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Engineering Ethics Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth A. Debartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Wade Lee Robison

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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #22376Risk Management and Ethics in Capstone DesignDr. Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, PhD is the Director of the Multidisciplinary Senior Design Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where students from Biomedical, Computer, Electrical, Industrial, and Mechanical Engineering work together on multidisciplinary teams to complete a 2-semester design and build project. She received her graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and has worked at RIT since 2000.Prof. Wade Lee Robison c American Society for

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaofeng Tang, Ohio State University; Jeffrey M. Catchmark, Pennsylvania State University; Eduardo Mendieta; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University

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capstone project. 15 Apply systematic method to analyze ethical issues and to arrive at a recommended approach to address the issues. 16 Demonstrate ethical responsibility that goes beyond compliance to professional codes and regulations. 17 Act ethically as an engineering professional. 18 Provide ethical leadership within a team. 19 Provide ethical leadership within an organization. Ten BE faculty members (including a member of our project team) participated inthe second workshop. Another eight BE faculty members, who could not attend in person,returned the questionnaire by email. One

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney

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Diversity

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, in other cases clear differences were evident. For example, somebelieve that ethics education must be grounded in ethical theory, while others believe this to beunnecessary. In addition, ESI issues that arise “naturally” in the context of engineering projects(either in community service programs, projects for clients, or capstone design) were perceivedas being particularly impactful by some, but perhaps falling short by others.What was missing from all of the two-page summaries of the ESI teaching settings was evidenceof student learning. This is a key element in the next phase of the research. A sub-set of courseshave been selected for further study based on the exemplary rating process. For this sub-set oflearning environments, the

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 5

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Grant A. Fore, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Justin L. Hess, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Brandon Sorge, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Mary F. Price, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Martin A. Coleman, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Thomas William Hahn, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Julie Adele Hatcher

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) project costs incurred by the partneringorganizations. The Earth Sciences and Biomedical Engineering departments opted to partner inthis project, and each has identified at least five faculty who will participate in the FLC program.Faculty participants will implement refined courses wherein they utilize the I-CELER framework(potential courses range from introductory to capstone level). Multiple faculty adapting theircourses are necessary for the cultural transformative effects this project seeks, because onecourse alone is not enough to produce, let alone sustain, change in ethical development [34]. Byinfusing I-CELER into multiple courses, this project aims to transform departmental curriculaakin to what has been termed “threaded service

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 5

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexandra Erwin; Jason Borenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology; Wendy C. Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Colin Potts, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ellen Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology

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teaching and learning strategy thatintegrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich thelearning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities” [5]. Weare interested in SL for two main reasons. The first being that there are efforts toinvestigate whether SL and volunteering has a positive impact on students inmeasures of social responsibility [2],[6]. Yet a caveat is that understanding whichspecific factors contribute to changes in social responsibility attitudes is lacking.Second, engineering and computing programs typically include a capstone project ordesign-based course as a degree requirement. Our project may shed light on SLcomponents that could be integrated into the design of such

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 5

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahsa Ghorbani, Colorado State University; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University; Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University; Edwin K. P. Chong Ph.D., Colorado State University; Pinar Omur-Ozbek, Colorado State University; Rebecca A. Atadero, Colorado State University

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an Electrical and Computer Engineering Undergraduate ProgramIntroductionInstruction in ethical considerations is an important part of every engineering discipline. Inmany programs, a student’s exposure to ethical issues is delayed until the capstone senior designexperience. For example, in the past we have included lectures devoted to ethics in our Electricaland Computer Engineering senior design program that start with an introduction to the NationalSociety of Professional Engineers (NSPE) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE) codes of ethics, and then is followed by a discussion of various ethical case studies.While this is common in many programs, surveys of our students have revealed that they do notvalue

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rosalyn W. Berne, University of Virginia

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’ understanding of the ethics of assisted reproduction, within a social-technicalcontext of multiple human and non-human actors. ANT has also been a very helpful toolfor teaching UVA’s STS 4600: “Engineering Ethics.” Through that course students aresupported in writing their Undergraduate Thesis, from a design project based largely onthe capstone project within their majors. The STS 4600 engineering ethics course guidesstudents to identify a research question related to their capstone project, to incorporatesocial and ethical considerations. For example, as one student wrote, in synthesizing hercapstone project and STS 4600 research [9]: Many of the technologies schools are incorporating in the classroom are merely being used for

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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only did the students benefit from ourcollaboration, I learned much from the experience.Lastly, my involvement with our senior capstone design course is as part of a faculty team. I havethe ability to unpack and discuss design decisions with my more experienced, licensed colleagues.This co-teaching experience provides not only a rich learning experience for the students; I againlearn much from the process. Little do the students know how much homework I do. Senior designpushes me beyond what I know every year. Even a colleague with consulting experience reflectedthat this is the case for him as well. With a mentor (academic and/or practitioner) to vet approachesand assumptions, I think each capstone project is the ultimate learning experience

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.

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be.” As a result, the department for which he is the chair changedtheir approach to ethics education by integrating it into capstone design in the context of thestudent projects instead of teaching it through isolated modules. Another educatorexperienced similar pushback and stated, “once in a while, a student will raise kind of anobjection on principle that this is not engineering, ‘I’m in engineering, this is notengineering stuff that we’re doing’”. This perception is not unique to students, anotherinterviewee explained as the only educator in the department integrating ESI intoengineering classes, “it ends up being stigmatized… the person that ends up doing it, at leastin my case, ends up getting labeled not a real engineer.” To shift the

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 4

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon University; William M. Bulleit, Michigan Technological University

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to the economy,made the utilitarian principle an obvious choice as one of the principles on which to“base” engineering ethics. Yet recognizing the potential of technology to cause harm, theyalso chose the Kantian principle of people as “ends rather than means”. While textbooksmentioned other principles such as Rawls’ theory of Justice, these two – utilitarianism andKant’s Imperative- translated as a version of the Golden Rule – remained the main basis.This was the case for example of the widely used textbook on engineering ethics [3]. Theother pioneering textbook, by Martin and Schinzinger [4], framed engineering as “socialexperimentation”, and chose three principles: Awareness (of the consequences of theengineering project); Autonomy (the