Conference Session

Integrity and the Problem of Cheating

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene B. Mena, University of Pittsburgh; David V.P. Sanchez, University of Pittsburgh

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Engineering Ethics

fusing sustainability principles and design thinking to address the Water and Energy grand challenges in the natural and built environment. Current projects include: Renewable electrode materials for Microbial Fuel Cells and the Electro-Fenton process, Recirculating Aquaponic Systems, Environmental Quality wireless sensor networks, and incorporating Sustainable De- sign/Innovation into engineering curricula. He serves as a director for Pitt’s Design EXPO and a variety of the Mascaro Center’s Sustainability Out- reach and Education programs including the Manchester Academic Charter School ”Green week” and the Teach the Teacher program, impacting thousands of students each year. Dr. Sanchez teaches Introduction to

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics in the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles J. Robinson, Clarkson University

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Engineering Ethics

mammograms (or wait until 50)?Write a good short story with ethical twists about 3 individuals who sustain spinal cord injuries.To reinforce how assistive technology could be applied to improve quality of life, the movie“Only God Could Hear Me”7 was played. It showed how individuals speech- and movement-impaired by cerebral palsy or autistic spectrum disorder could communicate, work, and enjoylife. A class assignment was to write down their initial assessment of the quality of life ofsomeone in the film before the film was shown and immediately after it finished. The “before”question was asked while a freeze-frame of a young adult with no arm control and in a wheel-chair was being projected. The “after” question wanted that same assessment, but also

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Assessment

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Wesley Odom, Purdue University - Department of Engineering Education; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Engineering Ethics

Electrical and Com- puter Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Education and Director of the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program at Purdue University. She holds a B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. in Engineer- ing Education, all from Purdue. Prior to this she was Co-Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue where she was responsible for developing curriculum and assessment tools and overseeing the research efforts within EPICS. Her research interests include the professional formation of engineers, diversity, inclusion, and equity in engineering, human-centered design, engineering ethics, and leadership. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Statistical Analysis and

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division - WIP Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong Joint Institute; Charlemagne Manuel

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Engineering Ethics

potential of “going viral,” being shared and viewed by exponentiallygreater numbers of people through social media and other forms of online communication. Forinstance, the Moral Machines project, hosted by the MIT media lab, has collected responses frommore than 16 million people worldwide.[6] A similar approach can and should be used to increaseknowledge of and access to engineering ethics education.Improving engineering ethics education and researchThis second part of the paper briefly reviews previous efforts and online resources to improveaccess to engineering ethics education, potential problems associated with the effective use ofthese resources, and the ways the modules and website described here would address theseproblems, improving

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Brenda Read-Daily, Elizabethtown College

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

studies, and discussion. Course instructors presented the Code of Ethicsfor Engineers from the National Society of Professional Engineers. Students were then presenteda variety of short ethical scenarios on projected slides and had to make their own ethicaljudgments using clickers. The voting results were presented on the screen, and the results werediscussed as a class in light of the Code of Ethics for Engineers. Students also examined a fewcase studies by viewing an interview with an engineer who attempted to stop the Challengertakeoff and news footage covering the Challenger and Columbia explosions, as well as aninterview with a survivor of the Deep Water Horizon oil rig explosion and associated newscoverage.Creative Fiction

Conference Session

Reimagining Engineering Ethics

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech ; Scott A. Civjan, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

context (such as atschool) can stretch the imagination capacity of a student. Further assignments includedprofessional decisions that would have impacts on different stakeholders or scheduling ofconstruction projects. Finally, brief scenarios were provided of data being given to the student touse in their design (from a different discipline, from a different collaborating company, fromanother team member within their company). The students were asked whether they wouldblindly use the data in their analysis, and if that would be affected by how similar the data was topast projects, as well as who they believed would be liable if their design ultimately resulted in afailure due to errors in that data. Through imagination exercises that progress

