access to encrypted data stored on suspected criminals smart phones. Each week or two we would quickly discuss a new article – articles like: Breaking iPhone encryption won't make anyone safer - By Jonny Evans, Computerworld, JAN 15, 2020 - Any security vulnerability will be exploited, enabling more of the bad activity backdoors intend to prevent. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - by Joseph Menn, JANUARY 21, 2020 - Apple Inc dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices in the company’s iCloud service after the FBI complained that the move would harm investigations, six sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. As Justice Department Pressures Apple, Investigators Say iPhone Easier to
assistance to the campus and community, and maintains the collec- tion in assigned subject areas. Her current research interests include information literacy instruction and assessment, the impact of student affect on learning, data literacy, and data management planning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Training Graduate Engineering Students in EthicsAbstractThe Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegasembarked on providing ethics instruction to incoming graduate students in the form of amandatory workshop. The College has a diverse graduate student population, including asizable international component, who are enrolled in several M.S. and
students (39 from engineering and 3 fromnon-engineering disciplines) used the tool to explore ethical implications of technology inhealthcare and biomedicine. We plan to use the Ethical Competency Assessment Frameworkproposed by Zhu and Jesiek [7] as a basis for student assessment across three areas – ethicsknowledge, contextual knowledge, and attitudes. Each guiding question in the tool can bemapped one or more of these three areas and then assessed on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 beingeffective and 1 being not effective. Such an assessment is a part of our ongoing work.ConclusionThis work-in-progress paper includes a pragmatic, prototypical ethical decision-making modelfor use in engineering education. The proposed model has the potential to promote
they understandethical issues, particularly as they relate to global differences, issues of advocacy and ethicalleadership, and ethics and emerging technologies. 2. To identify areas to improve studentperceptions regarding their ethics training and provide some directions for curricular planning forthe college of engineering at NC A&T. VPI investigators consisted of an interdisciplinary groupof engineering faculty, assessment professionals, and survey practitioners, to generate item poolsfor each of the two sections.The survey consisted of two sections. The first was focused on “perceptions of the curriculum”and included 11 items. For each item, students were asked their level of agreement ordisagreement according to a five-point scale: 1
, universities might become simple machines in aline of production; however well-planned and thoroughly discussed partnerships might not bedangerous to the university mission. To subordinate the whole university mission, to purelymarket needs is intuitively and ethically wrong, if we believe the university mission is todemocratize knowledge impartially for the people in a way that the people‟s critical thinking andgeneral education is the priority. Businesses‟ priorities and needs might not be always in linewith the general mission of the university. In general, the goals and results of superior educationare not immediately quantifiable. It may take a few years to evaluate the results of changes madein the curriculum if the MME is implemented. It is
internal team leadership needed toresolve common behaviors within dysfunctional teams. While no new theoretical results onteamwork are presented, the authors have focused instead on applying their experience asmanagers of teams in major corporations and institutions of higher education to explore what aneffective teaming curriculum might include and to develop related assessment tools. This paperoutlines a strategy for integrating deliberate teaming instruction into senior-level engineeringcapstone or project courses. The curriculum focuses on building team leadership skills andtechniques for addressing challenges such as planning and execution, social loafing, andprocrastination. Models for assessing students‟ teaming skills and for providing
communications, engineering economy, and construction planning, scheduling, estimating, and management. Page 13.762.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Integr ating Engineer ing Ethics Education into a Multi-Disciplinar y Seminar Cour se: Making the ÐUqhvÑ"Qwveqogu RelevantIntr oduction The Department of Engineering Technology at the University of North Carolina atCharlotte (UNCC) has developed and implemented a comprehensive program leading toan academic environment of continuous improvement consistent with the ABETTechnology Criteria 2000 (TC2K).1 With the advent of TC2K, many
