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Topics in Engineering Ethics IV

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York, Binghamton; Caroline Baillie, Queens University, Kingston

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Engineering Ethics

necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue. Dalai Lama2What exactly is meant by an engineering based on love? As engineers and engineeringeducators, some of us have encountered traditional applied ethics theories includingUtilitarianism,3 rights-based ethics4 and virtue ethics5 to name a few. As a starting pointfor the present work, a brief description of each of these applied ethical theories shall be

Conference Session

Research on Engineering Ethics Education and Practice

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Dayoung Kim, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Justin L. Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #30123Experiencing Ethical Engineering PracticeMs. Dayoung Kim, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dayoung Kim is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her current research interest centers on engineering ethics and social responsibility, and she is specifically interested in cultural influences on engineers’ moral formation. She earned her B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering at Yonsei University, South Korea in 2017.Dr. Justin L Hess, Purdue University at West Lafayette Dr. Justin L Hess is an assistant professor in the School of

Conference Session

Reimagining Engineering Ethics

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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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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knowledge/skills in pursuit ofaddressing a problem/need is a fundamentally ethical act. It is ethics first and engineeringsecond. Ethics is not an afterthought, but neither is engineering. Ethics is found in the richexperiences of relating to ourselves and to others. In this framing, ethics is about living and, inliving, responding with care and an inquiring mind to the exigencies born from relationality.Engineering is one mode of responding to life lived in a world of interaction. Through a livedethics, we (re)fashion ourselves, others, and the world in which we dwell. Given that much of myprofessional focus is directed at education, this leads me to a difficult question: if one desired todo so, how should this be taught to budding engineers

Conference Session

Ethical Issues I: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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April A. Kedrowicz, University of Utah; Maria Dawn Blevins, University of Utah

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Engineering Ethics

toappreciate engineering design that is mindful of the resources and energy used to developproducts and systems.While we cannot be certain of the exact content presented to students throughout the semester,the heavy emphasis on traditional environmental engineering goals could be the result of directinstruction in this area, both in the engineering courses and perhaps in their required chemistryand physics classes. Or, it could simply be that students do not think about sustainability beyondresources, energy, and the environment at a basic level, as opposed to a systems level.Sophomore students might lack the intellectual maturity to think about sustainability andsustainable design from a systems approach. Regardless, the very fact that students have

Conference Session

Sustainability and Humanitarian Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ryan C. Campbell, University of Washington; Denise Wilson, University of Washington

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number of other problems with traditionalengineering education for HE. One of these problems is the existence of pervasive valuehierarchies in the minds of engineers, such as valuing: 1) science over design, 2) high-tech over low-tech solutions, and 3) engineering over non-engineering (e.g., humanities and social sciences) work.Another problem given in [4] is the pervasive use of the engineering problem solving method,which begins by presenting the students with the necessary information to solve the problem andthen having them: 1) extract the relevant technical information, 2) create idealized abstractions (e.g., free-body diagrams), 3) make simplifying assumptions so the problems can be solved more efficiently, 4

Conference Session

Ethics in different disciplines

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana Bairaktarova, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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students graduating from engineering programsmust have an understanding of how ethics work in the real world and how ethical problems canaffect an engineer’s entire professional career. This course will focus on the ethics of engineeringpractice. As part of the course students will be expected to consider the effects of their actions(and failure to act) including the economic, environmental, political, societal, health and safetyconsequences of their work, while also keeping in mind the manufacturability and sustainabilityof their structures and products.This course was originally developed in the context of a curriculum design course. It was createdwith the intention of further development using the results of a program of rigorous research

Conference Session

Innovative Approaches to Ethics Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed B. Trabia, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Julie A. Longo, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

