) in engineering and science hasbecome much discussed topic in the industry and also in the academia (Detroit Free Press, 2016;Burke, 2016). While the state licensure bodies monitor the professional conduct of the engineers,professional engineering bodies like National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) andAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) insist and expect their members to have goodmoral character and ethical integrity (NSPE, 2016; ASCE, 2012).However, the ethical contact and the professionalism of an engineer do not start with theengineer’s first assignment as a graduate engineer, but with what this individual learns inclassrooms as an engineering student and how s|he gets trained as an engineering intern. Theseeds of ethics
focuses on a group of five to six students discussing a complex, real-world scenario that includes current, multi-faceted, multidisciplinary engineering issues. Beforethe 30-45 minute long discussion begins, student participants all read a short scenario thatpresents some technical and non-technical details of the topic.Table 1 presents a summary of sample scenarios. As part of the EPSA, students are asked todetermine the most important problem/s and to discuss stakeholders, impacts, unknowns, andpossible solutions. Examples of the scenarios used in the EPSA are presented in Appendix A. Page 24.1349.2 Table 1. Summary of Sample ScenariosEnergy
sections share acommon syllabus and common assessments, there is also the possibility of communicating withstudents from other sections and previous years to access additional material or information, sobehaviors were included to address this. The list of behaviors included in the survey can be seenin Table 1.Table 1: List of behaviors included in the survey 1. Copying an assignment from a peer(s) 2. Not contributing to a team assignment that you receive credit for 3. Submitting or copying assignments from previous terms 4. Copying from another student during a test/quiz 5. Sharing your answer during a test/quiz 6. Asking another student for information about a test/quiz that you have not taken 7. Using a false excuse to get
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speakers in Chinese andEnglish, to better understand the effects of foreign language on ethical judgments. Finally, asmentioned above, this survey will be re-administered to participants on a yearly basis for the nextthree years, to check the reliability of the MFQ and the effects of education on the normativeperspectives described here.References[1] S. Canaves, “Shanghai building collapses, nearly intact,” Wall Street Journal, 29-Jun-2009. [Online]. Available: https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2009/06/29/shanghai-building- collapses-nearly-intact/. [Accessed: 13-Apr-2018].[2] J. Berlinger, “22 killed in China building collapse,” CNN, 11-Oct-2016.[3] “China bullet train crash ‘caused by design flaws,’” BBC, 28-Dec-2011
technology.With this background, it‟s not surprising that many of our students connect to technologythrough science fiction (SciFi). This paper describes a course on artificial intelligence andscience fiction. It has been offered as a general education elective, meeting writing-intensive,literature, and ethics categories for undergraduates, and as a graduate course with semester-longprojects.Artificial intelligence (AI) presents many complex theoretical, societal and ethical issues thathave historically been examined in works of science fiction. The interplay between sciencefiction from the 1950s to the present and the development of the field of AI can be used to showhow imaginative creativity and technical innovation fueled each other. As a non-AI
incident(s) had occurred. Choices given for gender were male,female, and other, which the user was asked to describe. Options given for ethnic origin wereCaucasian, African American, Hispanic/Latino, Mixed Race, American Indian/Alaskan Native,Black African, Asian, and Indian/S. Asian. Given the relatively small number of responses fromethnicities other than Caucasian, we combined all other ethnicities into a single variable.Respondents were given an open-ended question regarding major or work category. In theanalysis, “STEM” was interpreted to include all majors/job categories in mathematics andengineering, and sciences such as physics, chemistry and biology, but not social sciences. Non-STEM was all other fields, ranging from social sciences to
better seethe “everyday ethics” in her workplace.Internships, along with other types of experiential learning including service learning, student-faculty research, study abroad, and capstone courses, have been identified as high-impactpractices for enriching student learning [13]. For instance, AAC&U’s College Learning for theNew Global Century notes that such experiences offer “rich opportunities for connectingknowledge with choices and action” [14, p. 36]. However, as Beatrice’s and Palano’s experiencedemonstrates, students may have “had the experience but missed the meaning” [15, p. 151,quoting T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets]. Thus, there remains an open question about what could bedone to help students learn even more, especially closer to
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theoretical framework that posited discrete stages of moral development. Further, hedeveloped, for the first time, an empirical means of assessing individual levels of moraldevelopment. This theory has inspired the most widely used and researched assessment tools formoral reasoning [19], such as the Defining Issues Test (DIT) by James Rest [20]. However,Kohlberg's theory has been criticized on several accounts, most notably by Carol Gilligan in the1980's as containing an implicit gender bias [21]. Emerging from Gilligan's work was theobservation that Kohlberg's theory was founded on the deontological (duty-based) philosophy of Page 22.1505.5Kant and
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such empirical evidence, faculty and administrators are often left with little more thananecdotal insights to guide the development of curricula and programs. To address this gap, inS. Claussen and S. Howland contributed equally to this paper and share joint first-authorship.2015 we initiated an NSF-sponsored, mixed-methods study that used multiple measures andtheoretical frameworks to explore how understandings of social and ethical responsibility changeamong undergraduate engineering students during a four-year engineering degree program, bothin general and in relation to specific learning environments and experiences.Our study design included interviews and surveys in Year 1, a repeat survey administration in thestudents’ fifth semester
