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

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Across the Curriculum. Dr. Zhu’s research interests include global and international engineering education, engineering ethics, engineering cultures, and ethics and policy of computing technologies and robotics.Xianghong WUDr. Ryan Thorpe ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Assessing the Effects of a Short-Term Global Engineering Ethics Course on theDevelopment of Engineering Students’ Moral Reasoning and Dispositions [Traditionalpaper – research/evidence-based, DEI/research methods]1 IntroductionThis paper describes a project to develop, deliver, and assess a short-term (one-week) course onglobal engineering ethics at Shandong University in the Summer of 2022. This project builds onprevious

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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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Technology. She is an ASEE fellow (2008), winner of the James McGraw and Berger Awards (2010, 2013), the communications editor for the Journal of Engineering Technology, and the ETD mini-grant coordinator. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 “Better Living through Chemistry”? DuPont & TeflonIntroductionIn 1961 DuPont, in collaboration with American entrepreneur Marion Trozzolo, introduced the“Happy Pan” [1] to the delight of cooks all over the country, especially those with a penchant forburning food. Coated with a new substance, Teflon, food magically slid from the pan, leavinglittle residue and ending the onerous task of scouring. Early ads touted Teflon as “an amazingnew concept

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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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Dayoung Kim, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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the subject of the assessment instrument. While the early efforts indeveloping assessment instruments focused mostly on assessing engineering students’ reasoningskills, more recent publications introduce assessment instruments designed for measuringstudents’ attitudes or qualities related to broader societal considerations, such as socialresponsibility and community engagement, as well as diversity and inclusion and social justiceconsiderations. Based on the review, we briefly discuss opportunities in the new assessmentinstrument development effort. IntroductionAssessment plays an important role in education and has been emphasized within the communityof engineering education research [1]. There has

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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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. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Character Development in the Engineering Classroom: An Exploratory, Mixed-Methods Investigation of Student PerspectivesI. IntroductionEthics education is an undisputedly essential part of engineering education. Society, industry,universities, and accreditation demand that engineering students be better educated to handle themany ethical situations that professional practice will require of our graduates. Whileengineering educators continue to explore how to most effectively prepare students for complexand nuanced ethical decision-making in their professional careers [1] – [8], traditionalapproaches to engineering ethics education have been largely limited to ethical reasoning guidedby

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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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Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, Colorado School of Mines; Qin Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh; Ryan Thorpe

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training that undergraduate engineering studentsreceive impact their ethical reasoning and moral dispositions, how this differs cross-culturally,and how to improve ethics education based on results derived from such an empiricalinvestigation. To gauge students’ moral dispositions and ethical reasoning skills and tomeasure any change in these over the course of the study, we administer the MoralFoundations Questionnaire (MFQ) and the Engineering & Science Issues Tests (ESIT)1 toengineering students at participating universities repeatedly, once each year, during theduration of their undergraduate degree program. But because we want to use these results tounderstand the impact various forms and methods of ethics education have and

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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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Youna Jung, Northeastern University; Jacob Ray Johnston, Virginia Military Institute; Aidan Noonan

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StatesIntroductionWe have witnessed the emergence of new technologies that solve problems and make our livesbetter. The use of new technologies has dramatically changed social conditions, and its rapid rateis causing new problems and issues that test our values [1]. The invention of email has made itpossible for instant communication all over the world, but it has also opened the door forphishing scams to steal financial information. The World Wide Web provides access to a wealthof information on all kinds of topics, but it also exposes children to inappropriate content likepornographic websites. It gives us a good reason why we need to make ethical decisions,weighing the benefits and potential harms associated with the use of new technology.As many issues in

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

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Rosalyn W. Berne, University of Virginia

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: Biotechnology and Science Fiction and Nanotalk: Conversations with Scientists and Engi- neers about Ethics, Meaning and Belief in the Development of Nanotechnology; a science fiction novel; two award-winning books in the genre of body-mind-spirit (including When the Horses Whisper), and numerous papers and articles. Her newest book, ”Animals, Ethics and Engineering” (working title) is under contract to be published in summer, 2024. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Non-human Animals and a New Ethics for EngineeringIntroductionThe sixth mass extinction is underway. Earth's animal populations have declined by an averageof 69% since 1970 [1], partly due to unsustainable use of land, water and

