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Evaluation of Ethical Development

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edwin R. Schmeckpeper P.E., Ph.D, Norwich University; Ashley Ater-Kranov, Washington State University; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jay Patrick McCormack, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patrick D. Pedrow P.E., Washington State University

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Evaluate Student Work in a Senior Level Professional Issues CourseAbstractThis paper describes a customization of the Engineering Professional Skills Assessment (EPSA)method within the ‘ethics’ section of a senior level “Professional Issues” course. The courseinstructors have found the interdisciplinary EPSA scenarios to generate more enthusiastic andhigher level discussion than case studies that focus solely on ethics. The paper describes use oftwo different EPSA scenarios, the standardized questions which are used to prompt the studentdiscussion, the EPSA rubric, and recommended facilitation plan for adoption by others.IntroductionEngineering programs often contain a senior level “Professional Issues” course to cover

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Evaluation of Ethical Development

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jill L. May, Illinois Institute of Technology; Alan Mead, Illinois Institute of Technology; James Kemp Ellington, Illinois Institute of Technology

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ethical decisions Dealing with Adversity Definition: how the team makes decisions under stressful situations Sample item: When the project is behind schedule, we sometimes make decisions without thinking them through completely.MethodThe sample consisted of undergraduate students (N=521) from three mid-size Midwestern andEast coast universities. At the time of data collection, the students at each institution wereparticipating in a team-based semester-long class in which each team planned and executed anapplied project. The course at School 1 (n=406) consisted primarily of engineering students(with different

Conference Session

Understanding our Students & Ethical Development

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth A. McBride-Pluskwik, Iron Range Engineering, a program of Minnesota State University, Mankato; Puteri S. Megat Hamari, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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engineer in a wafer fabrication facility before continuing her graduate studies. Other than being busy with her research and caring for her two children, she loves to cook and being outdoors. She also has an interest in traveling and plans to visit all 50 states. Her goal is to inspire more women to become engineers. Page 24.539.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Ethical Reasoning Development in Project-Based LearningIntroductionThis paper describes the method of ethics discussion used in Iron Range Engineering (IRE) andTwin Cities Engineering (TCE), two

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Teaching Approaches for Ethics

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Raridon, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Deborah K. Nykanen P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato; Marilyn C. Hart, Minnesota State University- Mankato; Winston Sealy, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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a specific issuewithin the broader topic of “garbage.” Students were assigned to multidisciplinary groups thatintentionally included both new and returning scholars from a variety of majors, and whenpossible, included both male and female students. The ten groups, each consisting of threestudents, selected topics to investigate such as electronic waste, automobile emissions, garbageislands, pesticide disposal, and composting. Each team researched their topic and gave apresentation to the class covering the background of the problem, possible solutions, and theethical issues involved. In addition to the presentations, the class watched the film “TheLightbulb Conspiracy”15, a documentary about planned obsolescence, and a professor in Urbanand

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Graduate Ethics Education & Professional Codes

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nael Barakat, Grand Valley State University; Nadia Sunny, Grand Valley State University; Md Mehedi Hasan, Grand Valley State University

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from her employer in 2009, 2011 and 2012 for successful project management. Her areas of work and research interest are device design and regulation on medical devices.Mr. Md Mehedi Hasan, Grand Valley State University I have been working as a research assistant in supply-demand planning of Lithium-ion batteries for electric drive vehicles while pursuing my MS in Product Design & Manufacturing Engineering in Grand Valley State University. I pursued my bachelor in Industrial & Production Engineering from Bangladesh Uni- versity of Engineering & Technology in 2012. My areas of interests are manufacturing processes, quality management, supply chain management etc

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Teaching Approaches for Ethics

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradley J. Brummel, The University of Tulsa; Jeremy S. Daily P.E., The University of Tulsa

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videotaped for future study and assessment.ConclusionThe authors plan to continue to develop and evaluate new expert witness role play scenarios andformats to maximize the potential benefits of this pedagogy within the specific needs andconstraints of different educational environments. The formative assessment of the expertwitness role play approach appears promising, but it did not capture learning outcomes orcomparisons with other approaches to teaching engineering education. Creative professorsshould be able to adopt this technique to teach engineering ethics within a realistic, engaging,and involving way.Bibliography1. Brummel, B. J., Gunsalus, C. K., Anderson, K. L., & Loui, M. C. (2010). Development of role-play scenarios forteaching

Conference Session

Evaluation of Ethical Development

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University; Megan Kenny Feister, Purdue University; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University; Alan D. Mead, Illinois Institute of Technology

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statements. Based onthe feedback of both review groups and the psychometric analysis of the pilot data, we madechanges to the instructions, the scenarios, and the items. For example, a rating statement mighthave been reworded to make it clearer. We included additional items for each scenario so wecould see how the items performed, with the plan to reduce the number of items using the pilotdata. As a result, the scenarios of Version 2 of the instrument had 16 – 24 items each whichincluded additional items for each schema that is required for scoring. It was administered to175 participants.Results from the Version 2 pilot identified several items that did not perform as well as orsimilarly to other items in the same schema. In Version 3, these items

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Teaching Approaches for Ethics

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory A. Rulifson, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Whitney Thomas, University of Colorado, Boulder

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, which oftenhad a tremendous impact on their idea of social responsibility. Jolene: “My dad and I are planning on going to Ethiopia and building a biogas digester in one of their hope centers, which is like a hope for society, which is this big community and they have a school and an orphanage and things like that and model housing for children.”In some cases these service activities were related to environmental activities such as buildingtrails, cleaning up a school, or leading an outdoor exploration camp. Trevor: "I took an ecology class and we went up and down the Merrimack River, which is one of the biggest rivers in New Hampshire and we did water quality testing."Some community service and travel abroad experiences that the

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Graduate Ethics Education & Professional Codes

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard S. Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Joshua Lloyd Olds, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Eric Joe Coyle, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Vehicle Systems International on the Aerospace States Association Suggested Privacy Legislation Plan 2013”. (Accessed online at: http://aerostates.org/wp-content/uploads/AUVSI-Comments.pdf, 3 January 2014), 1 June 2013.10 Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. Unmanned Aircraft System Operations Industry “Code of Conduct”. (Accessed online at http://www.auvsi.org/conduct, 4 January 2014), August 2012.11 International Association of Chiefs of Police. “Recommended Guidelines for the use of Unmanned Aircraft”. (Accessed online at http://www.theiacp.org/portals/0/pdfs/iacp_uaguidelines.pdf, 4 January 2014).12 Federal Aviation Administration. “Final FAA Privacy Policy for UAS Test Sites” (Accessed online at http

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Graduate Ethics Education & Professional Codes

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech; William Joseph Rhoads, Virginia Tech; Siddhartha Roy, Virginia Tech; Erin Heaney, Clean Air: Organizing for Health and Justice; Glenn Andrew Ratajczak, Clean Air Coalition of Western New York; Jennifer Holly Ratajczak, Clean Air Coalition of Western New York

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