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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _ Monday June 26, 1:30 - 3:00

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #38301”Better Living through Chemistry?” DuPont & TeflonDr. Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology Marilyn Dyrud retired in 2017 as a professor emerita in the Communication Department at Oregon In- stitute of Technology, where she taught classes in writing, speech, rhetoric, and ethics for four decades. She received her BA in 1972 from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA, and her graduate degrees from Purdue University: MA in 1974 and PhD in 1980. She became involved in engineering education by joining ASEE in 1983 and is currently active in two divisions: Engineering Ethics and Engineering

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _Monday June 26, 11:00 - 12:30

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashish Hingle, George Mason University; Aditya Johri, George Mason University

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ethical concerns about using AI. It also allows oneto introduce topics such as sustainability that are rarely discussed in AI ethics. Yet, climatechange and food production are intractably linked and co-dependent. Finally, the use of AI inagriculture is a highly interdisciplinary topic that provides students with learning [9]. Teaching about ethics can be a complex topic, especially when students need to gain priortraining in the field beyond optional electives. Jobin et al. conducted a review and contentanalysis of 84 national and international documents on AI ethics and the “soft-law or non-legalnorms issued by organizations” through the PRISMA framework [10]. The authors highlightedeleven (11) principles that emerged from texts exploring

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _Monday June 26, 11:00 - 12:30

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alice Fox, Stanford; Benjamin C. Beiter, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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whichElden Ring can be situated. Named after the Dark Souls, one of the defining features of thisgame type is that you fail. A lot. More specifically, the challenges in these games are struc-tured such that you are very likely to experience your player character dying many times, buteach time you learn and improve, develop skills and knowledge that helps you progress andeventually complete the game. In fact, failure is even required in certain parts of the game.When the player begins the game they are in an area that is much beyond their skill level,they encounter a boss and inevitably die on their first attempt. Through this loss, the playerprogresses to the tutorial/introduction section of the game. The failure here teaches the player *This

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _ Monday June 26, 1:30 - 3:00

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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necessitates taking the contextsof action into account in instructional design. From the perspective of assessment, “ethics inaction” is problematic for instructors who encounter students only in the classroom context. It isnonetheless quite useful because it provides an integrative, non-hierarchical framework thatallows us to think about engineering ethics education on a larger scale than we ordinarily do. Italso opens up the possibility of recognizing the structural factors that have made it difficult tointegrate ethics into the engineering curriculum on a systematic basis.Despite an abundance of resources available to support engineering ethics instruction, includingcases provided through the Online Ethics Center (OEC), “the engineering literature

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Increasing Engagement in Engineering Ethics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Udayan Das, Saint Mary's College of California

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professional life. Jayson Matsuura, BS CS, BS Physics, BS Math 2023, Employed at the FBI My overall experience in Tech Ethics during the Fall 2022 Semester at Saint Mary’s College of California was very enlightening. The course challenged me to think in new ways, and the exercises helped me to expand beyond the typical computer scientist mindset (coming up with a solution that works and not considering the impacts of my solution). The readings and assignments were relevant topics going on during the time which further emphasized the importance of considering the ethical impacts of these technical decisions. The tech ethics debates helped me to think through multiple perspectives

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Engineering, Ethics, and Leadership

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kenneth W. Lamb P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Seth Claberon Sullivan, Texas A&M University

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approaches include exploring the connection between personal values,personal story, and principles (or personal ethics) and students’ behaviors that can affectpsychological safety on teams.IntroductionWithin this work we examine ethics as the collection of principles that we use to motivate us andhelp us make decisions and guide our interactions with those around us and work that we do.Therefore, our ethic is made up of the principles that motivate, inform, and guide our daily lives.From this standpoint, the discussion on ethics development should extend beyond why theChallenger exploded or the causes behind the Hyatt Regency Bridge failure.If we apply the four domains of Leadership Model [1], the development of a leadership ethic notonly includes

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _ Monday June 26, 1:30 - 3:00

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rosalyn W. Berne, University of Virginia

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side. Madeline K. Biomedical Engineering StudentAnother UVA biomedical engineering student shared during a class discussion that she mustdisconnect herself from her feelings when injecting toxic nerve agents, used for militaryresearch, into rats.The split in identity expressed by these students reflects a larger cultural schism that begancenturies ago:As Franco notes: “René Descartes’s (1596–1650) description of animals as “machine-like” was heavily criticized by many of his contemporaries, but nevertheless provided scientists a way to justify what would now be considered extremely gruesome experiments in a time when anesthesia, for humans and animals alike, was not available.” [4] (p. 241)Descartes’s

