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New Areas of Ethical Inquiry

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Joseph Benin, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; William Randall, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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infrastructure at the Coast Guard’s Telecommunication and Information Systems Command. William is currently the director of rowing at the Coast Guard Academy and has been lucky enough to be allowed to help in the development of the Cyber Systems Major at the Academy and to teach the first offering of the Cyber Ethics course. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Curriculum Development for Cyber Ethics with a Focus on Law EnforcementAbstractThe goal of this paper is to share the methodology and results of the United States Coast GuardAcademy’s approach to developing a Cyber Ethics course for its Cyber Systems major with anadditional focus on Law

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New Areas of Ethical Inquiry

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kenneth Stafford Sands II, Florida Gulf Coast University; Annie R. Pearce, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida; Min Jae Suh, Sam Houston State University; Christine Marie Fiori, Drexel University

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Education, 2020 Ethics in Undergraduate Construction Curricula: A Two-Stage Exploratory Sequential Approach to Developing and Piloting the HETC SurveyAbstractConstruction and construction related engineering programs (construction engineering and civilengineering) must provide ethics education to students for accreditation; however, there arelimited resources for instructors who teach ethics in these degree programs. This exploratorytwo-stage sequential research study utilizes three of Eash’s five curriculum components (content,modes of transaction, and evaluation) as the conceptual framework to understand the teaching ofethics in construction programs by developing and piloting a survey instrument

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Classroom Practices

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heng Li, Zhejiang University; Yanjie Xie, Zhejiang University; Shuxin Yang, Chinese Society for Engineering Education (CSEE); Ruixue Xu, Zhejiang University

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Paper ID #26128A New Approach in Abolishing Poverty: A Case Study and ConstructionStrategy for Integrating Inclusive Innovation into Engineering Ethics Educa-tionMr. Heng Li, Zhejiang University Mr. Heng Li, Zhejiang University Ph.D. candidate in School of Public Affairs in Zhejiang University.He is engaged in the research of engineering ethics and engineering ethics education in the School of Hu- manities of Zhejiang University. Meanwhile, he is also the director of Priority Project of Engineering Education(2016) of China Association of Higher Education. Research direction: Engineering ethics edu- cation, Philosophy.Miss

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Engineering Ethics and Justice

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Caroline Baillie, University of Western Australia

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AC 2011-510: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO CURRICULUMDEVELOPMENT FOR ENGINEERING GRADUATES WHO ARE SOCIALLYAND ENVIRONMENTALLY JUSTCaroline Baillie, University of Western Australia Chair in Engineering Education Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Maths University of Western Australia Page 22.71.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 A multidisciplinary approach to curriculum development for engineering graduates who are socially and environmentally justIntroductionThe traditional approach to teaching engineering problem solving, where students are limited tofinding

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Innovative Approaches to Ethics Instruction

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohamed B. Trabia, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Julie A. Longo, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

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Longo joined UNLV’s Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering as their Technical Writer in Oc- tober 2010. Her primary responsibilities include helping faculty prepare papers for publication as well as technical reports to funding agencies, and presenting workshops on technical writing as well as ethics in engineering. She has a B.S. in Biology from Rutgers University and an M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Longo has worked in Technical Communications for most of her career. In 1976, she was a Senior Editor in Life Sciences on the first editorial board for an Elsevier subsidiary, Academic American En- cyclopedia, known today as New Grolier. For almost 15 years, she worked at

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics in the Engineering Curriculum

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Cassidy Laurel Grady, Colorado School of Mines; Nicole M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Linda A. Battalora, Colorado School of Mines; Emily Sarver, Virginia Tech; Carrie J. McClelland P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Rennie B. Kaunda , Colorado School of Mines; Elizabeth Holley, Colorado School of Mines

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Paper ID #25272Critical Approaches to CSR as a Strategy to Broaden Engineering Students’Views of StakeholdersDr. Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines Jessica M. Smith is Associate Professor in the Engineering, Design & Society Division at the Colorado School of Mines and Co-Director of Humanitarian Engineering. She is an anthropologist with two major research areas: 1) the sociocultural dynamics of extractive and energy industries, with a focus on corpo- rate social responsibility, social justice, labor, and gender and 2) engineering education, with a focus on socioeconomic class and social responsibility

