great importance to the reform of the theory andteaching practice system of engineering ethics. Initially, it focused on teaching engineeringethics to undergraduate students, offering elective courses related to science and engineeringethics. In 2013, it also offered compulsory courses on science and engineering ethics, makingit the first university in China to offer engineering ethics courses. The engineering ethics education at Dalian University of Technology started early. Itcultivates students’ awareness in humanities, economic accounting, environmental protection,and ethics through the infiltration of engineering and culture. At the National Symposium onEngineering Ethics Teaching and Research, Professor Wang Guoyu from Dalian
– Brazil. Her technical research experience focuses on water and wastewater treatment, statistical methods and biofilms applied to engineering. She also studies the application of SoTL to the chemical engineering curriculum. She is passionate about DEIB, outreach opportunities and mentoring. She has been awarded the 2022 Engaged advocate award. She has completed the Global Diplomacy Initiative course from UNITAR and she is a STEM PEER academy fellow 2023. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work-in-Progress: Exploring the Role of Self-Efficacy in Entrepreneurial Decision-Making: An Action Research StudyAbstractIn this study, upper-level chemical engineering students
African indigenous knowledge systems,promoting cooperative partnerships between researchers and indigenous knowledge holders, andhonoring African indigenous intellectual property rights [6]. Institutional initiatives, such as 12indigenous knowledge research institutes and transdisciplinary programs, have evolved to assistresearch and capacity-building around African [7]. These programs offer forums for informationsharing, community involvement, and policy lobbying, which supports African IKS's resuscitationand empowerment in modern society.To promote more inclusive and sustainable development throughout the African continent andworldwide, there has been an increasing awareness in recent years of the
Paper ID #37662Stifle or Support: Academic Culture and Engineering Ethics Education[Full Research Paper]Dr. Madeline Polmear, Vrije Universiteit Brussels Madeline Polmear is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie, EUTOPIA Science & Innovation Cofund Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Her research interests relate to engineering ethics education and the development of societal responsibility and professional competence through formal and informal learning. Madeline received her Bachelors in environmental engineering, Masters in civil engineering, and PhD in civil engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Paper ID #38251Assessing the Effects of a Short-Term Global Engineering Ethics Courseon the Development of Engineering Students’ Moral Reasoning andDispositions [Traditional paper – research/evidence-based, DEI/researchmethods]Dr. Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Rockwell Clancy conducts research at the intersection of technology ethics, moral psychology, and Chi- nese philosophy. He explores how culture and education affect moral judgments, the causes of unethical behaviors, and what can be done to ensure more ethical behaviors regarding technology. Central to his work
ethics frameworks. Additionally, due totheir hierarchical position, these individuals have unique opportunities to support a culture ofethics beyond mandates.Subsequent interviewees were identified through snowball sampling–at the end of the initialinterviews, participants were asked, “Is there anyone else in your department or program, who isalso involved in the development of or teaching of ethical frameworks for your students?” Allpotential participants that were named by an initial interviewee were invited to interview. Eachparticipant who agreed to enroll in the study was interviewed via Zoom by the same facultymember from the research team to ensure consistency between the interviews. These semi-structured interviews typically lasted 30-60
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
Medal for Research.Casey Gibson, National Academy of Engineering Casey Gibson, M.S., is an Associate Program Officer at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Gibson contributes to multiple NAE and cross-Academies initiatives, focusing primarily on the Cultural, Ethical, Social, and Environmental Responsibility in Engineering program. Gibson completed her M.S. from the Colorado School of Mines as a member of the inaugural cohort in Humanitarian Engineering and Science (HES). In the HES program, Gibson specialized in Environmental Engineering and conducted research under the NSF-funded ”Responsible Mining, Resilient Communities” project in Colombia
further the development of the survey. Thesurvey items were initially designed to address two proposed research questions: RQ1. To what degree are students aware of the importance of macroethical issues in the field of aerospace engineering? RQ2. Do aerospace engineering students feel that their undergraduate education is preparing them to address macroethical issues?While confirmatory factor analysis does not confirm these two survey constructs for which thesurvey items were designed, an exploratory factor analysis results in five factors, eachhighlighting a different aspect of students’ perceptions of macroethical aerospace engineeringeducation: 1. The criticality of the relationship between aerospace engineering and
Paper ID #43711Crowdsourcing a Practical Toolkit for Embedding Ethics in the EngineeringCurriculum (Work in Progress Paper)Dr. Sarah Junaid, Aston University Sarah Junaid, PhD, (Aston University, United Kingdom) is a Senior Lecturer and Program Director of Mechanical Engineering and Design Engineering. Her pedagogical research interests are in ethics education and team working with a global perspective and has led teams on initiatives on engineering ethics across CDIO (Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate global initiative) and SEFI (European Society for Engineering Education) education communities.Wendy Irene AttwellSarah Hitt
published between2000-2023 with the keyword “engineering ethics assessment instrument.” We used a differentsearch strategy because the scope and audience of the journal were different from the otherjournals and the conference proceedings we explored for this paper. The initial search showed229 articles, and after screening the articles with titles and abstracts, five articles remained.While reviewing the five articles more carefully, we excluded two articles because they reportedmeasures specifically designed for research ethics [10],[11]. Finally, we found only three articles(two of which are for the same measure) reporting newly developed instruments forethics-related outcomes with some validity evidence: the Engineering and Science Issues Test