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Using technology in engineering ethics education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University; Pauline Wade, Texas A&M University; Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University; Hillary E. Merzdorf, Texas A&M University

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instructional method for computing ethics education. In a longitudinal study offirst-year computer science course which included lectures and case studies on responsiblecomputing and social justice values, students who participated in a think-talk-share peer learningmodel were able to identify intersecting ethical challenges in responsibility, bias, andmechanisms of unfairness, and valued their learning with peers for developing ideas [11].Collaboratively developing a code of ethics among engineering, computing, and non-engineeringdisciplines through group discussions and case studies can engage students in connectingphilosophy with engineering [12]. Beyond instructor-led ethics modules and lectures, there ispotential for students to engage in peer

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Virtues in Engineering Ethics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chloe Adams, Wake Forest University; Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University and National Science Foundation ; Lasya Agasthya

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. Jones, “Assessing ethics education: A survey of engineering programs.,” Teaching Ethics, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 317–340, 2020.[16] J. Miller, “Assessing microethics and diversity perspectives in engineering ethics education,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 9–15, 2021.[17] H. Furey, S. Hill, and S. K. Bhatia, Beyond the Code: A Philosophical Guide to Engineering Ethics. Routledge, 2021.[18] S. Sundar Sethy, Contemporary ethical issues in engineering. IGI Global, 2015.[19] K. d’Entremont, Engineering Ethics and Design for Product Safety. McGraw Hill, 2020.[20] C. Murphy, P. Gardoni, H. Bashir, C. E. Harris, and E. Masad, Engineering Ethics for a Globalized World. Springer International

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The Global and Cultural Dimensions of Engineering Ethics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kerrie Danielle Hooper, Florida International University; Ivan Oyege, Florida International University

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beliefs, customs, and wisdom through thegenerations, collectively called indigenous knowledge systems. These knowledge systems, whichdemonstrate the interdependence of people, the natural world, and the spiritual world, have theirroots in Africa's cultural, spiritual, and ecological contexts. African indigenous knowledge systemsprovide essential insights into living sustainably, social organization, and moral decision-making.These insights range from communalism's focus on collective ownership and well-being toperennialism's emphasis on protecting cultural heritage.African IKS span a broad range of fields, such as environmental management, governance,spirituality, medicine, and agriculture, and they represent the comprehensive worldview of

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Professional Development and Engineering Ethics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amir Hedayati Mehdiabadi, University of New Mexico; Chika Winnifred Agha, Colorado State University; Rebecca A Atadero, Colorado State University; Pinar Omur-Ozbek, Colorado State University; Carlotta Duenninger

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justice and behavioral ethicsresearch are concerned with questions of right and wrong, until recently, the study of ethicalbehavior at work has focused on them as two distinct scholarly traditions. Discussing theimportance of linking the two, they stated [7]: The process theories of justice offer an important avenue for integrating behavioural ethics research. If fairness decisions are made through a series of cognitive steps, then there are a number of stages in which ethical considerations could intervene. (p. 891)In the case of engineering education, Rottmann and Reeve [6] identified “a long-lasting divisionbetween ethics and equity in engineering education” (p. 146) and framed it as the micro/macrodivide. While micro-ethics

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Increasing Engagement in Engineering Ethics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kylie Chau Vuu, AECOM Canada Ltd.; John R. Donald Ph.D., P.Eng., University of Guelph; Kimberly Mary Levere, University of Guelph; Cameron Farrow, University of Guelph

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completing the ASIDE portion of thefinal quiz. Since this analysis only included students that attended the team case study, it isassumed that the only difference between students’ grades was their degree of participation in theformative quizzes (i.e., topic quizzes/practice quiz). This may be a broad assumption as there aremany other components that can affect student performance beyond the degree of theirparticipation.Blended Application of Microlearning and Case StudyThe blended approach to microlearning was specifically implemented to bridge the learning ofremembering basic ethical terms, to applying the ASIDE model. It was adopted in the form of ateam case study done in-class in groups, to practice applying the ASIDE model taught through

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Decision-Making in Engineering Ethics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Corin L. Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles; Elizabeth Ann Strehl, University of Michigan; Megan Ennis, University of Michigan; Andrew Benham; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan

