Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Mitch Cieminski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

hold paramount the safety, health, and welfareof the identified integral community” (emphasis ours) [24]. Though this canon only addresses theprofessional dimensions of engineering ethics, attention to ethics that emphasize the health andwelfare of others—and the social good more generally—in the personal and social spherespromises to be a fruitful approach to integrating the microethics of the day-to-day with themacroethics associated with institutions and broad social systems [25].Attending to Educational Culture and Not Just Student KnowledgeFinally, we find that if engineering educators desire to change how students develop and practiceethics, attention must be given not only to students’ demonstrated ethical knowledge, but also tothe

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Swetha Nittala, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tasha Zephirin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shiloh James Howland, Brigham Young University; Dayoung Kim, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Andrew Katz, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics

Tasha Zephirin is a Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is an Executive Assistant for the National Association of Multicultural Program Advocates (NAMEPA) Inc. and also serves as the Graduate Student Representative on the Purdue Engineering Advisory Council. Her research interests include exploring the role of noncurricular engineering education initiatives in the engineering experience, especially within and across cultural boundaries. Through this research, she aims to inform the development and evaluation of these initiatives in a variety of contexts.Ms. Shiloh M. James Howland, Brigham Young University Shiloh M. James Howland is a doctoral student at Brigham Young