Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosalyn W. Berne, University of Virginia

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Engineering Ethics

explores the intersecting realms of emerging technologies, science, fiction and myth, and the links between the human and non-human worlds. Her academic research and writing span considerations of ethics in biotechnology, nanotechnol- ogy, and reproductive technology, with two academic books, numerous conference papers and journal articles published under her name. She has also written in the genre of science fiction, and published award-winning books in the body-mind-spirit genre about her encounters with horses. She has taught courses in Nanotechnology Ethics and Policy; Gender Issues and Ethics in the New Reproductive Tech- nologies; Religion and Technology; STS & Engineering Practice; The Engineer, Ethics, and

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brendon Lumgair P.Eng., University of Calgary

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Engineering Ethics

entered into the LMSgrade book without any human labour. The time allocated to write each quiz was 1.2 minutes perquestion, which was the same as the NPPE. Quizzes were open-book, open-notes but were to becompleted individually. It was impossible to supervise that the tests were indeed completedindividually, and some students were commented about cheating in their surveys. The timewindow to write a quiz was 48 hours. Students could start their quiz at any time in that window.After the testing time window had expired, the instructor allowed students to review whichquestions they got wrong on the test.For the online quizzes the average grades were similar from 2014 to 2015 (Table 5). Howeverthe standard deviation was much less in 2015

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten S Hochstedt, Penn State University; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Tricia Bertram Gallant, University of California, San Diego; Robert G. Melton, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Shiyu Liu, Pennsylvania State University

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theperception of dishonest peers and positively associated with understanding of academic integritypolicies.10 This research lends support to the idea that students require explicit education aboutacademic integrity.Yet, the ways in which faculty can infuse integrity education into the classroom has not beensystematically studied. Etter and colleagues proposed using the moral obligation andresponsibility that engineers have for the “health, safety, and welfare” of society as a way toencourage ethical reasoning and promote academic integrity in engineering students. Suggestedmethods for institutions include case-based learning, cooperative learning groups, and service-based learning.13 McCabe and Pavela suggested that faculty encourage honesty in their

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics Across Contexts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gokhan Egilmez, University of New Haven; Phillip A. Viscomi, University of New Haven ; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven

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Engineering Ethics

Engineering, and Civil Engineering from Ohio University, and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. His re- search interests cover a variety of topics that include engineering education, applied optimization and simulation modeling, social, economic and environmental life cycle assessment, data analytics, energy and sustainability, input-output analysis, transportation sustainability and safety. Gokhan has over 50 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious academic journals, books, and conference proceedings related to sustainable development, life cycle assessment, manufacturing system design and control, supply chain management, transportation safety assessment, and predictive modeling

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Cross-cultural Sensitivity, Moral Imagination, and Diversity in Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jani C. Ingram, Northern Arizona University; Angelina E. Castagno, Northern Arizona University; Ricky Camplain; Davona D Blackhorse, Northern Arizona University

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. She is an Associate Editor for the ”Journal of American Indian Education” and has authored or edited three books and numerous articles in peer reviewed national and international journals. Her most recent edited volume was published in 2019 and is called ”The Price of Nice: How Good Intentions Maintain Educa- tional Inequity.”Dr. Ricky Camplain Ricky Camplain, PhD is an assistant professor of Health Sciences and the Center for Health Equity Re- search at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Camplain is a Comanche scholar who was trained in epidemio- logic methods at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health where I received a Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH

Conference Session

Engineering Social and Human Ethical Impacts

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark L. Bourgeois, University of Notre Dame

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

the crucial connection between public policy, medical research and health issues– connections which the student himself was not aware of before starting SRR. After discussing ethics in Boot Camp, a student in anthropology and peace studiesbecame taken with the profound ethical issues implicit in research conducted in the conflictzones of the world. As her SRR project she undertook to develop a novel framework forrecognizing and addressing these issues. This framework then became the basis of a peer-reviewed published paper. 10 A third project took the results of the student’s engineering research and, using asmartphone app, made them available in a clear and accessible form to practitioners. This toolallowed the construction of

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Ricco, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

seminal work left unread by engineers dabbling in phenomenology and existentialism.(20) Aswith some great works, the actual writings of Husserl on philosophy are as revealing as how heoutlines previous philosophies to differentiate himself. Husserl argues that there are fourimportant revolutions in history of thought: Socratic/Platonic arguments based on logos and itssubsequent development into scientific thought; the Cartesian revolution; the transcendentalrevolution of Kant, whereby the only source of necessity is subjectivity and thus followsknowledge; and finally, the phenomenological revolution, which incorporates the form of andcontent of acts of knowing into a subjective framework. Descartes, according to Husserl’s history, believes

