Conference Session

Engineering Ethics III

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Durfee, Eastern Washington University; William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Ethics

codes.During all of this classroom discussion, actual work experiences are solicited from the students.Many of the students have previous or current job experiences and most of the students have, bythis point in their academic program, completed an internship. Experiences that the students havehad in these working environments provide a wealth of material for discussion. Additionally, theinstructor provides a few examples of his own, and also includes some of the classic examplesused to discuss ethical failures within the technology and engineering professions. This entirelesson is also a subset of a lifelong learning project each student in the capstone course mustcomplete. In this project the students create a ten-year career plan that involves

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics III

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Godfrey, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Todd Taylor, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Corinna Fleischmann, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Daniel Pickles, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Engineering Ethics

instructors of each major’s seniordesign capstone project began holding multi-disciplinary “Engineering Ethics Lunches”.Students and faculty form small groups during scheduled lunches to discuss specificethical topics related to the engineering profession. The discussions are based uponassigned readings and suggested talking points developed jointly by the faculty.Afterwards, the students are required to submit essays reviewing their discussions andanswering an ethical question based upon the topic.Now in its fourth semester, the multi-disciplinary ethics lunches have receivedoverwhelmingly positive feedback from both the instructors and students. This paperwill discuss the format of the multi-disciplinary ethics discussions, the type of

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Theis, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; patricia watkins, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Library; Mary Angela Beck, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Engineering Ethics

, capstone projects, and real-worldexperiences. In addition, other benefits would accrue: • Real world skills and attitudes that reflect the importance of sustainability in engineering; • A critical awareness of the emerging new role for the contemporary engineer in society and the world; and • An evolving, critical, and professional self-reflection for envisioning future environments.However, will administration, faculty, and staff at our university be amenable to the introductionof sustainability in their courses and into the curriculum? What do students want in theireducation and courses that address sustainability? How might critical resources, such as ourlibrary staff, aid us in curricular development? What might be the

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics IV

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Niewoehner, U.S. Naval Academy

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Engineering Ethics

, professional Page 13.917.15ethics would no longer describe the avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of the noble,excellent and good. We should explore beauty as an ethical duty, and virtue as the pursuitof beauty in our products and the effect they have on people. Hence, we might then notonly proscribe the unsafe and environmentally reckless, but also disdain the tawdry, dirty,ugly, or maliciously destructive. If Christians going into our fields were imbued with thissense of an engineer’s calling, it might shape their career choices and projects to whichthey devote their lives. If Christian scholars sought to further develop this understandingof