Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 14

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jake Walker Lewis; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

[7]. Specifically, the engineering essentials course and theintroduction to engineering design course both include ethics [7]. For example, the engineeringessentials course outline states, “[ethical reasoning] is particularly important as the courseencourages students to consider the impacts of engineering decisions.” Macroethical issues suchas sustainability are also evident in many of the PLTW courses. However the level of effectivenessof the ethics content is unclear [11,12].Within the NGSS, “Science and engineering are integrated into science education by raisingengineering design to the same level as scientific inquiry in science classroom instruction at alllevels and by emphasizing the core ideas of engineering design and technology