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Innovating Ethics Curriculum and Instruction

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Elizabeth A. Debartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Wade L. Robison, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

, influence, and interest for an engineering design team, adapted from [9].“Design solutions have costs and effects, some harmful and major if the idea scales or isreplicated. A harm is a loss of something of value. So scrub any unnecessary harms from yourdesign:1. How to avoid harms within the design team: a. Is the design problem clear and are changes cleared with the contractors? b. Do team members have clearly allocated and documented roles & responsibilities, and accountability? c. Can you obtain the resources you need? d. Is the design choice feasible: physically possible, manufacturable, within the team’s technical reach? e. Do you have a plan to address conflict; to give, accept, and address

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Assessing Ethics Learning

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David S. Greenburg, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel

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professionalpractice module.Ethics at the InstitutionEnhancing skills related to ethical decision making has been recognized as one of the mostpressing needs in society today and Ethics in Action is the focus of The Citadel’s QualityEnhancement Plan (QEP). A QEP is a course of action for institutional improvement thataddresses issues contributing to progress in student learning [6]. The learning outcomes based onEthical Reasoning are aligned with The Citadel’s strategic plan and mission to educate anddevelop our students to become principled leaders in all walks of life by instilling the core valuesof The Citadel in a disciplined and intellectually challenging environment. The process ofselecting and developing the Ethics in Action program involved a

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Ethical Design

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Amy Schroeder, University of Southern California

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technology, and readings in diverse canonical and non-canonical works of sciencefiction. This humanistic course concluded with a summative group project, which requiredstudents to draw upon all aspects of the diverse curriculum in order to fulfill assignment goals.The project, which was designed to activate both creative and critical thinking abilities, directedstudents to create utopian societies. In order to imagine visionary alternative societies, studentsemployed ethical principles, invoked themes and ideas from literature, and utilized new and evenspeculative technologies. In designing planned "perfect" communities, the students examined ourmost pressing social, scientific, and cultural challenges, responding to these problems byenvisioning new

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New Areas of Ethical Inquiry

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Joseph Benin, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; William Randall, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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access to encrypted data stored on suspected criminals smart phones. Each week or two we would quickly discuss a new article – articles like: Breaking iPhone encryption won't make anyone safer - By Jonny Evans, Computerworld, JAN 15, 2020 - Any security vulnerability will be exploited, enabling more of the bad activity backdoors intend to prevent. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - by Joseph Menn, JANUARY 21, 2020 - Apple Inc dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices in the company’s iCloud service after the FBI complained that the move would harm investigations, six sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. As Justice Department Pressures Apple, Investigators Say iPhone Easier to

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Ethical Reasoning and Decision Making

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Vignesh Subbian, University of Arizona; Linda R. Shaw, University of Arizona

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students (39 from engineering and 3 fromnon-engineering disciplines) used the tool to explore ethical implications of technology inhealthcare and biomedicine. We plan to use the Ethical Competency Assessment Frameworkproposed by Zhu and Jesiek [7] as a basis for student assessment across three areas – ethicsknowledge, contextual knowledge, and attitudes. Each guiding question in the tool can bemapped one or more of these three areas and then assessed on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 beingeffective and 1 being not effective. Such an assessment is a part of our ongoing work.ConclusionThis work-in-progress paper includes a pragmatic, prototypical ethical decision-making modelfor use in engineering education. The proposed model has the potential to promote

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Innovating Ethics Curriculum and Instruction

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Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University; Melissa McDaniels, Michigan State University

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Engineering Ethics

programs offered by CIMER, and is amodular curriculum with flexible materials covering topics such as:  Aligning Expectations  Assessing Understanding  Maintaining Effective Communications  Fostering Independence  Promoting Professional Development  Addressing Equity and Inclusion  Articulating Mentoring Philosophy and Plan  Cultivating Ethical Behavior Similar training is available through CIMER for research mentees, called “Entering Research”[9]. As CIMER’s mission is to build capacity for inclusive research mentoring nationwide, theorganization also delivers Entering Mentoring and Entering Research Facilitator Training tobuild a national network of

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Innovating Ethics Curriculum and Instruction

