is consistently on the higher end of the required and offered course spectrum. This isimportant to keep in mind when researching and working within engineering education –different disciplines have their own cultures and mores [32]. Second, even in the face ofinstitutional isomorphisms – the phenomenon of institutions in different contexts having similarstructures, like program requirements [33] – there are still pockets of innovation. We know thisfrom NSF publications on exemplars of engineering ethics education [7]. Publications like thatand studies like this one raise the question about what it takes to achieve these patches of higherethics presence in engineering education. Thinking about answers to this question from both astructural
AC 2012-5106: ON INTEGRATING APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY RE-SPONSIVE TO COMMUNITY CAPABILITIES: A CASE STUDY FROMHAITIDr. William Joseph Frey, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagez William Frey teaches business, computer, and engineering ethics at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagez. For several years, he directed the university’s Center for Ethics in the Professions. His interests, besides practical and professional ethics, include moral pedagogy and moral psychology. He is active in the So- ciety for Ethics Across the Curriculum and the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics and has presented and participated in workshops at ASEE since 2000. He is also a Co-investigator on the project Graduate Research and
Paper ID #34973Sustainable and Ethical Packaging: Designing for Environmental andSocial JusticeMs. Irini Spyridakis, University of Washington Irini Spyridakis is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & En- gineering at the University of Washington. Her research and teaching concern ethics and sustainable design in engineering, human computer interaction, smart cities, resource constrained communities, tech- nology for social good, and STEM outreach. She has close to 20 years of teaching experience and is an experienced UX researcher and designer. American
Paper ID #33863Let’s Play! Gamifying Engineering Ethics Education Through theDevelopment of Competitive and Collaborative ActivitiesProf. 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
Paper ID #30487WIP: A One-Page Ethical Checklist for EngineersDr. Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, PhD is the Director of the Multidisciplinary Senior Design Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where students from Biomedical, Computer, Electrical, Industrial, and Mechanical Engineering work together on multidisciplinary teams to complete their 2-semester design and build capstone projects. She received her graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and has worked at RIT since 2000.Prof. Wade L. Robison, Rochester Institute of
Paper ID #29206WIP: How Should We Decide? The Application of Ethical Reasoning toDecision Making in Difficult CasesMrs. Natalie C.T. Van Tyne P.E., Virginia Tech Natalie Van Tyne is an Associate Professor of Practice at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univer- sity, where she teaches first year engineering design as a foundation courses for Virginia Tech’s under- graduate engineering degree programs. She holds bachelors and masters degrees from Rutgers University, Lehigh University and Colorado School of Mines, and studies best practices in pedagogy, reflective learn- ing and critical thinking as aids to enhanced
, New York, NY: Elsevier, 200-222 (2015).15. Du, X., & Kolmos, A., “Increasing the diversity of engineering education–a gender analysis in a PBL context.” European Journal of Engineering Education, 34(5), 425-437 (2009).16. Freeman, S., Eddy, S.L., McDonough, M., Smith, M.K., Okoroafor, N., Jordt, H., & Wenderoth, M.P., “Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(23), 8410-8415 (2014).17. Hayes, E., “Social contexts.” In: E. Hayes and D.F. Daniele, eds. Women as learners – the significance of gender in adult learning, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 23–52 (2000).18. Felder, R.M. “A whole new mind for a flat world
engineering curriculum.” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2004, p 14165-14179. 5. Vygotsky, L.S. Mind in Society: The development of higher psychological processes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978. 6. Bandura, A. Social Foundations of Thought and Action. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986. 7. Riley, D., Claris, L., Paul-Schultz, N. and Ngambeki, I. Learning/Assessment: A tool for assessing liberative pedagogies in engineering education. ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2006 (in press). 8. Harris, C. E., Pritchard, M.S. and Rabins, M.J. Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases Stamford, CT: Thomson Wadsworth, 2005
Paper ID #19234Developing Machine-Assisted Analysis of Engineering Students’ Ethics CourseAssignmentsDr. Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University Roman Taraban is Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Texas Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. His interests are in how undergraduate students learn, and especially, in critical thinking and how students draw meaningful con- nections in traditional college content materials.Mr. Mark Stephen LaCour Jr., Texas Tech University Mark is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Texas
Paper ID #19158Helping Engineering and Computer Science Students Find Joy in Their WorkDr. Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University Ken Van Treuren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Baylor University. He received his B. S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado and his M. S. in Engineering from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. After serving as USAF pilot in KC-135 and KC-10 aircraft, he completed his DPhil in Engineering Sciences at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom and returned to the USAF Academy to teach heat transfer and propulsion
framework of professional engineering licensure, it is interesting to ask, “Is it ethicalfor university engineering faculty to teach technical subject matter to engineering students withoutobtaining professional licensure?” “Since a professional engineer does have ethical obligations tothe “Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public” [5], should an engineeringeducator be held to those same standards?” “Will faculty with licensure teach better and producemore practice-minded graduates?” These questions are of interest to the Civil Engineeringdepartment at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology where faculty’s engineering practiceexperience and professional licensure is traditionally highly valued. As an engineering discipline,civil
