itslearning success. The dimensions of learning objective educational integrity even when AI tools are used.attainment are: Educators should identify tasks where AI assistance • Cognitive Depth - The cognitive complexity of an does not compromise the learning process but rather assignment can be measured using Bloom’s enhances it. Designing assignments that require human Taxonomy, which classifies learning into hierarchical judgment, ethical considerations, and nuanced levels: remembering, understanding, applying
their work on public welfare and society,especially in the context of creating a more equitable and inclusive society. Recent research hasshown that student interest and commitment to social responsibility declines as students’progress through their academic career [2] [17]. Furthermore, although the majority ofengineering curriculum includes considerable and meaningful ethics education, it often excludesdiscussion and connection to larger societal issues and social justice content [18].The importance of social justice has been echoed by many engineering organizations,corporations, and businesses through their mission statements, core values, diversitycommitments, and strategic initiatives. ABET has recently revised their criteria for
; Personnel Management; Team building; TQM; Value Engineering; Ethics in Engineering Practice Section V: Avoiding Losses - Retaining a Profit. communications; Project overruns; Contract Language; Insurance; Liability and loss prevention; Dispute ResolutionCOURSE MATERIALS In addition to the lecture notes mentioned above, a number of other materials are available throughthe Institute for Professional Practice. The so-called “course-in-a-box” is available at no cost to schoolswilling to implement all or portions of the course. Materials include copies of three texts, the lecture notes,several references, and a set of audio tapes. The lecture notes are being revised and should be ready by Fall
of decision making in the light of incomplete and oftencontradictory information. In a course on Professionalism and Ethics—required of allengineers—we challenge students to examine professional and ethical issues by envisioning thefuture with a follow-up study on the impact of their outcomes on societal, political, andintellectual aspects of professional life. The course emphasizes the Theory of Constraints andThinking Processes as emphasized in The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt. The course is consistentwith the desired outcomes as listed in ABET Criteria 2000. The course accentuates theimportance of adopting holistic thinking comprising higher-order life skills, professional skills,and technical skills. The paper provides an analysis to make
of technical knowledge with social, ethical, and contextualconsiderations—is key to addressing these gaps and must be actively embedded intoengineering education (Reddy et al., 2023). Adopting sociotechnical approaches to engineering involves the intentionalconsideration of how the full realm of factors¾environmental, social, ethical,economical¾come to inform the needs of empathy-driven innovation. Of particularimportance in this approach is the need to proactively consider what the impact oftechnologies and innovations will be on people, society and the planet. To date, a hostof innovations have failed and/or proven to inconsistently perform as a function of usercharacteristics (i.e., hair texture in electroencephalography caps) due
contribute to support the named abilities/skills? • What is the impact of the PELARS’ technology seen from the final users: students and teachers? • Will the new technology change the accreditation procedures?The schedule for trials in PELARS is shown in figure 1.Creating a comprehensive plan for each of the trials include also ethics considerations. Allactivities are and will be carried out taking into account FP7 guidelines as well as nationalguidelines on ethic issues, guaranteed by the Ethics Committee under EU. Participation of users isin line with agreed European and National ethical procedures for user participation andremuneration of test subjects, and subject to sign off by the Ethics and Research committees
of the ways discussed in Section II. The notes for the two slides are given in Table 3. Fig. 3: Two slides from module on reverse engineeringV. EthicsEngineering ethics is typically covered at various points throughout an engineering curriculum;however, because it is often a central issue in design, ethics should be emphasized in a capstonedesign project. The intent in this module is not to give a complete coverage of all the topicsassociated with engineering ethics but to give a review of some of the issues involved. The moduleuses information from a variety of sources, but the principal source of material is the NationalSociety of Professional Engineers' (NSPE) web page2,3
