Paper ID #7607Utilizing an Engineering Ethical Reasoning Instrument in the CurriculumDr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette Carla B. Zoltowski, Ph.D., is Education Administrator of the EPICS Program at Purdue University. She received her B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in engineering education, all from Purdue University. She has served as a lecturer in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Zoltowski’s academic and research interests include human-centered design learning and assessment, service-learning, ethical reasoning assessment, leadership, and assistive
order to maintain uniformity, GTAs randomly assigned each team one of the following 8topics: 1) levee construction in New Orleans 2) looting and government response in New Orleans3) debris removal in New Orleans 4) contamination issues in New Orleans 5) rebuilding NewOrleans 6) Asian tsunami of December 2004 7) San Francisco and earthquake preparedness and8) Galveston and hurricanes. No teams in a single workshop section received the same topic. Forthese eight assigned topics, students were given sub-topics to address during their presentations,as indicated below. 1. Levee Construction in New Orleans a. Discuss what factors were used to design the original levee system b. Discuss failure of the levees c. Discuss
, influence, and interest for an engineering design team, adapted from [9].“Design solutions have costs and effects, some harmful and major if the idea scales or isreplicated. A harm is a loss of something of value. So scrub any unnecessary harms from yourdesign:1. How to avoid harms within the design team: a. Is the design problem clear and are changes cleared with the contractors? b. Do team members have clearly allocated and documented roles & responsibilities, and accountability? c. Can you obtain the resources you need? d. Is the design choice feasible: physically possible, manufacturable, within the team’s technical reach? e. Do you have a plan to address conflict; to give, accept, and address
b) The Policy Track.Although a Winter and two Summer sessions are offered, the standard Academic Year iscomprised of a Fall and a Spring semester.All seniors in “all” engineering programs and concentrations are required to complete a “SeniorProfessional Seminar”. As in many conventional settings, the format, the requirements, and theset of activities of the seminar enable the seniors to make sound and informed decisionsregarding their transition into a professional environment or pursuit of graduate studies.However, as compared to its past version; what has made this re-formatted seminar much better Page 26.1366.2received and interesting to
personal commercial or sales pitch. Term Essay – Students write a 500-word essay on a contemporary issue related to computing technology or a 500-word proposal for funding of a start-up company.Students are given letter grades in the course (A, B, C, D, F) rather than being graded Pass/Fail.There are two reasons for this. First, the College of Engineering policy requires it, and, second,it emphasizes the importance of the course. Currently, grades are based on student performanceon four assignments (10-points each) and three examinations (20-points each). The assignmentsare discussed in more detail below. Examinations are primarily objective (true/false, multiplechoice, and fill-in-the blanks) and given at the one-third and two-third
,discoveries, and products is crucial for ethical practice. It contends that listening canfacilitate transformational engagement between engineers and the public by a)challenging stereotypes on both sides, b) foregrounding the technical and ethicalrelevance of diverse knowledges, c) exposing relationships of structural inequality thatprivilege technical expertise, and d) replacing such relationships with partnerships oftrust that generate meaningful and effective solutions.Transformational listening lies at the heart of a graduate engineering ethics course atVirginia Tech and future online teaching modules, funded by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF). The goal is for students to experience the cognitive leap thatethnographic research methods can
AC 2010-1428: INTEGRATING ETHICS CURRICULUM WITHIN ASERVICE-LEARNING DESIGN CONTEXTCraig Titus, Purdue University Craig Titus is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at Purdue University and a graduate assistant for the EPICS Program, participating in the curriculum development and the research teams.Carla Zoltowski, Purdue University CARLA B. ZOLTOWSKI is Education Administrator of the EPICS Program at Purdue University. She received her BSEE and MSEE from Purdue University, and is a PhD Candidate in Engineering Education at Purdue. She has served as a lecturer in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.William Oakes, Purdue University William Oakes is the Director of the
“knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselvesknowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing” 34: Page 26.1696.3 a) the teacher teaches and the students are taught; b) the teacher knows everything and the students know nothing; c) the teacher thinks and the students are thought about; d) the teacher talks and the students listen—meekly; e) the teacher disciplines and the students are disciplined; f) the teacher chooses and enforces his choice, and the students comply; g) the teacher acts and the students have the illusion of acting through the action of the teacher; h) the teacher chooses
factors elements of the catastrophes. Sincethis was only a one-unit course for first-year students (where typical first-year courses are threeor four units), in-class participation, outside reading, and short writing assignments were the onlyrequirements. Typically, two or three writing prompts were given for each topic. Writing promptstypically focused the students on the both the societal implications of catastrophes [A-typequestions] as well as the personal ethical issues [B-type questions] that a practicing engineermight face. Examples include: • [A] When US companies work in a global marketplace, whose laws prevail? Who takes Page
individuals who have providedinsight and support to me while conducting this project. Thank you to Dr. Nadine Dolby for yourhelpful critique and insight in developing this research topic as part of a course on Globalizationand Education. Thank you to my full engineering ethics research team for your encouragement;Dr. Andrew Brightman, Dr. Carla Zoltowski, Dr. Jonathan Beever, Dr. Matthew Krane, and Dr.Lorraine Kisselburgh. Thank you especially to Jonathan for critiquing my philosophicalarguments herein. Thank you to my advisor Dr. Johannes Strobel for your continual support as Ietch out my research foci as I work towards my dissertation.References1. Lucena, J., Downey, G., Jesiek, B., and Elber, S. (2008). Competencies Beyond Countries: The
case studies is also included in thetable. Table 2: Categories for Ethical Dilemmas and Relevant NPSE Code Listings BER Cases (n=154) Non-BER (n=17) Ethical Dilemma Relevant NPSE Code Total number, (%) Total number, (%) Misleading Information II.3 , II.5.a, III.1 , III.3.a 35, (23) 0, (0) Withholding Information III.1.b, III.3 8, (5) 4, (24) Disclosing Private Information II.1.c , III.4 8, (5) 0, (0) Public Safety Risk
Paper ID #25655The Moral Foundations of Chinese Engineering Students: A Preliminary In-vestigationDr. Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong Joint Institute Rockwell F. Clancy is an Associate Teaching Professor in engineering ethics and philosophy at the Uni- versity of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Research Fellow in the Institute of Social Cognitive and Behavioral Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and has acted as a long-term educational consultant, setting up a course and writing a corresponding textbook with Heinz Luegen- biehl, entitled Global
Paper ID #22934Framing Engineering Ethics Education with Pragmatism and Care: A Pro-posalDr. Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon University Indira Nair retired from Carnegie Mellon University after 32 years. For the last 12 of those years, she was the vice provost for education and a professor in the department of engineering and public policy. She has designed and taught several interdisciplinary courses, including the ethics of science and technology, environmental science, technology and decision-making, and radiation, health, and policy. Her research has ranged over risk assessment and communication, green design
course, the authors start with a definition of ethics as a set of moral principles and cyberethics as a set of "moral principles relative to IT systems, technologies, and digital media." Wedefine “cyber” as pertaining to cyberspace. We adopt the United States Department of Defensedefinition of cyberspace as A global domain within the information environment consisting of the interdependent networks of information technology infrastructures and resident data, including the Internet, telecommunications networks, computer systems, and embedded processors and controllers. [23]We build from these definitions as a class by discussing how (a) the acceptable behavior in thereal world is also acceptable in cyberspace, (b) examples
work.Course AssignmentsThesis critique assignment 15%Annotated Bibliography 15%Paper Outline 15%Paper draft 20%Paper final 20%Participation & Homework 15%Course Grade and Policies Page 12.204.10The course is Credit/No Credit. A final course grade of B- or higher is required to receive Credit.Grades are based on assignments and on class attendance. More than 1 unexcused absenceresults in the course grade being lowered. Two absences result in the course grade being loweredone step (e.g., A to A
-Endangered “Positive“ Rights Pubic Harms of Aggregation Practitioner Problems (Problems of Execution: Distributive Justice, Whistle-blowing, consideration of long term-effects. Problems of Communication: Fraud, and Misrepresentation] Challenges of Contemporary Science and Technology to traditional ethical theories. To gauge the students’ understanding of nanotechnology and their perceptions about itsimpact on society, a survey is also conducted at the end of the course using a questionnaire (seeAppendix A). The results of the survey are exhibited in Appendix B. Page 25.965.8 IV. Conclusion Nanotechnology has
