Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel Aaron Snyder, Virginia Tech; Indhira María Hasbún, Virginia Tech; Jessica Deters, Virginia Tech; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Ethics

Teaching Assistant in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She received her B.S. in Civil Engineering and M.Eng. in Environmental Engineering from Utah State University.Ms. Jessica Deters, Virginia Tech Jessica Deters is a PhD student at Virginia Tech in the Department of Engineering Education. She holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics & Statistics and a minor in the McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs from the Colorado School of Mines. Jessica is engaging in projects that emphasize the sociotechnical na- ture of engineering with a focus on social justice and diversity. She aims to educate the next generation of engineers to understand and value the social, political, economic, environmental, and human

Conference Session

Ethical Reasoning and Responsibility

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teresa J. Ryan, East Carolina University ; Colleen Janeiro, East Carolina University; William E. Howard, East Carolina University

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Engineering Ethics

resonator arrays.Dr. Colleen Janeiro, East Carolina University Dr. Colleen Janeiro teaches engineering fundamentals such as Introduction to Engineering, Materials and Processes, and Statics. Her teaching interests include development of solid communication skills and enhancing laboratory skills.Dr. William E. Howard, East Carolina University William E (Ed) Howard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He was previously a faculty member at Milwaukee School of Engineering, following a 14- year career as a design and project engineer with Thiokol Corporation, Spaulding Composites Company, and Sta-Rite Industries. c American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Huff, Harding University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

other engineering instructors share my sentiment of being a novice in reconciling thesocial and technical worlds of the engineering science course. To us, it is tempting to abandonthe pursuit of reconciling these worlds. Though we may agree such integration would benefitstudents’ professional preparation, the tension of the social/technical paradox might be a placethat the instructor wishes to avoid. I find Palmer’s guidance to be a useful conceptual tool here.We may long to embody and project a coherent integration between the technical concepts weare drawn to and the social world that we live in. Until we find that integration, however, we can“live out the resolution” of the social/technical paradox that accompanies our profession, thereby

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill D Carroll P.E., University of Texas, Arlington; Bob P. Weems, University of Texas, Arlington; Bahram Khalili, University of Texas, Arlington

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Engineering Ethics

College of Engineering experienced an enrollment growth of more than fifty percent, an increase of research expenditures from under $10M per year to more than $40M per year, and a growth of the faculty of about sixty percent. Over the same period, capital projects totaling more than $180M were started and completed.Bob P. Weems, University of Texas, Arlington Bob Weems is an associate professor in the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering at UTA, com- mencing his career in 1985 after completing a PhD in CS at Northwestern University. His present inter- ests are in algorithms, data structures, online computation, and preference-based matching. He served as the department’s associate chair from 2001-2010. He

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #11150Ethics and Text RecyclingDr. Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology Marilyn Dyrud is a full professor in the Communication Department at Oregon Institute of Technology and regularly teaches classes in business and technical writing, public speaking, rhetoric, and ethics; she is part of the faculty team for the Civil Engineering Department’s integrated senior project. She is active in ASEE as a regular presenter, moderator, and paper reviewer; she has also served as her campus’ representative for 17 years, as chair of the Pacific Northwest Section, and as section newsletter editor. She was

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samson Pepe Goodrich, East Carolina University; Teresa Ryan, East Carolina University; Colleen Janeiro, East Carolina University; Patrick F. O'Malley, Benedictine College

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Engineering Ethics

. The expectation based on multipleother works was that institutions with an honor code would have the best handle on academicintegrity issues [2],[3]. The results were that Benedictine College and East Carolina University’sresults were most like previous studies of colleges that have honor codes in place, while TheCatholic University of America (the institution without a formal honor code) was most similar toprevious studies of colleges without honor codes in place [4]. A 1994 study by Grahamconcluded there were no statistically significant differences between religious institutions orcommunity college students’ attitude toward cheating and perceived amount of cheating [5]. Oneaim of this ongoing project is to capture a sufficient cross

