checked bymore experienced engineers. Brad trusted his advisor who told him that his designs werebeing reviewed and checked by experienced engineers. Brad had faith that his approachin conveying his concern to his advisor would result in a satisfactory solution. Theunpleasant fact that Brad discovered later was that his designs were not reviewed orchecked, and that they were passed straight to contractors after being stamped by aprofessional engineer. Although, legally speaking, the engineer that stamped and signedthe plans assumed the responsibility related to the accuracy and compliance of the designwith applicable codes, Brad could not bear the thought that these were his designs and,due to lack of experience and sophistication, such designs
because young buyers often become loyal to their first new car brand.Also, your dealers have been demanding a competitive product to get customers from theircompetitors. Your company has planned a bold new design, code named YS, that is a completelynew design – new engine, new chassis, new suspension. All of these new components havecreated challenges in engineering and manufacturing that are threatening to delay the project.You have been called to a meeting to finalize the design of the YS so that manufacturing won’tbe delayed but first you need to decide as a team if a new suspension component, called a swaybar, will be added to the YS. The Large Project Lead has called a meeting to make the decision.You are six weeks from the design freeze
educationprofessionals to improve delivery and assessment is ongoing, and processes to promotetransferability of research findings are under development.References: 1. American Society for Mechanical Engineering web site, accessed May 6, 2014: “Washington Policy Report May 2013.” 2. FEDERAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) EDUCATION 5-YEAR STR ATEGIC PLAN, A Report from the Committee on STEM Education National Science and Technology Council, May 2013 3. National Academy of Engineering (2014), Making a World of Difference, National Academies Press. 4. National Academy of Engineering, Grand Challenges for Engineering, www.engineeringchallenges.org, updated 9/2013. 5. Johnson, Steven (2012). Future Perfect
success. A new initiative at a large, Mid-Atlantic University to assist engineeringfaculty in creating classrooms of integrity provided the impetus for this study. Nine facultymembers from the College of Engineering at the University participated in the initiative toredesign their course in order to create and implement plans to enhance students’ understandingof academic integrity. Specific goals of the workshop included increasing the likelihood thatstudents will practice academic integrity and illustrating links between academic integrity andprofessional ethics.Using a pre/post assessment mechanism, this case study investigates how students in one facultyparticipant’s course understand academic integrity and its importance before and after the
Technological University Ms. Kemppainen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals. Her research interests include the improvement of STEM education, ethics, and online/blended learning methods.Mr. Jonathan T Riehl, Michigan Technological University Jonathan Riehl is a Senior Lecturer in his sixth year in the Engineering Fundamentals Department at Michigan Technological University. He holds a BS and ME in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MS in Civil Engineering from Vanderbilt. His academic interests include engineering education as well as transportation and urban planning. He is currently finishing his doctorate in Civil Engineering.Mr. Douglas E. Oppliger P.E
PROJECTCIE 475 – Civil & Environmental Engineering Senior Design Project, or capstone project, is afour-credit senior-level capstone core course. Senior students of both civil engineering andenvironmental engineering majors must take this course in order to graduate. This is a Project-Based-Learning (PBL) course where students work on planning, designing, cost estimating,scheduling and preparing a comprehensive report and final presentation for a real-world industryproject. This course is normally taken after the CIE 401. It encompasses almost all of the ABETlearning outcomes (a-k or 1-6) and, hence, engineering professionalism and ethics is covered inthe course in order to better prepare the graduating civil and environmental engineering class
Do not place your name on this sheetAnswer the questions below on the basis of your current beliefs as to how a professionalengineer may ethically act.The SituationYou are a young engineer employed by the State Transportation Department. You have beenplaced in charge of inspecting a highway bridge project which is being built by a privatecontractor. Because of your education and extensive field engineering experience, you are ableto suggest techniques and procedures that save the contractor both time and money. The work,however, is done strictly according to the plans and specifications.Scenario No. 1It is quitting time on a hot summer Friday afternoon. The contractor comes to the site and offersa can of soda to each of his employees. He