Conference Session

Teaching Approaches for Ethics

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Raridon, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Deborah K. Nykanen P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato; Marilyn C. Hart, Minnesota State University- Mankato; Winston Sealy, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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, Mechanical and General Engineering; and Automotive, Computer, Page 24.848.2Electronics, and Manufacturing Engineering Technology). This scholars group is known oncampus as the MAX (Mentored Academic Experience) Scholars. In 2013-14, thirty studentswere selected from the pool of new and renewal scholarship applications. Because of the rangeof majors, over half of the students are engineering and engineering technology majors (18 of30).The purpose of the MAX Scholars program is to provide STEM students with a mentoredacademic experience to help them develop and achieve both personal and professional goals.This mentoring takes place in two different ways

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Teaching Ethics II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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toengineering ethics.At Texas A&M University, evidence of this interest in professional ethics culminated in thecreation of a new course in engineering ethics, as well as a project funded by the NationalScience Foundation to develop material for introducing ethical issues into required undergraduateengineering courses. Case Western Reserve University has created an Online Ethics Center forEngineering and Science. University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Scienceand the Darden School of Graduate Business Administration have created a web site that isdedicated to the dissemination of engineering ethics case studies and supporting resources forstudents and faculty. The Ethics Updates site of the University of San Diego is another

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Ethics

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael H.G. Hoffmann, Georgia Institute as Technology; Jason Borenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology

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through argument visualization in collaborative learningAbstract:As a committee organized in 2009 by the National Academy of Engineering recognized,ethics education should foster the ability to analyze complex decision situations and ill-structured problems. This presentation aims to build on the NAE‘s insights and reports aboutan innovative teaching approach that has two main features: first, it places the emphasis ondeliberation and on self-directed, problem-based learning in small groups of students; andsecond, it focuses on understanding ill-structured problems. The first innovation is motivatedby an abundance of scholarly research that supports the value of deliberative learningpractices. The second results from a

Conference Session

Professional and Regulatory Issues in Ethics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ramanitharan Kandiah P.E., Central State University; Krishna Kumar V Nedunuri, International Center for Water Resources; Ning Zhang, Central State University

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moral character and ethical integrity. This professionalrequirement also calls on the engineering educators to develop the engineering curriculumenriched with ethics and professionalism.An engineering undergraduate can passively learn professionalism and ethics through seniorcapstone design, summer internships and undergraduate research. However, these opportunitieshave limitations. Hence, as the instructors in an engineering program, the authors felt more onthe formal teaching and practice on ethics and professional conduct needed to raise theawareness in accordance with ABET Student Outcomes-f and i, and the professional bodyexpectations. Environmental engineering curriculum in the authors’ institution introduces ethicsand professionalism to

Conference Session

New Areas of Ethical Inquiry

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Karen C. Davis, Miami University

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Education in 2016. Dr. Davis received a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Loyola University, New Orleans in 1985 and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette in 1987 and 1990, respectively. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Ethics in Data Science EducationAbstractThere is a growing recognition of the importance of ethics education in data science programs.Recent news stories about data breaches and algorithmic biases indicate that big data projectsraise ethical concerns with the potential to inflict harm on a wide societal or global scale. In thispaper, we address three main research questions: (1) what curricular

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Professional Issues in Ethics Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rigoberto Chinchilla, Eastern Illinois University

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individual rights and societal interest is at the heart of all democracies, and is placed under a new strain by the advent of biometric technologies”11.The fourth, fifth and fourteen US constitutional amendments12 are the ones related with privacy,due process and security. The fourth amendment protects against unreasonable searches andseizures, the fifth and the fourteen amendments ensure the due process to protect citizens. Thelogic of due process is rooted in the notion that personal freedom in a constitutional democracycan only be preserved when there is some consistent way to check arbitrary and capriciousactions by the government13. There are two approaches in order to guarantee due process. The first approach, theintrinsic

