to everyday engineering practice.Methods For four years, four teams of students and faculty have been involved in a project seekingto address issues ethics education at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). In the first year, ateam of junior-level students from multiple technical disciplines created a systematic method toanalyze ethics case studies in the context of engineering courses and a handbook with step-by-step instructions to aid engineering instructors in their efforts in include ethics in their course. Inthe second year, the team piloted a “joint-venture” approach to teaching ethics in engineeringwhere philosophy faculty at WPI volunteered their time and expertise in engineering courses togive a single class ethics training
Chemical Engineering Education. He served as 2004 chair of the ASEE ChE Division, has served as an ABET program evaluator and on the AIChE/ABET Education & Accreditation Committee. He has also served as Assessment Coordinator in WPI’s Interdis- ciplinary and Global Studies Division and as Director of WPI’s Washington DC Project Center. He was secretary/treasurer of the new Education Division of AIChE. In 2009 he was awarded the rank of Fellow in the ASEE, and in 2013 was awarded the rank of Fellow in AIChE.Ms. Paula Quinn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Through her role as Associate Director for the Center for Project-Based Learning at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Paula Quinn works to improve student learning
. Engineering has a direct andvital impact on the quality of life for all people. Accordingly, the services provided by engineersrequire honesty, impartiality, fairness, and equity, and must be dedicated to the protection of thepublic health, safety, and welfare. Engineers must perform under a standard of professionalbehavior that requires adherence to the highest principles of ethical conduct. When a solution canbe found it is important to contribute the innovation in technology to society.Engineering as Social ExperimentThis lecture is provided to students to emphasize that engineering is an experimental process. Atits heart, engineering is an experiment on a social scale involving human subjects. The reason isthat any engineering project is carried
also the Chairperson of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department for sixteen years from July 1990. He has been an IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers) Fellow since 2000. Dr. Eui Park has also initiated and developed a successful Human-Machine Systems Engineering program at NC A&T and has also conducted STEM outreach programs, the Para-Research Program, Partnership in Education and Research, REU, and RET, for the past sixteen years. His fields of research are Human-Machine Systems Engineering and Quality Assurance. He has been a principle investigator in 24 awarded funded research projects totaling over $12 million in the past ten years.Dr. Vinod K Lohani, Virginia Tech Dr. Vinod K Lohani is a
targetingsome of the worst by-products of industrialization). 10More recently, and the Committee for Social Responsibility in Engineering (CSRE) grew out oflate-1960s and early-1970s radicalism. In the early 1970s, CSRE published thenewsletter/magazine SPARK, which emphasized the role of engineering in its social andpolitical-economic context, including especially labor relations. 11 SPARK highlighted andcriticized a range of “oppressive” applications of engineering skills and technology, withparticular attention paid to the connections between engineering and military. Instead ofworking on military projects, SPARK’s editors encouraged engineers to employ their skillstoward progressive, liberatory ends. One of the editors’ major goals was to bring
of her previous research has focused on software designers’ formal and non-formal educational experiences and use of precedent materials. These studies have highlighted the importance of cross-disciplinary skills and student engagement in large-scale, real-world projects. Dr. Exter currently leads an effort to evaluate a new transdisciplinary degree program which provides both liberal arts and technical content through competency-based experiential learning.Terri S. Krause, Purdue University Terri Krause has a BBA from the University of Notre Dame, with 30 years experience in business and industry; and, a MSEd in Learning Design and Technology from Purdue University. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in
construction engineering and Research Assistant in the GERESE project. Her research interest include construction engineering issues and ethical issues related to research, construction and safety.Jorge Ferrer, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Jorge J. Ferrer is Professor in the Humanities Department of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. Dr. Ferrer holds a doctorate in Theological Ethics and specializes in Bioethics. He has authored or co-authored 4 books and numerous scholarly articles in his field. He has been PI of the NSF funded GERESE (Graduate Education in Research Ethics for Scientists and Engineers) Project.William Frey, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez William Frey