) you can find and write down each one’s nutritional data from the USRDA label and cost. What is the energy cost ($/100kcal)? What is the energy density (kcal/kg)? b. Now find the most nutritious item you can find in each category in the store and write down their nutritional values and costs. What are their energy costs ($/100kcal) and energy densities (kcal/kg)? 2. Plan a day’s menu for yourself using each of three alternative budgets: a. $5 (maximum individual daily allotment for a food stamp recipient) b. $10 (low budget/student)Maximize nutrition regardless of costModule 7: Carbon FootprintFrom a physics point of view, the creation of electrical
codes.During all of this classroom discussion, actual work experiences are solicited from the students.Many of the students have previous or current job experiences and most of the students have, bythis point in their academic program, completed an internship. Experiences that the students havehad in these working environments provide a wealth of material for discussion. Additionally, theinstructor provides a few examples of his own, and also includes some of the classic examplesused to discuss ethical failures within the technology and engineering professions. This entirelesson is also a subset of a lifelong learning project each student in the capstone course mustcomplete. In this project the students create a ten-year career plan that involves
compiled, analyzed and tabulated. There are plans to generate similar modules for use insophomore, junior and senior level courses. Appendix B provides an example of an EthicsModule that was used by the authors. (Henthorn, 1994 – 2004).Students were encouraged to participate in classroom discussions. There were no lectures.On the contrary, Socratic Inquisition techniques were utilized in the classroom to create anatmosphere identified as Learning Paradigm. (McKendall,1993) Students were asked tosummarize their thoughts in a written report, which was later analyzed, graded, assessed andtabulated. The results were analyzed using Washington State University’s Rubric (Appendix A)and categorized using a Likert Scale. Data were plotted using a bar chart
principles of moral philosophy”. 7 It is a right-versus-right dilemma.Students in the college-level ethics course are then asked to consider how the threeprinciples might apply to this dilemma: • The ends-based principle concedes that because the behavior is detrimental to the group’s achievement he should be banned from group work until he learns to cooperate. • The rule-based principle encourages the teacher to ask what if every teacher in the Page 12.759.5 world were to do what I am planning to do and would they always allow he to participate or never allow him to participate? There is only one standard and it would
and the reason for its ranking.• Tier One Offenses; Falsification of data is a tier-one offense because the impact of this conduct is to hamper scientific research because new research builds on the old research and falsified data results in wasted efforts, additional costs, and delays in scientific advancement. For example, falsified research in medicine could result in physicians developing a plan of treatment for a patient that is not the best one for that patient but was assumed to be based on the falsified data [32]. Co-authorship is not generally considered to be a form of falsification. Yet, a review of the types of co-authorship relationships indicates that editors are, at the very least, mislead about the
material in part or in total online for anengineering course. Dr. Leitch experienced eight of thirteen required courses for an MBA degree (2008-2009)online and saw that the same techniques applied there could also be adapted for an engineering ethics course. Theonline offerings in Summer Session I 2011 (engineering ethics and engineering economics) were the first of severalcourses that WTAMU sees filling a need for a student population with a large number of non-traditional andworking students. Many engineering faculty may be leery of online instruction because they have no experiencewith it. With careful planning, online courses offer flexibility to students and a possible new revenue stream inregard to distance learners that may never set foot
thesecond portion of this presentation: using case studies in class.How to Use Case StudiesRecommendations provided fall into two categories: on the one hand there is preparation andpresentation (here the advice will be quite mechanical), and, on the other hand, we have Page 15.657.4suggestions for effective casuistic analysis.Preparation and PresentationFor short illustrations, movie clips, etc., the faculty member is probably the only one who needsto prepare. Longer and more complicated cases, however, may require student preparation andin these cases prior planning is key. Give students ample notice regarding what they need to do(read a case
