Paper ID #43260The Development of a Student Survey on Macroethics in Aerospace Engineering[Work-In-Progress]Dr. Corin L. Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles Corin (Corey) Bowen is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education, housed in the Department of Civil Engineering at California State University - Los Angeles. Her engineering education research focuses on structural oppression in engineering systems, organizing for equitable change, and developing an agenda of Engineering for the Common Good. She teaches structural mechanics and sociotechnical topics in engineering education and practice. Corey
), and how to hold meetings, but no specific training was consistentlyapplied across the college beyond these two topics.At CPP, two exceptions are the Aerospace (ARO) and the Industrial and Manufacturingengineering (IME) programs. In the ARO program, students receive a self-awareness assessment(Smalley Index Test or “Four Animals Personality” assessment) during their Freshman intro toARO course. During their second year, they build on this knowledge by applying it to teamassignments and team communications. Senior year, ARO students receive lessons on Maslow'sHierarchy of needs, Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) team collaboration and designculture, as well as other project-specific teamworking tools (such as setting schedules andholding
. Finally, we hope to evaluate the impact of theintervention on students’ perceptions of their responsibility to address these issues as engineers.Site & ParticipationEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University is a private, not-for-profit, PhD-granting university withan emphasis on higher education for the aviation and aerospace industries. Research for thisstudy was completed at the XXXX, residential campus, which is a mid-sized, historically Whitecampus, with a predominantly male student body and an annual tuition costs of over $42,000.Our current study includes a total of eight sections of senior capstone design courses fromdifferent degree programs in the College of Engineering. Four sections were identified as thestudy group (two sections of
Technology Jacqueline Tawney is a Ph.D. candidate in GALCIT (Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology). Jacque is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, a leader within the GALCIT Graduate Student Council, and the founder of Women in GALCIT. In the Kornfield group within Caltech’s Chemical Engineering department, Jacque researches associative polymers, their rheological properties, and their potential for agricultural and industrial applications. She is passionate about creating positive change within her communities and being a compassionate scientist and leader. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Compassion and Engineering Ethics
and aerospace engineering, and example 6 could fit anydiscipline.Even applying the ERI tool to a first-year engineering course may seem like an easier task thanusing ethics examples in a disciplinary course in the sophomore or junior year. Engineeringprogram accreditation by ABET requires that student outcome number 4, “an ability to recognizeethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments,which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental,and societal contexts” be met. A program that only includes ethics in its first and last year or in asingle course is at a disadvantage with regards to showing evidence of this outcome. The ERItool can help discover
engineering major, and engineering design capstone projects.Dr. Kamesh Sankaran, Whitworth University Kamesh Sankaran is a Professor of Engineering and Physics at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University. Prof. Sankaran has been on the faculty at Whitworth since 2004 where, in addition to serving as the chair of the Department of Engineering and Physics, he has also headed the university’s general education requirement on applied ethics and policy since 2010. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Connecting Engineering Ethics with a Shared CurriculumAbstractAn ethics across the curriculum
to accumulate inliving creatures [14]. It is one of more than 80,000 chemicals that are unregulated and had beengrandfathered into the Toxic Substances Control Act (1976), under the assumption that they weresafe [15]. The EPA can only regulate known harmful chemicals [10]. Reporting is not requiredfor testing related to unregulated chemicals.Although most consumers associate Teflon with nonstick cookware, it has many uses as acoating: carpeting, mechanical devices, needles used for injections, fast food wrappers, pizzaboxes, microwave popcorn bags, cosmetics, textiles, electronics and computer components, fire-fighting foams, fertilizers, cleaning agents, dental floss, kitty litter, to name a few, and inindustries such as aerospace
Paper ID #42120Navigating the Mystery: An Approach for Integrating Experiential Learningin Ethics into an Engineering Leadership ProgramDr. James N. Magarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology James Magarian is a Sr. Lecturer with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program. He joined MIT and GEL after nearly a decade in industry as a mechanical engineer and engineering manager in aerospace/defense. His research focuses on engineering workforce formation and the education-careers transition.John M. Feiler, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLeo McGonagle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Leo McGonagle
undergraduatecomputing students worked in teams to sketch and create ethics based decision making scenariosusing paper or blackboard. This scenario creation activity model was later refined and employedin different Ethics in Engineering courses as a means to increase engagement through gameplayand role playing.In 2022, this work was expanded by joining forces with engineering faculty from the Virtues andVocations initiative and the Ethics at Work project which included other computing faculty,faculty from Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, and faculty from Philosophy, where thegoal was to capture an engineering wide faculty and undergraduate student sentiment about ethicscontent in engineering. A multidisciplinary team of undergraduates, led by advising