feel confident in respondingto the case, our initial focus is on providing technical details surrounding the case. Specifically,we present students with content describing the scenario, facts, scope of impact, and othergeneral information. As the ultimate focus of the case is for students to justify the ethicality ofcontinuing deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, we prime students to keep the followingprompt in mind as they work through the case content: “There are overlapping technical andethical questions to consider here: How can we prevent future disasters like the DeepwaterHorizon disaster? Should we be engineering ways to drill in the Gulf of Mexico?” Following thispreliminary text, the case opens with a narrative video that
have an open mind and reflect thoroughly onethical situations in the future before jumping to conclusions. For the point/counterpointassignment in this experiment, the first team chose a case study that was related to the topic ofthe engineering class. The students were asked to write a point/counterpoint essay and discusstheir opinions in class. Upon completion of the point/counterpoint study, the students were askedto complete a survey to gauge how effective this method of ethics teaching was, as well asdetermine reactions to the assignment. In addition to the point/counterpoint assignment, the first team also developed a heuristicsassignment for the same senior-level class. A six step analysis method was adapted from varioussources10-13
.32When selecting a case, the instructor should keep these characteristics in mind :1. The case should be appropriate for the students; it should match the students’ skill level or knowledge of the course topic. For example, mechanical engineering seniors may be more experienced with certain discipline-specific subject matter than first-year students and could handle a case requiring more advanced knowledge. Furthermore, each student should be able to relate to the issue so that no one person or small group is disenfranchised.36, 372. A case should be complex enough to engage students in problem solving. Even if the case is simple, it should be complex enough to generate group discussion and alternative solutions to the problem posed
. Stephanie argued that it wasn’t safe for her work to be tested on humans and that deliberately erasing someone’s mind is wrong. Mr. Richardson responded with the fact human testing is necessary in any field. He then argued how joining the company would cure mental illness. (Decker, Hooper, Gorenberg)Some groups had engineering characters struggle with the social impacts of ethical decisionsoften driven by a desire for technological advancement. The following was written by a group ofinternational students from France, Germany, and Brazil, and has some basic grammar issues. Because of the iClone’s cost of production and maintenance, only the richest and middle class will be able to afford it. After its release one
that safety is first and foremost on the minds ofindividuals trying to form an opinion about emerging technologies. Therefore, accurate, reliable,and trustworthy information are critical to this decision-making process. Meanwhile, researchersrely on other outlets and sources like the media in providing enlightenment of the underpinningsof research to society, expecting universal acceptance will follow15. What scientists andconsequently policymakers fail to understand is that not all research faces resistance from publicdue to safety reasons, although that would be the overriding factor when lives are on the line. Forresearch dealing with human life and dignity such as stem cells and genetic engineering, peopleProceedings of the ASEE Annual
developing and evaluating alternatives. Similar toawareness, cognitive, situational and institutional factors may influence all of these activities.Intent and Action are generally not represented in more traditional rubrics for engineering ethics,but at the same time, play an important role in determining a course of ethical behavior. Intentrefers to the degree to which an individual is committed to a moral course of action and dependon an individual’s personal moral intuition, identify and affect. Action involves the ability totranslate awareness, judgement and intent into action. Again, the different cognitive, situationaland institutional factors described above may influence both a person’s intent and action.With these concepts in mind
Paper ID #29719Science Fiction as an Entry Point for Ethical Frameworks in Engineeringand Computer Science EducationDr. Valerie H. Summet, Rollins College Dr. Valerie Summet is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Rollins College, a liberal-arts school located in Winter Park, FL. Her research interests include human-computer interaction and CS education. She earned a BS in Computer Science from Duke University and an MS and PhD in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.Prof. Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato Rebecca A. Bates received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering
; Leitch, K. (2007). Improved Pedagogy For Ethics Instruction. ASEE Annual Conference. Honolulu, HI. 10. Haws, D. R. (2001). Ethics Instruction in Engineering Education: A (Mini) Meta-Analysis. Journal of Engineering Education, 90(2), 7. 11. McGinn, R. (2003). “Mind the Gaps”: An Empirical Approach. Science and Engineering Ethics, 9(4), 26. 12. Barry, B. (2009). Engineering ethics curriculum incorporation methods and results from a. A Dissertaion in Engineering Education, Purdue University. 13. Evans, N. J., Forney, D. S., & Guido-DiBrito, F. (1998). Student development in college : theory, research, and practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 14. King, Patricia M.; Mayhew, Matthew J. (2002). Journal of