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engineering students. Elizabeth earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 2019 with foci in Biomedical Engineering and Applied Mathematics.Megan Ennis, University of Michigan Megan Ennis is a master’s student in aerospace engineering and a research assistant with the SHUTTLE Lab at the University of Michigan. After completing a B.S. in aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan, she spent a year at University of Cambridge for a master’s in gender studies. She returned to Michigan and is now enjoying her time as a graduate student instructor. Beyond being involved in the lab’s macroethics work, Megan’s research interest is to apply feminist theories to engineering education.Andrew BenhamDr

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Tuesday June 27, 9:15 - 10:45

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tori Wagner, University of Connecticut; Landon Bassett, University of Connecticut; Jennifer Pascal, University of Connecticut; Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh

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issues beyond their technical content. As such,ethics education plays a crucial role in engineering licensure. The Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) requirements in 2022-2023 require that students have: “anability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and makeinformed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global,economic, environmental, and societal contexts” [4].Engineers are responsible for designing and building structures, systems, and products that aresafe and effective, and they must do so in a manner that is ethical and responsible [5]. As aresult, engineering licensure boards require applicants to demonstrate a thorough understandingof

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _Monday June 26, 11:00 - 12:30

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth McDonald, United States Military Academy, Department of Systems Engineering

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. Navigating through difficult moral situations requires much more thanwhat our current ethical codes provide.justiceJustice is a virtue of character and helps to regulate the relationships with others. There arethree fundamental structures of justice. First, there is the relationship between individuals;second, the relationship between society to the individual; and third, the relationship betweenthe individual to society [27]. These three relational constructs correspond to the three forms ofjustice: mutually exchanged justice (individual to individual); ministering justice (thecommunity to the individual); and legal justice (individual to society) [27]. The analysis ofthese three versions is beyond the scope of this article; however, there is the

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Engineering, Ethics, and Leadership

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James N. Magarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John M. Feiler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Leo McGonagle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Eileen Milligan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alexander Rokosz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Schanne, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Reza S. Rahaman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Olivier Ladislas de Weck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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local incentives and organizational- and societal-levelharms/benefits), and “Inquiring and Dialoguing” (a scenario with social justice implications relatedto recognizing and mitigating harassment and discrimination). Beyond these first-year ELLexperiences, second-year students are tasked with providing first-year students with feedback onethical reasoning as part of their recurring duties as ELL Team Coaches (see: Appendix A). GELstudents, meanwhile, are prompted to practice ethical reasoning through stakeholder awareness orhuman-centered design modules within their Design and Innovation Leadership Requirementcoursework. Finally, the second-year program students are required to complete a semester-longEngineering Leadership Elective course

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Engineering, Ethics, and Leadership

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farnoosh B. Brock, Prolific Living Inc.; Jessica Koehler, Wake Forest University; Andy Brock, Prolific Living; Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University and National Science Foundation

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make lasting positiveimpact. While our graduates may feel prepared to enter the workforce with strong technicalfundamentals, analytical skills, software skills, and a solid work ethic, are they feeling preparedto handle the other complexities of professional practice? Effective and ethical communication,decision making, professional conduct, leadership, social responsibility, and innovation arethe core of what it means to be an engineer. Are we preparing our engineering graduates forthe complexity of professionalism expected of them beyond the technical knowledge? Thecomplexity of organizations and the continuously evolving workplace requires us to betterprepare engineering graduates for the professional challenges that they will inevitably

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Broader Approaches to Engineering Ethics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bono Po-Jen Shih, Pennsylvania State University; Benjamin Daniel Chambers, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Matthew James P.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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. Strobel, and A. O. Brightman, "The Development of Empathic Perspective- Taking in an Engineering Ethics Course," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 106, no. 4, pp. 534-563, 2017.[20] D. A. Martin, E. Conlon, and B. Bowe, "Using Case Studies in Engineering Ethics Education: The Case for Immersive Scenarios through Stakeholder Engagement and Real Life Data," Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 47-63, 2021.[21] N. M. Smith, Q. Zhu, J. M. Smith, and C. Mitcham, "Enhancing Engineering Ethics: Role Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility," Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 27, no. 3, 2021.[22] K. Lewis et al., "Teaching the Global, Economic, Environmental, and

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Broader Approaches to Engineering Ethics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Qin Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lisa M. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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most STEM ethics initiatives) but also as an endeavor toengender more systematic, institutional-level transformations in the ethical climate in whichindividual scientists and engineers work. Moreover, the cultivation of an ethicalresearch/workplace culture is considered imperative for fostering sustainable ethicaltransformation at both the individual and organizational levels within the campus community.Based on our initial search, while there have been seven institutional transformation projectsfunded through NSF's CCE STEM or ER2 program, there has been a scarcity of research thatsystematically compares these funded projects and seeks to derive broader theoretical insightsregarding the institutional transformation approach to STEM ethics