from her employer in 2009, 2011 and 2012 for successful project management. Her areas of work and research interest are device design and regulation on medical devices.Mr. Md Mehedi Hasan, Grand Valley State University I have been working as a research assistant in supply-demand planning of Lithium-ion batteries for electric drive vehicles while pursuing my MS in Product Design & Manufacturing Engineering in Grand Valley State University. I pursued my bachelor in Industrial & Production Engineering from Bangladesh Uni- versity of Engineering & Technology in 2012. My areas of interests are manufacturing processes, quality management, supply chain management etc
understood. For instance, one might know how and where to use sugar (skill) butat the same time have no idea of how sugar is produced (theoretical knowledge). Also, onemight know how to describe the chemical and physical reaction that arrests material degradationin a galvanized metal (theoretical knowledge) but have never galvanized a part.In summary, this paper has three goals:1. Provide some ethical motivation for university administrators to put in place programs thathelp a prospective student choose a degree program that matches his/her interests, academicskills and immediate and long-term career plans.2. Present a graphical representation that can be used to contrast the various characteristics ofengineering programs that can be used as a
distinguish them from those who simplymake a wage in a certain occupation. For Samuel Florman, service is “the main existentialpleasure of engineering . . . to contribute to the well-being of his fellow man.”13Professionals may provide pro bono work for the indigent or be active in local governmentalboards, such as traffic commissions or city planning committees. Engineers without Borders, inparticular, is laudable as an activity that has a significant, positive impact on project recipients;our campus chapter, for example, has gone to Tanzania for the past three summers to dig wellsand provide the infrastructure in a remote community that currently does not have access to cleanwater. From these experiences, students learn important lessons about
situated, incremental curriculum plan in all seven departments in the college. Her responsibilities include faculty development (she has facilitated nu- merous college-wide workshops), TA training (approximately 15 graduate students from the humanities work with CLEAR to develop the communication competence of engineering undergraduates), program- matic and basic research, instructional development, and assessment. Kedrowicz received her Ph.D. in communication from the University of Utah in 2005. She also holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in organizational and corporate communication from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.Ms. Maria Dawn Blevins, University of Utah
11.12% of the variance. The data provide initial evidence that ethical climate is relevant to undergraduate researchteams. The ECQ needs a few further revisions in order to successfully evaluate the ethicalclimate of undergraduate teams. The analyses indicate that four items should be removed fromthe questionnaire because they do not clearly load onto single factors. There are five clearfactors, representing the different types of ethical climate. However, it seems that a few of theitems did not adequately sample the last two ethical types. We will include additional items ofcaring/ benefit to the team and independence in the next revision of the measure. Our original intent was to use rwg when deriving the plan on how to analyze
Implications of Technology. He teaches Wireless Engineering, Network Engineering, Fiber Optic Communications, Technology and Society, and Project Management. He also advises students on their senior design projects. He is author of “The Telecommunications Fact Book, 2E” and co-author of “Technology and Society: Crossroads to the 21st Century,” “Technology and Society: A Bridge to the 21st Century,” and “Technology and Society: Issues for the 21st Century and Beyond.” He is a member of ASEE, and a senior member of IEEE.Abdul Qadeer, Urdu Science University Dr. Abdul Qadeer is the Director of Academic Planning and Development at Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology (FUUAST), Karachi
. However, due totechnical issues, the system is now in Hilo for “tweaking” [84]. If it works as planned, the systemwill remove 50% of the GPGP within five years. Interested observers can follow the project onFacebook, Twitter, or on the project’s website: https://www.theoceancleanup.com/system001/.One of the more fanciful solutions received an honorable mention in the annual EvoloSkyscraper Competition. In 2011, Serbian designers Milorad Vidojević, Jelena Pucarević, andMilica Pihler envisioned a series of underwater skyscrapers, “floating islands that will be used toremove and recycle the garbage patch. These are self-sustained structures organized by functionhierarchy with four communication cores that connect three main programs—collectors at
perspective” than afforded by amore technical engineering process. Similar concepts are identified by both PA2 and PA3. PA4tells us that more experience with the concepts and process, and application of the results, isnecessary. This suggests that — in addition to inserting ethics modules in courses throughout theentire degree plan — that there could be multiple ethics checkpoints through the semester. PA5approaches ethics from the well-developed rationality of an engineer! There are always tradeoffsto be considered and with the instruction and practice provided, this student indicates that it ispossible to “engineer” a maximization of ethics while actively minimizing harms (this issomething we would hope for!) Similarly, PA6 concludes that one can
