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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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Jeff R. Brown, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Chad Rohrbacher, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Taylor Joy Mitchell, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University ; Leroy Long III, Sinclair Community College - Dayton; Jenna Korentsides, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Joseph Roland Keebler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach

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the four comparison sections did not complete theintervention.Figure 1. Activities and timeline for critical-narrative interventionProject-Group Discussion AssignmentBoth the study and comparison groups were required to complete the project-group discussionassignment near the end of the semester. Because the primary objective of this research effort isto gain insights on the impact of critical narratives on students’ abilities to identify the broaderimpacts of engineering work and transfer these abilities to their own senior/capstone designprojects, researchers designed the group-discussion exercise to be focused on each groups’senior/capstone design project.The project-group discussion (PGD) was organized in an identical manner to the

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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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Jessica Koehler, Wake Forest University; Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University; Adetoun Yeaman, Wake Forest University

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across the curriculum. This paper serves as one example ofsharing student perspectives that continue to inform the project. Student perspectives guide us inimproving the integration of character education within engineering education. Key facets thatare essential to this integration are the project-based learning environment that cuts across thecurriculum from year one to year four and other innovative pedagogies (e.g., use of mastery-based learning approaches, flipped classrooms environments, case-based learning, andcollaborative learning).Table 2 presents some of the engineering courses and their associated primary virtues targeted.Courses with targeted virtues means that engineering faculty took intentional steps to introduceand talk 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, Colorado School of Mines; Qin Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh; Ryan Thorpe

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been recognized as crucial to responsible engineering, but the increasinglyglobalized environments present challenges to effective engineering ethics training. Thispaper is part of a larger research project that aims to examine the effects of culture andeducation on ethics training in undergraduate engineering students at universities in theUnited States, China, and the Netherlands. We are interested in how students’ curricular andextra-curricular (e.g., internships, service projects) experiences and training impact theirethical reasoning and moral dispositions, and how this differs cross-culturally. To understandthis, we are conducting mixed methods research longitudinally over four years to engineeringstudents at our participating

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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science. Theframework is presented together with a tool developed to guide any instructor at the college levelto select ways to insert ethical considerations into their class. These insertions could come fromcase studies, every day examples, or even instructional approaches.IntroductionThis paper begins with a discussion of one of the outcomes of an NSF-sponsored project aroundthe future of STEM education at the university level. After this introduction, we present anexample of how to implement the Ethical Reasoning InstrumentTM (ERITM) in a first-yearintroductory engineering class. We hope that this example might inspire others to use theinstrument to embed ethics in disciplinary engineering courses.The Future Substance of STEM Education project

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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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alumnifrom 2010-2020 (n=65) were surveyed in 2021-2022 to determine their perceptions of the classand its impact on their ethical principles and conduct. Responses were compared to a control groupof graduate students who were enrolled in the same department during the same time period whodid not take the class (n=68). The control group placed significantly higher value on technicalexpertise, salaries, and work on projects for perceived job satisfaction, compared to course alumni,who placed greater value on interactions with the people whose lives their work may impact(p<0.001). Course alumni also were also more likely to listen to members of the public outside oftheir field (p=0.040) in considering ethical dilemmas.IntroductionThrough their work

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laurie A. Pinkert, University of Central Florida; Jonathan Beever, University of Central Florida; Steven Kuebler; Lakelyn E. Taylor, University of Central Florida; Eve Vazquez, University of Central Florida; Victor Milanes, University of Central Florida

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underlying values) atwork in their departments and programs. Specifically, this paper reports a subset of data that ispart of a larger NSF-funded research project (award #2024296) exploring the interplay amongindividual value foundations and disciplinary ethics frameworks in engineering and STEMeducation. We conclude by analyzing the conceptual and practical distinctions betweenresponsibility and accountability as they relate to the standards identified by the disciplinaryfaculty we interviewed.Faculty Roles in Shaping Normative ValuesStudents are often exposed to the ethical norms, or frameworks, of the discipline through manydifferent vehicles, both implicit and explicit. Students might be implicitly enculturated throughthe mentor-mentee

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Madeline Polmear, Vrije Universiteit Brussels

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decision-making Leadership Formal and informal leaders, the organization’s expectations of themAlthough there are many definitions and frameworks related to organizational culture, [14] wasselected since it is situated in the university setting.MethodsStudy OverviewThe present study is part of a larger project that explored ethics and societal impacts education inengineering and computing. The aim of the mixed-methods project was to identify potentialexemplars of ethics and societal impacts instruction, including their context and impact onundergraduate students and recent graduates. The first phase of the project was quantitative, andover 1400 educators responded to an online survey. More information on the surveydevelopment and results is

