Conference Session

Virtues in Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sergio Guillen Grillo, University of Virginia; Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

preparing learners todevelop scripts and action plans for acting consistently with their values in ethically challengingscenarios. The approach moves away from discussing what the right action would be accordingto different ethical normative frameworks, and instead starts from the premise that most peopleare able to recognize the right course of action that is consistent with their values, and want topursue it; however, they have difficulties acting accordingly. Central to this learning model is theapplication of a thought experiment framed as: “Assuming I know what I want to do to act onmy values, how can I get it done?” The capacity to bridge the space between decision and actionis strengthened by reflection about past experiences and each

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session - Case Studies

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Qin Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lisa M Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Iris Louella Jenkins, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

motivate a concern with ethics in research, (2) identifying theethical dimensions of research, and (3) responding to the ethical dimensions of one’s ownresearch and others’ research.Setup and methodsThe workshop will meet a total of four times per semester, approximately once per month. Thefirst and third meetings will last two hours, while the second and fourth meetings will last onehour. This will allow participants more time to receive an overview of the workshop during thefirst meeting, and to work on and share with other participants their broader impacts statements,mentorship plans, and safe and inclusive working environments plans – further described below– during the third meeting.Workshop participants will include influential researchers

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session - Ethics education methodologies and interventions

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebekah L Martin, Virginia Military Institute; Tanjina Afrin, Virginia Military Institute; Kacie Caple D'Alessandro, Virginia Military Institute

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

, and VMI's Civil Engineering curriculum. conduct themselves in an ethicalFundamentals and honorable manner(Required, 1st Multiple guest lecturers' visitations are alsoyear course) included in the course plan with requests to Quizzes emphasize ethical issues Semester PaperEnvironmental Introduce students to drinking water and Individual essay on ethical andEngineering wastewater treatment theory and teach students professional responsibilities during(Required, 2nd how to design basic water and wastewater remediation of an environmentalyear course) treatment

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session - Ethics in ML/AI

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emad Ali, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Bailey Kathryn McOwen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Arsalan Ashraf, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Dayoung Kim, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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binding document that regulates the development of AI in 27 nations of the world, hence setting benchmarks for ethical AI’s global standardization. • China’s Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan [27]: Official document from the Chinese government that outlines China’s long-term development goals related to AI, and helps understand the AI’s role in government oversight and digital sovereignty.This paper will present an overview of all these policy documents and then focus on the ethical concernsand mitigation strategies presented in these policy documents. Toward the end, the discussion section willpresent similarities and differences across the ethical concerns and their mitigation strategies

Conference Session

Broader Approaches to Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Markus D. Ong, Whitworth University; Kamesh Sankaran, Whitworth University

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

university, including engineering. This improvedthe students’ understanding of ethical systems and also reinforced concepts from Core. Outcomeswere measured by ABET assessment tools developed by the department. The fraction of studentsthat struggled to describe the basic tenets of an ethical system was reduced by a factor of three,and the fraction of students that could clearly support judgments with ethical tenets increasedfrom 40% to 64%.In addition to the pedagogical modification, several things enhanced the student learningexperience that have implications for how educators and institutions can effectively deliverethics education. First, having an assessment plan that covers both microethics and macroethicsencourages forming the connections

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Tuesday June 27, 9:15 - 10:45

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tori Wagner, University of Connecticut; Landon Bassett, University of Connecticut; Jennifer Pascal, University of Connecticut; Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

reducing the set-up and data management required by instructors, thisredesign supported instructors with an option to allow the game to be student-paced and playedby individual students or to keep the instructor-led 12 week whole-class playstyle.Our proposed driving research question is "In what ways does individual student play differ fromwhole class instructor-led play with regard to learning that ethical behavior is situated?" In thenext phase of our ongoing investigation, we plan to further evaluate the use of playful assessmentto estimate its validity and reliability in comparison to current best practices of engineeringethics assessment.IntroductionAs technology advances, future engineers may be faced with increasingly complex

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session - Virtue & Ethics in the Profession

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiamin Zhang, University of California, Riverside; Quoc Tuan Olivier Truong, University of California, Riverside; Neha Gutlapalli, University of California, Riverside; HSIN-LING HSIEH, Northern Michigan University; Dena Plemmons, University of California, Riverside

