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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics Across Contexts

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sharon Tsai-hsuan Ku, University of Virginia; Xiafei Yang, University of Virginia; Sitong Wang, Chongqing University

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from multi-cultures, in particular Chinese who have played a dominant role in several advanced technologies. Itis not hard to imagine that biased understanding could pollute collaboration and prevent constructivedialogues and consensus to be achieved, a critical step for global trade and technology governance. This paper urges the importance of re-examining and redesign the global engineering ethicseducation in the context of the US-China trade war. We are interested in how do the profession,identity, practices, and ethics of engineering differ or coincide in US and China? Are these 1  differences or similarities intrinsic or evolving

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics in the First Year

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard T Cimino, Rowan University; Scott Duplicate Streiner, Rowan University

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identifying the kinds of informal reasoning they used.​ ​ Asnoted in [15], all three of these approaches may coexist in any individual’s reasoning process,and thus the specific questions below are asked in the Think Aloud protocol to aid inidentification of each approach to informal reasoning: 1. Explain the decision you arrived at for the provided scenario. How would you convince a friend of your position? 2. Can you think of an argument that could be made against your decision? How would someone support that argument? 3. If someone confronted you with that argument, how would you respond? How would you defend your position? 4. Did you immediately feel that your decision was right? Did you know your decision before

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics Decision-Making

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dayoung Kim, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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of intuition whenthey made ethical decisions. We anticipate the findings of this study will help engineeringeducators and researchers design better engineering ethics courses by considering the emotionsand intuitions of engineering students, which have previously been ignored but may influenceethical decision-making.IntroductionEngineering ethics education has typically focused on teaching ethical reasoning skills toengineering students by providing them with knowledge (e.g., codes of ethics, moral theories)and opportunities to practice reasoning (e.g., case study). Engineering codes of ethics, since theirexplicit formulation from the initial third of twentieth-century [1], have provided a guidance ofbehavior for engineers. For instance, in

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics Decision-Making

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Beever, University of Central Florida; Laurie A. Pinkert, University of Central Florida

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, graduate students, andundergraduate students provides a baseline for the moral foundations of engineers across andwithin a range of engineering subdisciplines. Our objective is to analyze whether and to whatdegree “moral foundations” are shared within these subdisciplinary cultures. We hypothesize thatthe variance in moral foundations among engineering stakeholders will be significant and thatthe moral foundations of members within a specific subdiscipline will be more closely sharedthan with those outside the subdiscipline. The Moral Foundations Questionnaire providesrespondents with a scaled response to their reliance on and endorsement of a refined set of fivemoral foundations: 1) harm/care, 2) fairness/reciprocity, 3) ingroup/loyalty, 4

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Assessment

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashraf Ghaly P.E., Union College

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ethics, technology and societywhere an entanglement of complex moral issues required a fresh insight into how toaddress the concerns of competing parties in a way that is mutually satisfactory to all.Students were given scenarios in which they were assigned different roles and were toldthat tough decisions had to be made. Those that did not have the spirit of accommodationwere uncomfortable but, faced with the prospect of getting entrapped in an even biggermoral dilemma, they ended up seeking a reasonable outcome. Students rated the coursevery highly and commended its attempt to find realistic and coherent ways towardresolving moral problems.Tags: Moral dilemma, dispute resolution, creative middle way, rational thinking.1. IntroductionFaced with

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics in the Engineering Curriculum

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles J. Robinson, Clarkson University

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Enhanced Biomedical Engineering Education and for Engineering Ethics Competitions — Ethical Twists and Cost Assessment RequiredAbstractThis paper builds on an important didactic element of course described at the 2011 ASEEconference.1 This present paper expands on its emphasis on story writing and reflection, but withan added ethics twist. A great short story requires superb character development, an excellentplot often with a seminal event and with twists, ethical dilemmas and an outcome. For ourbiomedical and rehabilitation engineering (BmRE) course, we also require a triage component,diagnosis, treatment and a cost-of-care analysis. The fact that the students themselves developedthe story line internalized the ethical

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Assessment

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Wesley Odom, Purdue University - Department of Engineering Education; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Report on Scale Validation Results for the Engineering Ethical Reasoning Instrument (EERI) AbstractAs evidenced by the ABET criteria and numerous publications, the growing need to foster ethicalawareness and judgment in engineering students is pronounced. Despite this, the ability todefinitively show accreditation boards, such as ABET, that good work is being done is scarcelyachievable since the most effective methods of evaluation are too time consuming. In an effort tostandardize at least some means by which ethical reasoning can be measured in engineeringstudents, a team researchers developed the Engineering Ethical Reasoning Instrument (EERI) [1].This instrument was based on a second