yields a design with the integrity of care, integrating the four phases to an appropriatewhole.Kardon [42] has examined the whole spectrum of engineering activity and concludes thatall the care elements “come to bear in each phase and activity”, as “engineeringencompasses much more than design”. In this work, Kardon examined how the careelement – the “engineer’s standard of care”-- failed in several cases. He sums up,“In fact, there is not a one-to-one correlation between the elements of care and the phasesof engineering services; all the elements come to bear in each phase and activity. ... indesigning, but also in planning, manufacturing, constructing, operating, maintaining,modifying adapting, repairing, dismantling, and disposing of
," Quantitative Methods in Psychology, vol. 112, no. 1, pp. 155-159, 1992.Appendix A: Complete SurveyCategory Variable Item DescriptionCMG KVO_01_pre I know a lot about opportunities to become involved in the community. KAK_01_pre I am able to plan or help implement an initiative that improves the community. SD_01_pre I appreciate how my community is enriched by having some cultural or ethnic diversity. KAK_02_pre I have the professional knowledge and skills that I need to help address community issues. BI_01_pre I intend to stay current with the local and national news. SCB_01_pre I have often
renderedvisible (e.g., “Given a -10 F night temperature, a 1500 calorie daily intake, and a 0.5 in thick coatworn by a homeless person, find the insulation material that will keep this person’s bodytemperature at 97 F throughout the night?”). Students could also identify alternate sources ofknowledge that would be useful to solving the larger homelessness problem “(e.g., social policy,urban planning, nutrition science, distributive economics)” [17]. Furthermore, they could identifywhat assumptions need to be challenged (e.g., what percentage of homeless people are adults vs.children, veterans vs. non-veterans, or how many actually own a coat that provides sufficientwarmth). Finally, students could contrast how their solutions would differ using only
refer to the ship as the “Babel at sea”; 29 crew membersstruggled to understand each other and the captain. As Squires notes, lack of a common languagemay have contributed to the confusion regarding evacuation procedures.29Pollution IssuesA more serious ethical consideration is the substantial environmental pollution wrought by cruiseships. Although several US states (Alaska, Maine, Washington, and California) have restricteddischarges within their coastlines and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) forbidsdumping of plastics in oceans, there is currently no comprehensive international plan for dealingwith what is becoming an increasingly vexing problem. “Beyond three nautical miles, there arevery, very few rules,” notes a Seattle
sectors to implement sustainability as part of building plan- ning, design, construction, and operations. As a LEED Accredited Professional, Annie brings the latest in green building methods, technologies, and best practices to the classroom. Her specific areas of interest include metrics of sustainability for built facilities, green building materials and systems, cost modeling to support sustainability implementation, and in situ performance of sustainable facility technologies.Dr. Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida Denise R. Simmons, Ph.D., PE, LEED-AP, is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida
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
currently works as a Research Associate and Deputy Director at the Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism (MCEP) and National Institute for Engineering Ethics (NIEE) at Texas Tech University. He oversees the day to day operations of the center’s distance learning courses for both engineering students and practicing engineers. Additionally, he provides lectures on ethical theory and other topics in an on-campus engineering ethics course. Burgess was also a member of the Ethics in the Curriculum Task Force for Texas Tech’s Quality Enhancement Plan. The Quality Enhancement Plan was a crucial component of Texas Tech’s accreditation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. A theme throughout these roles
a nontraditional route into academe by spending several years working as a management consul- tant planning, designing, and delivering organizational performance solutions and helping organizations American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #34179meet human resource challenges. Continuing this trend, his current research and consulting interests arebroadly focused on the application of psychological knowledge to real world issues. Specifically, he isinterested in issues regarding employee selection, development, and compensation as well as the impactof changes in