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Mark Manion; Moshe Kam

Session 2561 Engineering Ethics at Drexel University Mark Manion, Moshe Kam Drexel UniversityI. IntroductionCriterion 3 of the new ABET Engineering Criteria 20001 has the potential to change the way thatengineering ethics and science technology and society studies are taught in the engineeringundergraduate major. One concern voiced by critics has been the shift in the humanities andsocial studies component from the previous “course requirements model” to a progressive modelfocused on assessments and outcomes. While some have regarded this change as a threat to

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Richard Layton

Session 2793 Creating and Measuring an Awareness of Professional Ethics Richard A. Layton North Carolina A&T State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents an approach for creating in students an awareness of the ethical responsibili-ties of practicing engineers. Using a case study in professional ethics, students in a junior-levelmechanical engineering design course are given two consecutive writing assignments which arethe basis for four classroom discussion periods that focus on student responses to the case study.The student assignments are in addition to, and do not

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Marilyn Dyrud

Session 2561 Training Faculty for Ethics Across the Curriculum Marilyn A. Dyrud Oregon Institute of TechnologyIntroductionEthics has been an important topic for a number of years in many disciplines. With blatantlyunethical and highly publicized situations occurring in major companies, it behooves us morethan ever, as instructors, to make a conscious effort to integrate ethics into all of our courses,regardless of academic area or students’ level of achievement. Some instructors, however, mayfeel that they are not knowledgeable enough in the field of ethics to broach the

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Ernest W. Tollner

Session 2608 Introducing Ethics into the Natural Resources Engineering Curricula Ernest W. Tollner, Professor Driftmier Engineering Center University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 Ethics is the discipline concerned with the process for deciding what is "goodbehavior" and what is "bad behavior" in particular situations. In other words, what isone's moral obligation in particular instances? How do our values map into behavior inspecific situations? Ethics provide written or spoken standards. The goal is not todefine a "one size fits all

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Michael T. Hertz; Luna P. Magpilli; Michael E. Gorman

Session 3261 Combining Ethics and Design: Monsanto and Genetically-Modified Organisms Michael E. Gorman, Michael Hertz & Luna P. Magpili University of Virginia One most unfortunate product is the type of engineer who does not realize that in order to apply the fruits of science for the benefit of mankind, he must not only grasp the principles of science, but must also know the needs and aspirations, the possibilities and the frailties, of those whom he would serve. (Vannevar Bush, quoted in Zachary, 1997, p. 70

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Gene Moriarty

THREE KINDS OF ETHICS FOR THREE KINDS OF ENGINEERINGIntroductionAuthentic discussion of the nature and ethics of the engineering enterprisedemands contextual considerations. Yet, we engineers typically take contextas an add-on, often as a feature we are forced to address. The social contextof engineering, for example, can be reduced to strategies for compliancewith FCC or EPA regulations. Context is marginalized and seldom givenvoice by the contemporary engineering enterprise. But, context is world,and engineering is inherently and fundamentally an in-the-world enterprise.The impetus to drive the engineering enterprise comes from the world andthe products of the enterprise are let loose into the world

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Michael S. Pritchard; Edmund Tsang

Session 3630 SERVICE LEARNING: A POSITIVE APPROACH TO TEACHING ENGINEERING ETHICS AND SOCIAL IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY Michael S. Pritchard and Edmund Tsang Western Michigan University/University of South AlabamaINTRODUCTIONEngineering Criteria (EC) 2000, the new accreditation criteria of the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET), requires engineering programs todemonstrate, under Criterion 3 Program Outcomes, that their graduates have “anunderstanding of professional and ethical responsibility” and “the broad educationnecessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global

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W. Nicholas Delgass; Phillip C. Wankat; Frank S. Oreovicz

and learning to learn. The current status of incorporatingthe fourth criterion, ethical behavior, into the curriculum is probably adequate. The finaltwo criteria still need increased effort. Results of a survey of practicing engineers showsthat laboratory and design courses and practical work experience are the most importantsources for learning to satisfy the soft criteria.I. IntroductionFor many years our industrial colleagues have been telling us that several soft skills suchas communication and teamwork are vitally important for the success of engineers inindustry. Many engineering schools have incorporated these skills into their curricula tovarying degrees.With the advent of ABET 2000 the soft skills have assumed a greater