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton

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Engineering Ethics

seen in thefollowing case.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a federal agency has sole authority over the designand construction of metro New Orleans’ flood protection and water management asauthorized by Congress in the Lake Pontchartrain Hurricane Protection Project in theFlood Control Act of 1965. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers now admits that faultydesign specifications and substandard construction of certain levee segments, not ahurricane was the primary cause of the flooding damage in the New Orleans area.Responsibility for the levee design failures rests squarely on the U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers and on the federal government including both the executive and legislativebranches. This means that the Corps and the federal government

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin S. High, Oklahoma State University; Scott D Gelfand, Oklahoma State University, Department of Philosophy; Ronald Steve Harrist Ph.D., Oklahoma State University; Shelia M. Kennison, Oklahoma State University

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Engineering Ethics

, andenvironmental surroundings. Fatigue induced by concentrating or focusing on a project for asignificant period of time without a break (e.g. plotting results from a materials study or writing apaper summarizing one’s experimental results), good or elevated mood (induced by watching afunny video), and environment (such as a dirty office with a messy desk) all appear to influenceethical behavior. The class makes use of video clips containing re-enactments of published empiricalstudies that demonstrate why people act unethically. The videos serve as the means to deliverclear moral psychology lessons based on previously published case studies involving real orhypothetical scenarios. For example, one of the videos is a combination lecture and story

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Outside the Classroom

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Bowler, Michigan Technological University; Susie Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University; Tom Drummer, Michigan Technological University; Joseph Holles, Michigan Technological University; Ted Lockhart, Michigan Technological University; Joanna Schreiber, Michigan Technological University; Debra Charlesworth, Michigan Technological University; Jingfang Ren, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Ethics

inventory should help those studying the nature of research integrityand those designing education programs in the responsible conduct of research. STEMresearchers are held to ethical standards by funding agencies, the institutions they work for,professional societies and many of the journals in which they publish. This means that therecould be severe consequences in an individual violates the principles of RCR. Our tool could beused to identify the relationship between one’s research role concept and patterns of researchmisconduct for the purposes of preventing such misconduct through educational initiatives.As part of an NSF sponsored project we have designed and tested such an instrument. Indesigning our instrument, we adapted the constructs of

Conference Session

Ethical Issues I: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Spierre, Arizona State University; Elizabeth A. Martin, Arizona State University; Jathan Sadowski; Andrew Berardy, Arizona State University; Scott McClintock, Arizona State University; Shirley-Ann Augustin, Arizona State University; Nicholas Hohman; Jay George Banna Jr.

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Engineering Ethics

in the 1930s tomanage river flows and control flooding. When water levels on the Ohio river were projected toexceed 61 feet above at the Cairo, Illinois river gauge, the US Army Corp of Engineers(USACE) ordered the detonation of explosives that would intentionally flood farms in BirdsPoint-New Madrid Floodway, but spare Cairo from sure destruction. The induced breach andflooding of the 53,824 ha of Missouri farmland resulted in the loss of 2011 crops (i.e., wheat,corn and soybeans) and caused damage to future soil productivity [9]. While the floodway was originally constructed in 1928, it had never been activated until2008, despite earlier extreme flood events. Taken in isolation, the floodway decision faced bythe USACE in 2011 has

Conference Session

Ethics in different disciplines

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Jyothsna K. S., St.Joseph's College, Bangalore, Department of English; Amithraj Amavasai

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Engineering Ethics

road commission fornot maintaining sufficient road safety along this 3 three mile stretch. Both were dismissedbecause the drivers were going well in excess of the 45 mph speed limit.8. Exceeding Pollution Limits(Web Page on this Site) Hypothetical CaseMarvin has just prepared a report that indicates that the level of pollution in the plant's waterdischarges slightly exceeds the legal limitations. However, there is little reason to believe thatthis excessive amount poses any danger to people in the area; at worst, it will endanger a smallnumber of fish. On the other hand, solving the problem will cost the plant more than $200,000.9. Bringing in the First Woman(Web Page on this Site) Hypothetical CaseJim Grimaldi, projects manager in the

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin S. High, Oklahoma State University; Steve Harrist, Oklahoma State University; Scott D. Gelfand, Oklahoma State University, Department of Philosophy

