Conference Session

Engaging Ethics, Internationally

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qin Zhu, Colorado School of Mines; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is an Associate Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He also leads the Global Engineering Education Collabora- tory (GEEC) research group, and is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. Dr. Jesiek draws on expertise from engineering, computing, and the social sciences to advance under- standing of geographic, disciplinary, and historical variations in engineering

Conference Session

Faculty Views of Ethics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David B. Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

curricular content makes a difference in shaping the beliefs and expectationsstudents hold as they transition into their professional careers. Such an assumption is warrantedgiven the way other topics appear in the curriculum. For example, if an emphasis on teamworkand problem-solving were not perceived as relevant to professional practice, then one would notexpect them to receive as much attention as they do4,5. Similarly, engineering ethics is anothersuch pivotal topic, and therefore one would expect it to appear in undergraduate courses. Yet,this is not uniformly the case. To understand the discrepancy in engineering ethics coverage, thiswork focuses on some of the central actors in course content decisions – engineering departmentfaculty members

Conference Session

Case and Scenario in Engineering Ethics Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University; John R Luchini

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Engineering Ethics

enhancing undergraduate education through hands- on learning. Luchini-Colbry is also the Director of the Engineering Futures Program of Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, which provides interactive seminars on interpersonal communications and problem solving skills for engineering students across the U.S.Dr. John R Luchini Dr. John R. Luchini (1949-2013) earned his Bachelor, Master, and PhD degrees in engineering from the University of Michigan. In 2011, John retired as Senior Research Scientist and Engineer after a 34 year career with the Cooper Tire and Rubber Company in Findlay, Ohio. He was a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio; and

Conference Session

Ethical Behavior in Academia and Beyond

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University (ENG); Beth Stutzmann, RLC- Research Learning Community, Southern Polytechnic State University; Margaret Loraine Lowder, Southern Polytechnic State University; Mir M. Atiqullah, Kennesaw State University; Rajnish Singh, Southern Polytechnic State University; Craig A. Chin, Southern Polytechnic State University

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including prevalence[11, 12, 13, and 14]; motivations [15]; personal characteristics and attitudes of perpetrators [12,16, and 17]; detection [14]; deterrence [15, and 18] and the correlation between academicdishonesty and the students’ ethical behaviors going forward into their careers [19]. Many ofthese studies [11, 15, 16 and 17] have used surveys of students and/or faculty as the main sourceof data. Anyanwu [20] provides case studies that indicate that plagiarism may often be a result ofstudents’ failure to understand the rules of proper citation. Others concentrate on academicdishonesty in laboratory setting [13] or in test taking [11, 16, and 17] or consider a wide range offorms of academic dishonesty in the aggregate [15].Some studies [15

Conference Session

Graduate Ethics Education & Professional Codes

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard S. Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Joshua Lloyd Olds, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Eric Joe Coyle, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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purposelyremaining neutral on their personal stance with these issues.3.1 Issue #1: Unmanned Systems for Military ApplicationsThe development and utilization of unmanned systems for military applications is currently ahighly contested and debated issue. For professional engineers and engineering faculty, themajor concern is performing research sponsored by defense organizations such as the U.S.Department of Defense or a defense subcontractor.Robotics researcher, Ronald Arkin, has written a number of papers1,2 and a book3 in support ofdeveloping ethical principles into war-fighting unmanned systems. His career has supportedprojects from ordinance disposal to the lethal Defense Advanced Research Project Agency(DARPA) Unmanned Ground Combat Program, which can

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kacey Beddoes, Virginia Tech; Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Education at Virginia Tech. She is currently serving a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship at the National Science Foundation. Her research interests focus on interdisciplinary faculty members and graduate students in engineering and science, with engineering education as a specific case. Dr. Borrego holds U.S. NSF CAREER and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) awards for her engineering education research. Dr. Borrego has developed and taught graduate level courses in engi- neering education research methods and assessment from 2005-2010. All of Dr. Borrego’s degrees are in Materials Science and Engineering. Her M.S. and Ph.D. are from Stanford University, and her B.S. is