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David R. Haws

. When this reluctance is overcome, the mentoraccepts a new individual into her coterie, where the relationship becomes protected by an ethic ofcare [1]. From this point, the mentor’s decisions are focused on developing the individual andcaring for the mentor relationship. While active mentoring may only last for a few weeks to afew months, the result is a long-term social bond (I can think of three teachers who investedsufficient mentoring on me to develop such a bond).To establish a baseline for faculty involvement in the mentoring process, I took advantage of thefact that I have an entering, moderately under-prepared freshman son who wants to studyengineering. Because I know this student very well, I am particularly cognizant of his

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Douglas L. Jones; Bunny J. Tjaden

the lecture hall), and five classrooms for the labs. Our faculty and staff include fourprofessors and five teaching assistants from the engineering school. The faculty and TAsrepresent of the main SEAS disciplines. We consider the instruction of this course to be a teameffort that includes weekly meeting of professors and teaching assistants to discuss concerns andstrategies, plan labs, and coordinate teaching assignments.The hub lectures consist of topics that are of interest to all students and are usually presented bya guest lecturer who is an acknowledged expert in the field. The hub lectures this semesterincluded an introduction to engineering, design, engineering ethics, basic statistics anddeceptions, and a virtual reality lecture on

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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

. Teams/Teamwork 98 Communication 89 3. Design for Manufacture 98 Design for Manufacture 88 4. Design for Reviews 97 CAD Systems 86 5. Design for Cost 97 Professional Ethics 85 6. Design for Performance 97 Creative Thinking 85 7. Design for Reliability 95 Design for Performance 85 8. Manufacturing Processes 94 Design for Reliability 82 9. Systems Perspective 92 Design for Safety 80 10. Concurrent Engineering 91

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Marcia DeMendonca; Charles U. Okonkwo

implementedby most manufacturers is the environmental management standards (ISO 14000 standards).Design for the Environment (DFE) and affiliated tools offer an excellent approach to achievingthe environmental portion of the ISO 14000 standards. These standards are a series of voluntarymanagement or process standards developed by ISO, an international organization responsiblefor standardization. They are aimed at establishing organizational environmental ethics, andenhancing an organization’s ability to measure and attain standards of environmentalperformance. Presently, an organization chooses how much of the standards it would commit toand measure its performance against its commitment. They provide an EnvironmentalManagement System (EMS) that

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Richard Barke

which researchers are trained and socialized into their professions.To understand and anticipate the progress of sustainability it is necessary to examine theprocesses by which technologists are trained, particularly their education about the scope oftheir profession: whether, and how, the social, economic, cultural, and ethical aspects ofsustainability can be integrated into engineering.The Evolution of Engineering EducationHow amenable is engineering education to change? A series of self-examinations and calls forreform over the past century have been intended to distinguish engineering professionals fromtechnicians, to strengthen the scientific basis of engineering education, to make engineers morewell-rounded citizens, to improve their

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Phillip R. Rosenkrantz

would be a candidate for eliminationby the campus administration.Phase II - Program Objectives and Outcomes - The current IME Department MissionStatement was developed in 1994 during participation in campus-wide strategic planning. : Page 5.685.31. To serve the university, the community, and our alumni by offering ABET accredited degree programs and courses that prepare students for study at both the undergraduate and graduate level.2. To teach sound engineering principles, ethics and theory supported with significant classroom, laboratory and industrial experiences to a diverse student population. Our goal is to

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Sharon A. Jones; Indira Nair

solutions for environmental problems, and thetechnical nature of many of these issues require that a coherent environmental literacy courseinclude the social, economic, organizational, ethical and scientific dimensions. An activeproject-based approach to teaching such a course enables students to address the many issues inenvironmental decision making. Over the last decade we have developed such a course based ona systems approach that integrates disciplines while relying on pedagogy that involves active,participatory learning. This participatory learning is achieved in large part through the use ofdecision-making exercises. We assembled this curriculum so that teachers can adapt it for theircourses. In other words, we developed a text for teachers

