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Innovating Ethics Curriculum and Instruction

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Rob Sleezer, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Engineering Ethics

technical learning [1][2], however in most cases where fiction is used, it supports professional learning in areas likeethics. In this paper, the authors go beyond the presentation of a case study where literature wasused to frame and guide discussions around ethics in an engineering course by coding studentartifacts for values. Specifically, the student engineers participating in a seminar course wererequired to read and reflect in writing on Prey by Michael Crichton [3]. To set the stage for thiscase, some of the moral philosophy arguments around the use of fiction are discussedculminating in the conclusion that fiction is an appropriate tool in the teaching of ethics. Then,we will examine how literature has been broadly used in technical courses

Conference Session

Ethical Design

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Amy Schroeder, University of Southern California

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Paper ID #31605Building Better Worlds: An Interdisciplinary Approach to EngineeringEthics PedagogyDr. Amy Schroeder, University of Southern California Dr. Amy Schroeder has been teaching communication in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the Uni- versity of Southern California for the past six years. She developed a new course focused on science, literature and ethics; it has become a consistently successful course in USC’s general education program. She holds a PhD in literature and creative writing from USC; her first book received the Field Prize and was published by Oberlin College Press. Her prose appears in the Los

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Assessing Ethics Learning

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

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integrating new understating gained into one’s experience, learning, and/or enhancedpersonal and professional effectiveness.” (p. 39) Reflective practices help create meaning fromexperiences by taking the time to consider an event through a specific lens. Reflection is alsobelieved to promote deep learning [9]. A search in ASEE PEER for manuscripts with“reflection” in the title yielded 195 results, including 102 from papers at the annual conference in2015-2019 [10]. However, it is unclear to what extent reflection is standard practice inengineering education versus being explored as “novel”. The value of reflection has beenparticularly linked with service-learning, as a critical step in achieving particular learning goalsand/or helping the learner

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Ethical Reasoning and Decision Making

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Natalie C.T. Van Tyne P.E., Virginia Tech

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Engineering Ethics

, although Creswell labelsall quality-related methods as “validation.” [10]. We can demonstrate validation using thesemethods from Creswell and others:  Disclosure of researcher bias to demonstrate reflexivity [10], [11], and  Peer reviews of the study and its results to demonstrate effective communication for understanding and acceptance [10].While students should respond truthfully, response bias is possible [12]. Response bias couldarise from lack of understanding or lack of an appropriate level of engagement with theassignment.This study is limited by its time frame, institutional space, courses that the participants in thestudy sample are currently taking, and their frame of mind when they completed the assignment.There is

Conference Session

Assessing Ethics Learning

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

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). Write the left-hand side of the Colebrook equation and the right-hand side of the Colebrook equation in different cells. The difference should be minimized using the Solver function by changing the variable D Proposal I: The proposed pipeline path has a total length of 7500 m and the location is rock formations that can be difficult to excavate and lay the pipeline. This path is largely deserted and there is no significant impact on the environment Proposal II: This proposed pipeline path has a total length of 4500 m and the location consists of the forest with wildlife. This is not difficult to excavate. There could be an impact on the existing ecosystems during the excavation process. Proposal III: This proposed pipeline path has a total

Conference Session

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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creative arts interventions (e.g.creative writing and drama), patient interviews, communication and interpersonal skills training,and experiential learning, with the latter three having the most pronounced impact on empathydevelopment [60], [61]. Integrating peer-support, structured self-reflection, and course-basedcommunity service has also been shown to prevent the empathy decline that typically occursduring medical training [62].An example of service-learning as a tool for teaching empathy is “Project for Sharing” whereinstudents work with stakeholders to create devices for underserved community members [56].Student projects included building an infant/child location detector for blind parents and asimple-to-use communication device for deaf

Conference Session

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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Engineering Ethics

than a retrospective analysis in terms of absolutes.This is the same in our case, where students are introduced to professional ethics in readings andassignments in a course required in their first or second year of undergraduate engineeringeducation. This course is an application overview that uses case studies that uses what could beconsidered obvious cases of professional misconduct and breach of due-diligence expectations.Students review one or more of the cases (often one of those listed above) and write a brief essaydescribing the professional ethical breaches demonstrated in that case. One faculty memberdescribed that this exercise “...is really pretty easy… the case study gives a long view that makesthe overall problems apparent even

Conference Session

Assessing Ethics Learning

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

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theyengage with business and community facilitators to discuss how they will apply their learningtoward being effective principled leaders as they transition to the next phase of their lives [6].”Annually in the fall, senior students take part in a leadership day where they attend a workshop,often at local companies and interface with working professionals to work through a variety ofwork place issues and ethic case studies. These workshops include discussion of peer andsupervisor interactions, ethical treatment of customers and clients, individual ethical behavior inthe work place, and reporting of suspicious or fraudulent behavior.Engineering students participate in a two semester senior year design capstone experience, ethicsis again addressed in

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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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Paper ID #31031Equity, Inclusion and Ethics: Adapting a Mentoring Curriculum to Developan Ethics Workshop for Engineering StudentsDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Services at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational