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Teaching Tools for Humanities and Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Christene Moore; Hillary Hart

2123 Developing Instructional Modules on Engineering Ethics Hillary Hart, O. Christene Moore University of Texas at AustinIntroductionMany U.S. colleges and departments of engineering are looking at ways to integrate the teachingof engineering ethics and professional responsibility into existing courses. The value of suchintegration seems obvious: the case studies and examples spring organically from the subjectmatter of the course, so that thinking about ethics and professional responsibility becomesdemonstrably a part of the design or problem-solving process. And yet, what seems

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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Enno Koehn

Session 2406 ETHICAL ISSUES CONFRONTING STUDENTS AND PRACTITITIONERS Enno “Ed” Koehn Lamar UniversityAbstractEngineering Ethics may be defined as the study of moral topics in engineering. In fact,according to some ethical philosophers, engineering may be conceived as a social experimentinvolving human subjects.In general, engineering students with minimum work experience were found to rate, with threeexceptions, the frequency and seriousness of ethical issues lower than students with engineer ingwork experience, members of the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Otto Helweg

Session 2793 Teaching Engineering Ethics, Values or Virtue? Otto J. Helweg College of Engineering and Architecture, North Dakota State UniversityAbstract One of the major concerns of almost every profession is the ethical practice of itsmembers. One of the ways academia has addressed this concern is by teaching values.Especially in K-12 curriculum, "values clarification" has been widely practiced. However,values may be content-less ideas that do not promote virtue, character, or ethical behavior.Perhaps the most common practice in engineering curricula is to either have a course

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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James Globig

Session 3549 Integrating Ethics into a Project Management Course James E. Globig University of DaytonABSTRACTIn today’s increasingly technical society, constant pressure exists to provide the engineeringstudent with a comprehensive four-year curriculum that devotes sufficient attention to thetraditional disciplines of the profession while at the same time anticipates areas of developinginterest. As if this continued monitoring and refinement of the technical curriculum were notenough, because of the frequently competing demands placed on the new engineer in

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Design and the Liberal Arts

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Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

Session 2661 Using Design Norms to Teach Engineering Ethics Gayle E. Ermer and Steven H. VanderLeest Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI1 AbstractEngineering ethics is a difficult subject to teach. Both students and faculty perceive it as asubjective area that cannot be quantified. Modern faculty are uncomfortable with the idea ofteaching in areas related to values, attitudes, and behavior (areas tied to ethics) as opposed toknowledge and skills. Engineering students have the preconception that philosophical issues aretoo abstract and therefore irrelevant to their

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Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

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Francis Di Bella

Session No. 2566-3 MECHANICAL ENGINEEING DIVISION: TEACHING ENGINEERING ETHICS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECTS Francis A. Di Bella, PE Assistant Professor, Northeastern University Boston, MA 02131 (617-373-5240; fdibella@coe.neu.edu)ABSTRACTHow and when should engineering ethics be taught in a typical four-year engineeringcurriculum? Should ethics instruction be left to the individual’s own morals educationafter graduation and thus classroom time spent on more tangible subjects? This

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Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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David Ford; Nancy White

Session Number: 2461 Ethical Responsibility of Engineers for Alumnus Whistleblowing Nancy J. White, David N. Ford Central Michigan University / Texas A&M University Introduction Since the Watergate cover-up of the mid-1970s the US culture has begun to support theidea of whistleblowing and the belief that persons with knowledge should be encouraged toexpose government and private mismanagement, wrongdoing, illegal conduct or conductdangerous to the health and safety of others. Congress established the Office of InspectorGeneral1 (OIG) in 1978. The OIG maintains a 24-hour

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Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

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Arthur Kney; David Brandes; Mary Roth; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