, Michigan Technological University Valorie Troesch, J.D., is a Ph.D. candidate in the Rhetoric, Theory, and Culture Program in the Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University. Her research interests are in engineering ethics pedagogy and, specifically, applying and testing a phenomenological approach to teaching ethics and using qualitative methods to measure learning outcomes. She has taught Engineering Ethics at Michigan Tech for many years and initiated a pilot project working with faculty in Engineering Fundamentals to redesign the ethics module used in first year engineering fundamentals coursework. Troesch also has a background in assessment and evaluation.Ms. Amber Kemppainen, Michigan
2006-1556: ENGINEERING ETHICS INSTRUCTION AS AN INTEGRATEDPROFESSIONAL COMPONENTKevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University Kevin Schmaltz teaches thermo-fluid and professional component courses in Mechanical Engineering, including the Freshman Experience course, Sophomore Design, Junior Design and the Senior Project Design course sequence. Prior to teaching at WKU, he was a project engineer for Shell Oil, designing and building oil and gas production facilities for offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Page 11.563.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006
). Professional and ethical responsibilities (ABET outcome f), engineeringdesign process, and ability to design a product to meet desired needs within realisticconstraints (ABET outcome c) are introduced in a required freshmen engineering coursecalled “Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering” (EENG-101). Legal andethical aspects of engineering are further emphasized in the sophomore and juniorelectrical engineering courses. As a major part of senior year experience ECE studentsare expected to be engaged in two sixteen week senior design course sequence, Design I(EENG-490) and Design II (EENG-491). Students are expected to be involved in majorinterdisciplinary design projects. In Design I and Design II various aspects of engineeringdesign are
senior-level Professional Issues in Civil Engineering course was taught for the firsttime in fall 2015. The course is intended to address the new ABET program specific criteria forcivil engineering to “raise the bar” on ethics instruction. The course is also intended to helpstudents understand the importance of sustainable design and the impacts of engineering onsociety. One of the methods used to teach students about these issues included a structuredcontroversy on a proposed new water resources project in Colorado. There was also an extensivecase study analysis of Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans that spanned four weeks of the course,two lengthy written assignments, and in-class discussions. This included a discussion of thesocial justice
. Mike’s research concerns how people think and learning, and specifically how technology can enhance the way people think and learn. His NSF-funded project, GEEWIS (http://www.geewis.uconn.edu/), focused on streaming real-time water quality pond data via the Internet and providing support for the integration of this authentic data into secondary and higher education science classrooms. His approach features the analysis of log files, ”dribble files,” that maintain time-stamped listing of navigation choices and lag time. This approach has been applied to hypertext reading (Spencer Foundation grant), videodisc-based prob- lem solving (Jasper project), and online navigation (Jason project). Recent work concerns playful
, associate professor of Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech, is interested in improving the bioprocess curriculum using a spiral themed approach. Page 12.854.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Improving Ethics Studies through a Spiral Themed Curriculum: Implementing Ethics Discussion at the Sophomore LevelAbstractTo enhance ethics training during the undergraduate career, engineering ethics material shouldbe presented throughout the engineering curriculum. In continuation of the Department LevelReform (DLR) project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), two departments
Paper ID #29277Ethics in Data Science EducationDr. Karen C. Davis, Miami University Karen C. Davis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineer- ing at Miami University. Her research interests include database design, query processing and optimiza- tion, data warehousing, and computing education. She has published more than 50 papers, most of which are co-authored with her students. She has advised over 100 senior design project students and more than 40 MS/PhD theses/projects in the area of database systems. She was awarded the ASEE Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering
, globalization, leadership, project management, ethics, and manufacturing processes. Gregg has lived in numerous locations within the USA and Europe and has worked in many places including North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Prior to joining BYU, Gregg worked for Becton Dickinson, a Global Medical Technology fortune 500 Company. In this capacity he worked as a product development engineer, quality engineer, technical lead, business leader and pro- gram/project manager managing many different global projects. Gregg received his PhD in Educational Leadership and Higher Education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a Master of Technology Management degree and a BS in Manufacturing Engineering
