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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

between engineering and human kind as a soft skill because to me that’s the most technical skill, to be able to know what’s right to do when.Another interviewee echoed a similar sentiment with “people talking about the professionalskills, the hard skills and soft skills… we call them professional skills… I think in reality,those skills are much harder to learn.” Both of these educators found that calling ethical andsocietal skills “soft” is a disservice to their complexity since these skills can be the mostchallenging to teach and learn. Another interviewee expressed that even calling these skillsprofessional does not do them justice since they are inextricably part of the engineering. People used to call them soft skills… then people started

Conference Session

Reimagining Engineering Ethics

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica Koehler, Wake Forest University; Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University ; Michael Lamb, Wake Forest University; Alana Demaske, Wake Forest University; Carlos Santos, Wake Forest University; Michael D. Gross, Wake Forest University; Dylan Franklin Brown, Wake Forest University

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Conference Session

Engaging Ethics, Internationally

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prakash G Bapat, Business Ethics Foundation; Aravind Joshi, Business Ethics Foundation; Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Guruji Education Foundation; Nupur Kulkarni

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Governmental Organization to pursue and proliferate ethical behavioural practices at the sprouting age of undergrad engineering students .Dr. Aravind Joshi, Business Ethics Foundation The author has worked with State Bank of India, one of the largest Public Sector Banks in India for 30 years in various capacities at different geogrphies. Post voluntary retirement in year 2000, the author has completed Master´s degree in Personnel Manage- ment and completed Doctorate in Human Resources Management. Author has been working as a facilitator and professor in reputed business schools and corportate concerns in India. The author has published various articles in Management and Soft skills in News papers, magazines and

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics Across Contexts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon Tsai-hsuan Ku, University of Virginia; Xiafei Yang, University of Virginia; Sitong Wang, Chongqing University

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use, and the patience to listencarefully and overcome the communication gaps. One interesting finding is that for those who reportedthoughtful prompt results and active engagement, their communications were often not limited toprompt interviews but covered topics not directly related to the course content. For example, studentsdiscovered that the KFC menu in China and American are very different, from there they became moreinterested in learning what shape the differences/similarity between two cultures. These experiences, though not always positive, have made students realize that communicationis not just a “soft skill”, but the core of global engineering practice: Through communication studentsdiscovered nuances of how engineering