Paper ID #41574Board 101: Compassion and Engineering Ethics: Validation of the CompassionateEngagement and Action Scales for the Engineering Education ContextMr. Cristian Eduardo Vargas-Ordonez P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette Cristan Vargas-Ordonez is a Colombian Ph.D. Candidate and Research Assistant in Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has a Master’s in Education from the University of Los Andes, a Master’s in Science, Technology, and Society, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering.Manuel Jos´ Alejandro Baquero Sierra, Purdue University, West Lafayette e Alejandro Baquero-Sierra is a
Paper ID #39165Impact of critical narrative on students’ abilities to recognize ethicaldilemmas in engineering workDr. Jeff R. Brown, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach Jeff Brown is a professor of civil engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL. His research interests include ethics and professional formation in engineering education, service learning, and structural health monitoring of reinforced concrete structures. Dr. Brown received his PhD in structural engineering from the University of Florida in 2005.Chad Rohrbacher, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona
remain open to all possible theoreticaldirections indicated by your readings of the data” (Charmaz, 2006, p. 46) Initial coding generatesa list of codes that are related to the study’s research questions and are grounded in the data. Datawas coded shortly after each interview and in a line-by-line fashion, which can help provide “aclose look at what participants say and, likely, struggle with” (Charmaz, 2006, p. 50). Initial coding for this study was conducted using Taguette, a free and open-sourcequalitative data analysis tool. Following each interview, the author reviewed the transcript line-by-line, tagging significant words or phrases with short-hand terms, or codes, that represent ideasand concepts shared by participants. The author
scholarly disciplines to participate in a dialogue on ethical considerations for Artemis and theMoon to Mars initiative. At this event, participants identified a set of challenges in engaging theethical and social implications of these missions. This paper seeks to further explore thoseconcepts from the workshop report and provide insights on how to discuss the designimplications of engineering leadership decisions and to elicit meaningful engagement on thesetopics. This analysis can inform future research and educational approaches and help ethics andsocial science researchers to engage engineering and project leaders in constructive dialogue. 1. IntroductionThe engineering education research community has developed a broad swathe of case
Pascal is an Assistant Professor in Residence at the University of Connecticut. She earned her PhD from Tennessee Technological University in 2011 and was then an NIH Academic Science Education and Research Training (ASERT) Postdoctoral Fellow atDr. Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut Daniel Burkey is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Professor-in-Residence in the De- partment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Lehigh University in 19Dr. Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh Scott Streiner is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department, teaches in the First-Year Engineering
interactivestudent-led sessions, were analyzed using the thematic approach to uncover trends and patterns.Thematic analysis is a method for identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns (i.e., themes)within qualitative data. It is widely used in various fields such as psychology, sociology, andorganizational research [16].In this study, thematic analysis was performed inductively, where codes and themes were deriveddirectly from the data. The steps used for thematic analysis consisted of generating initial codesafter the authors became familiar with the responses. All but one of the authors were instructorsof the course sections, hence the author not teaching the course took the lead in coding. Codeswere used to label interesting, unique, and relevant
alsoindicated whether the participant identified their moral exemplar as high or low with regards tothat trait, using terms commonly adopted by personality researchers. We focused this analysis onthe T2 and T3 interviews, as we observed a lack of depth and details in the response of thestudents during the T1 interviews, something that was also observed in other studies of this data[17].Categories of moral exemplarsDuring the initial T1 interviews, participants were much more likely to identify someone theyknew personally (such as a family member, friend, educator, or professional contact) as theirmoral exemplar (58.8% of moral exemplars identified) rather than someone they did not knowTable 1: Descriptions and sample quotes for the categories used to
Paper ID #43365Advancing Engineering Ethics Education Using Active LearningDr. Rajani Muraleedharan, Saginaw Valley State University Dr. Rajani Muraleedharan is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), and the faculty advisor for IEEE Student chapter, Society of Women Engineers (SWE) at Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU), Michigan. Dr. Muraleedharan obtained her Ph.D. at Syracuse University. Her research interest includes wireless communications and networking, computational intelligence, robotics, behavioral science for autistic children, mobile-cloud computing, information and network security in
any new ethics must firstdismantle the nature-technology distinction, and the perceived separation of humans and otheranimals, which are at the foundation of engineering design and practice. From there, engineeringeducation might be better able to help prepare the next generation of engineers to address thisecological urgency.A persistent schismStudents in a spring semester 2023 Engineering Ethics class at the University of Virginia wereassigned an “ethical autobiography” essay during the first week of class. One of the essayssubmitted included the following paragraph: I feel extremely connected to living beings. In my lab experience, I’ve had to morally consider the use of animals for research. I will not be very graphic here
