ofthe course, gender, and the instructor’s personal encouragement of the students to engage insocial activism. Philosophy and religion courses were the most commonly cited types of HSScourses mentioned by students, with religion courses being almost entirely from students at thefive religiously affiliated schools.Other course types that were seen in student responses included senior design (10% of seniors)and first-year introductory and engineering projects courses (10% of total, 22% of first-years).Very few students referenced math or natural science courses as having been influential to theirviews of social responsibility (2%). A small percentage of students also responded that all oftheir courses had been influential (2%).Reflecting on the
-informeddecision.BackgroundThere exists a number of ethical decision-making models that borrow from multiple fields andtheoretical perspectives and seek to equip engineering students with a methodology foraddressing even very complex ethical dilemmas [1]–[3]. These models are important additions tothe ethics curriculum as they allow for movement beyond deontological approaches andincorporate ideas drawn from consequentialist ethical approaches (consideration of theconsequences of various actions) and virtue ethics (focus on reflecting whether one’s actions areconsistent with the type of virtuous person one might wish to be). Most of the decision-makingmodels developed for the field of engineering education to date are logically sequenced stepsdesigned to reduce stress
draw the linebetween the need of qualified personnel from the private sector reflected in our curriculumdesign and the need to develop pure critical thinking skills and general abilities in engineeringand technology. More than that, there is no study of how the corporate demands might affect theacademic freedom of our instructors. At what point does teaching based on specific corporatedemands compromise the need to teach general skills that can be used at any company withproper training? How do we know if the skills we are teaching based on corporate demands are Page 23.294.3the set of skills these students will need if they move out of the
excited about asserting and defending theirviewpoints during the lecture, and it is not uncommon for students to continue conversationswith the lecturer after the lecture is concluded.The vast majority of classes appear to reflect a spectrum of moral/ethical sophistication amongthe students – ranging from those who have clearly given considerable thought to the generaltopic of ethics, to those for whom the subject of ethics is relatively undeveloped. Such adiversity of familiarity with ethics may be somewhat reflective of ethical awareness among thepopulation at large. There was only one instance of a lecture in which the vast majority ofstudents in the class, as reflected in their discussion comments, clearly exhibited a striking lackof
EducationTraditionally, the main objective of engineering ethics courses has been to foster awarenessof and to stimulate reflection on the special responsibilities of professionals in technologicalfields. A well-established method to pursue this learning objective is to provide students withcase studies from engineering practice. The case studies typically focus on common ethicalissues such as taking a bribe from a vendor. However, a key problem with standard cases isthat they usually describe the ethical problem in such a fashion that renders it as beingsomething that is too simplistic. The more obvious the wrongdoing is, the easier it is todetermine what should have been done. Thus, there may be no true ethical ―challenge‖presented in the case.Clearly, the
. Basedon this experience, possible reactions and tips on how to direct the discussion are included in thepaper. The purpose is to present a detailed resource to educators for presentation and activediscussion, which provides for possible actions to be undertaken within the presenter's companyand towards the other participants in the meeting.INTRODUCTIONEthics, social responsibility, and trust are critical issues for all professions in the builtenvironment. The importance of this subject is reflected in numerous professional codes of ethicsand professional conduct statements such as the American Institute of Architect's Code of Ethicsand Professional Conduct [1], the National Society of Professional Engineers' Code of Ethics forEngineers [2], and
homework. Page 14.1045.2The authors speculate that this observation could reflect a risk/reward system that changes overtime. Cheating on homework has a much lower risk of detection than cheating on an exam;however, the reward for getting a higher exam score is much greater than for a higher homeworkscore. Additionally, the authors found that frequent high school cheating correlates with greaterinstances of cheating at the university level. As for how to best prevent instances of cheatingbehavior, they found that a student’s moral compass most strongly guides cheating or anti-cheating behavior. Students who believe that any form of cheating is