work explores engineering ethics empirically in a “developing world” context through aframework of care ethics. Care ethics, a.k.a., the ethic(s) of care, is particularly suitable for the“developing world” context because it helps draw attention to imbalances of power (e.g.,inequality, differential opportunity, and limitations on autonomy) that are often neglected byother ethical frameworks. In this work, we selected one element of care ethics (responsibility)and operationalized it in several ways: the language of responsibility; notions of paternalism; andawareness of key, influencing stakeholders. These lenses were developed and refined iterativelyby employing them in case study analyses of two design project reports written by teams
semiconductor device fabrication, now focus on the societal and ethical implications of nanotechnology and other emerging technologies. In response to the increasing need for interdisciplinary function, she initiated and leads the University of New Mexico's 'Science and Society Dialogue' project, embraced by a wide range of University departments, schools and institutes. As well as teaching engineering ethics, Dr. Mills offers seminars and workshops to a range of stakeholder groups. Page 11.48.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A Graduate Level Ethics Course
Institute, studying the intersections of engineering cultures, peace and ethics, educational power structures, and the experiences of disabled, queer, and trans engineers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Ethics Education as Enculturation: Student learning of personal, social, and professional responsibilityIntroductionThis paper explores how engineering students understand the meaning and role of ethics withintheir own life experiences, the context of their education, and their projections of professionalpractice. While the majority of work in engineering ethics educational research seeks toimplement and assess new educational activities, approaches, or paradigms, this
. She holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in civil engineering and a graduate certificate in engineering education – all from Clemson University. She has over ten years of construction and civil engineering experience working for energy companies and as a project management consultant. Dr. Simmons has extensive experience leading and conducting multi-institutional, workforce-related re- search and outreach. She is a leader in research investigating the competencies professionals need to compete in and sustain the construction workforce. Dr. Simmons oversees the Simmons Research Lab (www.denisersimmons.com), which is home to a dynamic, interdisciplinary mix of graduate researchers and postdoctoral researchers who work
become engineers who have ability, courage, andleadership, and can solve the problems” in international development projects. Its extensivecurriculum combining engineering and international development includes courses such as“Science and Society: Writing and Analytical Skills” and “Principles of International Co-existence,” which focuses on differences in culture, climate, and legal systems. But there is noevidence the program includes the ethical dimensions of international development work(http://www.ide.titech.ac.jp/index.html).Related curricular efforts in the U.S. include Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS,Purdue University), Engineering for Developing Communities (EDC, University of Colorado-Boulder), and Humanitarian
projects and processes, but of engineering more generally, including therisk-talk that has become endemic to our engineering world (see a classic essay by LangdonWinner [12, ch. 8]). Engineering is the foundation of our techno-human condition and deservesassessment not only in terms of manifest benefits but also in relationship to its own fragilities,threats, and global mutations.This point deserves reiteration. As Kristin Shrader-Frechette [13] has argued at length, there is apersistent tendency for technical appeals to experts and expertise to both underestimate risk.There is an equally persistent among technical experts to continue engineering technologies thatthey themselves assess as posing significant risks. One post-Ord illustration is
that it can be compared across countries and be easily interpreted. The Ginicoefficient demonstrates how income has changed for poor and rich. If the Ginicoefficient is rising as well as GDP, poverty may not be improving for the majority of thepopulation.Module 2: Design of Energy Systems in Rural AreasThis module entails a three-week introductory engineering design project on rural energysystems for developing countries. It serves as an introduction to context-responsiveengineering design and is suitable for general engineering courses and introductorydesign courses. With appropriate modifications, it could be made appropriate toengineering analysis courses or to upper-level courses in a variety of engineeringdisciplines. The module