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Thomas Litzinger

technical and professional skills ofengineering students through the outcomes common to all engineering programs; six of eleven ofthese relate to professional skills such as communication skills, team skills, and an understandingof the societal and ethical aspects of engineering.One very difficult question facing engineering programs today is how to meet these highexpectations without increasing credit hours or overburdening students with unrealisticworkloads. Individual faculty as well must come to grips with their personal approaches tomeeting these expectations. What is described in this paper is one approach to achieving thesimultaneous development of the professional and technical skills by allowing students topractice these skills in an

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Terry Dwan; Kiriakos Kiriakidis; Jennifer Waters; George Piper

provide the student with a basic understanding of marinepollution – its principal causes, effects and means of remediation. Students also gainfamiliarity with environmental laws, ethics and economics as they pertain to the marineenvironment. Topical coverage includes chemical and biological considerations in waterquality; wastewater treatment and discharge; diffusion and dispersion in estuaries and oceanicenvironments; maintenance dredging and material disposal; engineering methods used toanalyze and mitigate the effects of marine pollution; and environmental ethics, economics andregulatory statutes.The course begins with an introduction to traditional environmental physics and chemistry,since most water pollution issues require an understanding

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Sanjiv B. Gokhale; Michael O'Dea

engineering-technology programs be able to demonstrate that theirgraduates have, among other capabilities, an ability to function on multi-disciplinary terms, anunderstanding of professional and ethical responsibility, an ability to communicate effectively,the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in aglobal/societal context, and a knowledge of contemporary issues.It is in meeting these challenges that service-learning distinguishes itself from other forms ofexperimental learning in engineering. Service-learning offers engineering-technology studentsan opportunity to practice engineering design and apply technology by engaging students in“activities that address human and community needs” and in so doing, afford

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Diana G. Somerton; Craig W. Somerton

design andrealization of such systems. In addition, the program must demonstrate the ability of graduates toapply multivariate calculus, statistics, differential equations, and linear algebra to the solution ofmechanical engineering problems. Graduates must be prepared for entry into the engineeringprofession through a major design experience based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earliercoursework. This experience should incorporate engineering standards and realistic constraints thatinclude most of the following considerations: economic, sustainability, manufacturability, healthand safety, social, ethical, and environmental.In summary the program must integrate knowledge and skills acquired in a diverse set of courses toachieve the

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Mary C. Verstraete; Daniel B. Sheffer; Bruce C. Taylor

Dynamics 33250:244 Intro Economic Analysis 3 4300:202 Intro to Mechanics of Solids 3 Elective : See Bulletin 4600:300 Thermodynamics 4 Humanities : 10 Cr 4600:321 Kinematics of Machines 33400:210 Humanities Western Tradition 4 4200:305 Materials Science 23600:120 Introduction to Ethics 3 4600:360 Engineering Analysis 3 Elective : See Bulletin 4600:315 Heat Transfer Process 3 Area Studies : 2 Cr 4400:320 Basic Electrical Engineering 4

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Marjorie T. Davis

partners in helping to assess all of the “softer skills” in EC 2000, such as these: (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams—teaching group/team communication strategies in classes; assessing the group processes involved in a team engineering project such as a senior design; or using personality inventories to learn to handle style conflicts (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility—including perhaps some of the excellent case studies now available on the web on engineering ethics, the codes of the different professional societies (such as NSPE, IEEE, and others) (g) an ability to communicate effectively—defining “effectively

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Willard D. Bostwick

TECHNICAL PROBLEMS G COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY DEMONSTRATE AN ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY DEMONSTRATE AN ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE THE NEED FOR RECOGNIZE THE NEED FOR AND POSSESS THE ABILITY TO H LIFELONG LEARNING AND PURSUE LIFELONG LEARNING DEMONSTRATE AN ABILITY TO PURSUE LIFELONG LEARNING UNDERSTAND PROFESSIONAL, ETHICAL AND SOCIAL DEMONSTRATE AN ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND PROFESSIONAL, I RESPONSIBILITIES ETHICAL AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

