Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown; Lea Campbell, University of Houston, Downtown

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

internal team leadership needed toresolve common behaviors within dysfunctional teams. While no new theoretical results onteamwork are presented, the authors have focused instead on applying their experience asmanagers of teams in major corporations and institutions of higher education to explore what aneffective teaming curriculum might include and to develop related assessment tools. This paperoutlines a strategy for integrating deliberate teaming instruction into senior-level engineeringcapstone or project courses. The curriculum focuses on building team leadership skills andtechniques for addressing challenges such as planning and execution, social loafing, andprocrastination. Models for assessing students‟ teaming skills and for providing

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

. • Professional – Included for all E majors and covers topics common to disciplines. Currently, ET programs do not have a professional component. • Capstone – An integrating experience of 3 to 6 semester credits and taken in the final year of study in which the student completes an unscripted design project. • Other – A technical communication course sequence focused on written and oral skills taken by all ET majors.Broader Educational ContextThe changes being mandated by NEASC are part of a much larger policy initiative that isnational in scope. Most, if not all regional accreditation boards are undertaking similar efforts intheir respective areas of authority. Over the last decade, concern over the quality of highereducation

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kacey Beddoes, Virginia Tech; Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Using Boundary Negotiating Artifacts to Investigate Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary TeamsAbstract: Teamwork, and interdisciplinary teamwork in particular, are increasingly recognizedas an important part of engineering education. Engineering educators have therefore taken aninterest in employing and studying teamwork in their curriculum. Yet much of their scholarshiphas focused on documenting student and faculty experiences of teamwork and describingprograms and courses only. Examinations of the actual practices and artifacts, that studentscreate and use to manage interdisciplinary team collaborations are an underexplored researcharea. However, such studies

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Justice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caroline Baillie, University of Western Australia

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Engineering Ethics

AC 2011-510: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO CURRICULUMDEVELOPMENT FOR ENGINEERING GRADUATES WHO ARE SOCIALLYAND ENVIRONMENTALLY JUSTCaroline Baillie, University of Western Australia Chair in Engineering Education Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Maths University of Western Australia Page 22.71.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 A multidisciplinary approach to curriculum development for engineering graduates who are socially and environmentally justIntroductionThe traditional approach to teaching engineering problem solving, where students are limited tofinding

Conference Session

Ethics in different disciplines

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana Bairaktarova, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics

bepresented at the ASEE conference in June 2011 and published in a future paper.BackgroundIn the 1920s, less than a third of engineering educators considered the study of differentialequations to be necessary for an engineer’s education, now such study is integral to theengineering curriculum. In the engineering world of the future, a sound understanding of thetheoretical and practical sides of engineering ethics will be as necessary to the proper educationof engineers as a knowledge of differential equations is today, if not more so”.4Robin Tatu in her article “Knowledge Isn’t Enough” takes the famous quote from the Greekinventor Archimedes “Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth” and argues that “thepotential to wield such power is

Conference Session

Ethics in different disciplines

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock E. Barry, U.S. Military Academy; JoAnna C. Whitener, U.S. Military Academy, West Point

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Engineering Ethics

they serve.As it is now an engrained part of the undergraduate engineering education process, the ABETEngineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000) introduced a significant change in the amount and type ofprofessional and ethical education in the undergraduate curriculum. Specifically, ABETCriterion 3.f required accredited engineering programs to provide instruction and assessment inprofessional and ethical responsibility, but at the same time the outcomes-based wording ofCriterion 3 allowed individual programs to preserve a distinctive focus or mission.As part of a previously completed research program, a mixed-methods (quantitative-qualitative)research program was designed and implemented to evaluate the methods of incorporating ethicsand

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

. Herkert, J. R. (2002). “Continuing and Emerging Issues in Engineering Education.” The Bridge, 32(3).7. McEachron, D, Vaidya, S., and Ake, S. 2009. “A model for Integrating Ethics into an Engineering Curriculum”,AC 2009-898, ASEE National Conference, Austin, Texas.8. King, P. M., and Kitchener, K. S. (1994). “Developing Reflective Judgement: Understanding and PromotingIntellectual Growth and Critical Thinking In Adolescents And Adults.” San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.9. Riley, D. (2008). “Ethics in Context, Ethics in Action: Getting Beyond The Individual Professional inEngineering Ethics Education”. Smith College. American Society for Engineering Education.10. Dyrud, M. A. (2005). “Ethics 101”. Oregon Institute of Technology. Proceedings of the 2005

