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Professional and Regulatory Issues in Ethics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ryan D Watts, Purdue University West Lafayette; Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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published about this important area of engineering ethics either. As well,professional ethical codes in engineering typically ignore student engineering design projects(Foot 2006) and likewise engineering design projects planning rarely address Human SubjectsResearch (Healey et al., 2013; Diaz & Nathans-Kelly, 2016).This lack of clarity and lack of education for undergraduate engineers about testing humansubjects in their design projects has multiple negative consequences. The first is that theengineering students and faculty members lack understanding as to when to involve appropriateoversight by regulatory entities such as the Institutional Review Board (IRB). Lack of clarity hasconsequences of putting the subjects of the testing at potential

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Engaging Ethics in Teams and Communities

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaofeng Tang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Eduardo Mendieta, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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understanding of ethical theories and concepts; 2)introducing ethical issues related with engineering research, especially with the handlingof research data; 3) sharing and demonstrating instructional methods for leadingdiscussion-based ethical analysis. Feedback from the workshop participants and their subsequent presentations of ethicsteaching plans indicate that our user-oriented approach successfully engaged a cohort ofethics educators in graduate engineering programs. We conclude this paper by reflectingon the lessons we learned from the workshop design and reporting our plans for refiningthe workshop in the future.Keywords: Graduate Ethics Education, Faculty Development, Engineering Ethics1. IntroductionThe current ABET Engineering

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Technology and Design in Engaging and Analyzing Ethics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University; Mark Stephen LaCour Jr., Texas Tech University; William M. Marcy P.E., Texas Tech University; Richard A. Burgess II, Texas Tech University

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involving engineering dilemmas. Amajor course requirement is a capstone paper incorporating Social Impact Analysis (SIA). Thegeneral purpose of SIA is to identify and analyze the positive and negative social consequencesof engineering plans and projects. In students’ SIA papers, they identify and discuss acontemporary engineering technology (e.g., autonomous tractor trailers, fracking, drones, ethicalhacking). They are required to incorporate knowledge from one or more of the ethical theoriesinto their analyses.The goal of the present study was to use machine-learning to identify the ethical content in thecapstone papers submitted by students in the ethics course. In the two tests described in thispaper, we assessed whether Watson-NLC could

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Interactive Approaches to Ethics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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publications6,7,8.In the planning for year five of the expert witness training, several changes were planned withrespect to the simulation scenario, the method of the role-play, and the evaluation of theprogram. First, in effort to gain a larger archive of scenarios which could be used for this type ofrole-play, the instructors created a new lawsuit dilemma which involved a car lift collapseaccident. A second program change was also implemented due to the size of the engineeringcourse increasing dramatically when over 60 students enrolled. The instructors responded to thechallenge by adjusting the method of the role play to no longer be a group interaction but simplyfocus one student interviewing at a time. Also, in attempt to systematize the experience

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Faculty Views of Ethics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David B. Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Diversity

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diagram illustrates the confluence of factors that can affectan academic plan’s design, which includes faculty members – the unit of analysis for the presentwork. Figure 1. Academic Plan Model from Lattuca and Stark17.* *Figure used with author’s permission via personal correspondence. Starting with the observation that some faculty teach engineering ethics in their courseswhile others do not19, one question arises: what is the difference between groups of facultymembers in how they conceptualize engineering ethics education? If we could better characterizethe conceptual frameworks around the perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes that engineering facultyharbor toward ethics education, then we could

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Interactive Approaches to Ethics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leslie Dodson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paula Quinn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John Bergendahl, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Glenn Gaudette, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John M. Sullivan Jr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Curtis Abel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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course.Assessment 3. Pre/post Scenario AnalysisAdditionally, students were given a scenario involving the use of a potentially hazardouschemical used in a medical product. The pre-test, issued in the beginning of the first termof “Humanitarian Engineering Past and Present,” asked them how they would respondgiven the issues embedded in the scenario – environmental racism, following governmentregulations/company policy, dealing with multiple perspectives, and possiblewhistleblowing. In the post-test, which was delivered at the end of the second term, theywere asked to review and critique their pre-test responses.Pre-test responses typically just re-stated the problem and did not provide a detailedaction plan. In their post-test critique of their earlier

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Engineering Social and Human Ethical Impacts

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark L. Bourgeois, University of Notre Dame

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remainder of the summer to further developtheir project plans, or fulfill any prior research commitments they may have. When the academicyear starts, SRR convenes occasional meetings, approximately 5 times per term. In the fall term,these generally consist of further instruction and outside speakers. For example, at the firstmeeting in fall Dr. Bourgeois provided a workshop on Design Thinking aimed at developingprojects in SRR. Other talks included sessions on writing for a general audience given by Dr.Jessica Baron, Communications Coordinator and Director of Media and Engagement for theHistory of Science Society; a talk on working in the public policy space by Dr. MelindaGormley, then a AAAS fellow at EPA; and a talk by a member of the Templeton

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Professional and Regulatory Issues in Ethics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ramanitharan Kandiah P.E., Central State University; Krishna Kumar V Nedunuri, International Center for Water Resources; Ning Zhang, Central State University

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Module* 5% Reading Assignment and Paper/Documentary Review 20% In-Class Discussions 10% Case studies 10% Final examination 20%* Proposed change for Fall 2017 class from the assessment from Fall 2016 classThe instructors also plan to make a three credit hour humanities and fine arts course AppliedEthics as a mandatory general education course for the ENE program as it could reinforce E & P.The course description from the 2016-2017 university catalog is given below:Students apply

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Faculty Views of Ethics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan E. Canney, Seattle University; Madeline Polmear; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Christopher Swan, Tufts University; Elizabeth Simon, Seattle University

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lack of interest in the industry to address issues like plan stamping and lobbying for work. There is a real lack of understanding that engineers must be part of the community.” Senior Year When it is noted that “…I don't believe there are many places that 15 0.79 Only ethical issues do not students really get exposure to these topics in become part of depth. They may 'come up' in other courses but curriculum until often it's not until capstone design that students senior year really have to wrestle with these issues

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Engaging Ethics, Internationally

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaofeng Tang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Wei Zhang, Zhejiang University; Shuxin Yang, Chinese society for engineer education(CSEE)

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engineering from educators’ standpoint in the respectivenations and region. We also plan to study engineering ethics education in other countries.References[1] ConnecticutHistory.org[2] Baker, R, A Caplan, L Emanuel, and S Latham, eds. 1999. The American Medical Ethics Revolution:How the AMA’s Code of Ethics Has Transformed Physicians’ Relationships to Patients, Professionals, andSociety. 1st ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.[3] Pfatteicher, Sarah K A. 2003. “Depending on Character : ASCE Shapes Its First Code of Ethics.”Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice 129 (January): 21–32.[4] Kline, Ronald R. 2002. “Using History & Sociology To Teach Engineering Ethics.” IEEE Technologyand Society Magazine

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Awareness, Expectations, and Recognition of Ethics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isabel Hilliger, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Andrés Strello, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Francisca Castro, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Mar Pérez-Sanagustín, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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Privately-fee paying 59.8% 74.6% schoolData Analysis Plan Concerning the qualitative data analysis, two reviewers codified the transcripts of thesemi-structured interviews in NVivo, and peer-checking was used to guarantee consistency.Concept maps were developed to reduce information and clarify themes, codes and categories. Adata matrix was obtained to inform the development of the quantitative instrument. Although wecannot generalize findings, there is evidence from different actors to address internal validity. Regarding the quantitative data analysis, 18% of the sample answered the quantitativeinstrument