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

section of institution types to enablesimilar observations.The pivotal Bowers study that spanned 99 institutions found that half of the students admitted tocommitting some sort of academic integrity violation while attending college, but only a smallpercent of cheaters was caught and punished. Bowers argued that most students morallydisapproved of cheating and believed their peers to disapprove as well, but they continued tocheat due to academic survival outweighing moral decision-making [6]. Thirty years afterBowers’ article, in 1994, McCabe and Bowers compared the results of McCabe’s research in1991 to the results of Bowers’ study in 1964 [7]. A portion of the survey instrument used in thecurrent work asks students to self-report the number of

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia; Araba Dennis, University of Virginia; Kathleen Eggleson, Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend; Anderson Sunda-Meya, Xavier University of Louisiana; Kathryn Haas, Saint Mary's College, Indiana

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Diversity

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variants of learning modules thatfacilitate STEM ethics learning for the diverse students in the classroom. This research drawsupon 264 surveys and student-writing samples from students across four institutions, specificallyNotre Dame, St. Mary’s College, Xavier University-Louisiana, and University of Virginia. Theaim of this initial research is to explore the heterogeneity of students in STEM classrooms, whiledemonstrating that STEM students can be described more holistically when personality and othernon-demographic characteristics are recognized as important attributes in a learner-centeredenvironment. This paper supports the notion that, prior to the start of instruction, the mosteffective instructors will critically review and consider a

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Hedayati Mehdiabadi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Preparing computing professionals who not only possess knowledge and skills but alsocan make ethical decisions is important. The aim of this research is to investigate how computingmajors reason when it comes to ethical decision-making in a collaborative setting. The data inthis grounded theory research consists of postings of 33 undergraduate computing majors (26males and 7 females) in online discussion forums in response to three ethical scenarios and thecomments they provided on their peers’ responses, along with the follow up interviews. Findingssuggest that students’ decisions are highly influenced by the specifics of situation, the nature ofthe moral issue, and whether they can connect the situation to a real-world story. Moreover,when

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Engineering Ethics

the research team each rated 19 to 35 teaching examples. This resulted in aminimum of eight ratings for each teaching example. These ratings often had wide disparities.For example, ten cases had ratings for novelty across the full spectrum from 1 to 4,demonstrating a lack of consensus. The write-in comments provided insights into differences inwhat raters perceived as novel, transferable, or likely to impact students’ learning. Given thedisparities in opinions, it would be useful to develop and implement a standard assessmentmethod for ethics teaching modalities to better delineate what constitutes an exemplar.IntroductionThere have been a number of calls to improve the education of engineering students on ethicsand societal impact issues

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Nicole M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Carrie J. McClelland P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Linda A. Battalora, Colorado School of Mines; Emily A. Sarver, Virginia Tech; Rennie B. Kaunda , Colorado School of Mines

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principles and practices for mineral and energy resource projects at the graduate and undergraduate levels.Rennie B. Kaunda , Colorado School of Mines Dr. Rennie Kaunda is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mining Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, and a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Kaunda spend 7 years in the mining industry where he worked on more than 50 global projects through- out Africa, Asia, South America and North America. Dr. Kaunda’s areas of expertise are surface and underground rock mechanics, geotechnical engineering, numerical modeling and artificial neural network modeling. He has published/coauthored more than 13 peer-reviewed

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Beever, University of Central Florida

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collaborating philosophers to the table to do it. But rather thanphilosophers as collaborators, philosophers’ place of necessity is in its historically traditionalrole of trespassers or gadflies to the practical and professional processes of others.Of course, we might intuit that only the most stringent purists would hold onto one or another ofthese hypothetical polar positions. It is more likely that most engineers and most philosophersconsider their roles within engineering ethics as collaborative, integrative, and constructive:space for working together on complex epistemic and ethical problems. For example, a 2007blog post on business strategy argues for the importance of collaborative expertise betweenphilosophers and engineers. The authors write

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosalyn W. Berne, University of Virginia

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explores the intersecting realms of emerging technologies, science, fiction and myth, and the links between the human and non-human worlds. Her academic research and writing span considerations of ethics in biotechnology, nanotechnol- ogy, and reproductive technology, with two academic books, numerous conference papers and journal articles published under her name. She has also written in the genre of science fiction, and published award-winning books in the body-mind-spirit genre about her encounters with horses. She has taught courses in Nanotechnology Ethics and Policy; Gender Issues and Ethics in the New Reproductive Tech- nologies; Religion and Technology; STS & Engineering Practice; The Engineer, Ethics, and

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brendon Lumgair P.Eng., University of Calgary

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Engineering Ethics

entered into the LMSgrade book without any human labour. The time allocated to write each quiz was 1.2 minutes perquestion, which was the same as the NPPE. Quizzes were open-book, open-notes but were to becompleted individually. It was impossible to supervise that the tests were indeed completedindividually, and some students were commented about cheating in their surveys. The timewindow to write a quiz was 48 hours. Students could start their quiz at any time in that window.After the testing time window had expired, the instructor allowed students to review whichquestions they got wrong on the test.For the online quizzes the average grades were similar from 2014 to 2015 (Table 5). Howeverthe standard deviation was much less in 2015