Conference Session

Ethics in different disciplines

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig T. Evers P.E., Minnesota State University - Mankato

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Engineering Ethics

, he has also witnessed and worked withindividuals for whom other priorities have replaced the Code of Ethics. The results can be, andhave been in many cases, tragic, not only in terms of corporate performance, but moreimportantly in terms of life and limb for workers made victims of unethical and irresponsibleactions.In the last cycle of ABET2 accreditation for our department and its programs, we wereencouraged to make ethics and its instruction a more integrated part of our curriculum. ThePhilosophy department has an excellent freshman-level course in ethics which also meets ageneral education requirement for graduation. Lacking such a course in our own programofferings, we strongly encourage our undergraduates to take this course, although

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part One

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Titus, Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jill L. May, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

., & Oakes, W. C. (2006). Integrating Engineering Education and Community Service: Themes for the Future of Engineering Education. Journal of Engineering Education, 7-11.12. Titus, C.P., & Zoltowski, C.B. (2010) “Integrating Ethics Curriculum Within a Service-Learning Design Context”. Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference, June 2010.13. Shuman, L. J., Besterfield-Sacre, M., & McGourty, J. (2005). The ABET professional skills. Journal of Engineering Education, 94(1), 41-55.14. Gilligan, C. (1982). In a different voice: Psychological theory and women's development. Harvard UP.15. Heron, W. T. (2007). An examination of the moral development and ethical decision-making of information technology

Conference Session

Sustainability and Humanitarian Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khanjan Mehta, Penn State University; Duarte B. Morais, North Carolina State University; Yu Zhao, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Engineering Ethics

participate in the competition too. Students were recruited from specific classes inengineering, education and tourism management. The competition was promoted throughrelevant student clubs and mailing lists in all the colleges. Student volunteers helping with theorganization of the competition also made quick pitches in various classes with the instructor’sapproval.Teams could include between one and four members, and could integrate external advisors(faculty members, students, industry professional, etc). An objective of the competition was toeducate students on how to convey their ideas in a precise and concise manner. Articulatingcomplex ideas to a general audience is a crucial skill for entrepreneurs and social media likeYouTube provides an

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Justice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William M. Jordan, Baylor University

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Engineering Ethics

provided to students either byestablishing freestanding courses in engineering ethics or by integrating ethics across thecurriculum. Service learning can also provide help students to understand the impact of theirengineering work to help others, and it is a very effective way to teach students aboutengineering ethics.Whichever means is used to include engineering ethics in the curriculum, ASEE strongly sharesthe view that it is an essential element in the education of all engineers. Only those who areprepared to recognize their ethical responsibilities and to effectively solve ethical problems willbe able to responsibly carry out their roles as agents of technological change

Conference Session

Sustainability and Humanitarian Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan C. Campbell, University of Washington; Denise Wilson, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

mainstream engineering education andthus even helps to shape the meaning of ABET F. This neglected dimension is care—an active,interpersonal compassion, empathy, or concern for the wellbeing of others—which we argue isnot simply a nice thing for engineers to do in some cases, but, when properly invoked, makes arich, meaningful, and needed contribution to the engineering education endeavor. The paperconcludes with suggestions about how to integrate topics of humanitarian engineering, and thenatural context for care that it brings, into the engineering curriculum.What is Humanitarian Engineering?Humanitarian engineering (HE) can be defined as the application of engineering skills orservices for humanitarian aid purposes, such as disaster recovery or

Conference Session

Sustainability and Humanitarian Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

AC 2011-1362: SUSTAINABILITY ETHICS AMONG FIRST-YEAR CIVILAND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING STUDENTSAngela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt, PhD, PE, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, & Ar- chitectural Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU). She has been teaching engineering ethics as part of the first-year course for civil engineering students since 1997 and for environmental engineering students since 2006. She has served as the Chair of the ASEE Environmental Engineering Division. Her research interests in engineering education include service learning, sustainability, and women in engineering