disciplines, but they have provided us, the faculty involved inthe project, with a multi-year opportunity to discuss, think about, and reflect upon the respectiveviews that each of us has about the goals of the project, what topics in engineering ethics areimportant, and the role of ethics in engineering more generally. We think that this reflection iscritical for determining how to teach ethics across our curriculum. We think that case studies are good ways to teach ethics in technical courses and theyhave proven effective in some studies (Yadav, Shaver & Meckl, 2010). However, we also agreewith the literature that argues that using case studies that do not connect more closely to studentexperience, the content of a given course, and the
therefore be readand interpreted as reflecting how student subjects typically understand ethics, morality, andrelated concepts rather than how these terms are more formally or technically defined.Rule/norm-based. The first major theme in the findings is comprised of those statementscharacterizing ethical or moral character as involving adherence to rules or norms in general.Approximately two-thirds of the interviewees made comments falling in this broad category,with the most common and most general type concerned with knowing and/or doing what is“right” or “best.” Representative examples of this type of statement include “to understandcomparatively what is truly right,” “doing the right thing”, and “making the right decision.” Asubset of this
assessed via observation during the simulation and others via evaluation of post-simulationreflective statements. Table 3 contains the parameters, their assessment area, and assessmentmethod.The ethical parameters assess each students ability to recognize the potential impacts of theirdecisions on society and their ability to identify a framework to ethically resolve the conundrum.Both were evaluated via student comments in a reflective exercise and are rated on a Likert scaleusing the guidelines in Table 4. The ethic assessment criteria (Criteria 1) was taken directly fromthe ethics assessment criteria used at our university assessment of student outcomes. The ethicalframework (Criteria 2) is a modified version of ethical frameworks from
traffic crash reconstructions wherestudents used concepts from engineering dynamics to determine specific answers to how theevent occurred. This project was part of the lab component of a junior level Machine Dynamicscourse. The student completed the analyses and consolidated their findings in a report followingUS Code 26 (Rule 26 report). A Rule 26 report should disclose the data and other informationconsidered by an expert including exhibits and charts. The report should reflect the testimony tobe given by the expert and must be signed by that expert. We have used versions where thestudents either worked alone or in teams. The student was then then “hired” by a law studentwho was role-playing an attorney and deposed to render their opinion on
from variousethnicities and cultural backgrounds also reflects my very shelteredness in this corner ofcampus. I don’t...there are no international students who take theater. So I don’t engage in thosestudents very often here on campus. So I think we can’t necessarily put that on the studentseither.” He continued, noting that the students did a reasonable amount of research, but that the“biggest barrier for them right now would be for those people to actually test those things.”This theme was strongly reinforced when a cross-cultural group of panelists were invited toattend and critique the students’ final presentations. Panelists remarked several times that theyknew people from the targeted regions on campus, and wondered why none of the
Model (PSRDM) created by Canneyand Bielefeldt [4]. The model seeks to gauge “the development of personal andprofessional responsibility in [students]” and merges these two dimensions togetherfor the professional connectedness realm [4]. The personal social awareness piecerelates to the development of one’s feeling “a moral or social obligation to help1This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNo. 1635554. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation. 1others” while
interaction per scenario. 5 more minutes to gather your final thoughts and write them down.Submission: Submit electronically a written report. Your responses should include: (a) A summary that indicates that you have captured the spirit of classroom, peer- group discussions. (b) Your own point of view as to how you would handle the Ethics Scenario presented.Requirements: Approximately 100 words per scenario. 4 scenarios, 400 words total.Commentary: Reflect on this classroom exercise and comment on the way it was organized and conducted. (No lectures, but peer-group discussions.) Indicate the importance of Ethics in Engineering Profession. What are your
instructional designers. Survey questionsincluded open-response, yes/no, and 4 and 5 point Likert scale items. The survey results were Page 23.547.4analyzed using descriptive statistics as well as Pearson’s Correlation to indicate relationshipsbetween survey questions and mode of course delivery. We collected additional informationfrom students in the form of a student self-reflection as an extra credit assignment after theactivity was completed and the final report turned in.Results and DiscussionThe students in both courses were overwhelmingly positive about the educational value of thisactivity, with only 10% indicating that the activity was “not
