Conference Session

T2B: GIFTS - Session B

Collection

2019 FYEE Conference

Authors

Kurt M Degoede, Elizabethtown College; Brenda Read-Daily, Elizabethtown College; Jean Carlos Batista Abreu, Elizabethtown College

Tagged Topics

Diversity, FYEE Conference - Paper Submission

GIFTS: Big E Little e, What begins with Ee? – EthicsWe develop our students’ ability to navigate professional ethics in our Introductory Engineeringcourse. In seven sessions, we examine ethical decision making both at the big E – societalimpact of the profession – level and the little e – individual professional responsibility – level.Instead of the typical ethics gone wrong at the corporate level, often captured in classic casestudies (i.e., Challenger Disaster, VW emissions scandal), we encourage students to bothconsider the grand implications of their responsibility as engineers alongside issues of personalintegrity as an engineering student. Too often, students react to the case studies with criticaljudgment but feel

Conference Session

M1C: WIP - Readiness and Professional Development

Collection

2019 FYEE Conference

Authors

Jennifer L Johrendt, University of Windsor; Jennifer Laura Sears, University of Windsor

Tagged Topics

Diversity, FYEE Conference - Paper Submission

student volunteers to respond to their individualrequests. Structured programming that promotes undergraduate peer-mentors in the Faculty ofEngineering can benefit WINONE as the facilitator of these types of requests as well as thestudent mentors, ensuring that students are properly screened through application process andreceive official recognition of their service within the faculty.Iron Pin Ceremony: Despite first- and fourth-year courses that address topics like ethics and professionalism in engineering, the consensus amongst administration was that additional programming should be introduced to address academic dishonesty within the faculty. With this intention, the first