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

Education at Purdue University. She has a PhD in Early Childhood Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and international expertise in early childhood policy and research methods. Her current research focuses on developmental engineering, early education antecedents of engineering thinking, developmental factors in engineering pedagogy, technological literacy and human-artifact inter- actions. She is a member of Sigma Xi Science Honor Society and in 2009 he was awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER Award. Page 22.492.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011

Conference Session

Innovative, Engaging Pedagogies for Engineering Ethics Education

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Samuel Aaron Snyder, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Engineering Ethics

their career in industry. The second sectionfocused on grasping a general understanding of either ethical reasoning or global awareness,depending courses that the faculty member taught the prior academic year. Section three askedquestions associated with the barriers and challenges associated with teaching a Pathways Course.Section four asked was designed for non-Pathways faculty and sked about their knowledge of thePathways program. The fifth section asked about the faculty member to reflect on the Pathwayscourse they had taught or briefly talk about any future plans for the course. The last question askedhow ethical/global awareness factored into their teaching more generally. 5. Results and Discussion 5.1.Incentives When

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics in the First Year

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard T Cimino, Rowan University; Scott Duplicate Streiner, Rowan University

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Engineering Ethics

their development over the course ofthe semester. The purpose of this work-in-progress is to develop a quantitative and qualitativeframework for assessing the effectiveness of ethics interventions in a first-year engineeringcourse at a four year engineering college in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US. This course wasdesigned to introduce students to engineering design principles and the basic skills needed to besuccessful in their future careers as both engineering students and professionals - including theability to recognize and resolve ethical dilemmas (that is, to perform ​ethical reasoning​) insituations relevant to the engineering community. In particular, this study will examine how theethical reasoning of first-year students

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics: Using Case Studies

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Didier Valdes, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Erika Jaramillo Giraldo, University of Puerto Rico; Jorge Ferrer, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; William Frey, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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Engineering Ethics

VIDEO: ENGINEERING GUESSTIMATIONCharacters: 1- Steve Cashman, the boss 2- Pamela Marketer, a recently graduated doctor 3- Lauren English, her friend Pamela Marketer, a recently graduated Ph.D., is being interviewed by a potential employer.He offers her a part-time job while she starts her academic career. Lauren, her friend, is workingon a stream model for the Snake River and he asks her to help her with the modeling process. She begins working with her friend, looking at the process that she has followed. Laurenexplained the trouble that she has had collecting the data needed to develop the model. DoctorMarketer asks Lauren for the re-oxygenation calculations.However, Lauren looks distressed because she did not do those calculations

Conference Session

Moral Development, Engineering Pedagogy and Ethics Instruction

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christan Whysong, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Ethics

. Page 11.735.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Improving Ethics Studies through a Spiral Themed CurriculumAbstractTo enhance ethics training during the undergraduate career, engineering ethics material shouldbe presented throughout the engineering curriculum. The Departments of Engineering Educationand of Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech aim to implement ethics throughout afour-year program by utilizing a spiral curriculum, that is to continue revisiting the same subjectmaterial with increased difficulty at each occurrence. This is one of the goals of the DepartmentLevel Reform (DLR) project at this university, funded by the National Science Foundation(NSF). The two departments have started to compile a

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics Across Contexts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaofeng Tang, Ohio State University; Lisa Elanna Burris, Ohio State University; Nan Hu, Ohio State University; Natassia Brenkus, Ohio State University

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Engineering Ethics

us to integrate inthe module a variety of knowledge and skills related to students’ academic and professionalexperiences: navigating institutional contexts, understanding and changing cultural norms,creating policies, decision making, as well as written and oral communication. In addition, themodule creates opportunities for students to explore ethical leadership topics they mightencounter in their professional careers as a community. We strived to make the module not onlya resource for developing ethical leaders but also for developing productive and successfulresearchers and professionals, and as an igniter for a community of emerging ethical leaders.ConclusionUpholding the standards of academic and professional engineering calls for