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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technology.Prof. Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West LafayetteProf. William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette William (Bill) Oakes is the director of the EPICS Program and one of the founding faculty members of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has held courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering as well as Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. He is a registered professional engineer and on the NSPE board for Professional Engineers in Higher Education. He has been active in ASEE serving in the FYP, CIP and ERM. He is the past chair of the IN/IL section. He is a fellow of the Teaching Academy and listed in the Book of Great

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics in the Engineering Curriculum

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Swan, Tufts University; Alexandra Kulich, Tufts University; Reece Wallace, Tufts University

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of Ethics, it is clearthat the Code highly reflects deontological theory; i.e., it consists of a series of doctrines thatengineers must follow, with intrinsic morality tied to each behavior. In other words, the Code ofEthics can be seen as a reflection of an engineer’s duty to society.A difference from this dominate theoretical approach can be seen to emerge in the review of 108articles and conference papers on macroethical education in engineering. Articles were reviewedand sorted based on the three main “families” of ethical theory: utilitarianism, deontology, andvirtue ethics. This review showed that explicit reference to these three families of theoryoccurred in 41 of the 108 articles reviewed – 14 predominately noted utilitarianism

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics: Using Case Studies

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

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management, real-time embedded systems, and digital signal processing. Page 14.1182.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Case Study Approach to Engineering EthicsAbstractEngineers are routinely called upon to make decisions that affect the users of the products theydesign, develop, and manufacture. The desired outcome is to produce a product that is withoutdefects and safe for the public to use. However, the potential impact could be very harmful if thewrong decisions are made. The technical aspects behind these decisions are studied in detail asan integral part of the engineer’s undergraduate curriculum

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Novel Methods in Engineering Ethics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Titus, Purdue University; Carla Zoltowski, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University

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curriculum components it will be in close coordination with our students. Bibliography 1. Borenstein, J, M J Drake, R Kirkman, and J L Swann. "The Engineering and Science Issues Test (ESIT): A Discipline-Specific Tool for Assessing Moral Judgment." Georgia Institute of Technology (2007). 2. Colby, Anne, and Lawrence Kohlberg. The Measurement of Moral Judgment. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 3. Eyler, Janet, and Dwight Giles. Where's the Learning in Service-Learning?. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999. 4. Fleddermann, Charles B. Engineering Ethics. London: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. 5. Lima, Marybeth, and William Oakes. Service Learning Engineering in your

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Innovative Approaches to Ethics Instruction

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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George D. Catalano, Binghamton University

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developtechnologies and techniques for healthcare and patient care. As a field, it is very broad, withapplications ranging from molecular imaging to the construction of artificial hearts. Biomedicalengineering is however narrower in scope than bioengineering, or biological engineering, withwhich it is sometimes equivocated. Bioengineering focuses on the engineering of biologicalprocesses and systems in general, and includes not only biomedical engineering but alsoagricultural engineering, food engineering and biotechnology.In part because biomedical engineering it itself a new field, there is currently no distinctacademic field of biomedical engineering ethics. Ethical issues in biomedical engineering arecurrently studied in the fields of bioethics, medical

Conference Session

Innovative Approaches to Ethics Instruction

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vivian Liang, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Zach Jasensky, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Melvin Moore III; Jake Francis Rogers; Geoff Pfeifer, Worcester Polytechic Institute; Kristen Billiar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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students and professors. However, to integrate ethicsmodules more thoroughly across the engineering curriculum a systematic approach is requiredwith proper accounting of teaching load for ethics/philosophy faculty who lecture in multiplecourses. For efficiency, an ethics case-study database with assignment and discussion questionsshould be maintained, and an online module could be explored with in-class facilitateddiscussion.Introduction With the rapid advancement of technology and integration within all aspects of our society,the ethical implications of our engineering decisions are growing in importance. Engineeringprofessionals have a duty to design and manufacture products that are used to improve the livesof others. In the workplace

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Approaches to Teaching Ethics

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

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philosophicalperspective, and Bucciarelli philosophizing from an engineering standpoint lead us to theunderstanding that engineering is a community (social) activity. What is required of a universityis that the challenge presented through instruction is such that they take it with them to theircommunities for discussion.DiscussionIn recent years engineering educators have begun to discuss the relevance of the philosophy ofeducation to engineering education. Its value in the determination of aims of education throughthe activity of screening has been demonstrated. In this paper it is argued that when the aims ofeducation are discussed as a prerequisite of the higher education curriculum that, irrespective ofsubject, a new approach is required to the formation of

Conference Session

Innovative Approaches to Ethics Instruction

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn Bowers, Gonzaga University; Ellen M. Maccarone, Gonzaga University; George D. Ricco, Gonzaga University

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 (including legal and security issues, and professional development), to expand the assessment approach used to better align with our ABET assessment procedures, and to make the modules reusable for other faculty in the department.  This new set of modules was initially taught in the Spring of 2015 and is being taught again in Spring 2016.  The current modules incorporate software­engineering  8​specific material developed by Vallor and Narayanan​ , material on legal and ethical issues  10​(similar to material from Baase​), and content from various other sources (including the ACM/IEEE Software Engineering Code of Ethics).  The major emphasis of our

Conference Session

Interactive Approaches to Ethics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Dodson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paula Quinn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John Bergendahl, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Glenn Gaudette, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John M. Sullivan Jr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Curtis Abel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Chemical Engineering Education. He served as 2004 chair of the ASEE ChE Division, has served as an ABET program evaluator and on the AIChE/ABET Education & Accreditation Committee. He has also served as Assessment Coordinator in WPI’s Interdis- ciplinary and Global Studies Division and as Director of WPI’s Washington DC Project Center. He was secretary/treasurer of the new Education Division of AIChE. In 2009 he was awarded the rank of Fellow in the ASEE, and in 2013 was awarded the rank of Fellow in AIChE.Ms. Paula Quinn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Through her role as Associate Director for the Center for Project-Based Learning at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Paula Quinn works to improve student learning

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaofeng Tang, Ohio State University; Jeffrey M. Catchmark, Pennsylvania State University; Eduardo Mendieta; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University

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the ethics curriculum will be reported in futurepublications.IntroductionIn this paper, we report the first two phases of an on-going, multi-year project that seeksto create an integrated ethics curriculum for undergraduate Biological Engineering (BE)majors at a large, public university (LPU hereafter). Drawing from literature in ethicseducation and engineering education research, two principles guide our approach to thisproject. First, we aim to create a comprehensive, progressive ethics learning experiencefollowing an ethics-across-the-curriculum model [1]. Second, recognizing the pivotal roleof faculty buy-in in effective educational and curricular innovation, we pursue thisproject as a means to explore processes for curriculum change that

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Ethics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu, University of Texas, San Antonio; Suat Gunhan, University of Texas, San Antonio

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content and/or integrated throughout the curriculum as one of theaccreditation criteria.There are educational materials available for ethics education which provide information at thefundamental level and focus on discipline specific issues. For example, design specific cases anddiscussion usually become the focal point in professional design curriculums 7 while contractualand competitive relationships take the center stage in construction curriculums 8. There are also Page 25.23.2comprehensive study materials and educational approaches which present a wider perspective9,10,11 . However, the discussions and study of these subjects are highly

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Innovative Approaches to Ethics Instruction

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alison J. Kerr, The University of Tulsa; Bradley J. Brummel, The University of Tulsa; Jeremy S. Daily P.E., The University of Tulsa

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approach used student responses to measure ethical perceptions and moralreasoning in order to guide an undergraduate course lecture and discussion on professional ethicsin engineering. The paper begins with an overview of approaches to ethics education and thereasons for this new approach. Then the paper describes the measure and how the resulting datawas used to facilitate discussion in a single class lecture on professional ethics. The lecture ispresented as a case study to demonstrate how requiring students to complete a survey measureprior to instruction promotes added depth of awareness and salience to follow-up case study andlecture pedagogy. The resulting data was a quantifiable and visual representation of thecomplexity of ethical decision