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Diversity

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his father that he did not want to continue because of the (a) (b) Figure 1: Two Virtue-of-the-Week stories. (a) Lu Ban and Ya Zi 21,22 , (b) Mercury and the Woodman 23 .hardship involved in farming. Lu Ban thought for a while and asked his son what his plan was forthe future. Ya Zi said he wanted to learn the skills of weaving and left home to learn weavingafterwards. One year later, Ya Zi returned home again. Lu Ban asked his son: “Why do you give up again?”Ya Zi said: “It was too difficult to do for me.”Lu Ban asked his son: “I see. Then, what is your plan for the future?”Ya Zi said: “Father, I would like to follow you and become a carpenter.”Lu Ban approved

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session - Student understanding

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eman Hammad, Texas A&M University; Celeste Arden Riley, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Virginia Pederson; Pierre Atieh

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

of how important they deem elements of the eight constructs, using aLikert-type scale as follows: 1: Not important at all 2: Mostly not important 3: Neutral 4: Somewhat important 5: Extremely importantThe pre-intervention version of the survey (Form A) includes nine demographic questions and37 items asking participants to rate importance of a specific construct element (see Appendix1). The post-intervention version (Form B) includes the same 37 importance-rating items,followed by three follow-up questions for each of the eight constructs that explore studentincorporation of constructs in capstone designs (yes or no), preferred timing of educationalintervention (planning, design, or implementation), and possible challenges to

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _Monday June 26, 11:00 - 12:30

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosalyn W. Berne, University of Virginia; William J Davis, University of Virginia; Kent A. Wayland, University of Virginia; Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia; Caroline Crockett, University of Virginia

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

Massive Online Open Course (MOOC).The intent of GVV is not to persuade people to be more ethical. Instead, it starts from thepremise that most people want to act on their values, but also want their actions to be successfuland effective. Rather than focusing on ethical analysis, the GVV curriculum focuses onimplementation and teaches students to ask themselves: “What if I were going to act on myvalues? What would I say and do? How could I be most effective?” Students learn to do this bydeveloping action plans and practicing scripts they compose.The seven principles, or “pillars,” of GVV guide students through the process of thinking aboutwhat is at stake when addressing ethically challenging situations. Figure 1 summarizes thepillars: Values

Conference Session

Decision-Making in Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corin L. Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles; Elizabeth Ann Strehl, University of Michigan; Megan Ennis, University of Michigan; Andrew Benham; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

supplying equipment used inthe genocide in Gaza (e.g., [1]), the objection of the Navajo Nation to planned deposition ofhuman remains on the Moon [2], and the increase in stratospheric pollution due to rocketlaunches and satellite re-entry [3]. How technology is affecting the war in Ukraine, the JamesWebb Space Telescope's latest findings, and SpaceX developments are other relevant examples[4]–[6]. Even viral platforms, such as TikTok and Instagram, are being used to promptdiscussions about the defense industry’s involvement in undergraduate education and studentrecruitment (e.g., [7]–[10]).While these social impacts of aerospace engineering are discussed in the media, they are absentfrom many undergraduate aerospace curricula. There is little-to

Conference Session

Professional Development and Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David A. Butler, National Academy of Engineering; Casey Gibson, National Academy of Engineering

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

advisory body allows it to draw attention to issues might otherwise fail to gaintraction outside of the communities most directly affected them and stimulate action to addressthem.The concept for CESER was developed in 2020, and—after a delay brought about by theCOVID-19 pandemic—planning began in earnest in 2023 and an advisory committee to guidethe effort was identified. That committee is composed of national thought leaders and subjectmatter experts from academia, the public sector, and industry. It is co-chaired by CharlesBolden— a retired United States Marine Corps Major General, former astronaut who crewedfour Space Shuttle missions, and former Administrator of NASA—and Lisa Jackson—a formerEPA Administrator and current Vice President of

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Monday June 26, 3:15 - 4:45

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald P. Uhlig, National University; Shatha Jawad Jawad, National University; Bhaskar Sinha, National University; Pradip Peter Dey; Mohammad N. Amin, National University