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Rosalyn S. Hobson

Laws Counter and Memory Circuit Week 12 D.C. Motors Motor Driver Circuit Week 13 Mechanical Power and Torque; Gears and Robot Mechanical Assembly Power Train Week 14 Guest Lecturer (Industrial Engineer) Robot Subsystems Check Week 15 Complex Systems and Engineering Issues; Final Robot Performance Test Ethics in EngineeringTable 3: Course SyllabusIV. Service-Learning in Introduction to EngineeringThis first challenge to incorporating service-learning into the course was justifying why thisshould be done. All too often, engineering is misrepresented as a boring field where one issurrounded by the “Dilberts” of the world and

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Nora Valeiras; Luis A. Godoy

difficulties in their activities andproduction. Thus, the workshop also introduces the participants to problems related to thehistory of science, philosophy and methodology of research, ethical dilemmas that arisein research, and aspects of sociology of the publication process. During the workshop theparticipants also work on a manuscript reporting a research already carried out by them.The initiative has been running for three years, and an initial assessment shows a clearincrease in the motivation of the participants towards research activities and an increasein the publication of papers.1. IntroductionThe Engineering School of the University of Puerto at Mayagüez (UPR-M) has beenconcerned for some time about increasing the publication of research

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Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill

Multi-D Teams 3.50 Solve Problems 3.00 Ethics Comm Orally 2.50 Comm in Writing 2.00 Stay Current Skills - Practice 1.50 1.00 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50

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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

engineering competencies to be met. These are:1 an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering;2 an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data;3 an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs;4 an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams;5 an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems;6 an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility;7 an ability to communicate effectively;8 the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global/societal context;9 a recognition of the need for and an ability to engage in life-long learning;10 a knowledge of contemporary issues; and,11 an

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William C. Oakes; Leah H Jamieson; Edward Coyle

as theoretical issues must be addressed throughout the design and development process.• Sponsor awareness: Projects are being drawn from local community service agencies. Sponsor satisfaction is an important criterion for judging project success. Hence, the projects increase the students’ awareness of the importance of the customer in producing a high quality product. Page 5.281.7• Expanded awareness: By dealing with people outside of the academic community, the students will be more aware of the world outside of Purdue that they are preparing to enter.• Professional ethics: Professional conduct, both in relation to the

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Nisreen Ghaddar; Nassir Sabah; Jamal Abed; Fouad T. Mrad

to think independently, critically and creatively;6. to cultivate the skills pertinent to the engineering design process, including the investigation of open-ended problems, consideration of realistic constraints and alternative solutions, implementation, and evaluation;7. to foster interactive skills for effective communication and teamwork; and8. to instill in students an appreciation of leadership qualities, professionalism, and ethics.” Page 5.83.4D. Prototypical FEA Program OutcomesThe educational programs’ outcomes have been adopted from ABET EC-2000 ((a) through (k))[1], and an outcome (l) has been added by the Committee as a

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William R. Hendee; Steven R Krogull; Jay R. Goldberg

availability, national and international standards and regulations, regulatory compliance, needs assessment, contract negotiations, and dispute resolution.• Ethics of Technology Utilization Ethics applied to the utilization and management of healthcare technologies in a patient care setting. Topics include beneficence, nonmaleficence, quality-cost, resource allocation and personal-public conflicts, technology diffusion models and controls, clinical research and research integrity, and patient rights and confidentiality.• Product Development of Medical Devices Activities required for the design, development, and commercialization of new medical devices. Design, testing, regulatory, and legal requirements will be presented along

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Richard D. Wilk; George H. Williams

, Lance Spallholz, Cherrice Traver, Frank Wicks, Andrew Wolfe.Appendix A: Catalog DescriptionIntroduction to Engineering and Computer Science (Fall). A carefully-designed course that informs students aboutthe various engineering and computer science programs at Union, including their historical and social context, andprovides experience in technical oral, written, and graphical communication; an understanding of group dynamicsand team work; time management, self-esteem, goal setting skills; an understanding of professional ethics usingcase study models; and development of a sensitivity to sexual harassment and cultural diversity in the profession.The course also provides a brief overview of the "engineering science" topics necessary for a