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Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech; Umair Shakir, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Ethics

of ABET as a major contributor[10], [11]. Barry & Ohland [12]have elaboratedon the university or departmental policy as pre-planned curriculum redesign before ABETEngineering Criteria 2000 criteria, influence from administrators, and input from advisory boardsand employer surveys as additional important factors shaping undergraduate engineeringcurricula. Despite accreditation criteria, professional license exams, national reports, andprofessional organizations of engineering have been major factors for incorporating engineeringethics education in undergraduate curricula. Walczak et al. [13]have cautioned that engineeringprograms still struggle to incorporate ethics into the curriculum and there exists a large variationin integrating

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Research on Engineering Ethics Education and Practice

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

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milk scandal as aprototypically unethical behavior. However, there might be other incidents similarly impactful tospecific national groups, for instance, the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill. Further, rather thanconceiving of unethical behaviors as ones by companies affecting people and the public, USparticipants might be more likely to conceive of unethical behaviors in terms of the intentions ofindividuals.[27] Interestingly, the term “justice” was not used to respond to either prompt –“rights,” “fair,” and “unfair” comprised only small nodes in the why network. Towards this end,the authors plan to explore website data using theories from moral psychology, for instance,Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) and the developmental stages/schema

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Innovating Ethics Curriculum and Instruction

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Rob Sleezer, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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unlikely, it illustrates a concrete connection between thereading and the student’s planning. Figure 1. Student responses about planned future actions placed in quadrants reflecting specificity of topic vs specificity or ambiguity of proposed future action.The final theme was the diversity of topical themes. Emerging technology was a common themeand many of the entries included references to nanotechnology and artificial intelligence. Othertechnologies mentioned less frequently were autonomous vehicles and cybernetics. Relationshipswere also discussed at length with many student engineers focusing on friends and family.Several of the student engineers explicitly tied work-life balance to their relationships with theirfriends and

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New Areas of Ethical Inquiry

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Minha R. Ha, York University; Joshua Racette, McMaster University; Shinya Nagasaki, McMaster University

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Engineering Ethics

into perspective… safety… and societal deserve to be at least aware of what these aspects of this cannot be ignored.” societal aspects are.” 805: “… we should be knowledgeable about Responsibility for Impact & Public Needs the full impact of any work we partake in…” 701: “…it should be part of my job in designing… to take account the societal Responsibility for Impact & Public Needs impact of a design” 802: “… societal impact… Nuclear energy 703: “… engineers have a huge hand in systems are huge investments… planning societal

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Ethical Design

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Scott A. Civjan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Nicholas Tooker, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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working on theinstrumentation in order to complete it on time.What should John do? Choose TWO of the following: a. Have Rob sign a special waiver releasing the firm from liability b. Have everyone return back to the office and plan for a return outing the next weekend c. Have the remaining team members do what they can to complete the instrumentation, while Rob waits in the vehicle d. Have Rob work on something that has a very limited chance of doing him any harm e. Have Rob be fully involved in the instrumentation, even though he doesn’t have his hard hat, since the hard hat isn’t really needed f. Call the office and see if someone can bring a hard hat to the site later in the day

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New Media for Ethics Education

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Allen R. White, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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because young buyers often become loyal to their first new car brand.Also, your dealers have been demanding a competitive product to get customers from theircompetitors. Your company has planned a bold new design, code named YS, that is a completelynew design – new engine, new chassis, new suspension. All of these new components havecreated challenges in engineering and manufacturing that are threatening to delay the project.You have been called to a meeting to finalize the design of the YS so that manufacturing won’tbe delayed but first you need to decide as a team if a new suspension component, called a swaybar, will be added to the YS. The Large Project Lead has called a meeting to make the decision.You are six weeks from the design freeze

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Ethical Design

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Donald Winiecki, Boise State University; Lynn Catlin P.E., Boise State University; Harold Ackler, Boise State University

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Engineering Ethics

perspective” than afforded by amore technical engineering process. Similar concepts are identified by both PA2 and PA3. PA4tells us that more experience with the concepts and process, and application of the results, isnecessary. This suggests that — in addition to inserting ethics modules in courses throughout theentire degree plan — that there could be multiple ethics checkpoints through the semester. PA5approaches ethics from the well-developed rationality of an engineer! There are always tradeoffsto be considered and with the instruction and practice provided, this student indicates that it ispossible to “engineer” a maximization of ethics while actively minimizing harms (this issomething we would hope for!) Similarly, PA6 concludes that one can