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

networks. How would you advocate defensible networks to yourorganization's leadership (if you do not already have one)?ChatGPT Answer:“The concept of a defensible network, as described by Richard Bejtlich, refers to a networkarchitecture that is designed to be secure and resilient against threats and attacks. A defensiblenetwork is one that is carefully planned and structured, with layers of security controls andmonitoring in place to detect and respond to potential threats.I believe that defensible networks are worth the effort for organizations that are concerned aboutthe security and integrity of their data and systems. A well-designed and implemented defensiblenetwork can help to prevent or mitigate the impact of cyber-attacks, which can be

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Leadership

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Michael Aucoin P.E., Texas A&M University; Zhendi Zhang, Texas A&M University; Miles O. Dodd, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS), Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

, performance measurement, compensation, workforce planning, and retention.Analytics tools are also used for real-time correlations between coaching and engagement, as well asfor patterns of time management [8], [9], [10], [11]. Facial scans can be used to detect and analyzeemployee emotions [12].To reemphasize and for context, these applications are all oriented to optimize talent management inorganizations. It is the organization of humans to perform work that results in a valued product orservice for a customer/client/constituent. Over centuries of history, advantage has been gained byusing increasingly sophisticated technology to augment human capabilities. Technology can bothcreate new classes of jobs and eliminate existing classes. Gen AI is one

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session - GenAI in ethics education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sourojit Ghosh, University of Washington; Sarah Marie Coppola, University of Washington

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

to 1500words in length. This assignment invited them to synthesize their readings and conversations across course topicsand accommodated various formats. Students could write traditional 5-paragraph essays on topics of their choice[17], prototype an artefact that uses GAI and write a report on the design and user testing, or take a creative writingapproach to imagine their futures in a GAI-powered world. They were required to submit a short Proposal midwaythrough the quarter detailing their plans and received instructor feedback before they went on to craft their papers.Group Project This set of assignments provided students with the opportunity to experiment with GAI tools within variousstages of the UCD process in a sandboxed

Conference Session

The Global and Cultural Dimensions of Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huiming Fan, East China University of Science and Technology; Xinru Li

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

Ethics Awareness and Professional EthicsStandards for New Engineering Talents" and the series of lectures on "Engineering Ethics"courses regularly held by various science and engineering colleges mainly include topics suchas the relationship between engineering and ethics, risks in engineering, safety andresponsibility, engineering value, interests and justice. Dalian University of Technology has also successfully held the 8th National Cyber EthicsSymposium and the 3rd Academic Symposium on Science, Technology, and Engineering Ethicsin China. It has exchanged ethical governance systems with scholars from universities acrossthe country, implemented the Philosophy and Social Science Prosperity Plan, and built aplatform for strengthening

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Leadership

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James N. Magarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John M. Feiler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Leo McGonagle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Eileen Milligan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alexander Rokosz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Schanne, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Reza S. Rahaman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Olivier Ladislas de Weck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS), Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

that we were planning on selling, forgetting that all of our activities are commercial…we took the policies laid out too literally: Rather than understanding it as an ethical document.”Further, several students raised key points about teamwork or their team’s social context as theydiscussed what it would take to recognize and act upon the activity’s ethical dilemma, for example: • “I felt something was off throughout most of the lab, but because certain members of my team had interpreted the instructions a certain way and were quite confident about it, I didn’t really raise my concerns until the end of the lab when it was too late.” • “Once we finished the project some of my teammates said ‘I’m confused about

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Tuesday June 27, 1:30 - 3:00

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh; Qin Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andrea Gammon, Delft University of Technology; Xianghong WU; Ryan Thorpe

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

foundations,” plus two attention-check items.These are care-harm, fairness-cheating, loyalty-betrayal, authority-subversion, and sanctity-denigration, where caring for others is good and harming others is bad, behaving fairly is goodand cheating is bad, and so on. MFT is a social intuitionist theory of ethical reasoning. On thisview, ethical judgments result from intuitions, closer in nature to emotions than reflectivethought [39]. Different intuitions correspond to each of the foundations. Moral foundations resultfrom biological evolution and aim at human survival [40]. The relative preference given todifferent moral foundations is a result of cultural evolution, affected by environments and history[38].2.2.4 Hypotheses and planned analyses1. It was

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _Monday June 26, 11:00 - 12:30

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth McDonald, United States Military Academy, Department of Systems Engineering

