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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 5

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahsa Ghorbani, Colorado State University; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University; Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University; Edwin K. P. Chong Ph.D., Colorado State University; Pinar Omur-Ozbek, Colorado State University; Rebecca A. Atadero, Colorado State University

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engineering. Then we provide a background on the way we integratetechnical content into knowledge integration activities and how we plan to integrate ethics intothat framework. Finally we talk about a method to assess the effectiveness of our study.Ethics Education in EngineeringOne of the major thrusts in engineering education is to develop students’ professional skills thatgo beyond the traditional technical curriculum [3]. Ethics education is a very important part ofany engineering program. ABET requires that all programs seeking accreditation mustdemonstrate that their graduates have an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility[4].Integrating professional skills into the technical content of engineering curriculum has alwaysbeen a

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 5

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexandra Erwin; Jason Borenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology; Wendy C. Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Colin Potts, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ellen Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology

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, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr Wendy C. Newstetter is theAssistant Dean for Educational Research and Innovation in the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech.Prof. Colin Potts, Georgia Institute of Technology Colin Potts is Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. As Vice Provost he is responsible for academic support, career advising, the integration of curricular and co-curricular programs, community engagement, curricular planning and the Honors Program. His research areas are requirements engineering, software privacy, and professional ethics.Ellen Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology Ellen Zegura is the Stephen Fleming

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 5

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alireza Bolhari, Islamic Azad University, Tehran; Azadeh Bolhari P.E., Angelo State University

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based on five moral theories (justice, relativism, egoism, deontology, andutilitarianism). He then developed four IT ethical scenarios and empirically tested the model.Riemenschneider et al. (2011) considered attitude, subjective norm, moral judgment andperceived importance as the influencing factors of ethical behavioral intention based on theTheory of Planned Action. Renwick and Riemenschneider (2013) proposed a model ofethical decision-making among IT students and showed that moral judgment is the mostimportant indicator of ethical intention.The theoretical foundations of this research are based on the Theory of Perceived Possibilityof Disclosure1 presented by Bolhari et al. (2017). They argue that the possibility ofconducting an unethical

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Engineering Ethics Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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practicingengineer is the design of infrastructure, devices or systems. Civil and environmental engineershold the majority of all professional engineering licenses [2]. In the civil and environmentalengineering professions, practitioners deliver plans and recommendations for theirimplementation. Every day, the public drives on these roads and bridges; lives, goes to school andworks in these structures; and relies on safe drinking water and proper wastewater treatment.According to the NSPE Code of Ethics for Engineers, “Engineering has a direct and vital impacton the quality of life for all people” [4]. As such, practicing engineers have an incredibleresponsibility to “Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public” [6]. Licensure ofthe

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaofeng Tang, Ohio State University; Jeffrey M. Catchmark, Pennsylvania State University; Eduardo Mendieta; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University

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ethical analysis The third workshop led to a number of agreements: 1. A small number of BEfaculty members would form a curriculum development team. Beginning in the summerof 2017, this team would identify existing course components or create new materials forteaching ethics across the BE curriculum. 2. Instructors of BE courses would work withthe curriculum team to implement newly developed materials and pedagogical models. 3.The BE program decided to submit a second grant proposal to the Engineering EducationCenter for supporting the implementation and assessment of the new curriculum. Figure 1illustrates the plan of work agreed by participants at the third faculty workshop

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 5

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Grant A. Fore, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Justin L. Hess, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Brandon Sorge, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Mary F. Price, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Martin A. Coleman, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Thomas William Hahn, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Julie Adele Hatcher

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outlines our plan for the FLC program, Year 2 (2018-2019), structure. Prior to eachFLC meeting, we will share one or two articles with faculty. These articles will provide initialbackground information, and we will utilize these articles to facilitate discussions within theFLC. All meetings will primarily be discussion based. In addition, the first meeting will involvea service-learning experience and a practice reflection exercise that instructors can utilize as they(re)design their courses in alignment with I-CELER. The second meeting will explore differentmodes of philosophical thought in relation to ethics with special consideration of Deweyianethics [21] and an ethic of care [24]. The third meeting will unpack the I-CELER framework

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Engineering Ethics Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth A. Debartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Wade Lee Robison

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vs. project schedule, design/prototyping/testing updates, and problemtracking. Students are encouraged throughout the course sequence to focus on the connectionbetween these deliverables: How is risk management driving design decisions? How is theprototype progress affecting your schedule? How are design decisions affecting the identifiedrisks?Prior to the instructor’s EAC participation, students completed an in-class workshop on riskmanagement that included an exercise where students observed an activity and identified ways inwhich the planning team practiced risk management, with a heavy focus on technical andresource risks. These risks are the ones that could prevent the team from completing theirproject, but they have little bearing on

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 4

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Mitch Cieminski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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participation in a student club] What are the professional dimensions of ethics in [your club]?} All of the programs our student group plans… I guess, the ethical part beforehand would be, ‘Is it ethical to, like, hold a scavenger hunt for the students of RPI during GM [spirit] week that has, like, these certain questions? Are all these questions OK to ask? Are they offending anyone?’ Or would it be depleting this entire organization’s resources and money to hold this scavenger hunt and give away all these big monetary prizes?’ (701, 48)Ethics experiences beyond coursework and extracurricular activities included a range ofinfrequently identified, but substantially elaborated issues—often sensitive ones. Two

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Danielle Corple, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David H. Torres, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Katharine E. Miller; Megan Kenny Feister, California State University, Channel Islands; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, University of South Florida

