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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 4

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elisa Warford, University of Southern California

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. in English from the University of Maryland. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Toward a More Caring Code of Engineering EthicsAbstract: Despite recent scholarly work that emphasizes the importance of the ethic of care inengineering practice, care ethics are not reflected in most engineering codes of ethics. Rather, thecanons of these codes more often reflect traditional “universal” moral principles. Since despitetheir limitations, the codes of ethics are important aspirational and normative value statementsfor the profession—and are frequently used to teach engineering ethics—this paper proposes thatthe codes should include canons that reflect the ethic of care. The paper

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney

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40 Environmental impacts 66 35 Ethical theories 59 23 % teaching ESI in types of courses: First-year design focused 35 12 Full course on ethics 24 6 % using particular methods to teach ESI: In-class discussion 93 67 Reflection 59 24 In-class debates

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Engineering Ethics Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia; Araba Dennis, University of Virginia; Kathleen Eggleson, Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend; Anderson Sunda-Meya, Xavier University of Louisiana; Kathryn Haas, Saint Mary's College, Indiana

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verbal;active to reflective; and sequential to global. Notably, the Felder-Soloman Index does notencompass personality traits, e.g. introversion/extroversion. Roy and colleagues [7] assessed best practices in administering Massive Open Online Courses(MOOCs, e.g. Coursera), and endeavored to analyze learner patterns that emerge from the“tremendous amount of data” originating from the amount and quality of participation inMOOCs. The authors assert that data often considered demographic—such as socioeconomicstatus, race, or gender—constitute essential components of building an effective tool forexamining learner patterns. Roy et al. [7] propose the following MOOC learner patterns basedupon clustering, supported by statistically significant T-tests

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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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Model (PSRDM) created by Canneyand Bielefeldt [4]. The model seeks to gauge “the development of personal andprofessional responsibility in [students]” and merges these two dimensions togetherfor the professional connectedness realm [4]. The personal social awareness piecerelates to the development of one’s feeling “a moral or social obligation to help1This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNo. 1635554. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation. 1others” while

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.

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, I'd say that that sense of that - that technical social dualism is reinforced throughout the curriculum, but especially in the – in two large areas of the curriculum in engineering science courses and humanities and social science courses. So, while the technical engineering science courses focus and - and privilege the technical, the humanities and social science courses in many universities do just the opposite.The separation of technical and social within the curriculum reinforces the perceivedseparation in students’ minds, which is not reflective of engineering practice where the twohave to be considered simultaneously.Requirements vs. electiveSome interviewees also commented on the challenges associated with teaching ESI inrequired

Conference Session

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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and data set as well as the methods used to collect and analyze our data.The third section reviews our key findings for this stage of the research process, drawingextensively on students’ articulations of the role of ethics in their individual lives, theireducational experiences, and the profession. In the fourth section, we identify implications of ourfindings and how they offer insight into both the teaching of ethics to engineering students andthe broader challenges facing engineering educational environments having to do witheducational and disciplinary cultures. Finally, we conclude the paper by reviewing our keyfindings and reflecting on what they portend for the project, and engineering ethics teaching andresearch, moving into the

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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intheir home country their entire life. A follow-up ANOVA was run between the two variables andthey were found to be predictive of each other. Over 80% of those who spoke English as asecond language and said that had lived outside of their home country said that the United Stateswas the country they had lived in for more than 6 months outside of their home country. Asmany of this subset of respondents came from different countries, they may not have deemedtheir responses as unethical when reflecting on the ethical underpinnings of their home country.As this subset of students also learned English as a second language, a limited vocabulary andlack of fluency in English may have negatively impacted their ability to answer the writtenresponses, or

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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consumer is, however, unharmed bythe product’s color despite not being happy about it.Value systems are influenced by many factors, including upbringing, geographic location,historic time, life experiences, reflective thought, education, knowledge, and even prejudices.What might have been considered safe in the 1950s is not considered safe today and what is nowconsidered safe may not be regarded as safe in the 2030s. To drive this point home, the courseincludes a historic review of various changes in the safety of food [7], consumer products [8],and automobiles [9]. D. Product-Safety ConceptsWhen either establishing or assessing the safety of a product, the engineer must know what theproduct is intended to do. Strangely enough, this is not

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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of Liberal Arts Education [23], [31]. 
• Engineering work/practice considerations (7 items): respondents rated the importance of seven considerations relevant to engineering based on ABET criteria (e.g., technical, environmental, social, economic, health/safety, manufacturability, and ethical) [1].• Macro-ethics (8 items): Comprised of items about the obligations, duties, and social responsibilities of engineers, including in relation to the technologies they create.• Moral Attentiveness (7 items): A scale intended to measure the extent to which students perceive and reflect on moral issues in their day-to-day experiences [32]. 
• Moral Disengagement (24 items): A scale that measures students’ tendency to morally