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New Areas of Ethical Inquiry

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Kenneth Stafford Sands II, Florida Gulf Coast University; Annie R. Pearce, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida; Min Jae Suh, Sam Houston State University; Christine Marie Fiori, Drexel University

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sectors to implement sustainability as part of building plan- ning, design, construction, and operations. As a LEED Accredited Professional, Annie brings the latest in green building methods, technologies, and best practices to the classroom. Her specific areas of interest include metrics of sustainability for built facilities, green building materials and systems, cost modeling to support sustainability implementation, and in situ performance of sustainable facility technologies.Dr. Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida Denise R. Simmons, Ph.D., PE, LEED-AP, is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida

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Research on Engineering Ethics Education and Practice

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Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Angela R. Bielefeldt, 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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profession thataffects every aspect of modern life [1]. Reinforcing this sense of responsibility throughout thecurriculum helps increase students’ awareness and judgment, which supports their ethicaldecision-making in practice [33]. One student in Fluid Mechanics noted that the intervention“show[ed] how broad of an impact the technology we might be working on in the future canhave on the country and the world sometimes.” The hydraulic fracturing activity helped thisstudent understand the potential implications of his future career and this was an importantoutcome since he planned to pursue employment in the oil industry.The narrow technical focus of individual courses in the engineering curriculum can obscureconnections between, and implications of

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New Media for Ethics Education

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Valerie H. Summet, Rollins College; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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reasons, and this phrase can be an encouraging way of helping them continue their thought process. • Discussion poker. If you have more time to plan, consider giving each student three multi-colored poker chips, a red, green, and blue chip (or other distinguishable tokens of your choice) when they enter the room. When a student answers a question or makes an observation, they cash in the red chip. When a student makes a comment which builds on another student’s comment, they cash in the blue chip. When a student asks a question about something they did not understand, they cash in their green chip. This controls the participation in a concrete way and provides for a range of responses. • Don’t be afraid to

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Ethical Reasoning and Decision Making

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

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Engineering Ethics

, however, and to conduct analyses and organize results, thefollowing analyses were planned and hypotheses posed:1. Explore potential differences in ESIT and MFQ responses based on gender, age, prior workexperience, political orientation, and religious affiliation, and MFQ differences based onprevious ethics education.2. Hypothesize that students with previous ethics education would receive higher P and N2scores on the ESIT, based on results from [1].3. Hypothesize that students in this sample would receive lower P and N2 scores on the ESITthan those in [1], since the participants in this sample were non-native-English-speakingstudents.4. Hypothesize that students in this study would receive higher N2 scores after completing a one-semester-long

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Reimagining Engineering Ethics

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Grant A. Fore, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Justin L. Hess, Purdue University; Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Ethics

in this work: historically, engineers have not agreed on foundational concerns ordefinitions of engineering. Hence, engineers do not have some form of constitution or bible thatthey can refer to provide any universal answers. To me, one of the best ways to consider current“norms,” as well as the propensity towards engineering in ethics or ethics in engineering, wouldbe to review how codes of ethics have evolved over time.As one noteworthy example, ASCE recently added a Canon 8, “Treat All Persons Fairly.”Subpart C of Canon 8 focuses on diversity: “Engineers shall consider the diversity of thecommunity, and shall endeavor in good faith to include diverse perspectives, in the planning andperformance of their professional services.” This is one

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Reimagining Engineering Ethics

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Jessica Koehler, Wake Forest University; Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University ; Michael Lamb, Wake Forest University; Alana Demaske, Wake Forest University; Carlos Santos, Wake Forest University; Michael D. Gross, Wake Forest University; Dylan Franklin Brown, Wake Forest University

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Paper ID #30371 Carlos Santos is a first year graduate student at the Wake Forest University Department of Psychology. His research includes longitudinal measurement validity and developing personalized user-interface data tools.Dr. Michael D. Gross, Wake Forest University Dr. Michael Gross is a Founding Faculty and Associate Professor of Engineering at Wake Forest Uni- versity and is part of the team that is planning, developing, and delivering the brand new Engineering program. The Engineering department is viewed as an opportunity to break down silos across campus and creatively think about reimagining the undergraduate engineering educational experience, integra- tion and collaboration across departments and