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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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Umair Shakir, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Justin L. Hess, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Matthew James P.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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engineeringstudents to engage with the ethical issues embedded in their work in undergraduate degreeprograms. Instructors often use open-ended case scenarios to prepare engineering students forethical decision making in their work [1]. Open-ended ethics case studies or scenarios canengage students in ethical reasoning and judgment, especially when they are delivered in flexibleways and provide opportunities for students to express their views in their own words [2].However, assessments of ethics case scenarios have their own downsides. Perhaps most notably,such grading can be time-intensive and in large course sections with multiple instructors (such asthe course we study here), grading may lack consistency for both inter-grader and intra-graderassessment

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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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,communication, and sociotechnical systems thinking—come together in engineering practiceand can be integrated simultaneously into engineering curricula. The three streams are definedbelow. 1. Engineering ethics: cultivating a practical and actionable understanding of professional and ethical responsibility in engineering students and practitioners 2. Engineering communication: developing communication proficiency in engineering students and practitioners 3. Sociotechnical systems thinking: taking a holistic approach that locates engineering expertise and projects in human activity in specific settingsThe central metaphor around which the model is constructed is the three-legged stool, whichmaintains its stability in challenging

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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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Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University

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course revision include (1) analyzing the impact of power and privilege onsociety in the context of diversity and inclusion, (2) examining how human and culturalsimilarities and differences influence structural and institutional inequities, and (3) criticallyreflecting upon how one’s own personal and cultural presuppositions affect one’s values andrelationships. In addition to discussing the methodology of curriculum and educational materialdevelopment to meet these objectives, we will present student feedback, via responses toassignments, resulting from the first implementation of the redesigned course, and theimplications of this information for further enhancing course effectiveness. The methodologyused in ensuring integration of diversity

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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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Frank A. Mazzola, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Siddhartha Roy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marc Edwards, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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, engineers and scientists can impact the public in a positive and negativemanner. The obligations of engineers and scientists in society are continually evolving anddebated, including their work involving the public and marginalized communities [1]-[6]. Thesetopics are addressed from an aspirational applied ethics perspective in a graduate-level course atVirginia Tech: CEE 5804 “Engineering Ethics and the Public” [7], [8]. The course draws on highprofile case studies, both past and unfolding, to examine ethical dilemmas that confront engineersand scientists in research and practice. The course seeks to reimagine the role of ethics in thecareers of engineers and to expand the notion of “ethical conduct” to include moral courage, moralleadership, and

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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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spaceflight and medicine, as well as practices skills related to user experience and statistical analysis.Joseph Roland Keebler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Impact of critical narrative on students' abilities to recognize ethical dilemmas in engineering workIntroductionThis paper contains preliminary results from a quasi-experimental study that seeks to evaluatethe efficacy of “critical narrative” as a pedagogical tool to help engineering students thinkcritically about the broader impacts of their profession. Consistent with ABET Student Outcome(SO) 2 and SO4 [1], we assume broader impacts to include the economic, social

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Monday June 26, 3:15 - 4:45

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laurie A. Pinkert, University of Central Florida; Jonathan Beever, University of Central Florida; Steven Kuebler; Lakelyn E. Taylor, University of Central Florida; Eve Vazquez, University of Central Florida; Victor Milanes, University of Central Florida

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cultures. These leaders often have the opportunity todetermine whether and to what extent certain types of content find a place in the explicit and/orimplicit instruction of their students, especially relevant in terms of ethics content that guidesindividual senses of responsibility and institutional frameworks of accountability.Faculty leaders take on this role while balancing curricular needs, professional expectations,constraints on resources, and pressures associated with time and place of the institution assituated within its community. Existing literature on disciplinary enculturation in generalemphasizes the importance of faculty members guiding students toward a perception ofbelonging and adopting disciplinary practices and norms [1], [2

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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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what is right, and honesty is rendering truth in all endeavors. These virtues are a solidfoundation for character formation and form a construct for engineering ethics education.Internalizing these virtues enables engineers to become more ethical and better equipped to dealwith ethical challenges of modern society and engineering.introductionEngineering is an important, valued, and trusted profession, whose esteemed position is builtupon a close and necessary relationship between society and engineer professionals[1]. Engineering’s trusted position is rooted in the necessity and reliance of society on theworks of engineering. Engineering is interwoven into the daily lives of people continuously,twenty-four hours a day, from the moment they

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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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C.J. Witherell, Grand Valley State University

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as their respective methods of risk mitigation. Then, the ethical implicationswere analyzed using the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Code of Ethics aswell as the Utilitarian and Respect for Persons ethical frameworks. The rise in popularity ofCOBOTs in manufacturing has introduced the ethical responsibility to protect employees fromnew risks including physical harm during normal use and malfunctions due to cyber-attack andelectromagnetic interference. Current and future engineers must be educated about the risksassociated with COBOTs and their resultant ethical responsibilities. 1. Introduction The concept of ethics has been explored for thousands of years, yet it seems to have gottenmore muddled throughout the

