Conference Session

Sustainability and Humanitarian Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

courses discussed ethics. There were two lectures onethics and then the students completed a homework assignment on ethics that was worth 20% oftheir overall course grade. The assignment required students to consult the ASCE and/or NSPEcodes of ethics (http://www.asce.org/Content.aspx?id=7231;http://www.nspe.org/Ethics/CodeofEthics/index.html), answer questions regarding one to threecases from the Online Ethics website (http://www.onlineethics.org; the specific cases selectedvaried each year), and compare the CU student honor code and the engineering professionalcodes of ethics. The assignment also allowed the students to learn about one “moral exemplar”from the Online Ethics website (http://www.onlineethics.org/); some of these individuals can

Conference Session

Sustainability and Humanitarian Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khanjan Mehta, Penn State University; Duarte B. Morais, North Carolina State University; Yu Zhao, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

Master of Arts Degree in Education and Human Development specializing in Educational Technology Leadership. Her work focuses on projects that measure and assess student perceptions of learning related to their experiences with engineering course innovations. She is a faculty development consultant with previous experience in instructional design and instructor of the Graduate Assistant Seminar for engineering teaching assistants.Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Sarah Zappe is Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. She holds a masters and a doctorate in educational psychology, where she