Engineering Ethics: Teaching Moral Theories to Engineers Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Mary J.S. Roth, David Brandes, Arthur D. Kney Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Lafayette CollegeIntroductionThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has long required thatengineering programs address professional issues, including ethics, in their curricula. Whileengineering programs have approached this mandate from a variety of perspectives, adding code-based “ethics components” to existing courses in the curriculum seems to be the most commonstrategy.1The Engineering Division at Lafayette College, a small, undergraduate institution, has chosen toaddress this requirement with a course

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Trends in Engineering Economy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joan Burtner

Session 1628 Bringing Ethical Considerations and Contemporary Issues into an Engineering Economy Course Joan A. Burtner Mercer UniversityAbstractWith the adoption of EC2000, many engineering faculty believe they are being asked to addmore topics to an already full curriculum in order to demonstrate accomplishment of several ofthe a-k learning outcomes. One solution is to incorporate curricula related to ethicalconsiderations and contemporary, societal issues into existing courses. Through the use ofcarefully selected case studies, the

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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gary Bledsoe

Session 2309 Determining the Rules: Applying Ethics in a Tissue Engineering Course J. Gary Bledsoe Department of Biomedical Engineering Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO As a part of a course in Tissue Engineering (TE), a three-lecture series of ethicaldiscussions has been implemented. The three lectures are meant to give the course participants abrief background in ethical theory and practice, to discuss current ethical issues in medicine andmedical research, and to implement a set of “ground rules” that the class must observe

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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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Kara Bliley; Emily Mowry; Amy Gray; Jerry Collins; Christina Mathieson; Sean Brophy

Session 2273 BME GOES TO THE MOVIES: DEVELOPING ETHICAL PERSPECTIVE IN BIOENGINEERS S. Brophy, K. Bliley, A. Gray, C. Mathieson, E. Mowry, J. CollinsDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235Abstract As bioengineering students enter their new profession they must become sensitiveto the ethical ramifications of their work. Bioengineering educational programs seekopportunities to engage students in the exploration of ethical dilemmas in bioengineering.Our involvement with the VaNTH ERC and the learning sciences’ principles that guidetheir design of instruction has provided us with

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Ethics across the Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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William J. Frey; Halley D. Sánchez; Jose Cruz-Cruz

Session 0461 Ethics Across the Curriculum: An Effective Response to ABET 2000 William J. Frey, Halley D. Sanchez, and José A. Cruz University of Puerto Rico at MayagüezI. IntroductionABET 2000 challenges the traditional engineering curriculum by putting forward innovativegeneral criteria to which any engineering program must respond. Engineering programs answerthe challenge by developing objectives and measurable outcomes that represent locally generatedinstantiations of these criteria. Rather than elicit self-evaluations that merely tabulate

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Teaching Tools for Humanities and Ethics

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Rosalyn Berne

Session Number: 1122 Ethics, Technology and the Future: An Inter-Generational Experience in Engineering Education Rosalyn W. Berne Technology, Culture and Communication University of Virginia, School of Engineering and Applied SciencesAbstractWhich pedagogical approaches to engineering ethics can adequately and richlyintroduce to young engineers the perplex issues associated with the development of new,futuristic technologies? Nanotechnology, cryonics, cloning, quantum computing, cyber -intelligence and genetic engineering each hold the potential of radically altering thefundamental nature of

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Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

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David Haws

Session 3261 Promoting the Agenda of Engineers: John Rawls and Justice in Engineering Ethics David R. Haws Boise State UniversityAbstract:When we lecture on engineering professional practice, we often begin with the public proceduresof professional registration, and the public pronouncements of the Professional Engineer’s Codeof Ethics. Yet our discussions of engineering ethics typically focus on private rather than publicautonomy. When can a kickback be seen as the cost of doing business? Should we launch amarginally

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Jerry Collins; Christina Mathieson

2164 CASE STUDIES IN ECONOMICS AND ETHICS IN AN EARLY BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING CLASS Jerry Collins and Christina Mathieson Department of Biomedical Engineering Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37235ABSTRACTBiomedical engineering students commit to the major because the profession is growing,interesting, appears financially rewarding, is a bridge to other professions, and because they hopeto make a difference in their world. Biomedical Engineering Thermodynamics (BME 102) atVanderbilt

