Conference Session

New Areas of Ethical Inquiry

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kenneth Stafford Sands II, Florida Gulf Coast University; Annie R. Pearce, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida; Min Jae Suh, Sam Houston State University; Christine Marie Fiori, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

Education, 2020 Ethics in Undergraduate Construction Curricula: A Two-Stage Exploratory Sequential Approach to Developing and Piloting the HETC SurveyAbstractConstruction and construction related engineering programs (construction engineering and civilengineering) must provide ethics education to students for accreditation; however, there arelimited resources for instructors who teach ethics in these degree programs. This exploratorytwo-stage sequential research study utilizes three of Eash’s five curriculum components (content,modes of transaction, and evaluation) as the conceptual framework to understand the teaching ofethics in construction programs by developing and piloting a survey instrument