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Monday June 26, 3:15 - 4:45

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Madeline Polmear, Vrije Universiteit Brussels

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ethicseducation and ethics educators are supported.Introduction and BackgroundEthics is an integral part of engineering, a profession that serves public welfare and operates atthe intersection between the natural and built environment. The university experience is criticalin developing professional and societal responsibility as future engineers learn both contentknowledge and professional socialization. Faculty members are crucial in these processes as theyinfluence engineering education through their course instruction and informally through theirrole as socializing agents [1]. Faculty members and students both shape and are shaped by theirenvironment. Within the academic environment, culture provides a way to view the values,decisions, and norms of a

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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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Lazlo Stepback, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Min Ha Hwang; Stephanie Claussen, San Francisco State University; Yna Leonardo

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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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Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Cynthia Bauerle; Lisette Esmeralda Torres-Gerald; Carrie Hall

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(https://serc.carleton.edu/stemfutures/index.html) brought together educators from a variety ofuniversities to develop framework-guided curricula that align with the dimensions of 21st centurylearning by Kereliuk et. al [1]. The framework, found in figure 1, illustrates how three types ofknowledge, foundational (to know), meta (to act), and humanistic (to value), relate to learning inSTEM subjects. The framework is designed to “account not only for what ought to be known,but also for the unique contexts, cultures, and challenges that would-be innovators need toinclude in their approach to improving the world.” [1]. Foundational •Core content

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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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Rosalyn W. Berne, University of Virginia; William J Davis, University of Virginia; Kent A. Wayland, University of Virginia; Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia; Caroline Crockett, University of Virginia

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-ethics, Undergraduate EducationIntroductionEngineers are fundamentally problem solvers. Sometimes engineering solutions come withethical implications, this is what engineering ethics courses aim to help students betterunderstand. Ethics education for engineers takes many different forms across a wide variety ofinstitutions. As Hess and Fore attest, “... there is neither a consensus throughout the engineeringeducation community regarding which strategies are most effective towards which ends, norwhich ends are most important.”1 Believing that student self-awareness and the capacity toidentify and effectively communicate their own values is an “end” worth pursuing, we created anengineering ethics course for that purpose. The newly adopted

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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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ethics and the ethicalunderstanding of engineering from a Philosophy of Technology approach. We then utilizethe intersection of queer theory and video game studies to present how the understandingof failure can help us reshape how it is approached in engineering. Finally, to illustrate theuse of these ideas, we present two theoretical examples of how failure can be enacted in theclassroom for a better understanding of engineering ethics.II. FAILING AT G AMES , A B RIEF I NTRODUCTIONThe initial quote, from the 2023 Game of the Year, Elden Ring [1], serves as a call to action,a start to an adventure, the beginning of a quest that we hope will change the world (at leastthe one within the game. . . ). Video games can act as a world within a

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Monday June 26, 3:15 - 4:45

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shreya Kumar, University of Notre Dame; Megan Levis, University of Notre Dame

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, as those served as excellent opportunities for students to engage with this subjectmatter in with depth. We share our lessons and challenges in attempting to find adequate means toassess this work in meeting long-term and far-reaching educational goals.INTRODUCTIONCulture and technology interact now more than ever in the history of engineering. While that hasfostered innovation from and into all sectors of life and society, thoughtful consideration of theethics of engineering endeavors and education has not kept up. While there are major ethicalimplications of engineering that go beyond simple academic thought experiments, engineerstypically graduate without a strong sense of ownership of their future ethical responsibilities 1 .Evidence

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Monday June 26, 3:15 - 4:45

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jiaojiao Fu, Peking University

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analysis of the questionnaire results. The application of the questionnairesurvey has explained the effect of questionnaire design to a large extent but alsoreflected some limitations. Finally, combined with the questionnaire survey andinterviews, the paper also suggests the possibility of further improvement of thecomprehensive questionnaire.Keywords: Evaluate Engineering Ethics Courses, Comprehensive Questionnaire,Develop the Questionnaire, Apply the Questionnaire, Improve the QuestionnaireIntroductionDifferent countries, colleges, universities, and even majors provide students withdifferent kinds of engineering ethics courses. Some scholars [1] point out thatengineering ethics cannot be isolated in a single curriculum, but must be