research interests include integrating creativity into the engineering curriculum, development in- struments to measure the engineering professional skills, and using qualitative data to enhance response process validity of tests and instruments.Dr. Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Page 25.1062.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Preparing the Engineer of 2020: Analysis of Alumni DataThe College of Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University aspires to educate engineers of2020: engineers who are innovative, ethical, and good
. As weprogress in our work, we are committed to addressing these challenges, ensuring that ourAI-based tools are not only effective but also ethically responsible and transparent in theiroperation.Ongoing developmentsAs part of our desire to refine the use of AI in education, we are actively exploring approaches toboth highlight and counteract the limitations of chatbots. Concurrently, we aim to leverage thestrengths of these AI tools in our pedagogical practices. This summer, we are set to pilot a “Whatcan chatbots do well” theme into our already existing a sophomore dynamics laboratory course.The essence of these lab activities will be to encourage students to interact with chatbots incompleting existing lab assignments. Minimal
musician. Why wouldn’t a theater want avirtual orchestra?Some say that virtual orchestras do not give the same quality performance of livemusicians, but isn’t it possible to measure the quality of a performance based onengineering principles? Isn’t a note a vibration and thus quantifiable? What about theethical responsibility of engineering technology? Shouldn’t we as engineers beresponsible for our inventions?These are just some of the questions, mirroring the subjective and objective issues raisedby the use of virtual orchestras, that this paper addresses. Included are discussions of thecurrent trend of virtual musicians, the possibility of virtual orchestras, and the ethical
Paper ID #46249Issues at the Intersection of Engineering and Human Rights: Insights from aSymposium of the National Academy of EngineeringMs. Casey Gibson, National Academy of Engineering Casey Gibson, M.S., was an Associate Program Officer at the National Academy of Engineering of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine from 2023-2025. She primarily helped lead initiatives related to the Cultural, Ethical, Social, and Environmental Responsibility in Engineering program. Gibson holds an M.S. in Humanitarian Engineering and Science with a specialization in Environmental Engineering from the
short-term student experiences over long-term community outcomes, the RIDEEcosystem emphasizes ethical collaboration, shared knowledge, and sustainable infrastructuredevelopment. [2]At the heart of this model is a partnership network that includes universities such as CornellUniversity, The Ohio State University, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology, as well asnonprofit organizations like AguaClara Reach (ACR) and Agua Para el Pueblo (APP). Thesecollaborations have contributed to the construction of 25 gravity-powered water treatment plantsacross Central America, providing safe drinking water to over 100,000 people. The plants,designed to operate without electricity, are sustained by local communities, ensuring long-termfunctionality and
society is shaped by technology, theconverse relationship is less apparent. It is a goal of the course for students to gain a broadunderstanding of the complex relationships among engineering, technology, and societyincluding the variety of ways that society does influence the development of technology,including its adoption or rejection. The course also emphasizes the importance of ethics in allaspects of engineering decision-making from design decisions to project management. Thecourse design departs from the more common first year engineering course consisting of design,engineering ethics, engineering problem solving and engineering topics, by fusing a scaled-backversion of such content with content addressing concepts and knowledge associated
more focused learning targets through performanceindicators. For example, we have devised performance indicators to expanded ABET EACStudent outcome 4: “an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities inengineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact ofengineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts” [8]. Theseperformance indicators are: • Recognize mutual impact between engineering designs and global, environmental, and societal contexts • Anticipate the likelihood of engineered solutions impact on global, economic, environmental, or social settings • Acknowledge variations of ethics • Redefine ethical solution requirements in
lower elementary [3]. Research suggests emerging technologies have great potential toimprove learning and help students develop an interest in science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) [1]. In essence, academia, non-profits, and for-profits have begun todevelop AI curricula and resources for pre-college education [2]. The Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (MIT) recently released ‘The Middle School AI + Ethics Curriculum,’ whichintegrates ethics in technical lessons to develop students’ ethical design skills [2].BackgroundArtificial Intelligence in Pre-College EducationArtificial Intelligence (AI) in literature is defined as “the science and engineering of creatingintelligent machines” [4, p. 2]. AI is a branch of CS that merges