Paper ID #6145Lessons Learned from Teaching with an Ethics ToolkitDr. Martin S. High, Oklahoma State University Dr. Marty High is an associate professor of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University. His academic interests include teaching in all areas and at all levels of chemical engineering with a focus on instruction in thermodynamics and mass transfer. His research interests are in the areas of mass transfer in polymeric systems, corrosion modeling, equation of state development and refinery catalysis. Marty also writes in the area of sustainability and on the intersection of law, science and society. He
, Ontario, Canada, April, 2010. 19. Mezirow, J. (2000). Learning to think like an adult. In Learning as transformation: Critical perspectives on a theory in progress (pp. 3-33). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. 20. McGinn, RE 2003. "Mind the gaps": an empirical approach to engineering ethics, 1997-2001. Science and Engineering Ethics 9: 517-542. Rest, JR 1986. 21. Elander, J, Pittam,G. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Vol. 35, No. 2. (2010), pp. 157-171, doi:10.1080/02602930802687745 22. Shuman, L. J., M. Besterfield-Sacre, and B. M. Olds. 2005. Ethics assessment rubrics. In Vol. 2 of Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, eds. C. Mitcham, L. Arnhart, D. Johnson and R. Spiers, 693–695
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Zoology from the University of Rhode Island and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from the University of South Carolina. Page 22.851.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Incorporating Societal and Ethical Issues of Nanotechnology into an Integrated User Network – Results from the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure NetworkAbstractNanoscale science and engineering (NSE) is viewed by many to be the next “technicalrevolution” which will transform science and industry in the 21st century. It is important thatsociety and the researchers bringing
value (Taylor, 1992) Awareness of the desire to be Page 22.1534.8oriented to the good can motivate people to act ethically. In addition, this drive to be oriented tothe good explains why people might try to justify in their own minds unethical behavior, therebyconvincing themselves that this behavior is, in fact, ethical.)VII. Future Efforts and Applications to the Ethics Classroom In the coming semesters, we will be designing, administering and testing theeffectiveness of an ethics program for engineers and scientists that, unlike traditional ethicsclasses, focusing to a considerable extent on why people violate ethical codes or act
has been stalled by boundaries between ways of thinkingand seeing. Practitioners on the ground have to learn from experience with no foundationalconcepts to help them build their knowledge. This study hopes to move engineering education ina more useful direction by breaking down these barriers to learning. It is not the intention toenlarge the amount that engineering students have to know by unimaginable leaps, but to expandengineering students minds and their potential to act in the best interests of society and toquestion what this might be. The approach is to introduce them to different ideas, thoughts andways of thinking by eliciting the support of scholars in other domains who, by engaging withmultidisciplinary knowledge building
in informing a critical design peda- gogy, and the ways in which the pedagogy and underlying studio environment inform the development of design thinking, particularly in relation to critique and professional identity formation. His work crosses multiple disciplines, including engineering education, instructional design and technology, design theory and education, and human-computer interaction.Luciana de Cresce El Debs, Purdue University, West Lafayette Luciana Debs, is a Technology doctoral student and Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Building Construction Management at Purdue Universitys College of Technology. She received her MS from the Technical Research Institute of Sao Paulo (IPT-SP), and
Paper ID #32744High School STEM Teacher Perspectives on the Importance and Obstacles toIntegrating Engineering Ethical Issues in Their CoursesJake Walker Lewis, Graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder with a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering and a master’s degree in civil engineering. Was involved with undergraduate research regarding ethics in engineering education, presented work in the form of a poster at the 2018 Zone IV ASEE Conference. Defended and published master’s thesis examining if/how ethics are being introducted in K12 STEM education in November 2019. Co-authored paper entitled ”Educating
AC 2009-540: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AT AN AMERICAN-STYLE UNIVERSITYABROAD: STUDENT ATTITUDES, AWARENESS, AND CHEATING FREQUENCYIsaac Wait, Marshall University Isaac Wait is an assistant professor of engineering at Marshall University. He earned BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering at Brigham Young University, and a PhD in Civil Engineering from Purdue University. He works in the areas of water resources and environmental engineering. Page 14.153.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Academic Integrity at an American-style University Abroad: Student Attitudes, Awareness, and
and observe the differences ininternal consistency. Lastly, we will consider implementing this survey with a larger sample sizeto increase the statistical power needed to draw conclusive results, particularly as it pertains tothe CFA analysis, which is sensitive to sample size.References[1] R. E. McGinn, “‘Mind the gaps’: an empirical approach to engineering ethics, 1997-2001.,”Sci. Eng. Ethics, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 517–42, 2003.[2] A. Colby and W. M. Sullivan, “Ethics Teaching in Undergraduate Engineering Education,” J.Eng. Educ., vol. 97, no. 3, pp. 327–338, 2008.[3] D. Bairaktarova and A. Woodcock, “Engineering Student’s Ethical Awareness and Behavior:A New Motivational Model,” Sci. Eng. Ethics, no. 218, pp. 1–29, 2016.[4] T. S. Harding, M
Paper ID #23163Learner Types: A Means to Expand the Definition of Diversity and to Re-design Ethics ModulesDr. Rider W Foley, University of Virginia Dr. Rider W. Foley is an assistant professor in the science, technology & society program in the De- partment of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is the principal investigator at University of Virginia on the ’4C Project’ on Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM education with col- leagues from Notre Dame, Xavier University and St. Mary’s College. He is also the co-leader of the ’Nano and the City’ thematic research cluster for the Center for