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

Paper ID #39690Character-Based Engineering VirtuesDr. Kenneth McDonald, United States Military Academy, Department of Systems Engineering Dr. Kenneth McDonald is a Professor of Engineering Management, Department of Systems Engineering, West Point. His academic focus is on capacity development, planning, and consequence management. He also studies engineering ethics and how it applies in today’s complex world. Dr. McDonald has au- thored and co-authored over 50 technical publications to include book chapters and refereed publications on infrastructure, capacity development, geotechnical engineering, engineering management

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Tuesday June 27, 9:15 - 10:45

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Cynthia Bauerle; Lisette Esmeralda Torres-Gerald; Carrie Hall

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

8- RightsThe tool is designed to provide examples and suggestions that can be used by instructors to addeach of the three pieces of each dimension to their classroom practice. Translating the ethicaldimensions to questions allows instructors to more easily think through the tool, since the timeinvolved in course planning is often a limiting factor to whether an instructor successfullyintegrates new ideas into their classroom practice.Using the toolIn the course of either creating or revising a course, an instructor can work through the eightdimensions, considering the questions and the examples provided to find ideas for their owncourses. Not every course will incorporate all eight dimensions. An initial goal of one or twochanges is a

Conference Session

Broader Approaches to Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qin Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lisa M. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

2in administrators' decision-making; (2) the impact of institutional characteristics and cultures onthe planning of the ethics curriculum; and (3) the interplay between the ethics curriculum and thebroader STEM curriculum. MethodsWe used NSF’s award search function to conduct an initial search for NSF CCE STEM and ER2IT grants (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/advancedSearch.jsp) from 2016 to 2023. During thesearch process, we opted for SBE (Directorate of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) asthe designated NSF organization, specifying "Institutional Transformation" as the keyword. Ourinitial search returned 5 results (3-7 in Table 1). In addition to using the NSF search function, weconducted

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session - Ethics education methodologies and interventions

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel R. TerMaat, Doane University; Christopher D. Wentworth, Doane University; Kristopher Williams, Doane University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

, institutional norms, and studentexperiences, presents significant complexity in understanding the factors that may influencemoral development.Expectedly so, the initial “pre-college” cross-sectional results of this work-in-progress paperprovide little in the way of conclusions above existing literature. Rather, these results establishthe baseline for the planned longitudinal study that will track the moral development of thefreshmen cohort through their time at the liberal arts institution, alongside curricular andco/extra-curricular variables. An important aspect of the study, given wide DIT2 score variancesin cross-sectional studies, is the longitudinal design to track individual student growth. TheDIT2 is planned to be repeated as 1) a “mid-college

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session - GenAI in ethics education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bernd Steffensen, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt/European University of Technology; Bettina von Römer, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

were presented by three avatars. These avatars rep-resented the following three interest groups with their video statements: 1. An emergency doctor who works in a large hospital: She reports that on many days she is confronted with having to make urgent and far-reaching treatment decisions. She briefly describes the shortcomings of existing living wills and clarifies the differ- ences between cases of planned surgery and those in which an emergency has arisen and quick action is necessary. In cases where relatives are involved in the decision- making process and a dispute arises with the medical staff treating the patient, court proceedings may result after the treatment. A PPP could provide helpful support to

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Monday June 26, 3:15 - 4:45

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiaojiao Fu, Peking University

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

textbook combined with chapter contents.When using this case in the questionnaire, personal names, place names, numbers, andrelated expressions were simplified to form a shorter case of 251 words.Example: Question 1 of Case 1: Please list the role conflicts of the protagonist and briefly analyzethem.Question 1 of Case 2: From the protagonist's point of view, please briefly list all thecontradictions and conflicts of interest involved in the case, and prioritize these contradictionsbased on the ethical knowledge you have mastered.Question 2 of Case 2: Three action plans have been given in this case. First, the governmentproposed to build a public waste and garbage landfill in a sparsely populated area. Second, therich proposed to rebuild the

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _ Monday June 26, 1:30 - 3:00

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

content and learning objectives related to diversity and inclusion, arevised course description was approved and reads as follows: “The role of the engineer is torespond to a need by building or creating something along a certain set of guidelines (orspecifications) which performs a given function. Just as importantly, that device, plan orcreation should perform its function without fail. Everything, however, does eventually fail and,in some cases, fails with catastrophic results. Through discussion and analysis of engineeringdisasters from nuclear meltdowns to stock market crashes to climate-driven catastrophes, thiscourse will focus on how modern engineers learn from their mistakes in order to create designsthat decrease the chance and severity