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Classroom Practices

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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, assessment methods related to these outcomes that rely onLikert-type responses or structured assignments may be susceptible to social desirability orpositive response bias. When prompted, students will normally agree that ethics are importantand can select the correct answer for simple ESI questions. But what do engineering andcomputing students quickly draw to mind in relation to ESI? To explore this, students were askedto respond to two open-ended survey questions: (1) How do you view your role in society as anengineer or computer scientist? (2) List the ethical issues that you think are relevant to engineersand/or computer scientists. It was of interest to determine if student responses would vary fromthe beginning to the end of a term or across

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics Across Contexts

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong Joint Institute; Horst Hohberger, University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute

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high-profile incidents related tobuilding, transportation, manufacturing, and bioethics scandals.[1]–[4] This has resulted in aperception that Chinese companies and industries are problematically unsafe and potentiallyunethical. Central to these concerns would be the education of engineers.1In addition to the record number of Chinese students studying abroad [5], Chinese institutions oftertiary education now graduate more STEM majors than any other country in the world.[6], [7]China became a member of the Washington Accord in 2016 [8], requiring that engineeringgraduates achieve “Comprehension of the role of engineering in society and identif[y] issues inengineering practice in the discipline: ethics and the professional responsibility of an

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Classroom Practices

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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addition to ASEE, she is active in the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics and the Association for Business Communication. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Plastics: Floating Ethical FlotsamIntroduction“I just want to say one word to you. Just one word,” confides family friend Mr. McGuire tonewly minted graduate Benjamin Braddock. “Plastics. There’s a great future in plastics.”“Think about it,” he intones to a bewildered Ben. “Will you think about it?” [1].Plastics have come a long way since The Graduate and a confused Dustin Hoffman. From itsinitial days to current times, plastic has become indispensable, interwoven into the very fabric ofour lives. It is

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics Across Contexts

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaofeng Tang, Ohio State University; Lisa Elanna Burris, Ohio State University; Nan Hu, Ohio State University; Natassia Brenkus, Ohio State University

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, assessment plan, andinstruction design of this module. We also share thoughts on adopting this module in otherengineering programs.Literature ReviewEthical Leadership (EL)A recent and emerging body of literature investigates the ethical dimension of leadership (Brownet al., 2005; Brown and Treviño, 2006; Den Hartog, 2015; Bachmann, 2017). Brown et al. (2005)defines EL as “the demonstration of normatively appropriate conduct through personal actionsand interpersonal relationships, and the promotion of such conduct to followers through two-waycommunication, reinforcement, and decision-making.” This definition encompasses four aspects;namely, an ethical leader 1) models ethical behaviors; 2) gives voices to others in theorganization; 3) creates a

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics in the Engineering Curriculum

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Paper ID #25272Critical Approaches to CSR as a Strategy to Broaden Engineering Students’Views of StakeholdersDr. Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines Jessica M. Smith is Associate Professor in the Engineering, Design & Society Division at the Colorado School of Mines and Co-Director of Humanitarian Engineering. She is an anthropologist with two major research areas: 1) the sociocultural dynamics of extractive and energy industries, with a focus on corpo- rate social responsibility, social justice, labor, and gender and 2) engineering education, with a focus on socioeconomic class and social responsibility

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics Decision-Making

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luis Fernando Cruz; Wilfrido A. Moreno P.E., University of South Florida; Joel Howell, University of South Florida

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, Wilfrido Alejandro Moreno1,2,3 1 Complex Systems & Education Network – ISTEC (SCED-ISTEC) 2 University of South Florida(USF) - Electrical Engineering Department 3 Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC)ABSTRACT The proposed framework for ethics training, allows for a contextualized and meaningfulThe contemporary society characterized by learning model for new engineers favoring theinter/multi/trans-disciplinary, globalization, inter/multi/trans-disciplinary with

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics in the First Year

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amir Hedayati Mehdiabadi, University of New Mexico; Jordan Orion James, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico

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Engineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Education / Spencer Post- doctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a two-strand research program focused on (1) authentic assessment, often aided by interactive technology, and (2) design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics in the Engineering Curriculum

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech; Christian Matheis, Guilford College; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech

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theimportance of engineering ethics. Educators have begun incorporating engineering ethics incurricula in a variety of formats: as a component in introductory or capstone courses, a centralelement in stand-alone courses, and/or through deliberate integration across curriculum [1], [2].The main approaches in teaching of ethics continue to use case studies or case-based discussionssupplemented by moral theory and/or professional codes of ethics. Service learning is anotherapproach that has increasingly been used and reported as an effective pedagogical strategy ininstruction of engineering ethics [3]-[5]. In the U.S., the main driver in incorporating ethics inengineering curriculum was the changes in ABET engineering criteria requirements on

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Assessment

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Justin L Hess, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Grant A Fore, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Brandon H Sorge, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; M A Coleman, Indiana U Purdue U Indianapolis; Mary F. Price; Thomas William Hahn, IUPUI

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instruction. Yet, standard instruction may have myriad impacts onstudents' ethical development. This study explores students’ ethical formation when ethics is aperipheral or non-intentional aspect of instruction in departmental courses in BiomedicalEngineering and Earth Science. The research question that we seek to address is, “In whatdifferent ways and to what extent does participation in departmental engineering and sciencecourses cultivate STEM students’ ethical formation?” To address our research question, wedisseminated a survey to students before (pre) and after (post) their participation in one of 12courses offered in Earth Science or Biomedical Engineering during the Fall 2017 or Spring 2018.The survey included four instruments: (1) the

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Classroom Practices

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amir Hedayati Mehdiabadi, University of New Mexico

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science students decide differently from their peers in other disciplines when facingcomputing ethics dilemmas. This study expands on previous research on ethical decision makingamong computing majors. The findings of this research have important implications for researchand practice. For example, it examines the arguments from previous literature regarding thedifferences of ethical decision making among different professions. Moreover, it will haveimportant implications for design of ethics courses in undergraduate level.The data is collected from two groups of students in a large Midwestern University: (1) 33computer science undergraduate students enrolled in a course on computing professional ethics,and (2) 40 undergraduate students enrolled

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics in the First Year

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gunter Bombaerts; Karolina Doulougeri, Eindhoven University of Technology

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pointed at their wayof looking at reality and at their own professional identity. It pointed at the difficulties ofgeneral courses to offer educational methods that were interpreted differently from studentgroups of different departments. And it pointed at differences at basic competences needed todive into deep learning and to be motivated by what is offered by the course. Solutions arediscussed.IntroductionFuture engineers are not only expected to have technical knowledge, skills, and abilities, butalso a foundation in professional and ethical practices [1]. One important challenge foreducators is that students show large differences in how they perceive courses and what theireducational needs are [2]. In this article we focus on a large first

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Engineering Ethics Division - WIP Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong Joint Institute; Charlemagne Manuel

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bring together existing resources but (1) to develop inclusive online educational modulesfor an engineering ethics course. This would require less preparation on the part of instructors and,for that reason, the modules would be easier for instructors to assign and students to use; (2) totrack student performance on the modules, at the same time collecting information aboutbackground knowledge of and views about ethics.The nature of the site is modelled on a combination of one hosted by Cornell University, withmaterials and exercises about plagiarism[1], as well as ones maintained by the University ofVirginia[2], [3], Harvard University[4], and the MIT[5], [6], to collect information related to moralpsychology and applied ethics. Although the

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Engineering Ethics Division - WIP Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, Indiana-Purdue University; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany; Thomas De Pree, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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and ethics. Nonetheless, due to the empirical focus of our project on the prac-tice and the discourse of change and reform in engineering education, in this paper we focus on theexisting literature that report on initiatives implementing or evaluating instructions on engineeringethics. These efforts demand allocation of resources and commitment of educators within a degreeprogram, if not administrators from without.A recent systematic survey of literature on engineering ethics interventions from 2000 to 2015has identified the following categories for “justification or identification of the need for the ethicalintervention” 5 . 1. ABET Accreditation 2. University, School, or Departmental Efforts 3. National

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Engineering Ethics Division - WIP Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Martel-Foley, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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ProjectImplicit platform to encourage students to explore their own implicit biases [3]. The primarygoal of this module is to improve awareness of implicit attitudes and their potential effects onengineering teams while simultaneously learning basics of coding.IntroductionAccording to the dual process model of cognition, there are two types of decision makingprocesses that humans utilize to navigate the vast amount of information they are exposed to on adaily basis [1]. In life and throughout evolutionary history, quicker reactions have beenadvantageous to survival, whether recognizing and leaving a dangerous environment or havingintuition for a solution to a design problem. This first system is automatic, subconscious and iscreated as a sum of