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participants for further reading Student Code of Conduct Retrieved from https://www.unlv.edu/sites/default/files/page_files/27/StudentConduct-Code.pdfResearch Ethics Holman, J.P. (1988). Experimental methods for engineers. 5th ed. McGraw-Hill: New York. Flowingdata (2015). Graduate student makes up data for fake findings. Retrieved from: http://flowingdata.com/2015/05/20/graduate-student-makes-up-data-for-fake-findings/ Broockman, D. et al. (2015). Irregularities in LaCour (2014). Retrieved from: http://stanford.edu/~dbroock/broockman_kalla_aronow_lg_irregularities.pdf LaCour M. J. and Green, D.P. (2014). When contact changes minds: an experiment on transmission of support for gay equality. Science. 346(6215):1366-1369Publication Ethics

Conference Session

Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Deborath Silva, Colorado School of Mines; Justin Stephen Fantasky, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #13318Social Justice in Control Systems EngineeringDr. Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines Kathryn Johnson is an Associate Professor at the Colorado School of Mines in the Department of Elec- trical Engineering and Computer Science and is Jointly Appointed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s National Wind Technology Center. In the fall 2011, she was a visiting researcher at Aal- borg University in Denmark, where she collaborated on wind turbine control research and experienced Aalborg’s Problem-Based Learning method. She has researched wind turbine control systems since 2002, with numerous

Conference Session

Professional Issues in Ethics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

A. Dean Fontenot, Texas Tech University; Richard A. Burgess, National Institute for Engineering Ethics

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Engineering Ethics

AC 2012-5438: ETHICAL ISSUES AWARENESS FOR ENGINEERS INPRACTICEDr. A. Dean Fontenot, Texas Tech University A. Dean Fontenot directs a professional development center for K-12 teachers as part of the Texas STEM (T-STEM) initiative in order to bring about educational reform in secondary schools. The Texas Tech T-STEM Center focuses on project-based learning with the integration of the engineering design process. As Senior Director, she has brought together three Texas Tech professional development centers that have a history of training teachers, and built partnerships with five Educational Service centers as well as other organizational and industry partners who help implement the professional development training

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics III

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Birmingham, Grove City College

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Engineering Ethics

AC 2008-1665: TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF ARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCE AND ITS APPLICATION TO ETHICSWilliam Birmingham, Grove City College Page 13.1294.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Towards an Understanding of Artificial Intelligence and Its Application to Ethics1. IntroductionArtificial intelligence (AI) is a broadly defined discipline involving computer science,engineering, philosophy, psychology, political science, and a host of other disciplines. BecauseAI is so broad, it is hard to succinctly define; for the sake of brevity, we will use the handle of“thinking machines,” without commitment to depths of this thinking.The

Conference Session

Socio-Technical Issues in Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Catalano, Binghamton University

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Diversity

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that enables and enhances personalintrospection and contemplation leads to the realization of our inextricable connection to eachother, opening the heart and mind to true community, deeper insight, sustainable living, and amore just society.”The approach is implemented in a senior level capstone design two course sequence which isheld concurrently with a course in engineering ethics. Projects undertaken by student designteams are primarily suggested by members of local and regional non-profit and not for profitagencies that focus on meeting the needs of residents with various physical, mental andemotional challenges. The engineering ethics is course is held during the fall semester while thecapstone design course sequence begins in the fall

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics IV

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Niewoehner, U.S. Naval Academy

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Engineering Ethics

responsibility? Does environmental responsibility extend beyond simple pragmatism? A case can surely be made that environmental responsibility can be posed as an expression of extended self interest. Why should one care about environmental impact of one’s work, particularly if the environmental impact is delayed many years beyond the engineer’s life? Why would it trump the engineer’s financial interests or those of their clients? Is the environment invested with inherent value? If so, how and why? • Why be civically minded? • If these duties are genuine, and transcendent, how can they be known? • Some would assert that the engineer bears an aesthetic responsibility of ethical import. What’s the