excellence, leaders,entrepreneurs, with solid moral and ethical values tocontribute to the development of the country, impelling itssocial, economic, environmental and political scopes.To do research, technology transference and high qualityextension to serve society. ESPOL in numbers: Professors 928 Professors and Instructors239 Professors with doctorate degreeAll Professors with Master’s and Ph.D. Degree87 Professors currently as Ph.D. Students26 Graduates as M.Sc. Students ESPOL in numbers: Students WOMEN MEN 41% 59% 31 Undergraduate Programs: around 11,000 students 16 Graduate Programs: around 1,500 students Education: our point
Chair in Ethics and Acting Director, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Student Perceptions of First-Year Engineering Justice CurriculumAbstractThis complete research paper will describe our qualitative analysis of the impacts of a first-yearengineering course which includes curricular elements of social justice, social responsibility, andethics. We present our interpretation of four interesting results that came out of our mixed-methods study (n=231) in which we surveyed students taking a first-year engineering course ontheir perceptions of the role of engineering in society and the world. We find that while a
forms of content suchas text, code, images, and more. Unlike traditional AI, generative AI is not limited to predefinedrules and patterns, but rather creates new content based on machine learning algorithms. Whilethere are various examples of generative AI like Bard, DALL-E, Midjourney, and DeepMind,only one example gained popularity seemingly overnight: ChatGPT. OpenAI launched ChatGPTon November 30, 2022. Social media users immediately posted about the uses of the applicationincluding travel planning, writing short stories, and creating code. ChatGPT attracted over onemillion users in the first five days of going public [1]. With the instant popularity also camequestions of ethical use and implementation. Could ChatGPT create job displacement
%) categorized it as MediumPriority, and 4 respondents (9%) categorized it as Low Priority.DiscussionObservation of the results suggested the following focus areas for our discussion: - the three skillsets that stand out to us are critical thinking skills, ethics, and a comprehensive understanding of the problem to be solved; - Mathematics and algorithms and Programming and coding had a relatively large number of responses that categorized them as Low Priority; - the three highest rated mindsets (ethics; lifelong learning, and adaptability/open mindedness) offer interesting insights.Skillset: Critical ThinkingCritical thinking is a cornerstone skill for both engineering as well as the integration of AIeffectively into our
currently facilitates an interdisciplinary project entitled ”Developing Reflective Engineers through Artful Methods.” His scholarly interests include both teaching and research in engineering education, art in engineering, social justice in engineering, care ethics in engineering, humanitarian engineering, engineering ethics, and computer modeling of electric power and renewable energy systems.Ms. Ngan T.T. Nguyen, Texas Tech University Ngan Nguyen is a research assistant and doctoral student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruc- tion at Texas Tech University. Her research is focused on fostering the learning experiences of Asian international graduate students in higher education.Dr. Roman Taraban, Texas Tech
practices have been documented as a contributor tothe lack of gender and ethinic diversity in engineering. Re-contextualizing civil engineeringcourses has shown to increase students' motivation, sense of social responsibility, and agency.The ASCE Code of Ethics states that “Engineers … first and foremost, protect the health, safety,and welfare of the public,” a notion that was first added to the code in 1977. In recent years,some civil and environmental engineering (CEE) faculty members and programs have respondedto this ethical imperative by re-contextualizing civil engineering education in relation to thecommunities (“the public”) the civil engineer is ethically obligated to protect and serve. Todetermine the extent of these efforts to re
in two different disciplines. Overall, the project aims to demonstrate student competencein four areas of particular interest including audience, ethics, summary and design. We willassess student knowledge using survey questions in each of our targeted areas along with qualityassessment of the assignment using a shared rubric. Additionally, we hope that we can capturemore longitudinal student information in comparison with first-year and senior students overtime. Preliminary results presented in this work in progress report will include examples ofstudent created infographics analyzed in our four assessment areas from both courses and surveydata from our initial student cohorts.Introduction:There are a number of concepts and skills that are