people from 10 institutions in 9 states provided responses to thesurveys. The respondents included all academic ranks, deans to assistant professors.Several references about engineering ethics education were useful in the development of thesurvey.1,2,3,4,5 With this survey, the authors hoped to capture a sense of engineering ethicseducation in terms of courses, content, assessment, and future plans. The following questionsappeared on the survey: • Do you feel an ethics course taught specifically to engineering students is necessary, or can ethics best be taught to engineering students as a general education requirement or learned on the job? • Do any of your engineering departments have a full course in ethics? • Excluding any
––kids who’d give their eye teeth to be whereyou are right now? Page 23.794.7 Max then left, fully expecting Bryan to dump the used coolant. As Bryan stares at thedrum, he ponders his options. What options do you think he has? What do you think he shoulddo? First identify the responsibilities of Bryan, Max, and Bryan’s employer. (Scenario byMichael Pritchard)Scenario #2: Conflict of Interest Beth I. Beam is a civil engineer at the federal General Services Administration (GSA). Inthe next month, GSA plans to let an engineering design contract for a new federal building to oneof three firms, whichever appears to be most capable of
implementation strategies: “Promote broad understanding of political, economic, social and technical issues and processes as related to sustainable development. Advance the skills, knowledge and information to facilitate a sustainable future; including habitats, natural systems, system flows, and the effects of all phases of the life cycle of projects on the ecosystem. Advocate economic approaches that recognize natural Page 15.479.4 resources and our environment as capital assets. Promote multidisciplinary, whole system, integrated and multi-objective goals in all phases of project planning, design
psychologically realisttheories of ethics, concerned with how people actually think about matters of right and wrongrather than merely how they should [48], [49]. For example, as a pluralist theory of ethicalreasoning, MFT helps to explain how different, competing goods can conflict, resulting in thekinds of conflicts of interests that are central to engineering ethics and other forms ofprofessional ethics [1]–[3].Planned analyses and hypothesesIn this study, MFQ and ESIT scores were treated as outcome variables, and education anddemographic information – such as gender, age, and field of study – were treated as inputvariables. Since relatively few studies have used the ESIT [17], [32], [50] – and only one hasused the ESIT in conjunction with the MFQ [33
students who aremajoring in electrical engineering (EE) or mechanical engineering (ME) at the target institutions.The research questions that frame this investigation are as follows: RQ1. What exposure to social justice concepts have students had in their university courses prior to taking our Introduction to Feedback Control Systems (IFCS) course, which is required for both EE and ME majors? RQ2. How do students report their perceptions of control systems classes that explicitly include engineering and social justice units compared to similar classes that do not include social justice? RQ3. How does targeted social justice instruction impact student plans to pursue additional control systems courses and student ability to
ethics game.Future DevelopmentsThe interactive choose-your-own-path ethics game engaged undergraduate students with ethicaldecision making that had consequences larger than originally anticipated and that were affectedby external influences. We plan to adopt several modifications and to include additional studentcohorts to increase the number of participants in future iterations of the game.The simulation will continue to be implemented in both courses already described. We will betraining faculty that run additional discussion sections of the first-year engineering designcourse, which will quickly expand game use. A complete course drop-in package will bedeveloped for faculty to easily employ in their classes. The ESIT will again be administer
ethical analysis The third workshop led to a number of agreements: 1. A small number of BEfaculty members would form a curriculum development team. Beginning in the summerof 2017, this team would identify existing course components or create new materials forteaching ethics across the BE curriculum. 2. Instructors of BE courses would work withthe curriculum team to implement newly developed materials and pedagogical models. 3.The BE program decided to submit a second grant proposal to the Engineering EducationCenter for supporting the implementation and assessment of the new curriculum. Figure 1illustrates the plan of work agreed by participants at the third faculty workshop
a wide diversity of professionals and skilled workers, including engineers,architects, general contractors and multitudes of subcontractors, numerous manufacturers andsuppliers. For a construction project, it is normal to have several thousand, or tens of thousandsof activities which need to be carefully planned and coordinated and this involves managingquality, costs, schedules, safety, resources, and more importantly, personnel and reputations.Those who are in the construction industry may undertake projects for both private and publicinterests. The industry also interacts with multiple facets of government at the federal, state andlocal level. Engineers and contractors will be intimately involved in the designs, amendment oftechnical