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shiloh James Howland, Brigham Young University; Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Randall Davies, Brigham Young University

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Engineering Ethics

Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He also leads the Global Engineering Education Collabora- tory (GEEC) research group, and is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. Dr. Jesiek draws on expertise from engineering, computing, and the social sciences to advance under- standing of geographic, disciplinary, and historical variations in engineering education and practice.Dr. Randall Davies, Brigham Young University Dr. Davies is currently an

Conference Session

Innovative Approaches to Ethics Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Catalano, Binghamton University

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Engineering Ethics

differentiation refers to the preference from an evolutionary perspective thatlife becomes more complicated and more diverse. Subjectivity is a recasting of theadmonishment against treating others as objects rather than as subjects each possessing their ownunique set of self interests. Communion refers to the intricate web that we belong to as citizensof the Universe. An act is ethical if it promotes differentiation, subjectivity and/or communion; itis unethical if it violates these principles.Upon completion of this introduction to applied ethical theory with a specific emphasis onengineering ethics, the course focuses upon a set of ethical issues described by Kaebnick7 thatmay confront them in their future careers as biomedical engineers including the

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics III

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Borenstein, Georgia Tech; Matthew Drake, Duquesne University; Robert Kirkman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Julie Swann, Georgia Tech

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Engineering Ethics

likely bring the engineer into a potential conflict of interest. Yet students sometimeshave trouble seeing this as an ethical matter at all, casting as a matter of mere personalpreference. In this light, ethics education can be seen as an effort to give students’ eyes somepractice, as it were. Case studies and other materials can serve to demonstrate, for example, howaccepting what seems to be an innocent gift may lead to further temptations, which then lead inturn to a career-ending conflict of interest. The idea of ethical sensitivity overlaps with some aspects of the idea of moralimagination, as developed by Mark Johnson, Patricia Werhane, and others.[5-7] One aspect ofmoral imagination concerns the ways in which people use conceptual

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock Barry, Purdue University; Vincent Drnevich, Purdue University

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Engineering Ethics

performedby a private contractor.While assuming the role of the protagonist, the students are asked to consider and respond tothree separate scenarios. All three scenarios relate to acceptance of gifts and what could beconsidered bribery. Responses are recorded as simple “yes” or “no” answers to a total of 10questions.Although, the instrument addresses a single aspect of professional ethics, it is an aspect that thatthe authors anticipate will be encountered by graduates of their program. Many, if not most,practicing engineers will be faced with a bribery-related scenario during their career. Thesituation and hypothetical scenarios represent very realistic circumstances. As Herkert 11suggests, a realistic situation is a better instructional tool than

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics IV

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton; Caroline Baillie, Queen's University; Donna Riley, Smith College; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Ethics

Engineering: When Personal Values and Engineering Careers Converge,Lakeshore Press, 2005.iii H. McDonald, “Origins of the Word ‘Engineer,’” ASCE Transactions, 77, 1737. Reproduced in ASCECommittee on History and heritage of American Civil Engineering, 1970, Historical Publication No. 1.iv Aarne Vesilind, Peace Engineering, Lakeshore Press: Woodsville, N.H., 2005, pp.1-2.v Social and Economic Justice,” World Centric, http://www.worldcentric.org/stateworld/military.htmvi Daniel A. Vallero, “Just Engineering: Peace, Justice, and Sustainability,” Peace Engineering, LakeshorePress: Woodsville, N.H., 2005, pp.41-56.vii Krista E.M. Galley, ed., Global Climate Change and Wildlife in North America, Technical Review04-2, Bethesda, Md

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Ethics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

quit raising their hands in the affirmative,although there are always a few diehard hold-outs, whether out of sincere belief or sheerobstinance, I can never tell.One cautionary note: some students may see professionalism as a checklist, perhaps as anunintended consequence of our board lists: develop that skill/attribute and presto! You are aprofessional! So it is important to discuss, in a follow-up session, that professionalism involvesmuch more than checking items off of a list; it comes from within. It is part of an individual’sintellectual and psychological make-up, and, for some, an almost epiphanic awareness.Professionalism is much more than a job or career. It is a lifestyle.Student ReactionsStudent reactions emerge in two written

