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- Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _Monday June 26, 11:00 - 12:30
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- 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- 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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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
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- Decision-Making in Engineering Ethics Education
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- 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- 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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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
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- The Global and Cultural Dimensions of Engineering Ethics Education
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- Huiming Fan, East China University of Science and Technology; Xinru Li
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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
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- Engineering, Ethics, and Leadership
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- 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- 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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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
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- Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Tuesday June 27, 1:30 - 3:00
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- 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- 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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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
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- Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _Monday June 26, 11:00 - 12:30
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- Kenneth McDonald, United States Military Academy, Department of Systems Engineering
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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
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- Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Tuesday June 27, 9:15 - 10:45
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- Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Cynthia Bauerle; Lisette Esmeralda Torres-Gerald; Carrie Hall
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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
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- Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _ Monday June 26, 1:30 - 3:00
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- Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University
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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
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- Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement
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- 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Tiffany Smith, NASA; Zachary T. G. Pirtle, NASA
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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
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- Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _Monday June 26, 11:00 - 12:30
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- 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- 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
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- Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _Monday June 26, 11:00 - 12:30
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- 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Alice Fox, Stanford; Benjamin C. Beiter, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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that is so widely taken in engineering prac-tice, but that many engineering ethics education programs do not use, given the focus on the‘rules and codes’ approach. In an engineering education students can often be taught one‘correct’ way to solve problems. They are shown how to learn and apply new things, howto perform well and attain the correct answer through hard work, but not how to fail well.Students might end up attempting a problem multiple times, but failure is never expected orincluded as part of the design plan, and more so is always to be avoided, despite the valuablelessons such an experience can give. With ethical problems especially, where downstreameffects of engineering decisions can have many unintended consequences, failure
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- Engineering, Ethics, and Leadership
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- 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kenneth W. Lamb P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Seth Claberon Sullivan, Texas A&M University
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introduced include (1) every idea has the potential to contribute to apositive outcome, (2) questioning an idea can provide valuable insight, and (3) applying thebrake can be productive. Students practiced the three attitudes using role play activities. Therewere no additional formal reinforcements though there may have been further discussions withinstructors during the course [6]. Specific intervention materials can be obtained fromEngineering Unleashed KEEN Card #3679. Freshman design students were surveyed at the endof their class, and we plan to survey them again as they progress through capstone design.In addition to this direct teaching of psychological safety, leadership and teamwork skilldevelopment are threads throughout our curriculum. In
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- Decision-Making in Engineering Ethics Education
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- 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- 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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engineeringethics within the narrative context of realistic decision-making scenarios. Looking ahead, we aimto enhance Mars by incorporating open-ended responses for key decisions made by the students.These will not only prompt reflection and deeper engagement with ethical dilemmas but alsoserve as instructive tools for educators. Furthermore, we plan to utilize text classificationtechniques to assess and provide feedback on the quality of students' ethical reasoning. Byanalyzing and categorizing student responses based on a scoring rubric, we aim to evaluate thegame’s effectiveness in developing ethical decision-making skills.ConclusionWe found no detectable growth in students’ ethical reasoning across a four-year undergraduateengineering program, as
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- Broader Approaches to Engineering Ethics Education
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- 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Kyle Payne, Collins Engineers
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ethical followershipmerits exploration and to distinguish it from ethical voice. The literature shows that voice is oneof several followership behaviors that may be used to promote ethical behavior or inhibitunethical behavior at work. Uhl-Bien et al. (2014) frame voice as one of many proactivebehaviors that “assess the creative and deliberate ways that employees plan and act on theirenvironment to influence, change, and alter it in ways they see fit” (p. 93). Uhl-Bien et al. (2014)also refer to other followership behaviors like obedience, resistance, dissent, and feedbackseeking.Research Questions and Methods In response to the leader-centric view represented in ethical leadership literature, andgiven limited research available on ethical
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- Professional Development and Engineering Ethics Education
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- 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Amir Hedayati Mehdiabadi, University of New Mexico; Chika Winnifred Agha, Colorado State University; Rebecca A Atadero, Colorado State University; Pinar Omur-Ozbek, Colorado State University; Carlotta Duenninger
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measures concerning a potential flood project were unrealistic: I just had to really just convey there were only so many options that we had in order to convey these floodwaters in a safe manner that wouldn't put people at risk, and the client kept getting stuck on how, quote, unquote, "Unrealistic" the flood was. So, I just kind of had to defer to ethics as unrealistic as somebody might think that is, the responsible and ethical thing to do is to plan for the worst-case scenario.Cesar shared a safety situation at the site: Safety is huge when it comes to ethics, right? Especially in a concrete manufacturing plant, you have dust all over the place, it's super dirty. There was a lot of moving pieces