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Engineering Ethics Division - WIP Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University; William M. Marcy P.E., Texas Tech University; Lakshmojee Koduru; John Richard Schumacher, Texas Tech University ; Micah Iserman, Texas Tech University

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, environmental, and societal contexts https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for-accrediting-engineering- programs-2019-2020/#GC3.Through these ABET criteria, engineering education is clearly tasked with addressing the broadimplications of engineering practice. This is often achieved through the discussion ofengineering case studies [1] [2], including classic conflict problems like that portrayed in thevideo “Gilbane Gold,” which was produced by the National Society of Professional Engineers(NSPE). Instilling ethical thinking into engineering students is also achieved through aconsideration of the types of cases they are likely to encounter in professional practice.Discussion among students and making judgments are

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics Across Contexts

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gokhan Egilmez, University of New Haven; Phillip A. Viscomi, University of New Haven ; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven

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their finalgrades, which indicates that the students’ positive response on their learning experience was found to beindependent of their letter grade.Key Words: ethics education, engineering ethics, online learning, survey, correlationIntroductionEthics is defined as the “science of morals” or the “study of morals”, which dates back to the famous workof Aristotle, “Nicomachean Ethics”[1]. Oxford defines the term as “Moral principles that govern a person'sbehavior or the conducting of an activity.” [2]. While its etymology addresses the field of study and themodern definition targets the individual, ethics is of the up-most importance for the individual, as well asthe organization that the individual works for, and for the community/society that

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Assessment

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Sleep P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; Yasha Rohwer, Oregon Tech

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asked toreview the code of ethics’ first canon. After reviewing the canon, students were directed toreflect on the conflict between safety and welfare and to keep this in mind during their designs.Groups of students from years 1, 2 and 3 of the undergraduate program were surveyed.The responses of students that did not review the canon were compared with those that did.Student responses were in the form of a number of helical piles to use for each design. Theproblems were designed to be technically similar. The responses show that students, across allyears in the program and independent of whether they reviewed the first canon, used a higherfactor of safety for the less wealthy client (the home) compared to the wealthy client (the pool).Using

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics Decision-Making

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harold W. Walker, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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[1].The engineering profession recognizes the importance of ethics through establishment of ethicalcodes of conduct. Every major discipline of engineering has an established “Code of Ethics.”The engineering profession also demonstrates a commitment to ethics education through theABET outcomes criteria (a-k). The ABET student outcome “(f),” in particular, requiresgraduates have an “understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.” The revised ABETstudent outcomes (1-7) have similar language, namely “an ability to recognize ethical andprofessional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments …” TheASCE “Body of Knowledge” echoes the ABET criteria and states that “civil engineers … needto demonstrate an

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Classroom Practices

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heng Li, Zhejiang University; Yanjie Xie, Zhejiang University; Shuxin Yang, Chinese Society for Engineering Education (CSEE); Ruixue Xu, Zhejiang University

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tenet is achieved throughinterdisciplinary courses, technology development and community activities. In the end,engineering students can play the role of “product/service designer” and “technologypromoter” in inclusive innovation, and provide affordable products and service to poor areasthrough “knowledge creation” and “product innovation”.In conclusion, this paper offers suggestions for integrating inclusive innovation intoengineering ethics education in four aspects: (1) constructing the curriculum content systemsolving the poverty problem; (2) building a high-quality interdisciplinary teaching team; (3)using multi-functional collaborative external support network; and (4) innovative teachingmethods to expose engineering students to the “real

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics in the Engineering Curriculum

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Swan, Tufts University; Alexandra Kulich, Tufts University; Reece Wallace, Tufts University

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instruction is how to bring both a variety of ethical theories andmacroethical considerations into existing ethics education. Two major research questions wereexplored in this work. 1. How do ethics case studies breakdown with respect to engineering discipline, ethical dilemma and the various ethical theories? 2. To what degree do ethics case studies currently used in engineering education favor microethics over macroethics challenges and/or emphases?METHODSFor this study, 154 cases studies were examined from those developed by the National Society ofProfessional Engineer’s (NSPE) Board of Ethical Review (BER)8. These BER case studies weredeveloped to address specific areas of the NSPE Code of Ethics and are intended for teachingethical