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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Engineering Ethics

chosen representing both individualachievement (summative)18 and assessments to assist student learning (formative).18 Two kindsof summative individual assessments will occur in this course. On the first day of the course eachstudent will be presented with a short case to identify ethical dilemma, to name possible courseof action, and to evaluate the consequences of actions taken. Then again on the last day of classthe same case will be discussed with each student and the same questions will be asked. This willprovide students with a measure of progress in the areas of the content. The reflection journalsthat students will write throughout the semester will also act as a kind of informal summativeassessment. Grading will measure a student’s

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Assessment

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L Hess, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Grant A Fore, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Brandon H Sorge, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; M A Coleman, Indiana U Purdue U Indianapolis; Mary F. Price; Thomas William Hahn, IUPUI

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Engineering Ethics

ethics alone.Future WorkFuture directions for this project include a Faulty Learning Community (FLC) wherein facultywill consider and discuss community engagement, scholarly values, ethical reflection, andcurriculum transformation. As of this writing, faculty in each department are currentlyparticipating in this FLC, which is focused on integrating community-engaged learning andethical reflection [13]. In the FLC, faculty have shared their strengths and wisdom in ethics andcommunity engagement for collective discussion and reflection among their peers. Hence,expertise has come from not only the multidisciplinary team of investigators, but also from thedisciplinary experts (the FLC members). In the future, our team’s methods of research

Conference Session

Ethical Reasoning and Decision Making

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Natalie C.T. Van Tyne P.E., Virginia Tech

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Engineering Ethics

, although Creswell labelsall quality-related methods as “validation.” [10]. We can demonstrate validation using thesemethods from Creswell and others:  Disclosure of researcher bias to demonstrate reflexivity [10], [11], and  Peer reviews of the study and its results to demonstrate effective communication for understanding and acceptance [10].While students should respond truthfully, response bias is possible [12]. Response bias couldarise from lack of understanding or lack of an appropriate level of engagement with theassignment.This study is limited by its time frame, institutional space, courses that the participants in thestudy sample are currently taking, and their frame of mind when they completed the assignment.There is

Conference Session

Awareness, Expectations, and Recognition of Ethics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Michael F. Young, University of Connecticut

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

areas of interest are chemical vapor deposition and engineering pedagogy.Prof. Michael F. Young, University of Connecticut Dr. Young (http://myoung.education.uconn.edu/) received his PhD from Vanderbilt University in Cogni- tive Psychology and directs UConn’s 2 Summers in Learning Technology program. He is the author of nine chapters on an ecological psychology approach to instructional design and has authored more than two dozen peer reviewed research papers. His work has appeared in many major journals including the Journal of Educational Computing Research, the Journal of the Learning Sciences, the Journal of Research on Science Teaching, Instructional Science, and Educational Technology Research and Development

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics, Academic Integrity

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Engineering Ethics

professional ethical dilemmas as distant and unlikely, they are intimately familiarwith cheating in an academic setting. Therefore, studying students’ perceptions of andengagement in cheating in academia is important. A number of studies have explored theseideas. Hall9 had senior civil engineering students review and write an essay on the ASCE codeof ethics, followed by an assignment to develop a similar code for undergraduate students. Hefound that students’ appreciation for ethics was improved by the exercise of linking futureprofessional standards to current conduct expectations for students. Harding10 found thatcheating behavior was self-reported more frequently by engineering students than humanitiesstudents and noted: “Differences between

Conference Session

New Horizons in Academic Integrity

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Jordan, Baylor University; Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University

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Engineering Ethics

2006-1015: ENGINEERING ETHICS AND MORAL THEORIES: A STUDENTPERSPECTIVEWilliam Jordan, Baylor University WILLIAM JORDAN is Professor and Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Baylor University. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He has an M.A. degree in Theology from Denver Seminary. His Ph.D. was in mechanics and materials engineering from Texas A & M University. He teaches materials oriented courses and his main research area deals with the mechanical behavior of composite materials. He also writes and does research in the areas of engineering ethics and engineering education. He is a registered metallurgical

Conference Session

Assessing Ethics Learning

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jagadish Torlapati, Rowan University; Sarah K. Bauer, Rowan University; Cheng Zhu, Rowan University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

). Write the left-hand side of the Colebrook equation and the right-hand side of the Colebrook equation in different cells. The difference should be minimized using the Solver function by changing the variable D Proposal I: The proposed pipeline path has a total length of 7500 m and the location is rock formations that can be difficult to excavate and lay the pipeline. This path is largely deserted and there is no significant impact on the environment Proposal II: This proposed pipeline path has a total length of 4500 m and the location consists of the forest with wildlife. This is not difficult to excavate. There could be an impact on the existing ecosystems during the excavation process. Proposal III: This proposed pipeline path has a total

