ethics Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University; John R Luchini

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Engineering Ethics

large and small groups of high school and college students, and aspart of professional development activities for engineers and scientists. The EnSURE studentswho completed this exercise at MSU in 2015 found the experience to be an engaging and helpfulway to explore some of the ethical considerations of data collection, and the instructor plans tocontinue offering the lesson in future EnSURE programs. This paper includes the handouts andcase studies used in this summer program, and interested educators are encouraged to adapt themfor their own use.One challenge of conducting this seminar with nearly a hundred students is that scale does notlend itself to in-depth conversations about the case studies included in the appendix. Students diddiscuss

Conference Session

Ethical Reasoning and Responsibility

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra S. Fuentes, Brigham Young University; Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Randall Davies, Brigham Young Unversity

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

justification, euphemistic labeling, advantageous comparison,displacement of responsibility, diffusion of responsibility, distortion of consequences, attributionof blame, and dehumanization.57 Students were asked to respond to these items (e.g., “It is alrightto protect your friends” as an example of an item measuring moral justification) using a five-point Likert scale ranging from “Strongly Disagree” to “Strongly Agree.”Experiences and Demographics: Seventeen experiences were listed, with respondents asked toacknowledge participation within the last five years, as well as their plans to participate in thefuture. These items were used in stratification of participants for interviews as well as items offurther probing during the interviews themselves

Conference Session

Socio-Technical Issues in Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Kenny Feister, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David H. Torres, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

implications. Indeed, in their talk the students seemed toprivilege either consideration to the exclusion of the other. Additionally, the nature of the interactions with the project affected students’ orientationtoward their design work, Sebastian (Class B) excluded his project from ethical considerationbecause in his words, this phase was just an initial test to see if the product worked. He describedhis take on his team’s product: This is basically just going to one teacher, and I don’t see much of a[n ethical concern] with it because we’re sending it to him and it’s going to be just a lesson plan for a few weeks, and if it’s effective, then great, and if not, it’s just an experiment then and we can just narrow it down

Conference Session

Ethics Instruction in Context: Civil and Construction Engineering and Engineering Technology

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Colin M. Gray, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Luciana Debs, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Marisa Exter, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Terri S. Krause, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics