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A systematized literature review of scholarship on ethical development and perspective-taking in engineering students

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2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference

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Anderson, Indiana

Publication Date

April 9, 2022

Start Date

April 9, 2022

End Date

April 9, 2022

Page Count

15

DOI

10.18260/1-2--42125

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https://peer.asee.org/42125

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433

Paper Authors

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Brooks Michael Leftwich Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

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Brooks M. Leftwich of Lewisburg, TN is currently a Graduate Assistant in the College of Engineering at Purdue University pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2020). Before joining Purdue, Leftwich spent six months as an English Teaching Assistant in Yunlin County, Taiwan with the Fulbright Program (2021). He is currently working with Dr. Brent Jesiek with aspirations to study undergraduate engineering students' ethical development.

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Abstract

This report is a systematized literature review of published journal articles about frameworks, models, theories, and approaches that support one’s ethical development with a focus on perspective-taking as an integral part of that experience. Ethical development is essential to engineering students because the decisions they make, whether good, bad, right, or wrong, impact individuals, communities, the environment, and even the world. This systematized literature review searched for relevant articles in engineering and education domains to inform the scope of the content. For the engineering database search, the records produced content related to current pedagogical approaches used in the classroom and outside the classroom while the education database search provided supplemental articles connecting perspective-taking and ethical development. An analysis of the 31 resulting articles produced five approaches related to perspective-taking and its relationship to ethical development and the ABET Criterion 3 #4 contexts. These five perspective-taking approaches could offer unique opportunities for instructors to adapt their current ethics content or create new, revitalized content that uses perspective-taking as a process to achieve the learning goals of understanding the global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts of engineering solutions.

Leftwich, B. M. (2022, April), A systematized literature review of scholarship on ethical development and perspective-taking in engineering students Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference , Anderson, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2--42125

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