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Engineering Ethics Division - Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Borenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert J Butera, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

instruction is notconsidered adequate as the sole means of instruction” and that “Acceptable programsgenerally involve at least eight contact hours”.[2] It is also important to note thatmembers of the research team are “highly encouraged” by NIH to be involved ineducating their trainees about RCR.NSF’s RCR policy was officially released in 2009 and required of institutions that theydevelop a training plan for students and postdoctoral researchers who are funded bygrants submitted or due on or after January 4, 2010.[3] At this point in time, NSF’spolicy does not specifically stipulate the format that the training should take, the amountof contact hours required, or the topic areas that should be covered. Although NSF hasgiven broad latitude to

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division - Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank E Falcone, Villanova University; Edward F. Glynn P.E., Villanova University; Mark Edward Graham, Villanova University; Mark Doorley Ph.D., Villanova University

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Engineering Ethics

establish a base line regardingtheir faculty’s familiarity with ethics principles and the degree to which the faculty addressethical issues in their classes.IntroductionThe need for a Faculty Survey on Professional Ethics became apparent after the College began toimplement an Ethics Across the Curriculum approach in May 2009 with a two-day EngineeringEthics Workshop. The details of the workshop were presented in a previous ASEE paper1. Theoriginal plan envisioned similar workshops every two years as additional faculty committed toEthics Across the Curriculum. However, the initial workshop raised some fundamentalquestions regarding the faculty’s perceptions of engineering ethics and why/how ethics should beincluded in technical courses. These issues

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brittney Hope Jimerson, North Carolina A&T State University ; Eui Hyun Park, North Carolina A&T State University; Vinod K Lohani, Virginia Tech; Steven M. Culver, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Ethics

they understandethical issues, particularly as they relate to global differences, issues of advocacy and ethicalleadership, and ethics and emerging technologies. 2. To identify areas to improve studentperceptions regarding their ethics training and provide some directions for curricular planning forthe college of engineering at NC A&T. VPI investigators consisted of an interdisciplinary groupof engineering faculty, assessment professionals, and survey practitioners, to generate item poolsfor each of the two sections.The survey consisted of two sections. The first was focused on “perceptions of the curriculum”and included 11 items. For each item, students were asked their level of agreement ordisagreement according to a five-point scale: 1

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rigoberto Chinchilla, Eastern Illinois University

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Engineering Ethics

, universities might become simple machines in aline of production; however well-planned and thoroughly discussed partnerships might not bedangerous to the university mission. To subordinate the whole university mission, to purelymarket needs is intuitively and ethically wrong, if we believe the university mission is todemocratize knowledge impartially for the people in a way that the people‟s critical thinking andgeneral education is the priority. Businesses‟ priorities and needs might not be always in linewith the general mission of the university. In general, the goals and results of superior educationare not immediately quantifiable. It may take a few years to evaluate the results of changes madein the curriculum if the MME is implemented. It is

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Michael C. Loui, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Engineering Ethics

––kids who’d give their eye teeth to be whereyou are right now? Page 23.794.7 Max then left, fully expecting Bryan to dump the used coolant. As Bryan stares at thedrum, he ponders his options. What options do you think he has? What do you think he shoulddo? First identify the responsibilities of Bryan, Max, and Bryan’s employer. (Scenario byMichael Pritchard)Scenario #2: Conflict of Interest Beth I. Beam is a civil engineer at the federal General Services Administration (GSA). Inthe next month, GSA plans to let an engineering design contract for a new federal building to oneof three firms, whichever appears to be most capable of

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin S. High, Oklahoma State University; Scott D Gelfand, Oklahoma State University, Department of Philosophy; Ronald Steve Harrist Ph.D., Oklahoma State University; Shelia M. Kennison, Oklahoma State University

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Engineering Ethics

demonstrate why people act unethically. After a discussion of each video, each individualstudent is guided through a two-part exercise. The first part, developing a Personal InventoryReport, helps the student engage in self-reflection in order to determine what sorts of situationsthe student might find ethically challenging. In the second part of the exercise, the studentdevelops a personal plan (Adaptive-Strategies Report) addressing what strategies they might usein order to increase the likelihood that they will act ethically in challenging situations (that is, thesituations arrived at while developing the Personal Inventory Report). Page

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David K. Ware; David J. Ahlgren, Trinity College; Harvey F. Silverman, Brown University

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Engineering Ethics

: A large manufacturing company sends a team ofseveral people to Turkey, to visit several Turkish companies that are potential suppliers of low-cost, high quality parts. The team consists of a financial analyst, a purchasing specialist, and amanufacturing engineer, so that the relative merits of each potential supplier can be evaluatedfrom the perspective of each of these professionals. After visiting the last of the Turkishcompanies, and on the planned day of departure for the U.S., a huge snow storm arrives on thescene, shutting down all area airports, and filling up all hotels in the area with stranded travelers.The company team calls many hotels looking for rooms, but finds none available. The presidentof the last-visited Turkish company

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University

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Engineering Ethics

engineering student whose immediatecareer plans are changed due to a family emergency and the subsequent potential foremployment in an industry whose work runs counter to the student’s personal and family beliefs. Page 23.723.5The second teaching technique employed was the utilization of ethics related applicationquestions on each of the two course exams. In both exams, these questions representedapproximately 20% of the available points and asked students to synthesize how a given ethicalframework applied to a management system they designed. The final traditional approach wasthat of short opinion pieces written within the online class discussion

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

addition andincrease seating capacity to 72,500.41 On the morning of February 25, a workman noticed abuckle in one of the 28-inch diameter supports for the cantilevered roof. Two hours later, the firsttwo sections of a planned nine-section addition came tumbling down, with an ear-splitting roar. Page 23.196.6In a mere 12 seconds, the new grandstand resembled, as one reporter noted, “a fallen gianterector set.”42University of Washington Athletic Director Mike Lude watched awe-struck from his office as theevent unfolded during a regularly scheduled staff meeting: “it’s kind of like having a newoffspring and having something happen to it . . . . It