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reason to believe thatprefrontal cortex is not fully developed until at least age 25, calling further into question thevalue of undergraduate classroom assignments aimed at improving ethical judgments (e.g.,Aamodt & Wang 2008).25 In general there is reason for hope, as some assessment instrumentshave shown growth from educational interventions. We turn to this topic of assessment next.In terms of assessing how students perceive ethical and moral situations, one of the mostwidely-used instruments for measuring students’ ethical or moral reasoning is the DefiningIssues Test 2 (DIT-2),26,27 that was developed in the 1970’s and takes as its basis Kohlberg’sMoral Development Theory.28 The DIT-2 is administered by evaluating participant
organizations students participated in by allowingthem to select to which organization(s) they belong. The survey had a response rate of 5.67%(total senior engineering students = 2907). The low response rate was expected because this wassent out to senior engineering students at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Table 1 and2 shows the summary statistics for PI score and participation in organizations. Figure 1 showstest for normality. For this test, H0: the sample follows a normal distribution and H1: the sampledoes not follow a normal distribution. As the computed p-value is greater than the significancelevel alpha=0.05, one cannot reject the null hypothesis H0. That is, the sample follows a normaldistribution. Incomplete responses were excluded
-valence emotions to positive-valence emotions. Traditional moral emotions discussed in the previous section appeared in ourdata (e.g., anger, disgust, guilt, pride), but students also used other expressions to describeemotions they experienced. Emotional expressions could be classified into three broad themes:subsequent negative emotions, anticipatory negative emotions, and positive emotions. Thiscategorization was influenced by Pekrun [30]’s classification of achievement emotions. Pekrunclassified achievement emotions in academic settings into activity emotions and outcomeemotions and divided the outcome emotions into prospective/anticipatory emotions andretrospective emotions based on the time at which the emotions are experienced. Some
problematic. Since most people domake a living by working, does this mean that everyone is a professional? And if everyone is aprofessional, then why bother to use the term? Seeing everyone as a professional actually has theeffect of demeaning the true professional, who has sacrificed considerable time and money toacquire expertise in a field that s/he has made a lifelong commitment to.Professionalism according to the LiteratureThe literature defining professionalism is rich, varied, and contradictory, constituting a body ofknowledge in itself. A brief tour of selected books and articles reveals a definition ofprofessionalism that counters the popular notion, one that for many students is foreign territory.While sociologist E. C. Hughes (1958) argues
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1: Coding SchemeWhat professorate is teaching the course?Towards what engineering discipline is the class intendedWho is the targeted audience?Is the course required for these students?What is the duration of the course?What is the stated learning goal(s)?If there is a stated learning goal, was it met?What type of content is included in the course?What sorts of pedagogy are employed?How does the instructor assess student learning?What research strategies are used to measure transferability?What ethical theory(ies) must students consider? Deductive coding was used when I brought pre-conceived notions of items to be includedin categories. For example, I used Haws (2001) findings for pedagogical nomenclature, includingthe following
field constitute legitimate exceptions to stricturesagainst text recycling.A problematic area involves translations: while some may view translating an article from onelanguage to another as intellectually suspect and perhaps a case of duplicate publication, Wenand Gao offer a compelling argument that this practice actually “maximize[s] the effectivenessof academic communication and equalize[s] the rights of creating, distributing and accessingknowledge.”12 Furthermore, they note, that moving from one language to another involves morethan simply translating the words. It may include adding extra background information,completely revising the scope of the literature review, and, in general “reposition[ing] theresearch in an international context
unnecessary delays, frustration,and potential harm due to lack of oversight. Comparison of the evaluations of the tool with PDPand the final DHFs for the same projects will be used to determine effectiveness of the fivequestions tool at early evaluation.Five Questions:1. Are any humans included in the testing plan?2. Is the data collected directly about the person(s) in any way? (e.g. physical, demographic, capabilities, etc. including personal identification information; name, picture, age, SES, etc.)3. Is the data collection from testing / evaluation resulting in any type of tables or graphs?4. Is there a plan to publish or present the results in any public format?5. Is there any risk of harm to any persons in any way? (If yes please
professional engineers. The prevalence of unethical behaviors, such asplagiarism, among college students has increased significantly in the past 30 years10. Researchsuggests that science and technology students have the highest levels of cheating includingplagiarism10. University educators often debate whether plagiarism is committed willfully orunintentionally out of ignorance and research investigating this area appears equivocal.Therefore, we sought to investigate first-semester freshmen engineering students’ understandingof plagiarism at a science and technology university.Nearly 1,100 first year engineering students at a Missouri University of Science and Technology(Missouri S&T) completed an online survey and corresponding quiz designed to
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andcurriculum development: the role of engineers in humanitarian activities. Additionally, reforminitiatives in science and engineering (S&E) graduate education have yet to realize their potentialfor integrating ethics into curricula. Addressing such challenges, this paper will describeactivities to date of an interdisciplinary faculty team at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM)working on the development of graduate-level curriculum in humanitarian engineering ethics(HEE). The HEE faculty team has 1) reviewed and critically assessed relations betweenhumanitarianism and engineering in order to develop an applicable concept of humanitarianethics (HE) in engineering education and practice; 2) researched barriers and opportunities in thedevelopment and