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Laura Grossenbacher

Debating the Ethics of Engineering Controversies: Encouraging First-year Teamwork on Critical Thinking By Laura Grossenbacher, Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Professional Development College of Engineering University of Wisconsin, MadisonAbstract: This paper focuses on an assignment Dr. Sarah Pfatteicher and I designed last fall in our interdisciplinaryclass, a first-year basic communication course with an engineering ethics component. Our debate assignmentgalvanized the students to work as a team in examining the ethical foundations of their own assumptions as well asthe

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Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

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William Jordan; Stan Napper; Bill Elmore

Session 3261 Using Moral Theories to Evaluate Engineering Codes of Conduct William Jordan, Bill Elmore and Stan Napper College of Engineering and Science Louisiana Tech UniversityAbstractIn this paper we will use several moral theories to analyze the legitimacy of engineering codes ofconduct. We believe this is an issue that has been neglected in many engineering ethics studies.Traditionally, one of several approaches to engineering ethics is used in practical decision making. Oneapproach to engineering ethics concentrates on case studies. Case

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Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

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S. Ratnajeevan Hoole; Dushyanthi Hoole

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Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

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Thomas Litzinger

Session 2566 Using Writing to Address Lifelong Learning, Ethics, and the Global Context of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering Courses Thomas A. Litzinger Penn StateIntroductionAs a result of EC2000, engineering educators are being challenged more than ever to enhanceengineering students’ skills and knowledge in a number of non-technical areas such as lifelonglearning, ethics, and the global context of engineering. In some instances engineering faculty areresponding to this challenge by introducing courses specifically targeted at these

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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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Thomas J. Webster; Karen Haberstroh

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Teaching Tools for Humanities and Ethics

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Edward Gehringer

Session 3661 Missing White House E-Mail: A Whistleblowing Case Study Edward F. Gehringer North Carolina State University efg@ncsu.eduAbstractWhistleblowing is a core topic for ethics courses taught to Computer Science and ComputerEngineering majors. However, most of the prominent engineering whistleblowing cases havelittle if anything to do with computing (the Hughes Aircraft case being a notable exception).Another recent case is appropriate for study, especially given the increasing focus on e-mailprivacy in the workplace

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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rainer Jonas; Peter Winter; Peter Eichelmann; Paul King; Jeannie Scriven; Hunter Lauten; Hans-Jorg Jacobsen; Claudia Berger; Bernhard Huchzermeyer; Angelika Appenzeller; Jerry Collins; Todd Giorgio; Jean Alley

ethics professionals at these universities. Academic partnerships withleading bioengineering programs in the U.S., and industrial and practice partnerships with someof the leading bioengineering, education science and enabling technology companies andlaboratories, are being forged.The German Consortium. The state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) in north centralGermany possesses some of that country’s greatest resources in biotechnology. Strongeducational institutions exist in Hannover (University, medical and veterinary schools) andBraunschweig (Technical University (TU) of Braunschweig). The University of Hannover’sexpertise in biotechnology extends to plant and environmental biotechnology and biochemistry(see discussion of collaborators below

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

these tasks as a result of the instruction.The average improvement was approximately 0.50, indicating that, on the average, one-half ofthe students indicated an increase in their confidence to do these tasks.IntroductionThe EC 2000 criteria require that engineering curricula teach the set of skills defined in Criterion3 (a) – (k) 1. This includes the traditional knowledge of the discipline (i.e., the content) alongwith the processes needed to use the content (i.e., the processing skills). Engineering programsmust demonstrate that their graduates have learned the traditional skills (e. g., design, problemsolving, and computational skills) and nontraditional skills (e. g., communication, ethics, andlifelong learning skills). Learning these

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Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