that provide a basis for the opinion. An example issue is shown below. May an attorney engaged by a client for counseling in estate planning and trust matters provide estate planning services to the client and (1) offer to sell to the client financial products, such as insurance or securities, which the attorney is licensed to sell; or (2) refer the client to a business in which the attorney owns an interest (or from which he or she receives compensation) for the purchase of such products? 35In answering this particular question, Model Rules 1.7(b), Concurrent Conflict of Interest; 1.8(a),Business Transactions with Client; and 2.1 (Role of Attorney as Advisor) were considered. Theopinion concludes: “[i]f the
from its social, economic, and politicalcontexts and view it as a singularly technical venture also serves to remove the responsibility forthe use of these technological creations.A study of unintended consequences clearly links design, use, and responsibility issues. For the Page 15.526.2purposes of this paper, we will use Daniel Little’s definition of the term as “a result that cameabout because of deliberate actions and policies that were set in [motion] at an earlier time—soan unintended consequence is the result of deliberate action. But the outcome is not one of thegoals to which the plan or action was directed; it is ‘unintended
take other team members’ dissertation research intoaccount when planning their own dissertation research, even if it was on a different part of thesystem. For example, students whose focus was on the media aspects of the system needed toexplain to students from engineering why one kind of sensing mechanism would be preferable,more interesting or innovative than another kind, vis-à-vis the media fields in which theirresearch was situated. Inclusion artifacts were therefore used to suggest a certain design plan orfeature because the kind of sensing mechanism chosen would affect the work of everyone on theteam. In other words, students from the media fields could not make a choice of sensingmechanism without convincing the other team members to
Courses for Significant Learning”.16 Fink’s approach is an integrated course designthat is based on first developing individual components such as identifying situational factorsand learning goals, and then integrating the individual components into an overall structuredcourse, and finally planning of student factors such as grading system and course syllabus. Finkoffers a taxonomy of significant learning that has a hierarchy which is meaningful in this designcontext such that knowledge, application, and integration are defined.Learning objectives in the Engineering Ethics course: Students should recognize ethical issues Students should exercise ethical thinking Students should apply ethical judgmentThe first
- “Story of Self”- technical knowledge - Moral theory personal reflection- Identify skills, other than technical proficiency, that are - Citizen science for good and bad - Final project necessary for competent practice in engineering and science - Responsible conduct of practice - Reading quizzes- Describe the kind of engineer/scientist you aspire to become - Engineers and scientists informing public- Develop a comprehensive plan to identify ethical dilemmas in policy real-world cases as well as processes by which to determine - Engineers and scientists under pressure to preferable solutions to these dilemmas
professionalethics, after a certain period of work experience adopt themselves to what the society andtheir friends are expecting of them. When compared to populated and industrializedcountries, because of our cultural differences, small population and the friendly environment,we propose that there be periodic ethics education for practicing engineers. This can take theform of a two to three hour seminar or one day workshop at least once a year. Future workwill need to be done to identify the needs of engineers in Cyprus and to develop an ethicstraining program tailored to meet these specific needs. We plan to do this future work incollaboration with professional societies.Appendix Ethics Awareness Survey for Practicing
were apparentlyviolated by employees of Enron and how that lead to financial disaster for Enron, its employees,and many others.I also provided them with copies of the NSPE (National Society of Professional Engineers)Engineers’ Creed as another example of a Code of Ethics and the class discussed how thoseprovisions were violated at Enron. In particular, some of the trading schemes that Enron usedwere described and discussed. I pointed out that some of the work to implement those schemeshad to involve engineers and programmers. During the past year I added a case study from theNSPE for the students to discuss. This involved a graduating student who planned to work forone company but decided to take a recruiting visit and ski trip to another
publications6,7,8.In the planning for year five of the expert witness training, several changes were planned withrespect to the simulation scenario, the method of the role-play, and the evaluation of theprogram. First, in effort to gain a larger archive of scenarios which could be used for this type ofrole-play, the instructors created a new lawsuit dilemma which involved a car lift collapseaccident. A second program change was also implemented due to the size of the engineeringcourse increasing dramatically when over 60 students enrolled. The instructors responded to thechallenge by adjusting the method of the role play to no longer be a group interaction but simplyfocus one student interviewing at a time. Also, in attempt to systematize the experience
outlines our plan for the FLC program, Year 2 (2018-2019), structure. Prior to eachFLC meeting, we will share one or two articles with faculty. These articles will provide initialbackground information, and we will utilize these articles to facilitate discussions within theFLC. All meetings will primarily be discussion based. In addition, the first meeting will involvea service-learning experience and a practice reflection exercise that instructors can utilize as they(re)design their courses in alignment with I-CELER. The second meeting will explore differentmodes of philosophical thought in relation to ethics with special consideration of Deweyianethics [21] and an ethic of care [24]. The third meeting will unpack the I-CELER framework
programs offered by CIMER, and is amodular curriculum with flexible materials covering topics such as: Aligning Expectations Assessing Understanding Maintaining Effective Communications Fostering Independence Promoting Professional Development Addressing Equity and Inclusion Articulating Mentoring Philosophy and Plan Cultivating Ethical Behavior Similar training is available through CIMER for research mentees, called “Entering Research”[9]. As CIMER’s mission is to build capacity for inclusive research mentoring nationwide, theorganization also delivers Entering Mentoring and Entering Research Facilitator Training tobuild a national network of
of ABET as a major contributor[10], [11]. Barry & Ohland [12]have elaboratedon the university or departmental policy as pre-planned curriculum redesign before ABETEngineering Criteria 2000 criteria, influence from administrators, and input from advisory boardsand employer surveys as additional important factors shaping undergraduate engineeringcurricula. Despite accreditation criteria, professional license exams, national reports, andprofessional organizations of engineering have been major factors for incorporating engineeringethics education in undergraduate curricula. Walczak et al. [13]have cautioned that engineeringprograms still struggle to incorporate ethics into the curriculum and there exists a large variationin integrating
their ideas about the scope of engineering and the future of theircareers.AssessmentAssessment activities are planned and have been implemented throughout this project. To date,the majority of assessment methods have been formative in nature. As was discussed earlier, aliterature review has been completed and based on this review, student learning outcomes havebeen proposed. These outcomes have been used in curriculum development and thus are alignedteaching and learning goals. As the curriculum is implemented, summative assessments thatinclude pre- and post-content assessments and student surveys will be implemented.Preliminary formative assessment has taken place in the one-credit pilot seminar and in one HEEmodule. In the one-credit pilot
including gentrification and food deserts; the impact of policies and regulations on the built environment; understanding the impact of institutional elements on projects; and modeling of public perceptions. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #34350Liam Verses, University of Texas at Austin Liam Verses is pursuing a BS in Environmental Engineering and a BA in Plan II Honors at The Uni- versity of Texas at Austin. His current research focuses on macroethics in undergraduate engineering programs. His other academic interests include water and
vs. project schedule, design/prototyping/testing updates, and problemtracking. Students are encouraged throughout the course sequence to focus on the connectionbetween these deliverables: How is risk management driving design decisions? How is theprototype progress affecting your schedule? How are design decisions affecting the identifiedrisks?Prior to the instructor’s EAC participation, students completed an in-class workshop on riskmanagement that included an exercise where students observed an activity and identified ways inwhich the planning team practiced risk management, with a heavy focus on technical andresource risks. These risks are the ones that could prevent the team from completing theirproject, but they have little bearing on
minutes, was to allow students to hear the varying views oftheir classmates.The Departments of Biological Systems Engineering and Engineering Education are onlybeginning to implement this ethics training through a spiral themed curriculum so it is essentialto orchestrate an assessment plan for future evaluation. The assessment tool utilized for thisexercise was a survey which students spent ten minutes filling out after the class discussion. Forquestions 2.1 through 2.5, students were to circle the best response where: Page 12.854.6 1 is strongly disagree 2 is disagree 3 is no opinion 4 is agree 5 is strongly agree2.1