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Engineering Ethics

minimalassistance, whether they see someone who needs assistance carrying groceries to a car, pickingup some dropped items or putting the final touches on a research project before a deadlinepasses. During most of one’s waking hours, one operates at level-1. For example, when a personpasses someone in need of (minimal) assistance; this person is likely on the way to anappointment or a class or trying to finish a task. How one responds or recognizes that they areconfronted with an ethical situation – whether to help the person in need of assistance – is to aconsiderable extent a function of habit and one’s emotional states. [This last, that emotion playsa significant role in ethical/ethical behavior at level-1 is important. Numerous studiesdemonstrate both

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics: Using Case Studies

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina, Purdue University

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Engineering Ethics

judgement to projects that may be large and expensive, high risk, andaffect the public safety. While some choices are black and white, many are “gray.” As a resultsometimes the choice is between two “right” solutions and sometimes it is the “lesser of two Page 14.720.4evils.” Failing to act ethically can have legal and disciplinary consequences, such as the loss of “Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2009, American Society for Engineering Education”personal or corporate reputation, loss of a job, failure of a company, or personnel

Conference Session

Socio-Technical Issues in Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; Thomas M. Philip, University of California, Los Angeles

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Engineering Ethics

epistemologies.Dr. Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park Chandra Turpen is a Research Associate at the University of Maryland, College Park with the Physics Education Research Group. She completed her PhD in Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder specializing in Physics Education Research. Chandra’s work involves designing and researching contexts for learning within higher education. In her research, Chandra draws from the perspectives of anthropol- ogy, cultural psychology, and the learning sciences. Through in-situ studies of classroom and institutional practice, Chandra focuses on the role of culture in science learning and educational change. Chandra pur- sues projects that have high potential

Conference Session

Research on Engineering Ethics Education and Practice

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Greg Rulifson P.E., U.S. Agency for International Development; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

schools, are responding to theseserious issues with training, task forces, student groups, counseling services, and concertedattempts to shift the culture towards openness and accountability [30]. Further, there areprograms that actually center social justice, community engagement, and humility regardingprivilege and power are growing. Some examples include the Colorado School of Mines, MercerUniversity, Oregon State University, and Villanova University [31]–[34]. These not onlydemonstrate care for people and the environment impacted by engineering projects, but alsoencourages students to care for each other.An Ethic of Care may provide a framework through which engineering faculty and staff atuniversities can improve their cultures to be more

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics IV

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Niewoehner, U.S. Naval Academy

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Engineering Ethics

, professional Page 13.917.15ethics would no longer describe the avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of the noble,excellent and good. We should explore beauty as an ethical duty, and virtue as the pursuitof beauty in our products and the effect they have on people. Hence, we might then notonly proscribe the unsafe and environmentally reckless, but also disdain the tawdry, dirty,ugly, or maliciously destructive. If Christians going into our fields were imbued with thissense of an engineer’s calling, it might shape their career choices and projects to whichthey devote their lives. If Christian scholars sought to further develop this understandingof

Conference Session

Critical Reflections on Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jake Walker Lewis; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

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Engineering Ethics

has repercussions. That’s a good lesson for our kids to learn in every part of their life, but especially engineers because engineers have power that is magnified throughout their projects. An engineer of something small and inconspicuous could eventually be used to do something catastrophic or damaging to a certain subset of people. And that responsibility falls on the engineer to be wise about the choices that they make on the drawing board, because eventually these choices will be translated into concrete and steel and machinery. So, I think having a conversation about ethics would be worthwhile to have for sure.To synthesize the 14 interviews conducted, most teachers considered environmental and/orsocietal impacts important

Conference Session

Innovative, Engaging Pedagogies for Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jennifer Fiegel, University of Iowa; Beth Rundlett, University of Iowa; A. Allen Bradley Jr., The University of Iowa; Katelyn Rose Murhammer, University of Iowa