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Theis, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; patricia watkins, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Library; Mary Angela Beck, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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collect information that supports the topic of sustainability in the library? 2. Has the topic of sustainability, climate change, or other environmental topics been included as a topic for research in instruction classes for students? 3. What kinds of media, books or other materials are actively being collected on the topic of sustainability across the curriculum in the university?Staff 1. What does the word “Sustainability” mean to you? 2. What other words or ideas come to mind when I say “sustainability” or “engineering sustainability”? 3. How has the issue of sustainability or other environmental factors been addressed at ERAU? 4. What experiences have you been involved in on campus that have incorporated

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics IV

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Kyun Lee, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer; R. William Graff, LeTourneau University

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Engineering Ethics

AC 2008-1791: PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN TEACHINGENGINEERING: AN ETHICAL MANDATE TO PRODUCE RESPONSIBLEENGINEERS.B. Kyun Lee, LeTourneau University B. KYUN LEE is a professor in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology at LeTourneau University, where he taught since 1988. He received his B.S. degree from Young Nam University, M.S. and PH.D. from Oregon State University in mechanical engineering. Prior to joining LeTourneau University, he was a research and development engineer at Hyundai Motor Company. His professional interests include system dynamics, control, and applied mechanics. Email: kyunlee@letu.eduPaul R. Leiffer, LeTourneau University PAUL R. LEIFFER

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics V

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Ochs, Lehigh University; Lisa Getzler-Linn, Lehigh University; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; Scott Schaffer, Purdue University; Mary Raber, Michigan Technology University

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Technology at Purdue. Dr. Schaffer's research involves assessment and evaluation of cross-disciplinary team learning and performance, and the design of support systems to promote learning, interaction, self-monitoring. He is also currently an affiliated faculty member of the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering and co-director of the Healthcare Informatics and Learning Technologies group. Scott has received many grants in support of his research and has published and presented often related to workplace learning and performance, cross-disciplinary teams, and needs assessment. Dr. Schaffer also has fifteen years of experience as a consultant to private and public sector organizations

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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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #30780Many Facets of Imagination: What Really Matters in Engineering EthicsInstruction?Mr. Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech Yousef Jalali is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He re- ceived a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering and M.Eng. in Energy Systems Engineering. His research interests include interaction between critical thinking, imagination, and ethical reasoning, interpersonal and interinstitutional collaboration, diversity, equity, and inclusion, systems thinking, and chemical en- gineering learning systems. Yousef taught chemical engineering courses for a few

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton

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Engineering Ethics

Page 13.799.10process of observation for ever changes the observed. The observer and the observed are interacting.Heisenberg writes: ”We can no longer speak of the behavior of the particle independently of the process ofobservation.” The laws we formulate are not about the nature itself, but about our knowledge of it.the essential nature or substance of something as distinguished from its attributes. Inother words, borrowing from Buddhism,4 the essential nature, the Buddha nature, istaught to be a truly real, but internally hidden, eternal potency or immortal element withinthe purest depths of the mind, present in all sentient beings.Let us then consider the implications of this view for engineering. According to Berry,our new community is a

Conference Session

Reimagining Engineering Ethics

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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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engineering faculty found problem-solving, akin to criticalthinking, to be the single most important competency for engineers [39]. Critical thinking isassociated with many aspects of ABET Student Outcomes. Not only does it address problemsolving and analysis, but the process of argumentation cultivates communication skills that areessential to collaboration. Being self-critical keeps one open-minded to learn and solve problemsboth alone and in groups. Lastly, the process and spirit of inquiry is a necessary driver in self-directed, lifelong learning [19]. Despite its accepted importance, engineering graduatesconsistently fall short in critical thinking skills according to employers [29], [39], [40].According to a 2019 literature review, established

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos; Andrew Hable, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