Conference Session

Ethics in different disciplines

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig T. Evers P.E., Minnesota State University - Mankato

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Engineering Ethics

disasters and spectacular failures, many other less-dramatic studies were used in each class period. Many were taken from situations the author hasencountered in a 30-year career in industry. While most of these made no headlines, the ethicalissues and situations involved were more representative of what the students may encounter intheir own practice.TextbookThe book “Truth, Lies and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster”, by AllanMcDonald was selected for a long-term, in-depth analysis of one of the major disasters of ourtime, the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Mr. McDonald was the only person whoraised his voice to ensure that the truth of the disaster was known by the PresidentialCommission investigating it. His

Conference Session

Understanding Students' Authentic and Reflective Experiences of Ethics Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stephanie Claussen, San Francisco State University; Shiloh James Howland, Brigham Young University; Swetha Nittala, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics

leadership development, performance management, competency development and people analytics. She integrates her research in Engineering Education with prior background in Human Resource Management and Engineering to understand better ways to develop STEM workforce both in universities and companies.Prof. Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is an Associate Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He also leads the Global Engineering Education Collabora- tory (GEEC) research group, and is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a B.S

Conference Session

Moral Development and Ethics Assessment in Engineering

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Jake Walker Lewis, University of Colorado Boulder; Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University

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Engineering Ethics

unrecognized. The number of responses is small, and individuals who elected torespond to the survey may be those who placed greater value on ethics and/or had a greaterconnection to the instructor that emailed the survey invitation. Further, the survey instrumentwas not fully validated using rigorous methods [39, 44]. The majority of the survey respondentshad not worked very long as engineers after graduation. Those interviewed represented a broadrange of different career lengths post-graduation. Not all engineering disciplines and types ofengineering work are represented among the results.Results and DiscussionRQ1. Extent of impactThe survey results are summarized in Table 2. For all nine activity options listed on the survey,one or more individuals

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics: Using Case Studies

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina, Purdue University

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Engineering Ethics

mystudents were surveyed after a 50 to 75 minute class, while the reported groups participated in asix-week program, involving a three-hour case study and three writing assignments.Finally, near the end of the semester, I gave a survey to get the students’ opinion of whether theoutcomes of the course had been accomplished. Answers were again on a scale of 1 to 5 with 1indicating strongly disagree and 5 indicating strongly agree. The response to the question, “Thematerial covered in the ethics case study discussion helped me to understand the ethicalresponsibilities of a career in engineering technology,” has yielded an average score over 4.0each semester, indicating the students did believe the class discussion was useful

Conference Session

Engaging Ethics in Teams and Communities

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Torres, Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Megan Kenny Feister, California State University, Channel Islands; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Danielle Corple, Purdue University; Katharine E. Miller, Purdue University

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Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Patrice M. Buzzanell is a Distinguished Professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication and the School of Engineering Education (courtesy) at Purdue University. She also serves as the Butler Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkily Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. Editor of four books and author of over 175 articles and chapters as well as proceedings and encyclopedia entries, her research centers on the intersections of career, change, leadership, and resilience. Fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, she has received numerous awards for her research, teaching/mentoring, and engagement. She has worked on

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

-shelf engineering ethics textbooks, produce a mix of factors thatmay result in the common finding that students often become measurably ​less​ ethical as theyprogress through their undergraduate career ​[9], [10]​.In response to this, the College of Engineering at Boise State University is taking advantage ofsystemic curricular change efforts made possible by an NSF sponsored RED grant(Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments) to its Department ofComputer Science ​[11]–[17]​, and adapting innovations from that project to other engineeringdepartments. This manuscript describes efforts in the ​Department of Mechanical and BiomedicalEngineering​ and ​Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering​. These efforts

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Grant A. Fore, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Justin L. Hess, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Brandon Sorge, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Mary F. Price, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Martin A. Coleman, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Thomas William Hahn, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Julie Adele Hatcher

