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Faculty Views of Ethics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Teresa Ryan, East Carolina University; Colleen Janeiro, East Carolina University; William E. Howard, East Carolina University; Patrick F. O'Malley, Benedictine College

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work reports on the second year of this ongoingstudy of the differences in perception of academic integrity issues among students and faculty.The study grew out of an effort to formalize and increase the rigor of instruction regardingplagiarism in technical writing. The scope expanded to include an instrument administered toboth students and faculty in (REDACTED) that aimed to characterize the degree to whichdifferent cheating behaviors are considered bad or ethically unacceptable. For example, is thesharing of a homework with a peer who was ill before the due date more or less “wrong” thanasking an earlier section of a course what is on an exam before walking in to take the exam? Inaddition, students who are in their first or second semester

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Integrity and the Problem of Cheating

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Teresa Ryan, East Carolina University; Bernd Steffensen, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt; Colleen Janeiro, East Carolina University

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as in AppendixTable A1. The original research at the East Carolina University in the US included 20 scenarios.For the German study, the last scenario (the use of online solution manuals or solution servicessuch as chegg.com) was dropped as analogous resources are not known to exist in Germanlanguage sources. It should also be noted that the translation was conducted without additionaloversight or verification of validity. Two of the instrument items are not dishonest actions andwere included as a kind of negative control on the pooled responses: Scenario 3:Writing-quotedwith citation and Scenario 14:YouTube to study. The remainder are designed to present gradationsof similar situations. This list includes shortened descriptor phrases to

Conference Session

Engaging Ethics, Internationally

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Prakash G Bapat, Business Ethics Foundation; Aravind Joshi, Business Ethics Foundation; Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Guruji Education Foundation; Nupur Kulkarni

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founder head of the innovation Center. Dr Waychal earned his Ph D in the area of developing Innovation Competencies in Information System Organizations from IIT Bombay and M Tech in Control Engineering from IIT Delhi. He has presented keynote / invited talks in many high prole international conferences and has published papers in peer- reviewed journals. He / his teams have won awards in Engineering Education, Innovation, Six Sigma, and Knowledge Management at international events. His current research interests are engineering education, software engineering, and developing innovative entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. He has been chosen as one of the five outstanding engineering educators by IUCEE (Indo-universal

Conference Session

Faculty Views of Ethics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan E. Canney, Seattle University; Madeline Polmear; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Christopher Swan, Tufts University; Elizabeth Simon, Seattle University

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associations were used as thebasis for sending survey solicitations, including: members of the American Society forEngineering Education (ASEE) ethics, community engagement, liberal education/engineering &society, and educational research & methods divisions; authors of papers from peer-reviewedjournals and the ASEE conference with ‘ethics’ as a keyword, principle investigators of NSFfunded grants related to ethics; faculty advisors for student professional, honors and servicesocieties (e.g., Society for Women Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, TauBeta Pi, Engineers Without Borders); and faculty mentors of NSF funded Research Experiencefor Undergraduate sites.In total there were 1448 responses combined from both the curricular

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Engineering Social and Human Ethical Impacts

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark L. Bourgeois, University of Notre Dame

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the crucial connection between public policy, medical research and health issues– connections which the student himself was not aware of before starting SRR. After discussing ethics in Boot Camp, a student in anthropology and peace studiesbecame taken with the profound ethical issues implicit in research conducted in the conflictzones of the world. As her SRR project she undertook to develop a novel framework forrecognizing and addressing these issues. This framework then became the basis of a peer-reviewed published paper. 10 A third project took the results of the student’s engineering research and, using asmartphone app, made them available in a clear and accessible form to practitioners. This toolallowed the construction of

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Awareness, Expectations, and Recognition of Ethics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Michael F. Young, University of Connecticut

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areas of interest are chemical vapor deposition and engineering pedagogy.Prof. Michael F. Young, University of Connecticut Dr. Young (http://myoung.education.uconn.edu/) received his PhD from Vanderbilt University in Cogni- tive Psychology and directs UConn’s 2 Summers in Learning Technology program. He is the author of nine chapters on an ecological psychology approach to instructional design and has authored more than two dozen peer reviewed research papers. His work has appeared in many major journals including the Journal of Educational Computing Research, the Journal of the Learning Sciences, the Journal of Research on Science Teaching, Instructional Science, and Educational Technology Research and Development

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Engaging Ethics in Teams and Communities

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaofeng Tang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Eduardo Mendieta, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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face-to-face presentation, the participants uploadedtheir teaching plans to a shared online folder. In a day-long session, each participantintroduced their teaching plan and received feedback from their peers and the workshopleaders. At the end of the following academic year, the faculty participants will gatheragain to share their experiences implementing their ethics teaching plans.  Figure 2 Post-workshop Survey Results4. Discussion and ConclusionThis paper reports our effort to create a community of ethics educators for graduatestudents in engineering. Following a user-oriented approach, we grounded oureducational design firmly on engineering faculty’s perceived challenges

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Technology and Design in Engaging and Analyzing Ethics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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creator and creation does not provide an explanation for the view thattechnology itself is neutral, that morality is only apparent with use: a pen, for example, can beused for good (writing) or evil (a weapon). According to this argument, the artifact itself has noinherent value, and morality only emerges with use.In the 1960s, University of Toronto professor and media theorist Marshall McLuhan wrote agreat deal about the interaction of media and humans. For McLuhan, a “medium” is anything thattransmits information; a light bulb, for example, is a medium that transmits information in theform of light. “Media” and “technology” are synonymous.2McLuhan provides a convincing theoretical counter to the separation argument: all media, hedeclares, are

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Engineering Social and Human Ethical Impacts

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Debra S. Fuentes, Brigham Young University; Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University

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. Consequences/impacts on others c. Sacrifice of self for others 3. Specific norms and traits a. Norms b. TraitsAs additional framing for the write-up that follows, it is worth starting with a more generalobservation about the ability of students to distinguish ethics from morality. On the one hand, itis notable that at least one interviewee was able to provide a fairly nuanced comparison of thetwo concepts, describing morality as “more of a personal thing” and ethics as “more of a codifiedstandard.” On the other hand, only a few students even attempted this delineation, and those whodid typically fell short of a satisfactory response. The results that follow should