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John M. Sankovic; Dmitri Kourennyi

trained to and required to write lab reports in form of full-length scientific paper, which gives them powerful skills in technical communication. 3. Students are required to deliver a computer-based presentation on one of their labs. 4. Students participate in grading the presentations of their peers, thus acquiring important skills in grasping material quickly, as well as in objective and fair judgment. 5. Several lectures/discussions on ethics in science and engineering in the beginning of the fall semester are appreciated by students as important and interesting experience which many of them encounter for the first time. A short essay concludes the ethics component.IntroductionThe technological and social development of

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Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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Julia Williams

technologies. The argument for a civic-minded engineer will seem very familiar tothose of us who have been working in the field of engineering education. As a result of thedemands of The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology’s Engineering Criteria2000, engineering faculty know that if they wish their programs to remain accredited, they mustgraduate students who possess “an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility” (f),as well as “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solut ions in aglobal and societal context” (h) and (g) “an ability to communicate effectively”.2 Theseattributes resemble the very same that Lane proposes. Engineering curricular revision representsa movement toward instilling

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Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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Ronald Terry; W. Vincent Wilding

engineering programs,employers of companies that hire our students, an external advisory board, and a studentadvisory board. The new course treats three topics that are fundamental to responsibleengineering practice. These are ethics, the environment, and safety. Course objectives includethe following: 1. To understand and commit to sound ethical behavior; 2. To understand, commit to, and gain experience in environmentally responsible engineering; 3. To understand, commit to, and gain experience in engineering safety.The material in the new course lays a foundation for design problems interspersed throughoutlater courses in the chemical engineering curriculum.The purposes of this paper are: 1) to demonstrate the interaction and contributions

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2002 Annual Conference

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Scott Segalewitz

currently available Web technology while reinforcing the University's missionof “connected learning.” The course outcomes align to meet many of the department's goalsincluding developing scholarship and critical thinking skills, leadership and team building;problem solving and decision-making, professional ethics, and communication skills. Thisone-credit hour course contains exercises and discussion in professional ethics andintegrity, goal setting, effective learning, early career development, networking, Universitypolicies and procedures, and an introduction to engineering technology disciplines. Bykeeping the class size relatively small, these tools are presented in a collaborative mannerthat facilitates active learning and stresses critical

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Professional Practice in CE Education

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Enno Koehn

understanding of various subject areas required by ABET has been enhanced byattendance at and/or participation in class field trips in addition to lectures and seminarspresented by practicing professional engineers. In particular, the findings suggest that bothundergraduate and graduate students believe that three areas have been greatly enhanced withthis activity. They include environmental engineering, project management/scheduling andestimating, and team work. In addition, undergraduates perceive that their understanding ofhealth and safety issues, and ethical considerations has also been increased at a high percentage.In contrast, graduate students believe that their knowledge of hydraulics/hydrology/waterresources and geotechnical engineering has

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Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Raul Ordonez; Marianne Cinaglia; Kathryn Hollar; Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Mariano Savelski; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh

SafetyWednesday Field Trip to Jersey Shore H Rowan University Library Tour/ Computer FacilitiesThursday Meeting with Faculty Mentor Introduction to Ethics ComponentFriday Laboratory Orientation Discussion of Student TasksFor the remaining 7 weeks, students work on their research, under the supervision of theREU professors and graduate research assistants. Students attend formal seminars once aweek to broaden their knowledge of contemporary environmental research, issues inengineering education and professional engineering practice. Some seminars focus onissues facing minorities in science and engineering, pursuing graduate school

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Jim Richardson

. · Professors were encouraged to give students assignments for each program objective so that the Review Committee could evaluate student mastery. For example, a writing assignment involving some aspect of engineering ethics was preferable to simply lecturing on engineering ethics. · Professors were asked to list the name, affiliation and topic of guest speakers. · Professors were asked to provide documentation of student presentations (for example, have the students include their PowerPoint slides in the notebooks).Curriculum Changes The bottom line of the Program Objectives Matrix (Figure 2) is the “bottom line” of thecourse assessment and evaluation procedure. The last line of the matrix