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Engineering Ethics

(e.g., the purchase of paint)defense-related goods and services. However, these estimates do not include defense-related purchases by agencies other that DOD, such as DOE or NASA; whether or not thedata reflects effort related to defense sales to foreign governments is unclear. Furthermuddying the data is the fact that some of the engineering effort reflected in the DODdata is provided by engineers in foreign countries under contract with US companies.With these caveats in mind, our complied data indicates that about 8.8% of professionalengineering effort is devoted to defense-related activities – about 3 times higher than forthe overall workforce defense effort (2.8%). Some specializations, such as aerospaceengineering and electrical

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics V

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Donald Chinn, University of Washington, Tacoma

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Engineering Ethics

AC 2009-2512: AN EXERCISE TO ENGAGE COMPUTING STUDENTS INDISCUSSIONS OF PROFESSIONAL ISSUESTammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland Dr. Tammy VanDeGrift is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Portland. Her research interests include computer science education and computer science theory. In the arena of computer science education research, she is especially interested in conducting studies that investigate students' preconceptions of computing ideas.Donald Chinn, University of Washington, Tacoma Dr. Donald Chinn is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington, Tacoma. He helped create a supplementary problem solving workshop program

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Travis Rieder, University of South Carolina

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Engineering Ethics

AC 2008-1159: ETHICAL THEORY FOR ENGINEERS: AVOIDING CARICATUREAND INFORMING INTUITIONSTravis Rieder, University of South Carolina Page 13.569.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Ethical Theory for Engineers: Avoiding Caricature and Informing Intuition1A professor of engineering ethics recently commented that she finds it difficult to teachethical theory to engineers, as many students are strongly attracted to an intuitionistmodel of ethics – intuitionist here meaning that the students tend to make ethicaljudgments based largely on how a situation strikes their ‘moral sensibilities.’ One reasonfor this may be that

Conference Session

Understanding our Students & Ethical Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalie C.T. Van Tyne, Colorado School of Mines; Maria Brunhart-Lupo, Colorado School of Mines

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-prospective-students-essay. (accessed October 1, 2013)13. Kaplan-Leiserson, E. 2008. Mind the Gap. National Society of Professional Engineers,http://www.nspe.org/PEmagazine/pe_0108_mind-the-gap.html (accessed September 30, 2013)14. Knowledge@Emory. 2010. Managing Millennials in the Workplace.http://knowledge.emory.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1351. (accessed October 1, 2013)15. Winograd, M, and M. Hais, 2011.Millennial Momentum: how a new generation is remaking America. NewBrunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.16. Burstein, D. 2013.Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation is Shaping Our World. Boston, MA: BeaconPress.17. Alsop, R. 2008.The Trophy Kids Grow Up. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.18. Abaffy, L. 2011. Millennials Bring New Attitudes

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel J. Biezad P.E., California Polytechnic State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #11544Ethics Education as Philosophical History for EngineersDr. Daniel J. Biezad P.E., California Polytechnic State University Daniel J. Biezad is professor emeritus in the aerospace engineering department of the College of Engi- neering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly). He received the B.S. in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT-1966), the M.S. in astronautical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT-1972), and the Ph.D. in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from Purdue University (1984). He has received the

Conference Session

Ethics Instruction in Context: Civil and Construction Engineering and Engineering Technology

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason K. Durfee, Eastern Washington University; Hani Serhal Saad, Eastern Washington University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

words, “carefully consider,” imply that the engineer is debating in his mind whetherhe wants to consider safety, health, and welfare before he makes a decision. If an engineer holdsthe safety, health, and welfare of the public as paramount then he doesn’t need to “carefullyconsider” this. It is questions like this one that likely cause students with the correct way ofthinking about professional ethics to still mark a test question incorrectly.It also raised the question that students with limited experience working in a professionalenvironment may not have the background to fully understand the different aspects of how ethicsinteracts with day-to-day work activities.It is also suspected that asking instructors to include ethics topics in

