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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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). For this paper, we describehow educational benefits can be achieved by using the EERI within the curriculum. First, wepresent some background information on an instrument that is in its final validation phases andthat offers an engineering scenario-based assessment of individual students’ ethical reasoning.Second, we present how we can utilize this instrument for instructional exercises in threedifferent class formats. We found that it was particularly important in the service-learning designclass for students to learn what issues to consider and frameworks to engage, but also when andhow to better recognize ethical issues in their own projects. The service-learning context offeredan ideal site in which engineering educators could assist

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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also the Chairperson of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department for sixteen years from July 1990. He has been an IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers) Fellow since 2000. Dr. Eui Park has also initiated and developed a successful Human-Machine Systems Engineering program at NC A&T and has also conducted STEM outreach programs, the Para-Research Program, Partnership in Education and Research, REU, and RET, for the past sixteen years. His fields of research are Human-Machine Systems Engineering and Quality Assurance. He has been a principle investigator in 24 awarded funded research projects totaling over $12 million in the past ten years.Dr. Vinod K Lohani, Virginia Tech Dr. Vinod K Lohani is a

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Engineering Ethics Division - Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jodi Reeves, National University; Larysa Nadolny, Iowa State University

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Paper ID #6799Ethics in Engineering Education Using Virtual WorldsDr. Jodi Reeves, National University Dr. Jodi Reeves is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Engineering at National University in San Diego, CA. She teaches courses in design engineering, engineering management, electric circuits, and other applied engineering courses. She is also the lead faculty for the Data Analytics program in the School of Engineering, Technology, and Media at National University. Prior to academia, she worked for almost ten years as a quality control manager, engineering project manager, and senior scientist responsi

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #5684Ancient Structural Failures and Modern Incarnations:Dr. Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology Dr. Marilyn Dyrud is a full professor in the Communication Department at Oregon Institute of Technol- ogy, where she regularly teaches courses in rhetoric, business/technical writing, and ethics. She is also a part of the faculty team for the Civil Engineering Department’s integrated senior project. She has been active in ASEE for more than 25 years, serving as a regular conference presenter and moderator. She was OIT’s campus representative for seventeen years and served in various section leadership

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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will discuss its assigned case for tenminutes, with reporting out to the larger group before moving on to another case. Keyissues will be highlighted by the leader as the groups report.Online ResourcesThe online resources described below are taken from Bates et al., 201215 and include the EthicsCORE (Collaborative Online Resource Environment), the National Academy of Engineering’sOnline Ethics Center, the E3 project, and a list of other sites with ethics information.The Ethics CORE (Collaborative Online Resource Environment) project is an Internet portalsupporting ethics education in science, social science, engineering and math. It is beingdeveloped by National Center for Professional and Research Ethics at the University of Illinois-Urbana

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Engineering Ethics Division - Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Trevor Scott Harding, California Polytechnic State University; Donald D. Carpenter P.E., Lawrence Technological University; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan

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conducted several investigations on the influence of non-traditional teaching methods (e.g. service learning, project-based learning) on student motivation and self-efficacy. He is also PI on several projects investigating the degradation of biomedical materials in physiological environments. Dr. Harding presently serves as associate editor of the on-line journal Advances in Engineering Education, and served as chair of the Materials Division and vice-chair of the ERM Division of ASEE. Dr. Harding received the 2010 ASEE Pacific Southwest Section Outstanding Teaching Award and the 2008 President’s Service Learning Award for innovations in the use of service learning at Cal Poly. In 2004 he was named a Templeton Research

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mona Itani, American University of Beirut

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Paper ID #6422The effectiveness of videos as a learning tool in an engineering ethics course:A students’ perspectiveMs. Mona Itani, American University of Beirut Mona Intani graduated from the American University of Beirut in 2006 and began a profession in com- puter and communications engineering. Itani has worked for multinational telecommunications compa- nies for four years. After earning her master’s in Engineering Management, she joined the engineering management program at the American University of Beirut. She currently teaches engineering ethics and is working on several research projects related to engineering

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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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.[11] However,that plan remains at a very early stage of development.The need for assessmentMany scholars are interested in investigating the effectiveness of ethics and RCRtraining.[12-13] Some of the assessment efforts have been supported by the Council ofGraduate Schools’ (CGS) Project for Scholarly Integrity.[14] Along these lines, there isa profound research opportunity at our institution; yet, it is one that remains largelyunfulfilled. The ongoing implementation challenges relating to developing an academicpolicy, which covers all new doctoral students, and resource limitations have not allowedfor a formal assessment of our RCR program at the present time.ConclusionThis paper describes initial stages of an RCR plan that covers doctoral

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Paper ID #6396Global Portrayals of Engineering Ethics Education: A Systematic LiteratureReviewJustin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette Justin L Hess is a Ph.D. student at Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education. His research focuses on the role of individual values in engineering decision making, such as the role of empathy in stakeholder perspective taking, motivating student interest in sustainability, and deconstructing dominant worldviews within engineering. He currently is a research and teaching assistant for an NSF-funded project which uses reflexive principlism as an ethical framework for

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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, andenvironmental surroundings. Fatigue induced by concentrating or focusing on a project for asignificant period of time without a break (e.g. plotting results from a materials study or writing apaper summarizing one’s experimental results), good or elevated mood (induced by watching afunny video), and environment (such as a dirty office with a messy desk) all appear to influenceethical behavior. The class makes use of video clips containing re-enactments of published empiricalstudies that demonstrate why people act unethically. The videos serve as the means to deliverclear moral psychology lessons based on previously published case studies involving real orhypothetical scenarios. For example, one of the videos is a combination lecture and story

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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analysis, and was an original member of the IBM Research speech recognition group that started in 1972. He was manager of the Speech Terminal project from 1976 until 1980. At IBM Dr. Silverman received several outstanding innovation awards and patent awards. In 1980, Dr. Silverman was appointed professor of Engineering at Brown University, and charged with the devel- opment of a program in computer engineering. His research interests currently include microphone-array research, array signal processing, speech processing and embedded systems. He has been the director of the Laboratory for Engineering Man/Machine Systems in the School of Engineering at Brown since its founding in 1981. From July 1991 to June 1998 he was

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Engineering Ethics Division - Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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at the faculty member’s ownwillingness to assist in this project. How can you as a faculty member in the College ofEngineering help the college in its objective of educating ethically responsible engineers? Just asit is important to know where faculty stand in their understanding of the concept “ethics acrossthe curriculum,” so it is also important to know what responsibilities they are willing to assumein order implement Ethics Across the Curriculum. This question seeks open-ended comments, inorder to generate the most varied of responses from the participants.Survey Case StudiesThe next section of the survey centers around six case studies. The prior questions aim toascertain faculty familiarity with professional ethics, their practice in

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rigoberto Chinchilla, Eastern Illinois University

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these initiatives as well as thosedriven by commercial interest. There is also little doubt that research typically drives the contentof university courses reflected in the final papers, projects, and daily lectures. It is not difficult toimagine that if our research funds become mostly or exclusively from interested parties in theMME then, the content of our courses might sooner or later, begin to reflect those alignments.The “true stars” in academia will be those who better serve the market demands. Thisimmediately raises serious ethical questions because many professors not wanting to do specialinterest research might be in disadvantage. In the end, academic freedom might be the mostimportant loss of all.Consequences for Universities