Conference Session

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

face-to-face presentation, the participants uploadedtheir teaching plans to a shared online folder. In a day-long session, each participantintroduced their teaching plan and received feedback from their peers and the workshopleaders. At the end of the following academic year, the faculty participants will gatheragain to share their experiences implementing their ethics teaching plans.  Figure 2 Post-workshop Survey Results4. Discussion and ConclusionThis paper reports our effort to create a community of ethics educators for graduatestudents in engineering. Following a user-oriented approach, we grounded oureducational design firmly on engineering faculty’s perceived challenges

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David A. Rogers P.E., North Dakota State University; Orlando R. Baiocchi, University of Washington, Tacoma; Paulo F Ribeiro, UNIFEI

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

are good examples). And the most important part of the course, and akey component of the grading, is a research paper where students choose their own themes. In thatpaper, for example on nuclear energy, students need to address the history of that technology, itsimpact on society, the future perspectives, and the ethical implications of that technology.Important parts of this research paper are peer-review before the final version of the paper is turnedin and presentation to the class at the end of the course.Below, is a list of topics chosen in the 2013-2014 academic year by students in the Global Honorsprogram: 1. Everyday Services, Complex International Politics 2. The Future of Printing: 3D Bioprinting 3. Genetically

Conference Session

Evaluation of Ethical Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill L. May, Illinois Institute of Technology; Alan Mead, Illinois Institute of Technology; James Kemp Ellington, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

, structural equations modeling, meta-analysis, research methods, and statistical analysis. He sits on the editorial board for Journal of Business and Psychology and the Journal of Computerized Adaptive Testing. Since 1989, he has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and conference presentations. Prior to joining the faculty at IIT, he spent several years as a consultant, research scientist, and psychometrician. Dr. Mead received his Ph.D. in psychology from University of Illinois-Urbana in 2000 with a concentration on I/O psychology and a minor concentration on quantitative psychology.Dr. James Kemp Ellington, Illinois Institute of Technology Dr. Kemp Ellington is an assistant professor in the

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Integrating Engineering Ethics into the Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Glynn, Villanova University; Frank Falcone, Villanova University; Mark Doorley, Villanova University

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Engineering Ethics

students on a continuing basis? How do we replace ethics as a lecture during acourse with ethics as a way of life?” Some of these sample practices are as follows: • Students should personally sign their work. The mere exercise of signing your own work instills a sense of personal responsibility and ownership and helps to remove the general nature of academic submissions with personal and professional submissions. In professional engineering practice, deliverables are signed before submission. • Students review their peers’ assignments. Students can be asked to review and critique their classmates’ work. The review could be as

Conference Session

Evaluation of Ethical Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University; Megan Kenny Feister, Purdue University; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University; Alan D. Mead, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #10060Dr. Alan D. Mead, Illinois Institute of Technology Alan D. Mead, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he teaches individual differences, psychometrics, structural equations modeling, meta-analysis, research methods, and statistical analysis. He sits on the editorial board for Journal of Business and Psychology and the Journal of Computerized Adaptive Testing. Since 1989, he has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and conference presentations. Prior to joining the faculty at IIT, he spent several years as a consultant, research scientist, and psychometrician. Dr. Mead received his Ph.D. in psychology from University of Illinois

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 Ethics

creative arts interventions (e.g.creative writing and drama), patient interviews, communication and interpersonal skills training,and experiential learning, with the latter three having the most pronounced impact on empathydevelopment [60], [61]. Integrating peer-support, structured self-reflection, and course-basedcommunity service has also been shown to prevent the empathy decline that typically occursduring medical training [62].An example of service-learning as a tool for teaching empathy is “Project for Sharing” whereinstudents work with stakeholders to create devices for underserved community members [56].Student projects included building an infant/child location detector for blind parents and asimple-to-use communication device for deaf

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics Across Contexts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #25655The Moral Foundations of Chinese Engineering Students: A Preliminary In-vestigationDr. Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong Joint Institute Rockwell F. Clancy is an Associate Teaching Professor in engineering ethics and philosophy at the Uni- versity of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Research Fellow in the Institute of Social Cognitive and Behavioral Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and has acted as a long-term educational consultant, setting up a course and writing a corresponding textbook with Heinz Luegen- biehl, entitled Global

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

given dataand engineering and math alone vs. also factoring in related bodies of knowledge andassumptions.We are not suggesting here that faculty have to re-write all the problem statements they assign intheir ES classes. These interventions can be made gradually—first, for example, by assigningextra-credit opportunities for those students re-writing problems, then by allowing problemrewriting sessions (with a TA) every other week, then incorporating them in exams. It is clearthat initially, integrating SJ may provoke discomfort and seem outside any given instructor’s areaof expertise; however, with time and gradual integration, along with examples of suchintegration like those below, instructors should notice greater comfort and, more