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Engineering Ethics

customers. Our aims for this project are two-fold: 1) to helpundergraduate students see that engineering decisions made during the design, production, oreven after launch of a product can have larger consequences than originally anticipated; 2) todetermine if hands-on ethical problem-solving activities in the classroom increases studentcapability in ethical decision making.We have introduced this choose-your-own adventure activity in two courses: the college-widefirst-year Introduction to Engineering Problem Solving course and the second-year chemicalengineering Process Calculations course. This work-in-progress will present initial feedbackfrom students who have participated in the activity and an assessment of student ethical decision-making

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

, closemonitoring of residents, empirical evidence based on medical facts, and mandated disclosure.The Role of RegulationSince its inception in 1970, the EPA has established a variety of regulations to enforce itsmission, “to protect human health and the environment” [74]. While critics of the agencycomplain that regulations are unwieldy, overly complicated, and extend beyond the EPA’sjurisdiction [75], there is little doubt that some actions, such as the Clean Air Act, havedramatically improved the environment, even though they may have an economic impact onbusiness and delay projects due to required environmental assessments.Students may have certain negative biases about EPA regulations, and the current politicalatmosphere reinforces those. To date, the

Conference Session

Faculty Views of Ethics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teresa Ryan, East Carolina University; Colleen Janeiro, East Carolina University; William E. Howard, East Carolina University; Patrick F. O'Malley, Benedictine College

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Engineering Ethics

University Dr. Colleen Janeiro teaches engineering fundamentals such as Introduction to Engineering, Materials and Processes, and Statics. Her teaching interests include development of solid communication skills and enhancing laboratory skills.Dr. William E. Howard, East Carolina University William E (Ed) Howard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He was previously a faculty member at Milwaukee School of Engineering, as well as as a design and project engineer with Thiokol Corporation, Spaulding Composites Company, and Sta-Rite Industries.Dr. Patrick F. O’Malley, Benedictine College Patrick O’Malley teaches in the Mechanical Engineering program at Benedictine College

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rose Marra, University of Missouri; Demei Shen, University of Missouri; David Jonassen, University of Missouri; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Engineering Ethics

AC 2008-150: FOSTERING ENGINEERING ETHICS PROBLEM SOLVINGTHROUGH COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY HYPERTEXT: AN APPLICATION OFMULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES, MAKING CONNECTIONS AND CRISSCROSSINGRose Marra, University of Missouri ROSE M. MARRA is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri. She is PI of the NSF-funded Assessing Women and Men in Engineering (AWE) and Assessing Women In Student Environments (AWISE) projects. Her research interests include gender equity issues, the epistemological development of college students, and promoting meaningful learning in web-based environments.Demei Shen, University of Missouri DEMEI SHEN is a doctoral

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David K. Ware; David J. Ahlgren, Trinity College; Harvey F. Silverman, Brown University

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Engineering Ethics

analysis, and was an original member of the IBM Research speech recognition group that started in 1972. He was manager of the Speech Terminal project from 1976 until 1980. At IBM Dr. Silverman received several outstanding innovation awards and patent awards. In 1980, Dr. Silverman was appointed professor of Engineering at Brown University, and charged with the devel- opment of a program in computer engineering. His research interests currently include microphone-array research, array signal processing, speech processing and embedded systems. He has been the director of the Laboratory for Engineering Man/Machine Systems in the School of Engineering at Brown since its founding in 1981. From July 1991 to June 1998 he was

Conference Session

Innovative, Engaging Pedagogies for Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

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

benefit them, whereas Wieman et al. thought of the department as the unit of changeand have a large financial backing for the project, and were able to guide and worked together withthe departments to provide them appropriate financial incentives [7], [8]. While incentives can bea powerful tool for convincing faculty to join a change initiative, they are only as successful insofaras they are valued as heavily as other research-focused incentives [11]. Incentivizing facultythrough tying research and teaching together through the tenure track process may incentivizefaculty that may not have had the inclination to do so otherwise. 2.3.Competing Goals When attempting to shift the culture of a department, college, or university with a

Conference Session

Assessing Ethics Learning

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

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Engineering Ethics

University. He has additional appointments in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engage- ment, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to further engineering education innovations. He also does research on the development of sustainable materials management (SMM) strategies.Dr. Daniel Knight, University of Colorado Boulder Daniel W. Knight is the Program Assessment and Research Associate at Design Center (DC) Colorado in CU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds a B.A. in