of Education for Peace, Democracy and SustainableDevelopment and suggests modifications to the ABET criteria; proposes an engineeringcode of ethics based upon the notion of community in a morally deep world; anddescribes an engineering design algorithm consistent with the new code.Key words: Integral model, morally deep world, ethics, designIntroductionThe phrase, “a revolution of the heart,” is taken from the Catholic Workers movement,founded in the 1933 by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, a movement grounded in therecognition of the dignity of every human being and dedicated to promoting social justiceand peace.1 The present work seeks to bring the concepts of social justice and peace intoreform discussions ongoing in both engineering and
Page 23.559.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Examining the Experiences and Perceptions of First-Year Engineering StudentsAbstractThe College of Engineering at a mid-Atlantic research University is working on a multi-yearstudy that seeks to understand the undergraduate engineering experience and how engineeringundergraduates are being prepared to become engineers of 2020: engineers who are goodcommunicators, creative, and ethical, and who have the skills to work in global andmultidisciplinary teams. One of the components of this study consists of understanding the first-year engineering experience.The purpose of this paper is to describe the first
as they appear in the ABET criterion: e. An ability to function effectively on teams. g. An ability to communicate effectively. h. A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in lifelong learning i. An ability to understand professional, ethical and social responsibilities. j. A respect for diversity and knowledge of contemporary professional, societal and global issues. k. A commitment to quality, timeliness, and continuous improvement.Although generally considered a “non-technical” course, this paper describes the use of a juniorprofessional seminar to provide a unique perspective on integrating engineering disciplines in theclassroom as a model of their
Development and is active with ASCE’s ExCEEd Workshop.Dr. Benjamin B Wheatley, Bucknell University Benjamin Wheatley was awarded a B.Sc. degree in Engineering from Trinity College (Hartford, CT, USA) in 2011 and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO, USA) in 2017. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA, USA). His pedagogical areas of interest include active learning ap- proaches, ethics, and best practices as they relate to computational modeling. He runs the Mechanics and Modeling of Orthopaedic Tissues Laboratory at Bucknell, where they use computational and experimental techniques to better
design, engineering ethics, and leadership.Dr. Justin L. Hess, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Dr. Justin L Hess is the Assistant Director of the STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of STEM Education Research in the Department of Technology Leader- ship and Communication at IUPUI. Dr. Hess’s research interests include exploring empathy’s functional role in engineering and design; designing STEM ethics curricula; and evaluating learning in the spaces of design, ethics, and sustainability. Previously, Justin worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Wel- don School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University where he created and refined ethical
Speaker) Concept Sketches Engineering Project Management: Analysis 5 of Alternatives Engineering Project Management: Failure Report – Preliminary concept 6 Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) selection Engineering Ethics (case studies and guest Report – Final concept design and 7 speaker) project schedule 8 Mid-term Project Presentation Presentation – proof-of-concept 9 Professional Behavior (Guest Speaker) Reflection on ethical behavior 10 Professional
engineering ethics course ”Engineering Ethics and the Public,” which she has been co-teaching to students in engineering and science.Dr. Nathan E Canney, Seattle University Dr. Canney teaches civil engineering at Seattle University. His research focuses on engineering educa- tion, specifically the development of social responsibility in engineering students. Other areas of interest include ethics, service learning, and the role of the public in engineering decisions. Dr. Canney re- ceived bachelors degrees in Civil Engineering and Mathematics from Seattle University, a masters in Civil Engineering from Stanford University with an emphasis on structural engineering, and a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of
5TH ANNUAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING DAY INNOVATIVE GREEN SYSTEMS OF SYSTEMS UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO GREEN ENERGY MANUFACTURING WORKSHOP SCHEDULE (Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education) THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013 Time Location Description Presenter(s) 1:00 – 2:30pm EPNGCC Dr. Louis Everett Essential Ethics for Leadership Program Director, NSF