Paper ID #5842Enhancing Engineering Ethics Curriculum by Analyzing Students’ Percep-tionMiss Brittney Hope Jimerson, North Carolina A&T State University Brittney Jimerson is a Ph.D. student at North Carolina A&T State University. She graduated from North Carolina A&T State University with a M.S. in Industrial and System Engineering in 2013. She was an undergraduate research scholar and earned her B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 2009. She is an Alpha Pi Mu Engineering Honor Society Member, NSBE member, and IIE member.Dr. Eui Hyun Park, North
State University Page 23.547.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Ethics in Engineering Education Using Virtual WorldsAbstractEthical decision-making is key to the development of future engineers in our global and diversesociety. The use of virtual worlds in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)education is an innovative use of technology in the classroom. This paper will describe how wedeveloped, deployed, and assessed a novel approach to engineering ethics education that usesvirtual worlds to teach ethics in STEM classes. Our project, SciEthics Interactive, is
Paper ID #6145Lessons Learned from Teaching with an Ethics ToolkitDr. Martin S. High, Oklahoma State University Dr. Marty High is an associate professor of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University. His academic interests include teaching in all areas and at all levels of chemical engineering with a focus on instruction in thermodynamics and mass transfer. His research interests are in the areas of mass transfer in polymeric systems, corrosion modeling, equation of state development and refinery catalysis. Marty also writes in the area of sustainability and on the intersection of law, science and society. He
Paper ID #7537Engineering Ethics Survey for Faculty: An Assessment ToolProf. Frank E Falcone, Villanova University Professor Falcone is a member of the faculty of the Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Vil- lanova University. His primary fields of technical interest and experience are in Hydraulics, Hydrology, Fluid Mechanics and Water Resources. He has also taught Professional Practices in Engineering and En- gineering in the Humanistic Context which is a course focused on exploring a wide range of ethical issues confronting engineers and engineering students on a day-to-day basis. Falcone is registered
Paper ID #6396Global Portrayals of Engineering Ethics Education: A Systematic LiteratureReviewJustin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette Justin L Hess is a Ph.D. student at Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education. His research focuses on the role of individual values in engineering decision making, such as the role of empathy in stakeholder perspective taking, motivating student interest in sustainability, and deconstructing dominant worldviews within engineering. He currently is a research and teaching assistant for an NSF-funded project which uses reflexive principlism as an ethical framework for
Paper ID #8098Interactive Session: Including Ethical Discussions in your Technical ClassesDr. Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato Rebecca A. Bates received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington in 2004. She also received the M.T.S. degree from Harvard Divinity School in 1993. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Integrated Engineering program at Minnesota State University, Mankato, home of the Iron Range and Twin Cities Engineering programs. She was a 2011-12 AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation.Prof
Paper ID #7607Utilizing an Engineering Ethical Reasoning Instrument in the CurriculumDr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette Carla B. Zoltowski, Ph.D., is Education Administrator of the EPICS Program at Purdue University. She received her B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in engineering education, all from Purdue University. She has served as a lecturer in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Zoltowski’s academic and research interests include human-centered design learning and assessment, service-learning, ethical reasoning assessment, leadership, and assistive
Paper ID #6108Implementing a Campus-Wide RCR Training Requirement for Doctoral Stu-dentsDr. Jason Borenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Jason Borenstein is the director of Graduate Research Ethics Programs and co-director of the Center for Ethics and Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His responsibilities include adminis- tering a Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) policy for all new doctoral students at Georgia Tech and instructing undergraduate and graduate courses on topics at the intersection of science, engineering, and ethics. Dr. Borenstein is also an assistant editor of the journal
Paper ID #7266Improving Undergraduate Engineering Ethics Through Application of Engi-neering Management Theory: An Empirical Study of a New Course’s ImpactDr. William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University Dr. William J. Schell holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering-Engineering Management from University of Alabama in Huntsville and M.S. and B.S degrees from Montana State University in Industrial and Man- agement Engineering. He is an assistant professor in Industrial and Management Engineering at Montana State University where his primary research interests are engineering education, leadership development and
Paper ID #6367Collaboration between Private Sector and Academia: Are We CompromisingOur Engineering Programs?Dr. Rigoberto Chinchilla, Eastern Illinois University Dr. Rigoberto Chinchilla earned his Ph.D. in Integrated Engineering from Ohio University. He is an associate professor of Applied Engineering and Technology at Eastern Illinois University (EIU) since 2004. His teaching and research interests include Quality Design, Biometric and Computer Security, Clean Technologies, Automation and Technology-Ethics. Dr. Chinchilla has been a Fulbright and a United Nations scholar, serves in numerous departmental and university
Paper ID #6623Educating Engineering Students about Ethics: Experiences at Brown Univer-sity and Trinity CollegeMr. David K. Ware, David Ware worked for 36 years as in-house counsel for United Technologies Corporation (UTC), serving as vice president and Counsel at the Pratt & Whitney Military Engines Division from 1993 to 2012. Dur- ing his tenure at UTC, he was responsible for a wide variety of business and corporate legal matters. His work included enforcement of the company’s Code of Ethics, and the integration of ethical considerations into business decision-making. He has lectured at Trinity College and Brown
Paper ID #5684Ancient Structural Failures and Modern Incarnations:Dr. Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology Dr. Marilyn Dyrud is a full professor in the Communication Department at Oregon Institute of Technol- ogy, where she regularly teaches courses in rhetoric, business/technical writing, and ethics. She is also a part of the faculty team for the Civil Engineering Department’s integrated senior project. She has been active in ASEE for more than 25 years, serving as a regular conference presenter and moderator. She was OIT’s campus representative for seventeen years and served in various section leadership
Paper ID #6209Student Ethics in Engineering: A Comparison of Ethics Survey Results fromUndergraduate Engineering Students at Three Different Engineering Pro-grams and InstitutionsDr. Jessica A Kuczenski, College of San Mateo / San Francisco State University Page 23.1097.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Student Ethics in Engineering: A Comparison of Ethics Survey Results from Undergraduate Engineering Students at Three Different Engineering Programs and InstitutionsAbstractThe objective for this
Paper ID #6422The effectiveness of videos as a learning tool in an engineering ethics course:A students’ perspectiveMs. Mona Itani, American University of Beirut Mona Intani graduated from the American University of Beirut in 2006 and began a profession in com- puter and communications engineering. Itani has worked for multinational telecommunications compa- nies for four years. After earning her master’s in Engineering Management, she joined the engineering management program at the American University of Beirut. She currently teaches engineering ethics and is working on several research projects related to engineering
Paper ID #6322Two Years Later: A longitudinal look at the impact of engineering ethics ed-ucationDr. Trevor Scott Harding, California Polytechnic State University Dr. Trevor Harding, Ph.D., is a professor and chair of Materials Engineering at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, where he teaches courses in engineering design from a materials perspective. He is currently PI on a multi-university collaborative research study assessing the ethical outcomes associated with the curricular and extra-curricular experiences of engineering undergraduates on a national scale. In addition, Dr. Harding has