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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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interdisciplinary conversations, especially for emerging issues such as AIethics.Introduction Technologies reliant on artificial intelligence (AI) have continued revolutionizing howindustries function worldwide. Within agriculture, using machines for farming autonomouslywithout human labor is one significant shift that has taken place [1]. In the US, in particular, thisis partly due to the overall shrinking agricultural workforce, resulting from a lack of interest inthe profession coupled with a political and cultural climate restricting immigration foragriculture-related work [2]. According to some reports, there are over 200 “AI in agriculture”start-ups [3] in addition to research and development in established companies and academia.Automation

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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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learning theory of situated learning[1], [2], such playful learning may enable instructors to create assignments that induce studentsto break free of the typical student mindset of finding the “right” answer.Mars: An Ethical Expedition! is an interactive, 12 week, narrative game about the colonization ofMars by various engineering specialists. Students take on the role of a head engineer and arepresented with situations that require high-stakes decision-making. Various game mechanicsinduce students to act as they would on-the-fly, within a real engineering project context, usingpersonal reasoning and richly context-dependent justifications, rather than simply right/wronganswers. Each segment of the game is presented in audio and text that ends

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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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Jiaojiao Fu, Peking University

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isnecessary to try to construct the evaluation system of engineering ethics educationcurriculum effect. Kirkpatrick's four-level evaluation model is considered as the mostwidely used training effect evaluation model in the world. It has been more than 60years since Donald L. Kirkpatrick at the University of Wisconsin proposed the modelin 1959. This study's first and most important concern is the feasibility of applying themodel in the interdisciplinary field. Whether the successful application ofKirkpatrick's model in enterprise training can also achieve good results in schooleducation, especially in engineering ethics education, and how feasible it is. Afteranalyzing the question from two aspects: (1) the relationship between education andtraining

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session_Monday June 26, 3:15 - 4:45

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald P. Uhlig, National University; Shatha Jawad Jawad, National University; Bhaskar Sinha, National University; Pradip Peter Dey; Mohammad N. Amin, National University

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International Council for Com- puter Communications. He has served as a member of the Steering Committee for Project Inkwell.Dr. Shatha Jawad Jawad, National University Dr. Shatha Jawad has more than 22 years of experience in teaching and more than three years as a software engineer. She had UNESCO Fellowship in the field of Information and Communication Technologies, in 2002. Her Ph.D. is in computer engineering. She is a member of the Institute for Learning-enabled Op- timization at Scale (TILOS) which has an NSF grant that began on November 1, 2021, for five years. TILOS is a National Science Foundation-funded Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institute led by the University of California-San Diego and includes

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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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Intelligence [1] ethics research and education practices. The purpose is to acknowledgeand highlight non-Western perspectives to expand and diversify knowledge on AI ethics. Theprimary goal is to be inclusive of different philosophies and ways of knowing, as this cansignificantly contribute to the development of ethical studies. Additionally, this study aims tovalidate different ways of knowing in Western literature by including research and voices fromscholars with different epistemological views about the world. In this paper, seven African IKStheories often used in work cited by African scholars are discussed in terms of how theirapplication can benefit contemporary AI ethics research and education practices. Definitions andsummaries are provided

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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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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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on acceptable traits of moral behavior or character as perceived by oneself and others, andis more generalized to all aspects of an individual’s life rather than as a specific way to solveethical problems [1], [2].Virtue ethics has been described as a form of ethical reasoning based on what a virtuous personor a person of good character would do when faced with a difficult decision [3], [4]. There isalso debate as to whether virtues can be taught, as well as whether they are exercised consistentlyor are dependent on circumstances or context [4], [5]. Therefore, the ambiguity surrounding thevirtue ethics framework could provide evidence for students’ difficulty in understanding andapplying it.By contrast, Deontology, or ethics by rules, is

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Decision-Making in Engineering Ethics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tim Ransom, Clemson University; Alysa Rose Lozano, University of Kentucky; Betul Bilgin, The University of Illinois Chicago; Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University; Sindia M. Rivera-Jiménez, University of Florida; Katie Cadwell, Syracuse University; Gisella R Lamas Samanamud, University of Kentucky

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have a greatimpact on student’s self-efficacy.BackgroundThe development of abilities of societal decision-making has received little attention fromengineering educators, who have prioritized teaching technical skills. Educators must choose thebest content, methodology, curricular models, and outcome evaluation techniques to integrateethics into the curriculum [1]. Conversations on ethics in engineering are typically guided by theNational Society of Professional Engineers’ (NSPE) Code of Ethics but they are often notrealistic to the workplace where an individual faces contrasting demands.Entrepreneurial mindset (EM) and ethical dilemmas are more commonly associated with otherfields like business, philosophy, and medicine (especially the latter