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Virtues in Engineering Ethics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sergio Guillen Grillo, University of Virginia; Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia

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]. This model is integrated in varying formats through the instruction ofthe engineering design process, but there is a theoretical and practical model that puts theseprinciples into actionable skills and steps: Giving Voice to Values (GVV) as introduced byGentile [6]. A search of the American Society for Engineering Education document repositoryreveals that there are only five papers that have directly cited GVV. The oldest was published in2014, and the newest in 2023.The following sections of this work in progress paper set the stage for the introduction by theDepartment of Engineering & Society faculty at the University of Virginia of an innovativeframework for developing engineering students’ competencies for acting on their values

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Increasing Engagement in Engineering Ethics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Wolf, University of British Columbia; Gayatri Gopalan, University of British Columbia; Christoph Johannes Sielmann P.Eng., University of British Columbia

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: Exploring Three Methods in an Engineering Ethics and Professionalism CourseAbstractThis paper explores the role of three pedagogical interventions in engineering students’ learningabout ethical and professional conduct, with a particular focus on affective engagement. Manytransformative efforts involving equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization are centered onethics as a justifying principle, which further stresses the need to cultivate an ethical orientationin engineering practice, beyond specific knowledge. A new course on professionalism and ethicswas introduced as a platform to explore scalable pedagogical approaches to enhance engagementand achieve affective learning outcomes in engineering ethics. The learning

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _Monday June 26, 11:00 - 12:30

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeff R. Brown, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Chad Rohrbacher, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Taylor Joy Mitchell, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University ; Leroy Long III, Sinclair Community College - Dayton; Jenna Korentsides, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Joseph Roland Keebler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach

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, August). Work in Progress: Personalizing Engineering Ethics through the Individual Stories of Engineers and People Impacted. In 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.11. Burkey, D. D., Cimino, R. T., Young, M. F., Dahm, K. D., & Streiner, S. C. (2022, October). It’s All Relative: Examining Student Ethical Decision Making in a Narrative Game-Based Ethical Intervention. In 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.12. Halada, G. P., & Khost, P. H. (2017, June). The use of narrative in undergraduate

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Tuesday June 27, 1:30 - 3:00

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Koehler, Wake Forest University; Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University; Adetoun Yeaman, Wake Forest University

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Practical Wisdom (phronesis) is the integrated virtue, developed through experience and critical reflection, which enables us to perceive, know, desire and act with good sense. This includes discerning, deliberative action in situations where virtues collide. Flourishing Individuals and Society Figure 1: Adapted from The Jubilee Framework of the Building Blocks of Character [15].In the context of engineering education, a few publications have previously leveraged the JubileeFramework [3], [4], [30] – [31]. These character virtues can be mapped to the seven ABETstudent outcomes further clarifying their applicability in engineering (Table 1). Multiple virtuesmay map to multiple ABET outcomes and there is room

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The Global and Cultural Dimensions of Engineering Ethics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Qin Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh; Andrea Gammon, Delft University of Technology

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/0956797611432178.[15] J. Geipel, C. Hadjichristidis, and A.-K. Klesse, “Barriers to sustainable consumption attenuated by foreign language use,” Nat. Sustain., vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 31–33, Jan. 2018, doi: 10.1038/s41893-017-0005-9.[16] J. Geipel, C. Hadjichristidis, and L. Surian, “The foreign language effect on moral judgment: The role of emotions and norms,” PLoS One, 2015, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131529.[17] R. F. Clancy and H. Hohberger, “The Foreign-Language Effect, Scope, and Structure of the Normative Domain,” in Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 2019, [Online]. Available: https://www.academia.edu/39738068/The_Foreign_Language_Effect_Scope_and_Structu re_of_the_Normative_Domain.[18] S. L

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Virtues in Engineering Ethics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Natalie C.T. Van Tyne, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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. Looking back at it now, we should have selected the low ranked team.Transfer Courage Achievement-Oriented This virtue was downgraded to something “noble,” since it was out of fake morals of a fake accomplishment. During summer camp I cheated in archery and was given praise for becoming one of the best (but it was all a lie).Conclusions and RecommendationsWe have presented the results from our study of engineering students’ responses to a surveyquestion about the exercise of virtue ethics through the