Conference Session

Teaching Ethics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waleed Abulfaraj, King Abdulaziz University; Mohamed Hassan, Alexandria University, Egypt

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Engineering Ethics

throws most engineering professors into completelyunfamiliar territory. Little in their background or experience provides a basis for knowing howstudents might demonstrate an understanding of professional or ethical responsibility2. Addingto that, it is known that according to the ABET criteria; the assessment plan should specify whois responsible for each part of the assessment, when the assessment will be performed, and whowill receive the results2. It is thus clear that more in-depth analysis is still needed in this area.Teaching Ethics According to the ABET RequirementsIf the vision for understanding ethical and professional responsibilities as articulated in ABET isto become reality, educators must answer a number of questions3: What is the

Conference Session

Teaching Ethics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Matthew Mayhew, New York University

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Engineering Ethics

Engineering from U-M. Dr. Finelli is responsible for advising the U-M College of Engineering on educational endeavors, conducting research in engineering education, planning and facilitating workshops for faculty and graduate student instructors, and generating a community of researchers in engineering education. She is also a member of the U-M Steering Committee for the President’s Ethics in Public Life Initiative and the College of Engineering’s Diversity and Outreach Council. Dr. Finelli is a member of the Executive Board of the ERM Division of ASEE and was program co-chair for the 33rd Frontiers in Education Conference and for the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. She participated

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Global Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dawn Bikowski, Ohio University; Melissa Broeckelman, Ohio University

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Engineering Ethics

initiatives and efforts, and undergraduate and graduate students in the RussCollege of Engineering and Technology were invited to join the Student Academic HonorCouncil. Though advised by the Academic Honesty Advisor, the SAHC was given a great dealof authority in defining its role and responsibilities. The group began by learning more aboutacademic honesty, both through presentations by the advisor and through individual research thatmembers then shared with the group. To date, the SAHC has developed and adopted a charterand has begun planning outreach initiatives to educate student peers and promote a culture of Page 12.204.5academic honesty. It is

Conference Session

Teaching Ethics II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emine Atasoylu, Eastern Mediterranean University

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Engineering Ethics

professionalethics, after a certain period of work experience adopt themselves to what the society andtheir friends are expecting of them. When compared to populated and industrializedcountries, because of our cultural differences, small population and the friendly environment,we propose that there be periodic ethics education for practicing engineers. This can take theform of a two to three hour seminar or one day workshop at least once a year. Future workwill need to be done to identify the needs of engineers in Cyprus and to develop an ethicstraining program tailored to meet these specific needs. We plan to do this future work incollaboration with professional societies.Appendix Ethics Awareness Survey for Practicing

Conference Session

Engineering and Sustainability

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines; Jon Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Junko Munakata-Marr, Colorado School of Mines; Jay Straker, Colorado School of Mines; Marcelo Simoes, Colorado School of Mines

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Engineering Ethics

their ideas about the scope of engineering and the future of theircareers.AssessmentAssessment activities are planned and have been implemented throughout this project. To date,the majority of assessment methods have been formative in nature. As was discussed earlier, aliterature review has been completed and based on this review, student learning outcomes havebeen proposed. These outcomes have been used in curriculum development and thus are alignedteaching and learning goals. As the curriculum is implemented, summative assessments thatinclude pre- and post-content assessments and student surveys will be implemented.Preliminary formative assessment has taken place in the one-credit pilot seminar and in one HEEmodule. In the one-credit pilot

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Global Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christan Whysong, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Ethics

minutes, was to allow students to hear the varying views oftheir classmates.The Departments of Biological Systems Engineering and Engineering Education are onlybeginning to implement this ethics training through a spiral themed curriculum so it is essentialto orchestrate an assessment plan for future evaluation. The assessment tool utilized for thisexercise was a survey which students spent ten minutes filling out after the class discussion. Forquestions 2.1 through 2.5, students were to circle the best response where: Page 12.854.6 1 is strongly disagree 2 is disagree 3 is no opinion 4 is agree 5 is strongly agree2.1

Conference Session

Teaching Ethics II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Engineering Ethics

compiled, analyzed and tabulated. There are plans to generate similar modules for use insophomore, junior and senior level courses. Appendix B provides an example of an EthicsModule that was used by the authors. (Henthorn, 1994 – 2004).Students were encouraged to participate in classroom discussions. There were no lectures.On the contrary, Socratic Inquisition techniques were utilized in the classroom to create anatmosphere identified as Learning Paradigm. (McKendall,1993) Students were asked tosummarize their thoughts in a written report, which was later analyzed, graded, assessed andtabulated. The results were analyzed using Washington State University’s Rubric (Appendix A)and categorized using a Likert Scale. Data were plotted using a bar chart

Conference Session

Teaching Ethics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

June Marshall, St. Joseph's College; John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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Engineering Ethics

principles of moral philosophy”. 7 It is a right-versus-right dilemma.Students in the college-level ethics course are then asked to consider how the threeprinciples might apply to this dilemma: • The ends-based principle concedes that because the behavior is detrimental to the group’s achievement he should be banned from group work until he learns to cooperate. • The rule-based principle encourages the teacher to ask what if every teacher in the Page 12.759.5 world were to do what I am planning to do and would they always allow he to participate or never allow him to participate? There is only one standard and it would

Conference Session

Ethical Responsibilities of Engineers in the World of Corporate Business / Engineering and Poverty

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton

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Engineering Ethics

, 2002.20 Brian Deal, The Next Industrial Revolution: William McDonough, Michael Braungart and the Birth of the Sustainable Economy, Journal of the American Planning Association, January 1, 2004.21 Engineering Accreditation Criteria 2007-2008, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, http://www.abet.org/Linked%20Documents-UPDATE/Criteria%20and%20PP/A004%2007- 08%20Accredition%20Policy%20and%20Procedure%20Manual%2011-10-06.pdf Page 12.616.15

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Global Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Hoernecke, Iowa State University; Thad Gillispie, Iowa State University; Benjamin Anderson, Iowa State University; Thomas Daniels, Iowa State University

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Engineering Ethics

network.These exercises teach students the importance of preparation and planning as well as allow thedefending team to respond to attacks from the red team by closing security holes and changingdefenses. At the conclusion of the exercise the students are given a debriefing by the red team inwhich the methods used to find security holes, which vulnerabilities were most useful for theattacks, and how to best prevent similar problems in the future are discussed. This allows thestudents to learn which of their security measures were effective and which were not, and alsowhich of the measures made it difficult for the users of the green team to perform their taskssince that would have a real impact on the setup’s feasibility in the real world.Another