Paper ID #6799Ethics in Engineering Education Using Virtual WorldsDr. Jodi Reeves, National University Dr. Jodi Reeves is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Engineering at National University in San Diego, CA. She teaches courses in design engineering, engineering management, electric circuits, and other applied engineering courses. She is also the lead faculty for the Data Analytics program in the School of Engineering, Technology, and Media at National University. Prior to academia, she worked for almost ten years as a quality control manager, engineering project manager, and senior scientist responsi
meeting, assume professional society leadership positions, etc. Students must fulfill specified outreach requirements during their college career before they can graduate. 5. Place more emphasis on professionalism and ethics in a senior capstone class: Two full lectures of the senior design project are devoted to these topics. One of the lectures (in the context of engineering standards) is devoted to the role of professional societies in the development and maintenance of standards. The students are made aware of the need to become involved with the professional societies, and the importance of their service in standard-setting committees. Another lecture is devoted to the topic of ethics in
Human Development specializing in Educational Technology Leadership. Her work focuses on projects that measure and assess student perceptions of learning related to their experiences with engineering course innovations. She is a faculty development consultant with previous experience in instructional design and instructor of the Graduate Assistant Seminar for engineering teaching assistants. Page 22.906.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Integrating Ethics into Undergraduate Environmental Science and Economics Education Abstract Good
demonstrated, these fractions of overall disciplinaryeffort can be construed to underestimate the actual numbers of engineers who work ondefense-related projects. With respect to research efforts, based on data from theNational Science Foundation, about 50% of federally supported research in engineering isdefense-related, far higher than for most other disciplines.A variety of ethical questions surround the engineer’s participation in military or defense-related work. But despite this, and despite the historically strong and persistingassociation between engineering and the military, surprisingly little attention is paid toquestions of military, defense, or weapons research and development in engineeringethics literature. We surveyed several
AC 2012-5580: WEB 2.0 ETHICS EDUCATION: PATENTS AND COPY-RIGHT FOR STEM STUDENTSDr. Christa Walck, Michigan Technological University Christa Walck, Ph.D., was Principal Investigator on the ethics education project funded by the National Science Foundation. She is Associate Provost at Michigan Technological University, where she also served as Dean of the School of Business and Economics and Interim Director of the Van Pelt and Opie Library. Her current interests include assessment of student learning and organizational change.Dr. Jacqueline E. Huntoon, Michigan Technological University Jacqueline Huntoon is Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School at Michigan Technological University. She served as the
substantive works mirroring and foreshadowingtechnical developments and ethical issues. This paper describes a course examining theconnections between fiction and technology in the field of AI, which meets undergraduatewriting, literature and ethics requirements while giving students a solid base in the AI state-of-the-art. The course can also be taught as a project-based graduate class.IntroductionEngaging students and helping them develop creativity in engineering and science is a challengeand a goal for many faculty. Our students often come to college with extra-curricular passionsthat may be used to build connections with technical material. Video gaming is a commonpassion, but for many, the connection is to the story of the game more than to the
Engineering from Mines. Prior to joining the Faculty at Mines, Linda served in various roles in the oil and gas industry including operations engineer, production engi- neer, attorney, and international negotiator for oil and gas project development. She teaches Properties of Reservoir Fluids, Mechanics of Petroleum Production, Petroleum Seminar, Field Session, Fossil Energy, Environmental Law and Sustainability, and Corporate Social Responsibility. In addition to teaching in the Petroleum Engineering program at Mines, Linda teaches courses in the Leadership in Social Responsibil- ity, Humanitarian Engineering, Energy, and Midstream Minor programs and the Natural Resources and Energy Policy graduate program at Mines
AC 2011-1385: COMPARISON OF ENGAGEMENT WITH ETHICS BE-TWEEN AN ENGINEERING AND A BUSINESS PROGRAMSSteven Culver, Virginia TechVinod K Lohani, Virginia Tech Vinod K Lohani is a professor in the Engineering Education Department and an adjunct faculty in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in the areas of knowledge modeling, water and energy sustainability, engineering learning modules for freshmen, and international collaboration. He led a 5-year DLR/NSF project at Virginia Tech. A spiral curriculum approach is adopted to reformulate engineering curriculum in bioprocess engineering in this project. He co-authored an award winning paper with his PhD student (Dr. Jennifer