Conference Session

Teaching Approaches for Ethics

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory A. Rulifson, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Whitney Thomas, University of Colorado, Boulder

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similar, but more directed questions based on theexploratory findings of the study described here. There are many items of interest, butparticularly if students feel they are more connected to their understanding of socialresponsibility due to their curriculum. This encompasses the students who left engineering aswell, since the students described their new majors to be more aligned with their values.These responses from the students and the SR Types developed will be compared to the PSRDMbased on the Ethic of Care philosophy39, 40 in order to track student development in the threerealms of Personal Social Awareness, Professional Development, and ProfessionalConnectedness. It will be important to understand what influences cause the changes in

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New Horizons in Academic Integrity

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Jordan, Baylor University; Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University

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engineer in the state of Louisiana.Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University BILL ELMORE, Ph.D., P.E., is Associate Professor and Hunter Henry Chair, Mississippi State University. His teaching areas include the integrated freshman engineering and courses throughout the chemical engineering curriculum including unit operations laboratories and reactor design. His current research activities include engineering educational reform, enzyme-based catalytic reactions in micro-scale reactor systems, and bioengineering applied to renewable fuels and chemicals. Page 11.562.1© American Society for

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brittney Hope Jimerson, North Carolina A&T State University ; Eui Hyun Park, North Carolina A&T State University; Vinod K Lohani, Virginia Tech; Steven M. Culver, Virginia Tech

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State University program outcomes areachieved by exposing students to a variety of subject material across the undergraduatecurriculum and effectively teaching students across these courses how to preserve and enhancethe engineering profession including ethical and legal practices. The Department of Industrialand Systems Engineering of NC A&T engineering courses that specifically address ethics intheir objectives is GEEN 100- Engineering Design and Ethics, INE 289- Engineering Teams andLeadership, INE 389- Systems Approaches for Industrial and Systems Engineers, and INE 489-Professionalism and Ethics for Industrial and Systems Engineers. In order to effectively enhancethe engineering ethics curriculum and to assess and document the current

Conference Session

Ethical Design

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Scott A. Civjan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Nicholas Tooker, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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practice. Anend of semester survey was given to students only taking the design class, taking the classsimultaneously with a capstone seminar course that included more traditional ethics curriculum,and only taking the capstone seminar course. Results indicate that integrating ethics assignmentsinto design courses can complement traditional ethics instruction. Students enrolled in bothclasses responded with more consistent ethical decision outcomes, where students acknowledgeother perspectives and were less likely to select decisions that avoid responsibility for theiractions. Student responses also indicated a positive experience with the new content deliverymethod.IntroductionEthics instruction in the engineering curriculum is fraught with

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

A. J. Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Valorie Troesch, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Jonathan T Riehl, Michigan Technological University; Douglas E. Oppliger P.E., Michigan Technological University; Mary A. Fraley, Michigan Technological University

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nationally used test ofethical reasoning developed by the Office for the Study of Ethical Development at the Universityof Alabama) indicate that students in this course improved their ethical reasoning by 23% (N2scale) and by 18.8% (P scale).Engineering Ethics is a topic that is covered in the common First-Year Engineering courses atMichigan Tech. In the past, this topic has been approached through the analyses of case studiesusing prescribed strategies to solve an ethical dilemma. A new ethics module has beendeveloped that uses a modification of the phenomenological approach described above. A pilottest will be used to compare our current ethics analysis method and the phenomenologicalapproach. Both approaches will be evaluated using pre- and post

Conference Session

Awareness, Expectations, and Recognition of Ethics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Geoff Pfeifer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristen Billiar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Paper ID #19886Teaching Ethics in the Context of Engineering Courses: A Blended Approachof Theory and PracticeDr. Geoff Pfeifer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Geoff Pfeifer is Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He teaches and publishes in the areas of social and political philosophy, applied ethics, and global justice. His work has appeared in Human Studies, The European Legacy, and The Journal of Global Ethics. He is also the author of a number of book chapters as well as The New Materialism: Althusser, Badiou, and ˇ zek (Routledge, 2015). Additionally he is co-editor of