Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine McComas, Cornell University; Nancy Healy, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

-traditional channels, given that thesocial science students will unlikely encounter the internship information through science andengineering publications.International Winter School for Graduate StudentsThe International Winter Schools for Graduate Students (iWSG) are organized jointly by NNINand institutions in third world countries with the goal of promoting international bridge buildingand understanding by bringing together students and faculty in an intense teaching and societalexperience. Each year, 10 graduate students and faculty participate in a rigorous course in anemerging and research-intensive interdisciplinary direction that is not part of U.S. graduatecurriculums. This lasts six days and includes laboratory sections, followed by travel

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

Education at Virginia Tech. She is currently serving a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship at the National Science Foundation. Her research interests focus on interdisciplinary faculty members and graduate students in engineering and science, with engineering education as a specific case. Dr. Borrego holds U.S. NSF CAREER and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) awards for her engineering education research. Dr. Borrego has developed and taught graduate level courses in engi- neering education research methods and assessment from 2005-2010. All of Dr. Borrego’s degrees are in Materials Science and Engineering. Her M.S. and Ph.D. are from Stanford University, and her B.S. is

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

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

students graduating from engineering programsmust have an understanding of how ethics work in the real world and how ethical problems canaffect an engineer’s entire professional career. This course will focus on the ethics of engineeringpractice. As part of the course students will be expected to consider the effects of their actions(and failure to act) including the economic, environmental, political, societal, health and safetyconsequences of their work, while also keeping in mind the manufacturability and sustainabilityof their structures and products.This course was originally developed in the context of a curriculum design course. It was createdwith the intention of further development using the results of a program of rigorous research

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

with the built-inconnections to the material that students bring to the class, important questions can be addressedrelated to technology‟s benefits and harms and who benefits or is harmed.1 Similarly, sciencefiction can be used for teaching mechanics and heat transfer as well as raising issues about theecological impact of “alien” resource use across the galaxy.2 Issues related to balancing theteaching of science fiction and technology in a single course and the benefit of working with aninterdisciplinary team (i.e., faculty from science and humanities) are presented by Layton, who isa member of an English department, and calls for the development of more classes like the onedescribed here.3 He also presents issues that may make it easier for