, honesty and truthfulness, organizational communication, ownership, qualitycontrol and product liability, public service, responsibility, and gender issues.1The session allows for a class-length experience, followed by a 30-minute period to reflect onand discuss approaches to incorporating ethics discussion in classes, methods for supportingstudent discussion and evaluation of the experience. During the class experience attendeesinteract with the sample teacher as they either hope or expect their students to participate(modeling student behavior). To prepare for this, the discussion leader encourages the attendeesto observe the process while reflecting on what experiences may or may not work in their ownclassroom.The goal of this paper is to
assignments that follow the classroom activity: a memoanalyzing their code of ethics and a reflection paper. The memo requires them to access theirprofessional code and analyze it according to a given set of criteria, while the reflection paperallows for free discussion, referencing the readings, of any course topic thus far that has caughttheir fancy or spawned thinking. A number of students choose professionalism as their papertopics, and, as the paper is due about two weeks after the activity, they have had enough time toformulate relatively coherent responses, which tend to represent an emotional gamut.Some students enter the class with very rigid notions of right and wrong—more than a few rootedin Christian fundamentalism—and evidence anger when
that looks at a site's natural land, water, and energy resources as integral aspects of the development." 5 ≠ "Sustainability integrates natural systems with human patterns and celebrates continuity, uniqueness and placemaking." 6In review of the totality of these definitions, it seems that the site or the environmentalcontext is an important variable to most working definitions of sustainability.Let us consider the approaches that a variety of engineering organizations and societieshave adopted in dealing with the ethics of sustainability. Recent changes in professionalsociety policies and codes of ethics reflect changing attitudes in engineering. Several
uncontroversial, andthere is no unanimously-held view concerning the proper role of intuition in ethics. Page 13.569.3However, the position I will advocate takes its lineage from a strongly compelling thesisof John Rawls’,6 which although not unanimously-held, is well-respected.The position I am referring to is called ‘reflective equilibrium’ and was coined by Rawls,but has been employed by many theorists since. The basic idea is this: ethics consists in adynamic process of intuition informing theory, which then can serve to correct or makeconsistent intuition. The process is continuous and loops back upon itself – one canalways legitimately ask whether a
, perspective-taking, getting feedback, or prototyping). Category 3: User as Human-centered design is a linear design process where users and other Information Source Input stakeholders are viewed primarily as sources of information, assistance, to Linear Process and/or support, not those whose needs should be reflected in design. Human-centered design is keeping the users’ needs and how design will be used in mind while designing. This approach involves gathering Category 4: Keeping the information about the users primarily from higher level stakeholders or Users’ Needs in Mind experts versus the users directly. Integrating that
engineering macroethics. Even more discouraging is the fact thatthere is insufficient amount of work on integrated approaches to address both micro and macroissues in engineering, that is, linking personal and professional ethics as well as linkingprofessional and social ethics [1]. The micro-macro distinction, however, is not always clear andone might find it difficult to encourage ethical reflection at a micro level without taking macroaspects into account [4]. To understand how microethics and macroethics are related, we will nowdiscuss each in detail.Sensitivity to MicroethicsMicroethics focuses on issues for the most part internal to engineering practice, such as therelationship between individual engineers, or between the engineers and their
regarding how their work impacted people, society, and/or theenvironment. This may truly reflect a lack of these circumstances, or may indicate that someindividuals are not adept at recognizing such issues. For 34% of the jobs, ethical/moral dilemmaswere encountered infrequently and were not of significant personal concern, compared toethical/moral dilemmas encountered infrequently but of significant personal concern in 16% ofthe cases. Smaller percentages of the jobs were reported to have frequent ethical dilemmas thatwere and were not of significant personal concern; 9% and 8%, respectively. Finally, 2%indicated that the moral/ethical dilemma was the primary reason that they had left their job.These cases might reflect that the individual was in