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

/64/papers/14871/view​.[Accessed: March 29, 2018].[7] J. R. Rest, D. Navaez, S. J. Thoma, M. J. Bebeau, “DIT-2: Devising and testing a revisedinstrument of moral judgement,” ​J. Ed. Psych​., vol. 91, pp. 644-659, Dec. 1999.[8] Q. Zhu, C. B. Zoltowski, M. Kenny Feister, P. M. Buzzanell, W. C. Oakes, A. D Mead, “Thedevelopment of an instrument for assessing individual ethical decision-making in project-baseddesign teams: Integrating quantitative and qualitative methods,” in ​121st ASEE AnnualConference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, USA, June 15-18, 2014, ​[Online]. Available:https://peer.asee.org/23130​. [Accessed: Mar. 29, 2018].[9] L. Kohlberg, R. H. Hersh, “Stages of moral development,” ​Theory Pract.,​ vol. 16, pp.53-59,Apr. 1977.[10

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics IV

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Cottrell, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Engineering Ethics

eqnngciwg"igvu"etgfkv."cv"ngcuv"kp"vjg"uwrgtxkuqtÓu"jgcf0" C. Fwtkpi"vjg"oggvkpi"ykvj"Ðvjg"dki"dquu.Ñ"kpadvertently let it slip that the colleague did not get the credit they deserved on a recent project. D. Inform the colleague as to what took place and let them take whatever action they desire.With a clear understanding of plagiarism and academic integrity, the studentsnevertheless did not feel compelled to call the supervisor to account. Rather, they fairlyconsistently thought the best course of action was to inform the injured party and allowthem to push for credit where credit was due. One comment suggested though thatfkujqpguv{"qh"vjku"pcvwtg"ycu"c"ÐecpegtÑ"vjcv"eqwnf"swkemn{"rgtogcvg"c"yqtmrnceg="vjg"colleague

Conference Session

Topics in Engineering Ethics IV

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salvatore Marsico, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre

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Engineering Ethics

agency expressing concerns over anupcoming project21. In the letter he refers to himself as an engineer and later a complaint is filedwith the licensing board with respect to is practice of engineering with a license. He agrees thathe is not licensed to practice engineering in any jurisdiction and that he is employed by amanufacturing company and has “engineer” in his job title. The board sanctions him for theunlicensed practice of engineering. He appeals the board’s decision to the courts and claims thathis First Amendment rights to free speech were violated in that he was speaking out about apublic project. The court reasoned that his comments were not sanctioned but his right to makethe comments as an engineer expressing an opinion was being

Conference Session

Engineering Social and Human Ethical Impacts

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

L. Eric James, University of Southern Maine; Alexander Curry Smith, University of Southern Maine

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Engineering Ethics

itproduced a “wrong” answer because it failed to account for the most significant factor in ethicaldecision-making: a decision that has the potential to harm the environment, people or morespecifically children, will have a more greater impact on the decision than the current modelallows [4].A traditional cost-benefit analysis (CBA) consists of listing alternative projects and programs,listing stakeholders, and selecting measurements. In the triple bottom line approach, quantifyingsuch attributes becomes increasingly difficult as has been discussed since the introduction of thesocial and environmental components in the 1970’s. The difficulty in creating a commonmeasurement of quantity for comparing and creating a single CBA rests in the question of

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

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

Conference Session

Teaching Ethics II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Engineering Ethics

toengineering ethics.At Texas A&M University, evidence of this interest in professional ethics culminated in thecreation of a new course in engineering ethics, as well as a project funded by the NationalScience Foundation to develop material for introducing ethical issues into required undergraduateengineering courses. Case Western Reserve University has created an Online Ethics Center forEngineering and Science. University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Scienceand the Darden School of Graduate Business Administration have created a web site that isdedicated to the dissemination of engineering ethics case studies and supporting resources forstudents and faculty. The Ethics Updates site of the University of San Diego is another