turned out to be not so miraculous afterall. This paper has recounted the facts of the case and the major ethical ramifications, offeringsuggestions for classroom activities. The Teflon case poses serious questions regarding consumertrust in business, employee reluctance to expose wrongdoing, flagrant violations of ethical tenets,and the pitfalls of regulation.Even though legally the saga is resolved, research into PFOA continues, with alarming findingsreported in peer-reviewed journals such as Human Reproduction, Occupational andEnvironmental Medicine, and The Journal of Pediatrics. The research explains that theconsequences of PFOA contamination extend far beyond those initially recognized by the EPA,including “ovarian cancer; prostate cancer
Rockefeller Foundation and the InterAmerican Development Bank. His engagement with public interest conflicts related to energy infrastructure led him to the field of conflict resolution, and he obtained international mediation certification from the Mediation Training Institute International in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and also became accredited as a mediator of the Conflict Resolution Center of the Costa Rican Professional Body for Engineers and Architects (CFIA-CRC). Sergio has worked for over 20 years as a researcher, practitioner, and trainer of public interest conflict analysis and resolution throughout Latin America, including work on transboundary water management, labor relations, participatory policy
example, the most and least impactful tutorial activities. For the purposes ofthe research, all student responses—whether positive, negative, or any other—were consideredas being part of the affective landscape of engagement for students. All mentions of eachintervention, both positive and negative, were coded and used in thematic analysis.Following ethics board approval (REB #H23-03156), responses were de-identified andinductively coded by CS to conduct a thematic analysis. The first pass of coding includedsimultaneous methods of attribute coding, structural coding, and emotion coding to organize thedata [16]. Categories and initial themes were developed and discussed by the authors, with asecond pass conducted to refine support themes and
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for Russia and CIS Countries, Qualcomm Inc., 1995-99, and multiple positions with Northern Telecom and Bell-Northern Research in Ottawa, Canada and Richardson, TX during 1978-1995. He had nationwide responsibility for US Army Materiel Command scientific & engineering computing, 1969-78, pioneering many applications in what has become today’s Internet, and he has served as a US Army Officer in the Office of the Chief of Staff, in the Pentagon, He holds a BS in Physics from MIT and a PhD in Physics from the University of Maryland.Dr. Shatha Jawad, National University Dr. Shatha Jawad has more than 25 years of experience in teaching and more than three years as a software engineer. She received the Full-Time
study cannot cover the evaluation cycle required at this level. Second, undergraduate engineering ethics education in the country of this study is still in its initial stage. The engineer ethics curriculum system needs several years or more prolonged accumulation and development. This level of evaluation is more suitable to be carried out after the long-time development of engineering ethics education. Third, the difference between engineering ethics education and training in the Kirkpatrick's evaluation model is that, in training, it is clear whom to train, and it is easier to obtain the support of the training institution in the evaluation. However, the research shows that the employment of the students receiving engineering ethics education
highlighted occurrences andpassages in the data corresponding to a code. After the initial coding round, we evaluated the fitand adjusted their shared recognition of the codes based on the data. With the revised codebook,one author coded the whole dataset, and the number of instances for each code was listed foreach part of the data.The Case Study: “Evaluating AI Ethics for Agriculture at Future Farm Collective (FFC)” The case study is based on a fictitious organization, Future Farm Collective (FFC), curatingtechnology for agricultural processes. FFC is a Midwest-based group of researchers, growers,technology experts, and businesses that mission is to create the future farm, feed a growingworld population, develop new opportunities for the
North America. The initial stage of the study involvedrecruiting participants, with methods approved by the Institutional Review Boards (IRB) withoutany form of incentives. The methods used for participant recruitment comprised reaching outthrough social media direct messages, LinkedIn posts, professional networks of the researchers,and emails to local engineering societies and chapters. Participants were requested to complete asurvey through the Qualtrics platform, providing their demographic information, followed byscheduling an appointment via the "You can book me" platform and submitting a signed consentdocument sent to them via email. The consent document explicitly outlined the principles ofanonymity and confidentiality to the
criteria considered when determining themes. Either (1)the same or similar student response was reported across multiple courses, or (2) the same orsimilar response was provided by multiple students in a single course. Given the open-endednature of the survey design, unclear student responses were excluded from the themes. Thesethemes were determined by a single researcher and are meant to be regarded as initial hypothesisgenerating results that will warrant further, more rigorous methodological study.V. ResultsThis section shares findings that answer the two research questions. The first research questionshowcases students’ perceived character strength gains across the core required engineeringcourses in the curriculum and within each of these
Paper ID #37362The Development and Application of a Comprehensive Questionnaire UsedtoEvaluate the Effect of Engineering Ethics CoursesDr. Jiaojiao Fu, Peking University Jiaojiao Fu is a postdoctor at the Graduate School of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China. She received B.A. from China Agricultural University, M.Ed. and Ph.D. from Beihang University, China. From April 2017 to October 2017, she studied in the College of Engineering at the Ohio State University as a visiting scholar. Her academic and research interests include engineering ethics education, ethics of artificial intelligence, lifelong education