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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Ann Gelles, Utah State University; Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University; Marialuisa Di Stefano, Utah State University

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. During the last 5 years, she worked specifically with emergent bilinguals in Utah and in the Boston area, looking at the ways students’ funds of knowledge, especially languages and belonging, intersect with their identity development, and their understanding of mathematics and science contents. She approaches her study through a culturally sustaining pedagogy lens that she developed through her experience teaching, tutoring, and observing K-12 students in Italy and in the United States for the past 15 years. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Perceptions of ethical behavior in ethical mentoring relationships between women graduate students and faculty in science and

Conference Session

Understanding our Students & Ethical Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Mee Joo Kim, University of Washington-Seattle; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Elizabeth Burpee

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Engineering Ethics

with the University of Kentucky, Lexington, in a similar position from 1996 to 1999. Her research interests in engineering education focus on the role of belonging, self-efficacy, and other non-cognitive factors on success and persistence. She is also managing director of Coming Alongside, a non-profit environmental health services organization.Ms. Mee Joo Kim, University of Washington-Seattle Mee Joo Kim is a doctoral student at University of Washington-Seattle. Her research interests focus on global citizenship development of undergraduate STEM student populations.Prof. Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato Rebecca A. Bates received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Outside the Classroom

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dominic Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Elliott Butay, Oral Roberts University; Ben Hase, Oral Roberts University; Sean McDonough, Oral Roberts University; Taylor Tryon, Oral Roberts University; Joshua Weed, Oral Roberts University

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Engineering Ethics

spirituality. Multidisciplinary teams of undergraduate students and facultyexplore, and wrestle with, the connections between science/engineering and spirituality asthey endeavor to become whole persons. Engineering, science, and theology studentsteam up to investigate and assess evidence of purpose from findings in science andengineering. They apply reverse engineering techniques to natural systems in an effort toassess the potential for design recovery. Psychology students help to provide a betterunderstanding of the human condition and the role of perceived affordances inestablishing purpose. Anecdotal and survey evidence suggests that undergraduatestudents find such interdisciplinary studies to be interesting, motivating and beneficial

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Engaging Ethics in Teams and Communities

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaofeng Tang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Eduardo Mendieta, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Engineering Ethics

the graduate level [4].2. A User-Oriented Approach to Engineering Ethics EducationPrevious research has recognized the critical role engineering faculty members play ineducating students about engineering ethics [5][6]. Such recognition, however, contrastswith a general trend in engineering education: faculty members are usually slow andreluctant in adopting research-based pedagogical practice, a trend that challengesnumerous designers of educational innovations [7] [8] [9]. In particular, scholars havereported that educational innovations that follow a “replication model,” in which facultymembers passively accept and adopt pedagogical innovations designed by educationalresearchers, have very limited effect in generating faculty engagement

Conference Session

Teaching Approaches for Ethics

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory A. Rulifson, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Whitney Thomas, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Engineering Ethics

theseareas to better tune future engineering courses and curricula based on the experiences of thesestudents. Page 24.1291.15Through these interviews, it was clear that a student’s identity as an engineer and as a member ofsociety plays a large role in their responses. It is planned for the rest of the study to observehow this identity changes due to certain factors such as classes and extracurricular activities. Itis believed that the way students perceive themselves in this balance described by the Ethic ofCare will have a major impact on the degree to which they incorporate engineering and socialresponsibility in their futures.Limitations of the

Conference Session

Understanding Students' Authentic and Reflective Experiences of Ethics Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stephanie Claussen, San Francisco State University; Shiloh James Howland, Brigham Young University; Swetha Nittala, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics

previously did not care about theindustry in which he worked. It seems that he valued clean energy and was concerned aboutclimate change all along, and that his belief that industry does not matter was temporary (or notactually ever present), and may have served as a justification for choosing to participate in thatparticular internship which actually ran counter to his deeper values.Shift in the balance of responsibilities to the public and to one’s employerOver time, Corvin’s views on the relationship between his employer and the public were alsorefined. As a first-year student, Corvin believed that as an engineer “your duty is to do the bestfor the general public. Sometimes that will come at your own expense but you can put that aside.If you lose

Conference Session

Reimagining Engineering Ethics

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Luan Minh Nguyen, Iowa State University ; Cristina Poleacovschi, Iowa State University; Kasey M. Faust, University of Texas at Austin; Kate Padgett Walsh, Iowa State University; Scott Grant Feinstein; Cassandra Rutherford, Iowa State University

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the case that student understanding of ethics ispoor, suggesting that there is a misalignment between ethics instruction and students’ ethical 6behavior [18]. Employers expect to hire engineering graduates with a wide range of professionalskills including the ability to identify and make appropriate decisions regarding ethical dilemmas[7], [19], [31]. Engineering as a field has not sufficiently focused on preparing graduates that candemonstrate ethical behavior as compared to other professions, which is especially concerninggiven the embedded social and political nature of engineering projects [5].Table 1: Article Selection Process

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Engineering Ethics - Courses and Curricula

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald McEachron, Drexel University; Sheila Vaidya, Drexel University; Stacey Ake, Drexel University

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Engineering Ethics

student organization at my university, Drexel University in Philadelphia,sponsored a movie night. The movie was The Island, a 2005 film about a group of individualswho are maintained on an island as living spare body parts for the original individuals fromwhom they were derived. The film centers around selected individuals on the island whodiscover their actual purpose and identities and the conflicts this raises between the world of theisland and the world outside. I (DLM) was asked to lead a discussion on the film and, sensing theopportunity for a broad consideration of ethical and moral issues, asked the mixed graduate andundergraduate audience the following question: Who has encountered an ethical issue of anykind either at work or on campus