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Hatcher c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 An Introduction to the Integrated Community-Engaged Learning and Ethical Reflection Framework (I-CELER)Abstract Cultivating ethical Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics researchers andpractitioners requires movement beyond reducing ethical instruction to the rational explorationof moral quandaries via case studies and into the complexity of the ethical issues that studentswill encounter within their careers. We designed the Integrated Community-Engaged Learningand Ethical Reflection (I-CELER) framework as a means to promote the ethical becoming offuture STEM practitioners. This paper provides a synthesis of and rationale for

Conference Session

Ethical Reasoning and Responsibility

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra S. Fuentes, Brigham Young University; Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Randall Davies, Brigham Young Unversity

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

Technology, from Brigham Young Univer- sity. Gregg also does consulting in project management and leadership working with IPS Learning and Stanford University where he provides training for fortune 500 companies throughout the world.Prof. Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is Associate Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He is also an Associate Director of Purdue’s Office of Global Engineering Programs, leads the Global Engineering Education Collaboratory (GEEC) research group, and is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a

Conference Session

Reimagining Engineering Ethics

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Grant A. Fore, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Justin L. Hess, Purdue University; Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Ethics

the degreeprogram.JH: I appreciate all of these insights. I would like to touch on two points. First, I would like toreference two studies supporting the argument that experiential education is optimal forpreparing students for ethical practice in their future careers. Second, I would like to add fodderto the iteration argument we have laid down regarding ethics.First, in light of one of our recent work [22], it is apparent that folks tend to teach ethics in amanner that is less experiential than Dewey (and we) would think ideal. Specifically, engineeringeducation seldom provides students with explicit opportunities to act ethically in real engineeringenvironments (which I define very broadly), let alone critically reflect; but is simply

Conference Session

Research on Engineering Ethics Education and Practice

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado Boulder

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profession thataffects every aspect of modern life [1]. Reinforcing this sense of responsibility throughout thecurriculum helps increase students’ awareness and judgment, which supports their ethicaldecision-making in practice [33]. One student in Fluid Mechanics noted that the intervention“show[ed] how broad of an impact the technology we might be working on in the future canhave on the country and the world sometimes.” The hydraulic fracturing activity helped thisstudent understand the potential implications of his future career and this was an importantoutcome since he planned to pursue employment in the oil industry.The narrow technical focus of individual courses in the engineering curriculum can obscureconnections between, and implications of

Conference Session

Critical Reflections on Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, Delft University of Technology; Andrea Gammon, Delft University of Technology

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characterizes this as an approach “intended todevelop ethical behavior over the course of an entire scientific or engineering career” [1]. Toachieve this objective, however, engineering ethics must more fully engage with the field ofempirical moral psychology.This paper is divided as follows: The first part outlines reasons for adopting ethical behaviors asthe ultimate goal of ethics education, that behaviors are what both professional organizations andthe public ultimately care about, moving on to consider why the adoption of ethical behaviors asan educational outcome would be contentious, that accurately assessing the effects of educationon ethical behaviors is difficult if not impossible. The second part of this paper considersresponses to these

Conference Session

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

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Luan M. Nguyen, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Nell Gabiam; Cristina Poleacovschi

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, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Careers,” J. Homosex., vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 1–27, Jan. 2016, doi: 10.1080/00918369.2015.1078632.[18] “Navigating the heteronormativity of engineering: the experiences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual students: Engineering Studies: Vol 3, No 1.” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19378629.2010.545065 (accessed Apr. 19, 2021).[19] E. A. Cech, “Ideological Wage Inequalities? The Technical/Social Dualism and the Gender Wage Gap in Engineering,” Soc. Forces, vol. 91, no. 4, pp. 1147–1182, Jun. 2013, doi: 10.1093/sf/sot024.[20] W. Faulkner, “Dualisms, Hierarchies and Gender in Engineering,” Soc. Stud. Sci., vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 759–792, Oct. 2000, doi: 10.1177