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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worldview.Making the large claim that “the most coherent view of the cosmos appears to be that ofan engineered system of interdependent subsystems that efficiently interact to prepare for,develop, and support advanced life, subject to various constraints,” the article identifiescharacteristics that are found in human-engineered systems as well as the cosmos. Thesecharacteristics include: “stability, predictability, reliability, transparency, controllability,efficiency, and optimality.”Identifying the complex mysteries of nature, and the ability (not to mention desire) tounravel these mysteries, the article asks the question, “Could it be that the realm of natureand the human mind were, in some sense, made for each other; possibly for the purposeof

Conference Session

Innovative Approaches to Ethics Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Catalano, Binghamton University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #14663Integrating Compassion into an Engineering Ethics CourseDr. George D. Catalano, Binghamton University Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Binghamton University Previously member of the faculty at U.S. Military Academy and Louisiana State University. Two time Fullbright Scholar – Italy and Germany. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Integrating a Compassion Practicum into a Biomedical Engineering Ethics CourseAbstractA required undergraduate course in the ethics of biomedical engineering has been developed andtaught. Students are required to design

Conference Session

Engaging Ethics in Teams and Communities

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Barsanti Jr., The Citadel; Ronald J. Hayne, The Citadel; Kevin C. Bower P.E., The Citadel; Johnston W. Peeples, The Citadel

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class does not have a complementary laboratory component. This paperattempts to bridge this gap by presenting a basic yet comprehensive project that can be used todemonstrate amplitude modulation and demodulation theory. It is specifically designed to stir theinterest of junior or senior level electronics minded electrical engineering students. In thisproject, a double sideband large carrier waveform is produced using a simple switchingmodulator circuit. The resulting amplitude modulation (AM) waveform is then demodulatedusing an envelope detector circuit. The proposed project requests that students perform a circuitsimulation as well as an actual circuit implementation. The circuit behavior is studied via bothanalysis using software tools and

Conference Session

Teaching Ethics II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christian Hipp, University of South Carolina

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Engineering Ethics

Economic Papers, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3. (Nov.,1983), pp. 331-350; Donald C. Emmons, “Act-vs.Rule-Utilitarianism.” Mind, New Series, Vol. 82, No. 326. (Apr.,1973), pp. 226-233;5 Crisp, Roger. “Utilitarianism and the Life of Virtue.” The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 167. (Apr., 1992),pp. 139-160.6 Lynch, William T. and Ronald Kline. “Engineering Practice and Engineering Ethics.” Science, Technology, andHuman Value, 25(2) Spring 2000.7 Vaughan, Diane. The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA. Chicago:University of Chicago Press. 1995.8 Unger, Stephen H. “Bhopal—A Multinational Disaster,” Controlling Technology: Ethics and the ResponsibleEngineer, 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 1994

Conference Session

Teaching Ethics II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Engineering Ethics

A you gave the offer a lot of thought.You knew the company was a leader in its field, had a good employee relations reputation, thesalary offer was acceptable, and the geographic area for employment, all fit your needs. Youwere somewhat concerned about delaying your acceptance and losing this position while waitingfor other offers that you were unsure might materialize. With the positives of this job in mind,you had already sent Company A letter of acceptance. What would you do now?Ethics Scenario # 4You are a design engineer for an automotive company. Three years ago you were the seniordesign engineer on a door latch system. You were praised for your design by upper managementand given a considerable salary increase for your contribution

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Justice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rodney W. Trice, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics

used to assess changes in moral reasoning ability from pre- andpost-class assessment. The average pre-class N2 score was 40±13, which correlated very wellwith the N2 scores for first year college students. After taking the course, a N2 score of 51±11was measured, indicating significant improvement in their moral reasoning ability as defined bythe DIT2 test.While 19 students was a reasonable number for the first time this course was taught, PurdueUniversity’s engineering enrollment per class is approximately 1600 students. Thus, a largerimpact is desired. With this in mind, an 10 lecture module is being developed that would beoffered to the other schools within the engineering college. The module will be designed toemphasize both theory and its