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics

engineers to reason through moral is- sues, and explores the effectiveness of using a pedagogical framework of scaffolded, integrated, reflexive analysis to deliver the material. He was the 2012-2013 Engineering Education Graduate Student Asso- ciation President, the Director of Technology and Events for Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) during 2012-2013, and will be the Education Director for ESW during 2013-2014. He is an acting assis- tant editor for Engineering Studies editor the J-PEER. Page 23.645.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Global

Conference Session

Ethical Design

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Donald Winiecki, Boise State University; Lynn Catlin P.E., Boise State University; Harold Ackler, Boise State University

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Engineering Ethics

than a retrospective analysis in terms of absolutes.This is the same in our case, where students are introduced to professional ethics in readings andassignments in a course required in their first or second year of undergraduate engineeringeducation. This course is an application overview that uses case studies that uses what could beconsidered obvious cases of professional misconduct and breach of due-diligence expectations.Students review one or more of the cases (often one of those listed above) and write a brief essaydescribing the professional ethical breaches demonstrated in that case. One faculty memberdescribed that this exercise “...is really pretty easy… the case study gives a long view that makesthe overall problems apparent even

Conference Session

Sustainability and Humanitarian Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Engineering Ethics

addition, it was of interest to evaluate ifstudents in the environmental engineering course had a greater “sustainability ethic” compared totheir peers in the civil engineering course. On the initial “defining the discipline” assignment, anincreasing percentage over time of the civil engineering students included sustainability in theirdiscussions, 17% to 31% from 2008 to 2010. In comparison, 35-37% of the environmentalengineering students included sustainability. In 2009 and 2010 the second course module onsustainability did not increase the percentage of students who discussed sustainability as part ofthe fourth homework assignment on ethics; the percentage of the ethics essays that included theterm sustainable and/or sustainability were 29-47

Conference Session

Assessing Ethics Learning

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

David S. Greenburg, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel

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Engineering Ethics

theyengage with business and community facilitators to discuss how they will apply their learningtoward being effective principled leaders as they transition to the next phase of their lives [6].”Annually in the fall, senior students take part in a leadership day where they attend a workshop,often at local companies and interface with working professionals to work through a variety ofwork place issues and ethic case studies. These workshops include discussion of peer andsupervisor interactions, ethical treatment of customers and clients, individual ethical behavior inthe work place, and reporting of suspicious or fraudulent behavior.Engineering students participate in a two semester senior year design capstone experience, ethicsis again addressed in

Conference Session

Technology and Design in Engaging and Analyzing Ethics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

creator and creation does not provide an explanation for the view thattechnology itself is neutral, that morality is only apparent with use: a pen, for example, can beused for good (writing) or evil (a weapon). According to this argument, the artifact itself has noinherent value, and morality only emerges with use.In the 1960s, University of Toronto professor and media theorist Marshall McLuhan wrote agreat deal about the interaction of media and humans. For McLuhan, a “medium” is anything thattransmits information; a light bulb, for example, is a medium that transmits information in theform of light. “Media” and “technology” are synonymous.2McLuhan provides a convincing theoretical counter to the separation argument: all media, hedeclares, are

Conference Session

Innovating Ethics Curriculum and Instruction

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University; Melissa McDaniels, Michigan State University

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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #31031Equity, Inclusion and Ethics: Adapting a Mentoring Curriculum to Developan Ethics Workshop for Engineering StudentsDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Services at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics IV

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Niewoehner, U.S. Naval Academy

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Engineering Ethics

object to a situation in whichothers strive more intensely towards ethical conduct? Surely most who prize moralconduct in the professions would hesitate to object to any around them findingheightened internal motivation for ethical behavior, whatever the source of the motivation,particularly where those ethical conclusions are largely congruent. Their self-interest isserved by the religious principles of others. The most common objection I’ve heard is that a Christian engineering ethic wouldbe globally and culturally constrained. Peers assert that engineering requires a secularethic that can be universally embraced, as other religious systems or worldviews wouldbe justified in rejecting a religiously derived ethic. We must recognize

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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vision of 21st century civilengineering, it states: “Means of communication include listening, observing, reading,speaking, writing, and graphics. The civil engineer must communicate effectively withtechnical and nontechnical individuals and audiences in a variety of settings. Use ofthese means of communication by civil engineers requires an understanding ofcommunication within professional practice. Fundamentals of communication should beacquired during formal education.”17In practice, however, training in listening is rarely included in the engineeringclassroom.13 In fact, counter to the engineering profession’s ideal of engagement, it hasbeen suggested that engineering education fosters a “culture of disengagement.”According to sociologist