Conference Session

Ethical Reasoning and Decision Making

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

engineering ethics: Assessment of its influence on moral reasoning skills,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 87, no. 1, pp. 29–34, 1998.[6] J. Henrich, S. J. Heine, and A. Norenzayan, “The Weirdest People in the World?,” Behav. Brain Sci., vol. 33, no. 2–3, pp. 61–83, 2010.[7] Q. Zhu, C. B. Zoltowski, M. K. Feister, P. M. Buzzanell, W. Oakes, and A. Mead, “The development of an instrument for assessing individual ethical decision-making in project-based design teams: Integrating quantitative and qualitative methods,” in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2014.[8] R. I. Murrugarra and W. A. Wallace, “A Cross Cultural Comparison of Engineering Ethics Education

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Global Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Hoernecke, Iowa State University; Thad Gillispie, Iowa State University; Benjamin Anderson, Iowa State University; Thomas Daniels, Iowa State University

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Engineering Ethics

environment in a malicious manner. If a student intentionally gains access to a systemwithout authorization, they could be held accountable under U.S. Law. This means pranksagainst a business or the university could result in federal charges against the student carrying upto 5 years in prison for the smallest infraction and up to 20 years for a more egregious violation.Perhaps the greatest potential risk of teaching IW would be of training professionalcybercriminals. The use of computers for identity theft, phishing and spam has resulted in astrong criminal economy. According to an FBI projection cybercrime robs U.S. businesses of$67.2 billion a year, and over the past two years U.S. consumers lost more than $8 billion toviruses, spyware and online

Conference Session

Engineering and Sustainability

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

responsibility,” which holdsmanufacturers responsible for the fate of products that are no longer useful,47 accentuates end-of-life. The “ecological footprint” approach, however, looks at a shared consumer-producerresponsibility.48 The electronics industry has an enormous ecological footprint, requiring,according to 2003 United Nations University data, the following resources for the production of asingle PC: 240 kilos of fossil fuels, 22 kilos of chemicals, 1.5 tons of water.5 Surely suchinordinate consumption cannot continue indefinitely, and our future engineers may someday holdpositions with the power to effect positive change.Classroom ActivitiesWith a projected half a billion obsolete computers in the US alone by the end of 2007,24 theissues

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rigoberto Chinchilla, Eastern Illinois University

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Engineering Ethics

these initiatives as well as thosedriven by commercial interest. There is also little doubt that research typically drives the contentof university courses reflected in the final papers, projects, and daily lectures. It is not difficult toimagine that if our research funds become mostly or exclusively from interested parties in theMME then, the content of our courses might sooner or later, begin to reflect those alignments.The “true stars” in academia will be those who better serve the market demands. Thisimmediately raises serious ethical questions because many professors not wanting to do specialinterest research might be in disadvantage. In the end, academic freedom might be the mostimportant loss of all.Consequences for Universities

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part One

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire Komives, San Jose State University; Moira M. Walsh, Independent Scholar

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Engineering Ethics

to bemeasurable, even if they do not project to actual ethical practice on the part of the students. Forexample, students are required to write the six fundamental canons of the NSPE Code of Ethicson the midterm from memory. The performance criterion is to correctly scribe the six canonsalthough mistakes are allowed if they don’t change the meaning of the canon. The evaluation ofa case study is part of a paper assignment. The performance criterion is to identify correctly allof the ethical infractions described in the paper by comparison with the NSPE code. In the samepaper they are asked to describe a strategy for dealing with the infractions if they were to assumeto role of the supervisor of the perpetrator. Questions on the midterm probe

Conference Session

Ethical Behavior in Academia and Beyond

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

, the peerreviewers who comment on the suitability of manuscripts for publication, the journals readersand the scientific community, the owners/publishers of the journals, and the public as a whole.”47A further problem is posed by journals that republish materials that have already appeared inother venues. In 2010, two new journals published by Scientific Research Publishing, Journal ofModern Physics and Psychology, simply reprinted articles for their inaugural issues, includingone that had received a prestigious award.48 Duplicate publication can make the literatureassociated with a particular field seem more abundant than it actually is and may affect fundingfor projects, especially from external sources.Ethical ConceptsAt heart, the issues

Conference Session

Graduate Ethics Education & Professional Codes

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech; William Joseph Rhoads, Virginia Tech; Siddhartha Roy, Virginia Tech; Erin Heaney, Clean Air: Organizing for Health and Justice; Glenn Andrew Ratajczak, Clean Air Coalition of Western New York; Jennifer Holly Ratajczak, Clean Air Coalition of Western New York

