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New Areas of Ethical Inquiry

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Minha R. Ha, York University; Joshua Racette, McMaster University; Shinya Nagasaki, McMaster University

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Reasons for Pre-Course Pre-Course Determined to Pursue a Enrolling in Determined to Pursue a Determined to Pursue a Career in Nuclear EP 3D03 Career in Nuclear Sector (6 Career in Nuclear Sector (4 Sector (3 of 7) (open- of 14) of 8) Considering a Potential ended) Considering a Potential Considering a Potential Career in Nuclear Career in Nuclear Sector (3 Career in Nuclear Sector (4 Sector (0 of 7) of 14) of 8) Seeking Introductory Seeking Introductory Seeking Introductory

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Innovating Ethics Curriculum and Instruction

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Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University; Melissa McDaniels, Michigan State University

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training offered by the Big Ten Academic Alliance to becomecertified as a facilitator for “Entering Mentoring,” a professional skills training program thatseeks to build capacity in academic and research mentors. This curriculum was originallydeveloped at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for use with doctoral students in scientificfields [3], and later adapted and expanded with funding from the National Science Foundation(NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other agencies. The 2017 Entering MentoringFacilitator Training was co-sponsored by the National Research Mentors Network (NRMN),which was developed to support individuals’ “advancement at every career stage of research inthe biomedical sciences,” and the Big Ten Academic

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New Media for Ethics Education

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Allen R. White, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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competing demands that are not, in and of themselves, moral or ethical decisions.Putting students into those situations without the subsequent consequences to their job, career, orpsyche allows them to explore the causes of and alternatives within realistic ethical situations inaddition to the consequences.Role-playing games (RPGs) allow players to assume the role of the character they are playing,their player character (PC), and act in the game world as if they were their PC. Research hasshown that RPGs can be experienced so realistically that players even store memories fromgames in the same region of the brain that they store events that happen in real-life [1]. Theyhave been shown to be effective in phycological therapy [2], in college

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Assessing Ethics Learning

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David S. Greenburg, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel

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Paper ID #30155Measuring Curriculum Effectiveness for Developing Principled Leaders inan Undergraduate Engineering ProgramDr. David S Greenburg, The Citadel Dr. Greenburg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Leadership and Program Management (ELPM) in the School of Engineering (SOE) at The Citadel. He served over 20 years of active military service, achieving the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, United States Marine Corps. During his military career he served in a variety of progressively responsible command and staff and leadership positions in Infantry, Logistics, Acquisition, and Human Resources; with

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New Areas of Ethical Inquiry

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Karen C. Davis, Miami University

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. Figure 2. Proportion of Tenets Referring to Data ManagementFigure 3. Proportion of Tenets Referring to Algorithms/Techniques Figure 4. Proportion of Tenets about Data, Algorithmic Bias, and Professionalism4. Teaching Ethics in Data ScienceBurton et al. state that “a good technology ethics course teaches students how to think, not whatto think, about their role in the development and deployment of technology, as no one canforesee the problems that will be faced in a future career” [20, p. 54]. In addition to teachingstudents to solve technical challenges, they need to develop skills to engage with ethicalchallenges arising from their professional work. A goal of teaching ethics is to equip studentswith the means to discuss, reason, and

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New Areas of Ethical Inquiry

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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

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Paper ID #28302Ethics in Undergraduate Construction Curricula: A Two-Stage ExploratorySequential Approach to Developing and Piloting the HETC SurveyDr. Kenneth Stafford Sands II, Florida Gulf Coast University Kenneth S. Sands II is an Assistant Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers, FL.Dr. Annie R Pearce, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Annie Pearce is an Associate Professor in the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech specializing in sustainable facilities and infrastructure systems. Throughout her career, Annie has worked with practitioners in both public and private

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Ethical Design

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Donald Winiecki, Boise State University; Lynn Catlin P.E., Boise State University; Harold Ackler, Boise State University

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-shelf engineering ethics textbooks, produce a mix of factors thatmay result in the common finding that students often become measurably ​less​ ethical as theyprogress through their undergraduate career ​[9], [10]​.In response to this, the College of Engineering at Boise State University is taking advantage ofsystemic curricular change efforts made possible by an NSF sponsored RED grant(Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments) to its Department ofComputer Science ​[11]–[17]​, and adapting innovations from that project to other engineeringdepartments. This manuscript describes efforts in the ​Department of Mechanical and BiomedicalEngineering​ and ​Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering​. These efforts

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Reimagining Engineering Ethics

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Grant A. Fore, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Justin L. Hess, Purdue University; Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech

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the degreeprogram.JH: I appreciate all of these insights. I would like to touch on two points. First, I would like toreference two studies supporting the argument that experiential education is optimal forpreparing students for ethical practice in their future careers. Second, I would like to add fodderto the iteration argument we have laid down regarding ethics.First, in light of one of our recent work [22], it is apparent that folks tend to teach ethics in amanner that is less experiential than Dewey (and we) would think ideal. Specifically, engineeringeducation seldom provides students with explicit opportunities to act ethically in real engineeringenvironments (which I define very broadly), let alone critically reflect; but is simply

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Research on Engineering Ethics Education and Practice

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Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado Boulder