asfodder for the paper, but if they utilized specific details or statistics that should be cited, then theyought to cite it! The content directions they were given were to reflect on what they had learnedover the course of the term. The instructors purposely left the content instructions vague; it wasan exercise to see how these students would reflect upon the semester. A BFigure 1: The form students completed during (A) guest and instructor presentations, and (B) thepart they also completed during student presentations. ENGR 4501 Case Studies Presentation Grading Sheet Factual Description
RCR training hours than theircounterparts in non-biomedical disciplines.The approach at our institutionTo reiterate, there are two components to the RCR academic policy at Georgia Tech: (a)online training and (b) in-person training. For the in-person portion, doctoral studentsmust complete a campus-wide RCR course or a program-specific “in-house” approach.The campus-wide course is for one-credit and is available to any graduate student.Individual academic programs are both permitted and encouraged to develop their ownin-house approach in lieu of the campus-wide RCR course. Some academic units havealready done so. For example, the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineeringintegrates RCR material into its first-semester research
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also given the opportunity to develop their abilityto interact with the public in scientific discussion.Nanotechnology is expected to have a major social impact; sensitizing scientists and engineers tothis, and their role in managing it, is crucial if nanotechnology is to realize its potential to benefithumanity. Page 11.48.13References1 B. Newberry, The Dilemma of Ethics in Engineering Education, Science and Engineering Ethics, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2004, pp343-351.2 J.-P. Dupuy, Complexity and Uncertainty: A Prudential Approach To Nanotechnology, in: European Commission (Community Health and Consumer Protection): Nanotechnologies
Paper ID #9566Academic Misconduct – What Students Think and a few Case StudiesDr. Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University (ENG) Adeel Khalid, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Systems Engineering Office: 678-915-7241 Fax: 678-915-5527 http://educate.spsu.edu/akhalid2Dr. Beth Stutzmann, RLC- Research Learning Community, Southern Polytechnic State University Dr. Beth Stutzmann, is the Director of Bands at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta,Georgia where she received the Outstanding Faculty Award in 2011. She is a graduate of The Boston Conservatory of Music (BMEd); earned a master’s degree from
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and ethical implications. 4. Ethical principles of economical designIt is well known that any work of engineering has implications for helping or harmingliving creatures and for diminishing the quality of life on earth or any other planet [4].These implications are called ethical principles in engineering. Whenever a beautifullyengineered, economical design is produced, highly skilled engineers look for order,system integration and interrelationships. All such engineering reasoning leadssomewhere to implications or has ethical consequences. To yield a, critically thought,sound design one needs to: a) Evaluate the implications and consequences that followfrom his/her test data and reasoning. b) Search for all, negative as
Paper ID #11150Ethics and Text RecyclingDr. Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology Marilyn Dyrud is a full professor in the Communication Department at Oregon Institute of Technology and regularly teaches classes in business and technical writing, public speaking, rhetoric, and ethics; she is part of the faculty team for the Civil Engineering Department’s integrated senior project. She is active in ASEE as a regular presenter, moderator, and paper reviewer; she has also served as her campus’ representative for 17 years, as chair of the Pacific Northwest Section, and as section newsletter editor. She was
AC 2011-1833: THE CREATION OF TOOLS FOR ASSESSING ETHICALAWARENESS IN DIVERSE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PROGRAMSCraig Titus, Purdue UniversityCarla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette CARLA B. ZOLTOWSKI, Ph.D., is Education Administrator of the EPICS Program at Purdue Univer- sity. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue University. She has served as a lecturer in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus; life-span developmental psychologist; principle investigator for NSF-funded project involving four programs developing measures for ethical awareness and
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