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon University; William M. Bulleit, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Ethics

engineers face. We review recent empirical work on theethics of care and the role of empathy in engineering. Campbell (2013) asked howengineering “professors can teach students to care”. Other work (Walther et al. 2012;Hess et al. 2014) has begun to build a background of how we could begin this integration.We suggest that these approaches are more consonant with design approaches and hencefamiliar to engineering faculty. Engineering ethics can then integrate seamlessly intoengineering education.This paper considers a combination of the philosophical principles of pragmatism and theethic of care as a broad framework for integrating ethics in undergraduate engineering.Such an approach would integrate ethics into the teaching of engineering in a way

Conference Session

Reimagining Engineering Ethics

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech ; Scott A. Civjan, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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internet, but you are only hurtingyourself by using them” is often perceived as allowing unethical behavior so long as the studentdoes not find a harm, in fact a benefit, from searching out solutions to homework problems. Theauthors posit that it is effective to provide initial ethics discussions of situations where studentshave had personal experience and can easily see themselves in the alternate role. Thisimaginative leap, though small, is posited as necessary before a student is expected to acceptrelational identities that are more removed from their personal experiences.Reflection on how classroom cheating relates to office culture and how similar office culturenorms can lead to actions that would be perceived as unethical in a different

Conference Session

Ethical Design

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #29335Integrating Ethics into the Curriculum through Design CoursesProf. Scott A Civjan P.E., University of Massachusetts, Amherst Scott Civjan is a faculty member at UMass Amherst where he has taught a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses over the past 20+ years. He has 4 years of consulting experience between obtaining his BSCE from Washington University in St. Louis and his MS and PhD in Structural Engineering from the University of Texas Austin.Prof. Nicholas Tooker, University of Massachusetts Amherst Nick Tooker is a Professor of Practice at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He teaches

Conference Session

Case and Scenario in Engineering Ethics Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Beever, University of Central Florida; Justin L Hess, IUPUI, Indianapolis

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Engineering Ethics

Science Foundation. Jonathan’s research focuses on questions of ethics, science, and representation. He teaches a wide variety of under- graduate and graduate courses on related topics.Dr. Justin L Hess, IUPUI, Indianapolis Justin L. Hess received his PhD from Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education along with his Master’s of Science and Bachelor of Science from Purdue’s School of Civil Engineering. Justin is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the STEM Education Research Institute at IUPUI. Justin’s research interests include developing pedagogical strategies to improve STEM students’ ethical reasoning skills; exploring the role of empathy within design, innovation and sustainability; synthesizing the

Conference Session

Industrial, Professional, and Practical Contexts of Engineering Ethics

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Dayoung Kim, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shiloh James Howland, Brigham Young University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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activities such as internships, is welldocumented. Reflection has been defined as “the internal transformation of experiences” [16, p.58] and “the element that transform simple experience into a learning experience” [17]. Sinceinternships are often transitional experiences between the university and the workplace, helpingstudents meaningfully reflect on the ethical situations they encounter in such roles could haveimplications for how they think and act in future ethical situations that encounter in their careers.A similar insight comes from Rulifson and Bielefeldt’s longitudinal study of students whoparticipated in internships [12]. They found that eight of their fifteen interviewees did not“express a significant difference in their understanding

Conference Session

Teaching Ethics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Matthew Mayhew, New York University

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Engineering Ethics

“cheating” admitted to engaging in that behavior at least once. On the otherhand, 67% of those who defined it as “unethical but not cheating” and 78% of those who definedthe behavior as “neither” admitted to doing it at least once. This trend is similar for otherbehaviors, and it suggests that students who have a more permissive attitude towards a behaviorare, not surprisingly, more willing to engage in that behavior. This is consistent with work ofAjzen1, 2 who proposes a model of the decision-making process in which “attitude towardbehavior” plays an integral role in explaining the relationship between intention and action. Page

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Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaofeng Tang, Penn State University; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

examination,”by which we mean examination of the status of practice in a profession against the ethicalstandards enacted in its particular code, and vice versa. For example, Clause 8, which wasrecently added to the IEEE Code of Ethics, requires all members “to treat fairly all persons andto not engage in acts of discrimination based on race, religion, gender, disability, age, nationalorigin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.”57 This clause provides richopportunities for students to discuss the necessary structural changes to the engineeringprofession—in areas such as employment policies, workplace culture, college admissions,facility design, etc.—so as to live up to the code. Similarly, instructors could also

Conference Session

Professional Issues in Ethics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Islam H. El-adaway, Mississippi State University; Marianne M. Jennings, Arizona State University

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Engineering Ethics

,methodology, or conclusions.The Long-Suffering and Unrecognized Graduate Assistant Co-AuthorIn working in their mentor relationships with graduate students, some faculty members do notframe a research problem for their students but, rather, tend to assign them a general topic (XYZ)to work on during their studies. This broad direction is an effective means for fostering graduatestudents’ independence, innovation, and creativity, which are needed skills for both theireducational experience and development and their future careers as academics. However, insome cases, the students are instructed, under the disguise of getting experience, to writeresearch proposals including the literature review, problem definition, objectives, methodology,and often even

Conference Session

Socio-Technical Issues in Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; Thomas M. Philip, University of California, Los Angeles

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Engineering Ethics

stakeholder claims are taken up by engineering students in conversation. As such, we willnot comment on whether and how students are taking up one another’s perspectives.We see Janine as constructing relationships between the different actors and taking up epistemicand moral stances that highlight the economic plight of the workers. Her stances embed her moreclosely into the situation than the other speakers. In contrast, James and Simon are more distant.James and Simon both emphasize environmental impact as a moral stance without mentioningthe economic plight of the informal workers, and that value plays a role in how they rhetoricallystructure the relationships among stakeholders. For Simon, the additional value of control andsystematicity becomes