Conference Session

Increasing Engagement in Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Udayan Das, Saint Mary's College of California

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

UndergraduateSummer Research Program. This will provide us valuable information on the ef�icacy of this approachacross a variety of STEM disciplines since the Summer Research Program has students from thespectrum of majors offered in the School of Science, from Physics to Psychology. Our plan alsoexplicitly tests a subset of participants a year later to see how well they retain their ethics trainingand how well they recall the question-directed approach.CONCLUSIONS This paper presents an approach that uses a question directed approach towards the teaching andlearning of tech ethics. The questions are memorable, and the expectation is that students throughrepeated instruction in the framework will continue to have this front of mind and therefore

Conference Session

Using technology in engineering ethics education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University; Pauline Wade, Texas A&M University; Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University; Hillary E. Merzdorf, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

ethicalimplications of their project, with the goal of sharing this with other courses in the CSCEcurriculum. The approach was enhanced and continued to Spring 2023, Fall 2023, and iscurrently planned to be deployed this Spring 2024 in capstone classes taught by other faculty.The approach had two objectives:1) Allow the capstone students to explore at a deeper level ethical topics of interest to them andwhich impacted their project. This created a more authentic process for an ethics discussion inthe senior capstone design class.2) Create additional content, in the form of videos on various ethics topics that are relevant toCSCE undergraduate students, to be shared to other instructors teaching other CSCE courses inthe curriculum.Although the specific

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiffany Smith, NASA; Zachary T. G. Pirtle, NASA

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG), Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

report describes using brainstorming sessionsas a way to get more structured dialog across the participants and other attendees. NASA alsoprepared for the workshop by providing background information to the speakers about the natureof NASA’s Moon to Mars plans, helping to make discussion of the workshop - be it critical ornot - was connected to NASA’s current thinking and plans. 5. Concept Interpretations at the BoundaryThe first element that this paper seeks to explore is the variety of interpretations whenengineering professionals encounter concepts from the social sciences and humanities, andespecially when those engineers are considering the broader ethical and societal impacts of theirwork. The concept of boundary objects and boundary

Conference Session

Using technology in engineering ethics education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Junaid, Aston University; Wendy Irene Attwell; Sarah Hitt

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

outcome was to be met.The fourth interviewee is from a small institution that offers limited degrees and courses, andthey spoke broadly about needing to meet accreditation standards in the context of the entireinstitution, and therefore the desire to weave ethics across the curriculum. Three of the fourinterviewees described the need to adopt active and problem-based learning approaches asanother reason why they sought out Toolkit resources, because they found the “off-the shelf”activities and lesson plans were designed in a way that supports that pedagogy. Twointerviewees pointed out that the Toolkit fills a gap because existing resources on engineeringethics in the UK often come from professional engineering institutions and these are framedfor

Conference Session

Decision-Making in Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tori N. Wagner, University of Connecticut; Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Richard Tyler Cimino, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Jennifer Pascal, University of Connecticut

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

, the whole-class play modeencourages collaborative deliberation, enabling students to engage in group discussions and voteon decisions that mimic real-world engineering teamwork.In the future, we plan to incorporate explanatory responses for each decision students make.These explanations not only encourage reflection and deeper engagement with ethical dilemmasbut also serve as valuable pedagogical tools for instructors and facilitators. The integration ofexplanatory responses aims to promote a more comprehensive understanding of the ethicalconsiderations underlying students' choices. To assess and provide feedback on the quality ofstudents' ethical reasoning, we intend to employ text classification techniques. These techniqueswill enable us to

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _Monday June 26, 11:00 - 12:30

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank A. Mazzola, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Siddhartha Roy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marc Edwards, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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the code of ethics of at least one engineering or scientific society 5. Describe key moral theories relevant to ethical decision-making 6. Define “the public” and discuss its role in the production of technical knowledge 7. Identify skills, other than technical proficiency, that are necessary for competent practice in engineering and science 8. Describe the kind of engineer/scientist you aspire to become 9. Develop a comprehensive plan to identify ethical dilemmas in real-world cases as well as processes by which to determine preferable solutions to these dilemmasMost notably, course alumni placed far greater emphasis on the importance of interacting withpeople whom their work may impact