: Learning Objectives and Core Activities for Introduction Section Learning Objective Core Activities 1. Learn about other members in the group and 1. Introductions begin building a learning community 2. Reflect on group dynamics and ways to 2. Examining constructive and make the group functional destructive group behaviors 3. Establish ground rules for participation 3. Generate ground rulesThe introductory activities are particularly important because they help participants identifydeeper connections (beyond major or home department) and begin building trust and a learningcommunity. The list of suggested introduction activities that is provided as part of the
taught from the very beginning of our program To increase the ethical and moral education of the students through internal reflection and a Gil-Martín et al. Spain free election Hoole, Hoole Sri Lanka To use human rights as a religiously neutral basis for teaching engineering ethics Iino Japan To learn who engineers are and the world context of engineering work Wareham, New To participate in a general discussion of ethical theories, using these to explain the behaviour Elefsiniotis, Elms Zealand of participants, during a 2-hour workshop To recognize and analyze ethical
professionals and 33 AI/ANstudents who identified as being in the engineering field participated in the survey. The studentstudy participants who identified themselves as being in the engineering field represent 17different AI/AN tribes; the professional participants represent 20 different AI/AN tribes. Thestudent participants were mainly in the age group from 18 to 29 years old (94%). As expected,most participants in the professional group were 30 years or older (69%). There were also moremale participants than female participants, which is reflective of the engineering field in general.A recent U.S. Bureau of Statistics report shows that 13% of engineers are female [25]. In oursurvey sample, 64% of the students identified as male, and 69% of the
actions of engineers and the technologies for which they are responsible,giving priority to public safety in normative endeavors to define right and wrong within the fieldof engineering.These tendencies are reflected in the emphases of various engineering ethical codes, where avariety of ideals and rules for action are outlined, aimed at and applying to the individualengineer.2,3,4,5,6,7 This orientation could be described as “micro-ethics,” aimed at fostering thecapacities of individual engineers to engage in ethical reflection, decision-making, and action. Inrecent years, the focus of engineering ethics has expanded, encompassing the responsibilities ofprofessional and social organizations, “macro-ethics.”8,9 This shift has raised and
developing emotional responses such as empathy and sympathy [20]. Inengineering ethics education more specifically, Roesser discussed the importance of enhancingemotional and imaginative capacities of future engineers, especially in terms of encouragingemotional reflection in the design process for risky technologies [21]. Moreover, Sunderlandreported a novel attempt to engage students’ moral emotions in story-telling activity aboutethical issues [22].Despite growing interest in emotions in engineering ethics education, there has been littleempirical research about how emotions actually influence engineering students’ ethical decision-making. More broadly, it is not known whether, how, and to what degree emotions permeatestudents’ thinking about
as a member of thedesign team, but most engineering decisions do not occur at this level.The engineering design process would also be modified by basing it upon the environment. Inaddition to the steps of investigation, reflection, and creation, a new step of transformation wouldbe added: “The fourth and final step asks the following questions of the engineer: Has thesuffering in the world been reduced? Have the social injustices that pervade our global villagebeen even slightly ameliorated? Has the notion of a community of interests been expanded? Isthe world a kinder, gentler place borrowing from the Greek poet Aeschylus?” 21This transformational consideration is a positive idea; however, it is not always possible toexamine. (For example
reported the pressures “cheating works”, “the materialwas too hard” and “grade pressure” reported the highest average temptation index. Thesepressure themes might be reflective of students who are more “grade-oriented” than their peers,seeing grades as the ultimate purpose of college. This contrasts with those pressures with loweraverage temptation indices, such as “lack of motivation”, “it’s not cheating” and “others neededmy help”, which are not as easily linked to a grade-oriented disposition. Table 3: Temptation index for the college setting as a function of the reported pressures and hesitations to cheat. Pressure to Cheat Temptations Hesitation to Cheat
impossible. Table 2. Cyber Policy, Compliance and Ethics Course Description The world of cyber is complex and full or questions. This course is designed to delve into some of these questions and challenge students to explore their value system in a digitally connected world. The course is designed in two parts. Part one provides students with some understanding of information assurance in the context and the myriad laws, rules, regulations, and guidelines that impact compliance. Part two provides students an opportunity to build on their foundation in ethics by applying lessons learned in the cyber domain. This course will give students a chance to reflect on the social and professional impacts of computer technology by focusing on the