Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Engineering Ethics

Engineering Education, 2018 Risk Management and Ethics in Senior DesignAbstractEngineers make ethical decisions all the time in solving design problems, which is theintellectual core of engineering. They need to make those decisions and the grounds for themexplicit. Careful examination of a course’s syllabus can reveal how the ethical considerationsalready there can be made explicit. The Ethics Across the Curriculum (EAC) program at theRochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was designed to bring together faculty from diversedisciplines across the university, who would then spend time examining their syllabi, and seeinghow ethical considerations could be made explicit or naturally introduced as an integral part ofthe course, not as

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

teaching Water Resources Engineering is licensed and has years ofpractice experience. We meet regularly to develop my syllabus and discuss specific content orgeneral best-practice design questions. Through these interactions, my mentor provides me withpractical context of water resources engineering. In developing an Appropriate Technology forDeveloping Countries course, I worked with an alumnus who has over 40 years of civil andenvironmental engineering consulting experience and many years as an Engineers WithoutBorders mentor to develop course content. Given that most faculty members do not have practiceexperience equivalent to 40 years, this model may be beneficial even when faculty members arethemselves licensed professional engineers. Not

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samson Pepe Goodrich, East Carolina University; Teresa Ryan, East Carolina University; Colleen Janeiro, East Carolina University; Patrick F. O'Malley, Benedictine College

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Engineering Ethics

information from. This section has student respond using another four-point Likert scale,which is labeled with “N/A”, “Learned a Little”, “Learned a Bit but Not a Lot”, and “Learned ALot”, for each of these six sources: introduction to engineering course, faculty (either in class orfrom syllabus), institution’s website, student handbook, other students, or other (with a prompt toelaborate). Once this section is completed, the survey closes.Method: Survey Instrument: Modified Part Two, Faculty SurveyWhen a respondent enters that they are a faculty member the instrument directs the respondent tothis single portion of the survey. It is the faculty version of Part Two, and the instrument presentsthe same 20 scenarios to be ranked. The one difference is