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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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the teaching of engineering ethics. Despite use of de-sign iteration and trial-and-error in engineering practice and projects, engineering instructionbroadly does not seem to leave much room for failure as part of the learning experience. Inclasses, students can be instructed only on how to find the right answer, and then be pun-ished, through low marks or exclusion from opportunities, for failure. Even in classes thatcultivate intuition, innovation and creativity, there is usually a right answer and thus a spe-cific, predetermined pathway to success that, unlike Elden Ring, does not repeatedly endurefailure. This may be a practical position for more introductory, knowledge and theory basedcourses (although still debatable), but one area that

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shreya Kumar, University of Notre Dame; Megan Levis, University of Notre Dame

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undergraduatecomputing students worked in teams to sketch and create ethics based decision making scenariosusing paper or blackboard. This scenario creation activity model was later refined and employedin different Ethics in Engineering courses as a means to increase engagement through gameplayand role playing.In 2022, this work was expanded by joining forces with engineering faculty from the Virtues andVocations initiative and the Ethics at Work project which included other computing faculty,faculty from Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, and faculty from Philosophy, where thegoal was to capture an engineering wide faculty and undergraduate student sentiment about ethicscontent in engineering. A multidisciplinary team of undergraduates, led by advising

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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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engineers see how they canstay true to their beliefs and lay the groundwork for improved outcomes.An example case illustrates how an early-career engineer stood up for their values in the face ofprofessional pressures. While an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia, that studentstudied the Dominion Energy Atlantic Coast Pipeline project and met residents of in the BlueRidge Mountains of Virginia who were to be directly impacted by the project. These personalencounters made the student question the ethics of the project’s development. She rememberedthat learning experience during her first job as an engineer when she was assigned to work on aconsulting project related to that same pipeline. Aligned with GVV pillars, she drew upon

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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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Across the Curriculum. Dr. Zhu’s research interests include global and international engineering education, engineering ethics, engineering cultures, and ethics and policy of computing technologies and robotics.Xianghong WUDr. Ryan Thorpe ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Assessing the Effects of a Short-Term Global Engineering Ethics Course on theDevelopment of Engineering Students’ Moral Reasoning and Dispositions [Traditionalpaper – research/evidence-based, DEI/research methods]1 IntroductionThis paper describes a project to develop, deliver, and assess a short-term (one-week) course onglobal engineering ethics at Shandong University in the Summer of 2022. This project builds onprevious

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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learning theory of situated learning[1], [2], such playful learning may enable instructors to create assignments that induce studentsto break free of the typical student mindset of finding the “right” answer.Mars: An Ethical Expedition! is an interactive, 12 week, narrative game about the colonization ofMars by various engineering specialists. Students take on the role of a head engineer and arepresented with situations that require high-stakes decision-making. Various game mechanicsinduce students to act as they would on-the-fly, within a real engineering project context, usingpersonal reasoning and richly context-dependent justifications, rather than simply right/wronganswers. Each segment of the game is presented in audio and text that ends

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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International Council for Com- puter Communications. He has served as a member of the Steering Committee for Project Inkwell.Dr. Shatha Jawad Jawad, National University Dr. Shatha Jawad has more than 22 years of experience in teaching and more than three years as a software engineer. She had UNESCO Fellowship in the field of Information and Communication Technologies, in 2002. Her Ph.D. is in computer engineering. She is a member of the Institute for Learning-enabled Op- timization at Scale (TILOS) which has an NSF grant that began on November 1, 2021, for five years. TILOS is a National Science Foundation-funded Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institute led by the University of California-San Diego and includes

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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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Dayoung Kim, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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ethics pedagogy.Engineering Ethical Reasoning Instrument (EERI)Zhu and colleagues [15] created EERI to measure moral decision-making in design projects. TheEERI is based on Kohlberg’s moral development theory and relies on micro and macro ethics inengineering. Similar to DIT-2 and ESIT, EERI is also a scenario-based assessment instrument:The instrument presents design scenarios that were adapted from students’ design projects andasks students to select the action that they would most likely take in the situation. After studentsmake a decision, they are also asked to rate a series of items how important each item was inmaking their decision.The authors utilized a mix-method approach to validate the instrument. The EERI instrumentwent through

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Class action lump settlement 670,000,000 Total 1,162,900,000 Based on text information in [15]The 10-year gap between 2005 and 2015 reflects the time needed for a blood sampling program;rather than splitting the settlement among the plaintiffs, the court initiated the C8 Health Project.Medical personnel sampled the blood of as many residents in specified areas as possible, most ofwhom were unaware of the presence of PFOAs in their drinking water. Incentivized by a $400stipend per person, more than 70,000 participated in a battery of 50 tests, generating a wealth ofdata that took scientists eight years to analyze. The project became “the largest private study ofliving

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University

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of failure. The impact of engineers’ values and ethics, aswell as the crucial role of diversity and inclusiveness on successful engineering design, will bediscussed in detail.”Course redesign, phase I: To meet the DIV requirement, a new learning module was initiallyproposed, accompanied by appropriate readings, assigned video content, and recorded lecturesincorporating a variety of case studies. In addition, specific learning outcomes on diversity andinclusiveness and an assignment focused on evaluating these learning outcomes were added, asper the description below. The evaluation of the final group project (developed as a PowerPointpresentation using VoiceThread as well as a written report) will also proposed to be modified toinclude