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profession thataffects every aspect of modern life [1]. Reinforcing this sense of responsibility throughout thecurriculum helps increase students’ awareness and judgment, which supports their ethicaldecision-making in practice [33]. One student in Fluid Mechanics noted that the intervention“show[ed] how broad of an impact the technology we might be working on in the future canhave on the country and the world sometimes.” The hydraulic fracturing activity helped thisstudent understand the potential implications of his future career and this was an importantoutcome since he planned to pursue employment in the oil industry.The narrow technical focus of individual courses in the engineering curriculum can obscureconnections between, and implications of

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Assessing Ethics Learning

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Jagadish Torlapati, Rowan University; Sarah K. Bauer, Rowan University; Cheng Zhu, Rowan University

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financial incentives. This could adversely impact thedecision-making process and impair the professionals from choosing the ethical option. Thecompetition between companies also contributes to ethical lapses in professional careers. Wetried to capture this in the Foundations Engineering design project. However, this problem needsto be expanded further to make the ethical dilemma less obvious.We intend to incorporate design problems in the future semesters for these engineering coursesas well as other courses during the coming semesters. The overall goal of this study toincorporate ethics modules with case studies and design problems in different civil engineeringdisciplines courses. The problems presented in this course will be improved based on

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New Media for Ethics Education

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Valerie H. Summet, Rollins College; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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reasoningoutcomes, we turn to ways in which instructors can incorporate ethics into individual courses.Teaching students to analyze situations by applying normative ethical frameworks has long been avaluable strategy in ethics instruction and one which allows students to analyze a variety ofsituations they may find themselves in over the course of their professional careers. In response tothe need to integrate ethics education into a packed technical curriculum as well as facultytrepidation when teaching ethics, we present a series of readings designed to provide studentswith an engaging fictional scenario to serve as a basis for discussing ethical dilemmas in a contentdriven course.Science fiction has long served as a venue for writers to experiment with

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New Areas of Ethical Inquiry

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Joseph Benin, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; William Randall, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Cybersecurity Computing Programs [20]. The Cyber Systems (CYS) majorprepares future officers for exciting careers within the Coast Guard with a focus on developingand implementing cutting-edge computing technologies in an interconnected cyber world. Cybertechnology is inextricably linked with all aspects of Coast Guard mission performance. TheCyber Systems major comprises a strong academic foundation in technical computing balancedwith a managerial cyber emphasis. The major provides students with the necessary foundationsfor the design and development of assured, secure computer systems in order to defend computernetworks, enable Coast Guard missions, and protect critical national infrastructure in support ofthe Coast Guard’s Cyber Strategy [21]. The

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Ethical Design

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Scott A. Civjan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Nicholas Tooker, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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inclusion of ethical theory course content thatspecifically includes this concept, as students do not gain this understanding through a typicalcase study based curriculum. This and other studies make a case for supplementing case studyinstruction with ethical instruction that is more closely tied with course content and every daydecisions [5,10,11,12]. The use of case study examples where there is a correct answer andwhere there is a clear tragic outcome or heroic action suggests that ethical decisions are a once ina career event of major consequence. Further, arriving at a conclusion purely through discussionof the case indicates that ethical decisions are a purely cognitive process, dismissing any intuitiveresponse. This approach is likely to

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Research on Engineering Ethics Education and Practice

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Dayoung Kim, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Justin L. Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University

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shift, refinement, or reaffirmation in one’sunderstanding of ethical engineering practice.We hope that by exploring changes in how practicing engineers experience ethics throughouttheir careers, including how and to what extent myriad aspects of the work environmentinfluence one’s way of experiencing ethics, we will be positioned to identity which teachingapproaches are best aligned with how ethics learning actually occurs in engineering settings andwhether new pedagogy or interventions are needed. We do not anticipate the findings aboutchange incidents and influences to necessarily be normative (i.e., we do not assume the change inengineers’ ways of experiencing ethics always occur in a desirable direction). However, we doanticipate gaining

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Reimagining Engineering Ethics

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Luan Minh Nguyen, Iowa State University ; Cristina Poleacovschi, Iowa State University; Kasey M. Faust, University of Texas at Austin; Kate Padgett Walsh, Iowa State University; Scott Grant Feinstein; Cassandra Rutherford, Iowa State University

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. colleagues and clients) and their awareness of their obligations to, for example, provideassistance and be honest [6], [27], [28]. Individuals tend to orient themselves to the people in theirenvironment; that is, they tend to be able to imagine themselves in the positions of people withwhom they come into contact [6]. The alignment of engineering students is significantly associatedwith the majors and careers they choose to pursue [6]. Therefore, when facing ambiguous ethical 8dilemmas, orientation to others in their environment is likely to predict microethical understanding[6].Bairaktarova and Woodcock (2015) also found that differences in individual

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Reimagining Engineering Ethics

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Jessica Koehler, Wake Forest University; Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University ; Michael Lamb, Wake Forest University; Alana Demaske, Wake Forest University; Carlos Santos, Wake Forest University; Michael D. Gross, Wake Forest University; Dylan Franklin Brown, Wake Forest University

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engineering programs in the nation, we are building an innovative program aligned with the university mission of Pro Humanitate (For Humanity). We are committed to educating the whole person and the whole engineer with fearlessness and virtuous character. With inclusion being a core value, our engineering team represents 60% female engineering faculty and 40% female students, plus 20% of students from ethnic minority groups. Prior to joining Wake Forest University, Olga served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Undergraduate Education and founding faculty of the Department of Engineering at James Madison University. As a 2009 NSF CAREER Awardee, her expertise and interests focus on