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Engineering Ethics

Ethics and the Pub- lic.” She is co-PI on a National Science Foundation (NSF) research and education project developing an ethnographic approach to engineering ethics education.Mr. William Joseph Rhoads, Virginia Tech William Rhoads is a PhD student in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech working with Dr. Marc Edwards and Dr. Amy Pruden. His research focuses on various aspects of opportunistic pathogens in potable and hot water plumbing systems and implications of green buildings on public health. William is currently the vice-president of a joint American Water Works Association and Water Environment Federation graduate student group and is the recipient of the Via Doctoral Fellowship.Mr. Siddhartha

Conference Session

Moral Development and Ethics Assessment in Engineering

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, Delft University of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

different groups. Such training could promote understandingand cooperation between individuals from different national and cultural groups, contributing tothe success of international engineering projects and technological work.Since this study was exploratory in nature, it suffers from numerous shortcomings that will beaddressed in future work. The sample used in this study was relatively homogenous and notentirely representative. Going forward, future research will use different, more diverse studentsamples.References[1] C. E. Harris, M. Pritchard, M. Rabins, R. James, and E. Englehardt, Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases, 6th ed. Cengage Learning, 2018.[2] M. Martin and R. Schinzinger, Introduction to Engineering Ethics, 2nd ed. New

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics Across Contexts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon Tsai-hsuan Ku, University of Virginia; Xiafei Yang, University of Virginia; Sitong Wang, Chongqing University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

only one side ofstudents can comprehend. For example, the Challenger disaster, though a good case study forAmerican engineering ethics, may not be an appropriate one in the Chinese context. Second,                                                           1 Current areas of focus include: (1) Risks and ethical issues involved in engineering accidents; (2) Responsibleinnovation research in major engineering projects and corporate social responsibility (3) Methodology ofengineering ethics education, including curriculum construction and engineering vocational training; (4) Cross-cultural comparative study of engineering ethics.   4

Conference Session

Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

lessexpensive goods (that more people can afford) at the expense of loss of jobs.During the fall 2014 semester, it was clear that students easily grasped the connection betweencontrol system design and safety, with a large portion of the team-based final projects using asafety-related concept to drive one or more of their selected design specifications. In classdiscussion and individual conversations, it was also clear that students could see thephilosophical connection between the bigger picture engineering decisions (e.g., moving towardindustrial automation) and social justice, though they clearly perceived a disconnect betweenthese more philosophical concepts and the details of the classroom activities.Since the fall 2014 semester was the first

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

Spinoza’s call for caution. Reason became a tool in the grip of evil. Here in the United States, President Truman either was unaware or ignored the pleas of O.C.Brewster, a talented engineer, who as a condition for working on the Manhattan Project hadreceived written assurance from Franklin Roosevelt that a demonstration nuclear bomb would bedropped first—as a warning—before actual use against a city. A petition18 from Leo Szilard,physicist, signed by 70 colleagues, had recommended a hold on atomic weaponry, but this wasignored by Secretary of War Henry Stimson, who said: “I think the bomb instead constitutesmerely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary anddangerous to fit into old concepts.” In fact

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Ethics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

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Engineering Ethics

way or another it should engage the studentin the perennial questions of philosophy. There are many ways of achieving this goal. There is aneed to bring together relevant practice, and there is a need to experiment. In terms of theorganization of the curriculum and the need for mixed learning communities the need fordivergent visioning is great.Acknowledgements.I am deeply indebted to Dr Alec Martin who introduced me to the works of John Macmurraywhen he was the responsible official in the UK Employment Department for our project on theanalysis of jobs done by engineers. I am very grateful to Dr‟s Alan A. Cheville and Mani Mina,and Ms Sarah Heywood for their perceptive comments on the draft of this textNotes and references[1] Koen, B. V (2003

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Engineering Ethics - Courses and Curricula

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock Barry, United States Military Academy; Matthew Ohland, Purdue University

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Engineering Ethics

listed above, are being measured. Evidence that may be used includes, but is not limited to the following: student portfolios, including design projects; nationally normed subject content examinations [emphasis added]; alumni surveys that document professional accomplishments and career development activities; employer surveys; and placement data of graduates.2, 17-19The FE Examination is the only nationally normed, engineering-specific examination that couldsatisfy that statement. Notably, the entire section quoted above has been struck from the ABETCriteria beginning with the 2004-2005 version.20-23 In addition, starting with the 2004-2005ABET Criteria, all such lists of suggested accreditation methodologies were