Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom A. Eppes, University of Hartford; Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford; Frederick Sweitzer, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

documents seemed veryuseful to evaluate any of the 3 skill areas for a pilot. However, an interesting idea surfacedregarding the team status meetings with the instructor in which an interview Q&A style could beused to gather sufficient evidence.A pilot was conducted in spring 2010 involving the capstone for Electrical Engineering as wellas Computer Engineering majors. The face-to-face meetings with the teams provided anexcellent opportunity to evaluate the skill levels. The instructor reported that each teamemployed all 3 skills at one or more point(s) during the semester. The results are shown in Table5 for all 6 teams. Good performance was observed in 2-3 teams for each skill; however, the bestteams were not always the same. No team

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Justice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rodney W. Trice, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

Cargo Hatch 3. Citicorp Building and Wm. LeMessurier 4. Chernobyl 5. Three Mile Island 6. Ford Explorer Rollover 7. Boston’s Big Dig Ceiling CollapseThe presentations were nominally 20 minutes, with a total of 5 minutes allotted for Q&A. Toshow a complete understanding of the technical and ethical details of the case, it was importantthat both aspects be presented by the student groups. In addition to the student-led group casestudies, the students also wrote shorter essays, took a midterm exam, and kept a journal of theirreading assignments.To advertise the course, the following course description was used: A new 3-cr hour course for junior and senior engineering majors will be taught this spring that will explore both the theory

Conference Session

Ethics in different disciplines

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

, 2010. http://donora.fire-dept.net/1948smog.htm .8. PBS. 1999. “Rage to Riches Timeline.” American Experience: The Richest Man in the World. Accessed January 4, 2011. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/timeline/timeline2.html.9. Beveridge, Scott. 2008, June 9. The Gamble on Donora Steel, Part II: Yellow Smoke and Big Money. Accessed December 21, 2010. http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/search?q=steel+for+%2445+million . Page 22.710.1310. Davis, Devra Lee. 2007, February. “Backs to the Future . . . Air Pollution Risks to Children: A Global Environmental Health Problem.” EM, The Urban Environment: 31-7.11. Snyder