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rosalyn W. Berne, University of Virginia

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are engineering projects that specifically attempt to address animalwelfare, such as painting blades to increase their visibility at the Smøla wind-power plantin Norway, where the annual bird fatality rate was reduced at the turbines with a paintedblade by over 70% [30]. Temple Grandin’s design of a more humane cattle handlingsystem [31] is another example.STS literature has a growing body of synergistic writings pertaining to ethics and animals. Alsopertinent are the fields of Animal Geographies and Multispecies Ethnography. As Hovorkaexplains: “Animal geographies are at their core grounded in ethical commitments and emancipatory practices to improve the lives of animals. Since the late 20th century, animal geographers have

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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,communication, and sociotechnical systems thinking—come together in engineering practiceand can be integrated simultaneously into engineering curricula. The three streams are definedbelow. 1. Engineering ethics: cultivating a practical and actionable understanding of professional and ethical responsibility in engineering students and practitioners 2. Engineering communication: developing communication proficiency in engineering students and practitioners 3. Sociotechnical systems thinking: taking a holistic approach that locates engineering expertise and projects in human activity in specific settingsThe central metaphor around which the model is constructed is the three-legged stool, whichmaintains its stability in challenging

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

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Systems Management; and Ethics. He also has a PhD in Geological Engineering. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE), a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Planner (AICP). He is a Fulbright Scholar and has worked for the Ministry of Education of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and most recently, he traveled to Kosovo in January 2020 to work with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Character Based Engineering VirtuesabstractOne of the most neglected subjects in engineering education is engineering ethics. Theengineering profession has a greater impact on more people every day than any other professionand

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jiaojiao Fu, Peking University

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stakeholders …… examination …… Teachers： ……ethical the understanding and 1. The proportion of these contentsnorms mastering of engineering in the teaching plan and syllabus ethical norms …… (3) Behavior Level Evaluation Behavioral Level evaluation refers to the degree to which trainees apply what they have learned in training to practical work and the behavioral changes brought to trainees. In applying training evaluation, many projects only go to the Reaction and Learning levels; the application of the Behavior and Result levels are often missing. As a result, the

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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C.J. Witherell, Grand Valley State University

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is overlooked. Engineers have ethical responsibilities to their employers, their employees, theenvironment, and the entire public. Often, the stakes of engineering projects are extremely highbecause people’s lives depend on their success. The activities of engineers can have great impactson the physical world around them and the beings living in it. Engineers do not exist in a bubble—they “exist and operate as a node in a complex network of mutual relationships with many othernodes” [2]. These complex relationships make it necessary to consider the impacts of decisionsand actions on a range of parties. The purpose of this report is to explore new ethical considerations that have arisen in themanufacturing industry due to the

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Umair Shakir, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Justin L. Hess, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Matthew James P.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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. Third, weassigned labels to the unlabeled remaining subset of 200 students’ assignments with the NLPapproach. Lastly, we read those (newly) labeled students’ responses to evaluate whether assignedcodes to those responses through the NLP approaches were accurate or not. Here, accuracymeans that the assigned code represented the idea expressed in student responses. We technicallyimplemented those four processes in Google Colab notebooks that were written using acombination of the R and Python programming languages. All code is presented in the GitHubrepository we have set up for this project at: https://github.com/andrewskatz.Data CollectionThe first-year engineering program (FYE) at Virginia Tech teaches students an ethics modulethat comprises a

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jiaojiao Fu, Peking University

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play a good role in thecomprehensive questionnaire design.Example 1: The engineering professional code requires that ( ) be given priority.A. Operational standards of the project B. Economic benefits of the projectC. Public safety, health and well-being D. Technological innovations in engineeringExample 2: In the following types，which is/are engineering ethical responsibility(ies): ( ).A. Professional ethical responsibility B. Social ethical responsibilityC. Environmental ethical responsibility D. Corporate ethical responsibilityExample 3: The basic principle(s) for dealing with engineering ethics is/are ( ).A. Humanitarianism -- the basic principle of dealing with the relationship between engineeringand peopleB. Social justice

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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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Ashish Hingle, George Mason University; Aditya Johri, George Mason University

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, FFChopes to create enough fidelity in the systems that, when it puts them all together, the overalleffect will be substantial. With support from the local and state governments, FFC has been able to acquire significantagricultural land to experiment with different technologies and crop varieties to find the best wayto farm autonomously. Established in 2015, FFC took some time to ramp up, as autonomousfarming is a complex undertaking that requires not just the use of automation technology,including devices, platforms, and services, but also associated scientific development forimproving crop health and productivity. Consequently, projects currently underway at the FFCTest Site include soil health monitoring, uncrewed aerial systems, uncrewed