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Roman Taraban; William M. Marcy; Mark S. LaCour; Dashiell Pashley; Klara Keim

Do Engineering Students Learn Ethics From an Ethics Course? Roman Taraban, William M. Marcy, Mark S. LaCour, Dashiell Pashley, & Klara Keim Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409 U.S.A. E-mail: roman.taraban@ttu.edu Abstract essay forms of interaction. In ethics courses, students may The goal of the present research is to develop machine- be required to participate in online discussions, post toassisted methods that can assist in the analysis of students’ blogs, and submit research papers. Students are asked towritten

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Roman Taraban; William M. Marcy

Using Technology to Develop Ethical Choice in Engineering Students Roman Taraban, Ph.D. & William M. Marcy, Ph.D., P.E. Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409 U.S.A. E-mail: roman.taraban@ttu.edu Abstract students, to exploit current technology in creative This paper describes the interactive technology that we ways, and to raise the visibility of supportinghave added to an undergraduate course titled “Engineering institutions in promoting the development of ethicalEthics

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Jitendra Tate; Craig Hanks; Harold Stern; Walt Trybula

Identifying Challenges to Infusing Ethics into the Development of Engineers at Texas State University Dr. Jitendra Tate (Ingram School of Engineering), Dr. Craig Hanks (Department of Philosophy), Dr. Harold Stern (Ingram School of Engineering), and Dr. Walt Trybula (Ingram School of Engineering, Trybula Foundation). Texas State University 601 University Dr, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA E-mail: craig.hanks@txstate.edu Abstract organizations. We bring four distinct professional Over the past six years we have worked to perspectives –a manufacturing

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Sarah Seraj; June Young Park; Michael Pieratt

Teaching Engineering Ethics in the Classroom through a Town Hall Meeting Activity Sarah Seraj1*, June Young Park1, Michael Pieratt2 1 Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 301 E Dean Keeton St, Stop C1700, Austin, TX 78712 2 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., 14200 Kirkham Way, Poway, CA 92064 *E-mail: sarahseraj@utexas.eduAbstract nature of their projects, even a small mistake or misstep in Engineers often contribute to projects that impact many their work can endanger the health

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Aaron T. Hill; Michael C. Campbell

effectively. Observing these benefits, the authorwill continue to implement Design Review in the coursegoing forward with the changes made this semester:eliminating the memorandum requirement and increasingindividual accountability with individual homeworksubmissions. References[1] Hill, Aaron. T., Student Mastery of Structural Analysiswith Design Review, Proceedings of the StructuresCongress. Dallas, TX (2018)[2] NSPE Code of Ethics,https://www.nspe.org/resources/ethics/code-ethics,Accessed 12 January 2018[3] Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,www.abet.org, Accessed 12 January 2018[4] Hamilton, Scott R., Peer Review: Modeling CivilEngineering Practice, Another Way ToImprove Learning, Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE

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Charlotte Stockton; Talal D. Gamadi; H. Emadi

, such as participate in the intellectual and organizationalhow graduate program objectives are assessed, what aspects of the profession as applicable to the majorassessment tools are used, when data are gathered and area of study, including the ethical conduct ofevaluated, and when actions of improvement are made. research.This paper will also detail how the analysis of data wasutilized in making actions of continuous improvement. At 3. Assessment Methodthe end of the paper examples of the significant actions of 3.1 Student`s Performance Indicatorsimprovement made based on the department assessment The following assessment methods are used to gather dataand

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Talal D. Gamadi; Bethany Disque; Marshal Watson; Lloyd Heinze

 Doctor of Philosophy in Petroleum Engineering c. an ability to design a system, component, orThe Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering has no process to meet desired needs within realisticoptions for a minor. constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety,1.1 Facility manufacturability, and sustainability d. an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams In March 2014, the department moved into the new $23.8

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Margo Cousins; Brandi DeMont; Laura Suggs; Mia K. Markey

topics important to participants’seminars with fellow summer scholars led by the program professional development as scientists, and specificallydirectors; shared on-campus housing; and social events. cancer research. Topics of these seminars include: applying Affiliated Scholars were supported by a variety of other to graduate school; social impacts of research; researchfunding mechanisms with a variety of research areas. By ethics; the history and understanding of cancer; andgrouping these scholars into the CUReS structure with a practical skills for presenting research. BME CUReSshared scientific theme of engineering approaches to cancer designs these activities for rising sophomores. This

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Hyun Seop Lee; Y. D. Kim; Edwin Thomas

pin joints, theengineers. While there has been an ebb and flow in the students used Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks which canperceived importance of laboratory study versus more implement structural analysis by FEM. The pin jointtheoretical classroom work, it has never been suggested that modeling is depicted in Fig. 4. For the computational trusslaboratories can be foregone completely. Certainly the main model with gusset plates, the students used Autodeskpurpose of engineering is still to modify nature ethically and Inventor Professional which is able to apply FEM to theeconomically for the benefit of humankind, but engineers do given structures as well. The gusset plate modeling ofthis increasingly from a

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Raj Desai

ethical, socially conscious, environmentally sound, andentry into recycling, and increasing environmental concerns globally aware [8]. Education must make project basedregarding resource use and waste disposal. learning the predominant technical student learning mode [9]. This paper explores the idea of pallet recycling as a1. Introduction tool for teaching innovation in an inexpensive, sustainable, and impactful approach. We asked students in our solid modeling course tothink of innovative ways to recycle pallets

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Oziel Rios; Dani Fadda P.E.

to design is shown in Fig. 1. This type of mechanism canactivities related to team work, graphical communication, be applied to milling machines, loading trays of Blu-raydesign methodology, project management, numerical players, and other applications. The conceptual designanalysis software, and ethics. The second course is a 2 activity consisted of selecting four spur gears and a rack ascredit-hour course typically taken in the Spring semester shown in Fig. 1 to achieve an output linear speed

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Matthew Alexander

, licensure, in the States of Texas and Alabama. Thealthough sometimes it does not. A much lower incidence relatively low rate of licensure among chemical engineers,of life-long learning occurred in the summer 2017 Design as compared to civil engineers, is also discussed. ToIII course offering, likely due to this course being counter this issue, the benefits of licensure, in particularconducted in a compressed environment of a single summer higher professional status and better employability, are(4½ week) term. emphasized. The responsibilities associated with licensure, Examples of senior design project technical problems including ethics and continuing

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John R. Clegg; Kenneth R. Diller

hope that the student-centered, biomedical engineering 35, 1312-1323 (2007).content-specific nature of methods in this case study can serve 10 Rayne, K. et al. The development of adaptive expertise inas a basis for unique and instructive assessment of active biomedical engineering ethics. Journal of Engineering Education 95, 165-173 (2006).learning environments in engineering. 11 Kuhn, D., Black, J., Keselman, A. & Kaplan, D. The development of cognitive skills to support inquiry learning