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to willfully forgo their own design ideas in order to incorporate userfeedback and seek to design a product that truly met their needs.For example, in this phase, the one team’s original plans to provide benefits to their user werechallenged by the users’ feedback, putting their interest in beneficence in tension with userautonomy. This team set out to develop assistive technology for a toddler with a disability namedRyan. The team conducted research and brainstormed ideas, identifying several potential devicesthey thought could assist Ryan in feeding himself. However, after meeting with Ryan parents,Tina shares how their team’s conceptual design ideas changed: R: Um, I think initially, like the first week or two, we brainstormed all

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samuel Aaron Snyder, Virginia Tech; Indhira María Hasbún, Virginia Tech; Jessica Deters, Virginia Tech; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Tech

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. The CFA allows us to analyze the fit of the individual items from thesurvey to the prescribed factors within the given models. The model used was used to explainhow PTO, SOC and BFP all played a role in predicting ethical awareness. To increase thestrength of the study, some questions were created to measure the opposite of the intendedvariable. For example, one of the questions measuring the personal subfactor from the spheres ofcontrol is, “I usually do not set goals because I have a hard time following through on them,” iscounterbalanced by the question “Once I make plans, I am almost certain to make them work.”Because of this difference, many of the scales had to be reverse coded to fit into the models forconfirmatory factor analysis

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Strecker Forest, a 31-house development adjacent to the heavily contaminatedCallahan property was planned in the late 1990s (Grover Callahan was one of Bliss’ drivers anddumped waste on his own property). Despite assurances that the area was “clean as a whistle,”potential residents were understandably concerned, as prior to cleanup a nearby ravine was“filled 15 feet deep with rusty barrels” [69]. Since 2008, the EPA has returned twice to the areafor additional cleanup, removing “hundreds of waste drums and thousands of tons ofcontaminated soil.” In the most recent cleanup, 2015, the EPA removed 1,545 tons of dioxin-laced soil [70]. In spite of residents’ concerns and required additional cleanups, the EPA recentlyremoved the Callahan property from

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 4

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon University; William M. Bulleit, Michigan Technological University

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yields a design with the integrity of care, integrating the four phases to an appropriatewhole.Kardon [42] has examined the whole spectrum of engineering activity and concludes thatall the care elements “come to bear in each phase and activity”, as “engineeringencompasses much more than design”. In this work, Kardon examined how the careelement – the “engineer’s standard of care”-- failed in several cases. He sums up,“In fact, there is not a one-to-one correlation between the elements of care and the phasesof engineering services; all the elements come to bear in each phase and activity. ... indesigning, but also in planning, manufacturing, constructing, operating, maintaining,modifying adapting, repairing, dismantling, and disposing of

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Engineering Ethics Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth L. d'Entremont, University of Utah; Andrew S. Merryweather, University of Utah

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going onto the next. At these early phases, it may besufficient for the engineers and other project staff to simply acknowledge the product-safetyissues that will be faced by the project. Although solutions will be needed before final-designrelease, a detailed plan of action may not be required yet.Phase 3 is the stage of most concern to the design-engineering team. It is here that the product isdesigned, re-designed, prototyped, analyzed, tested, and finally released to Manufacturing. Thisblock shows interactions with suppliers and the suppliers’ interactions with sub-suppliers. Thefigure shows the explicit need for testing in the field and in the laboratory. There are numerousincremental reviews of product safety during Phase 3. During these

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samson Pepe Goodrich, East Carolina University; Teresa Ryan, East Carolina University; Colleen Janeiro, East Carolina University; Patrick F. O'Malley, Benedictine College

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Benedictine College and 33 students and 4 faculty from The CatholicUniversity of America. In 2018, this paper reports on the 96 responses gathered to date: 59students and 6 faculty responded from East Carolina University, and 25 students responded fromBenedictine College. (Note that administrative delays have impacted distribution of theinstrument at all planned locations for the 2017-2018 academic year.)Method: Participating InstitutionsEast Carolina University is a public institution with a population of 29,000 students and has noformal university or department honor code. This university is in a city of about 100,000residents. The facility offers an undergraduate degree in general engineering, and the engineeringprogram has a faculty of 30 and

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Nicole M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Carrie J. McClelland P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Linda A. Battalora, Colorado School of Mines; Emily A. Sarver, Virginia Tech; Rennie B. Kaunda , Colorado School of Mines

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industry; and a critique of how focuson the social license to operate in the mining industry can hamper sustainable communitydevelopment efforts. Guest speakers came from industry, from consulting firms that focus oncommunity engagement, and from academia. For their final essays, students synthesized thesemester’s reading to critically analyze the potential for CSR to deliver shared social,environmental, and economic value to stakeholders. In groups, they gave presentations on thearticles, lead one class discussion, and created a stakeholder engagement plan for a real worldengineering project. The course focused primarily on the community engagement dimensions ofCSR, with gestures to the role played by engineers and engineering.Spring 2017

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shiloh James Howland, Brigham Young University; Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Randall Davies, Brigham Young University

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disengage in certain circumstances. Although it identifies eight dimensions of moral disengagement (moral justification, euphemistic labeling, advantageous comparison, displacement of responsibility, diffusion of responsibility, distortion of consequences, attribution of blame, and dehumanization), the scale is most correctly used as a measure of the single higher order concept of moral disengagement. 
• Experiences (17 items): Students were asked about their participation within the last two years and their plans to participate in the future in seventeen types of experiences: 1. Volunteer regularly (1+ time per month for 6 months longer) 2. Mission or volunteering trip (any location) 3. Work or internship in a non-profit