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
documentation can be captured. His current research is focused on developing higher reliability Technical Language Models (TLMs) which are essentially knowledge-graph backed LLMs that can pinpoint where information was drawn from within a complex information environment. He also works toward improving CS education, broadening participation in computing, and incorporating ethics into CS education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Directed Question based Framework for Teaching and Learning Ethics: A tool but also a Memorable Framework that Students can take Forward into their Professional Practice Udayan Das
Institute and State University Dr. Ben Chambers is an Assistant Collegiate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, and Director of the Frith First Year Makers program. His research focuses include the interactions of non-humans with the built environment, the built environment as a tool for teaching at the nexus of biology and engineering, and creativity-based pedagogy. He earned his graduate degrees from Virginia Tech, including an M.S. Civil Infrastructure Engineering, M.S. LFS Entomology, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning.Matthew James P.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Matthew James is an Associate Professor of Practice in Engineering Education at
the National Academies, Dr. Butler was an analyst for the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, a research associate in the Department of Environmental Health of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, conducted research at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and practiced as a product safety engineer at Xerox Corporation. He has directed numerous National Academies studies on engineering and environmental policy topics. Dr. Butler earned his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering with a concentration in biomedical engineering from the University of Rochester and his PhD in public policy analysis from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a recipient of the National Academies’ Cecil
, creating training that helps students learn how to best support each other when they make mistakes, creating training on respecting and appreciating differences among team members, and encouraging them to ask for help when needed. RHIT – At RHIT, opportunities include creating a learning experience to improve how teams handle mistakes, talk about tough issues, and take small risks. There are certainly opportunities for students to develop these skills because the students surveyed here were freshman design students—they will receive additional training and practice opportunities as they progress through their college careers. CPP – At CPP, opportunities include creating learning experiences
an individual’s personality thatpositively affect everyday actions and thoughts. Developed by a team of psychologists and otherscholars, the VIA’s list of 24 character strengths (www.viacharacter.org/character-strengths) issupported by years of research and offers definitions and examples of character strengths inaction. Working from this list, we carried out a preliminary inspection of the three codes, todiscern whether they might include possible strengths central to engineering practice but notcaptured by the VIA, which was developed through a broader lens. Next, we developed apreliminary set of definitions for all the character strengths in our list, defining the strengthsborrowed from VIA’s list based on the definitions available on the
. Finally, we hope to evaluate the impact of theintervention on students’ perceptions of their responsibility to address these issues as engineers.Site & ParticipationEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University is a private, not-for-profit, PhD-granting university withan emphasis on higher education for the aviation and aerospace industries. Research for thisstudy was completed at the XXXX, residential campus, which is a mid-sized, historically Whitecampus, with a predominantly male student body and an annual tuition costs of over $42,000.Our current study includes a total of eight sections of senior capstone design courses fromdifferent degree programs in the College of Engineering. Four sections were identified as thestudy group (two sections of
tool to regulate engineering practice. Given the significant impact engineeringprojects can have on public safety, the primary objective of engineering licensure is to offerassurance to the public. To ensure public safety through licensure, engineers must meet theminimum competency level set by statutory regulations for their tasks. Furthermore, they mustadhere to a professional code of conduct while carrying out responsibilities [2]. Failure ofcompliance with the stipulations may result in subsequent disciplinary processes.Engineering licensure has a long history in the United States. States began to adopt engineeringlicensure statutes in the early 1900s, and it took approximately 40 years for all states to haveengineering licensure laws in
into conversation with NASA engineers, scientists, and managers, to discussthe long term ethical and societal implications of NASA’s human space exploration efforts fromthe Moon to Mars. Whereas some ASEE ethics division research focuses on the impact ofeducational discussions on students, ours involved practicing engineers as well as managers andpolicy analysts who shape the future of major engineering endeavors. While we will describe thiscase study in subsequent sections, we will point out some specific points of content in the reportnow, that may best serve as bridges for engaging in the engineering education literature.This paper seeks to further explore the concepts described in the workshop report, particularly asthey relate to
Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the 2022 College of Engineering Outstanding Research Award from Purdue University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Exploring the Influence of Identity Development on Public Policy Career Pathways for EngineersAbstractWith emerging technologies getting in the hands of the public at ever-increasing speeds,technology policymaking has become the primary means of regulating it. This means moreindividuals capable of understanding their nuances and conveying the information to the massesare required. Ethical governance of these advancements is best
. In 2011, began as an Assistant Teaching Professor in First-year Engineering Program where she redesigned the curriculum and developed courses with sustainability and clean water themes. In 2017, she moved to ChE Department where she has taught core courses and redesigned the Capstone design course with inclusion pedagogy practices. She has also developed and ran 9 faculty-led, international programs to Brazil focused on Sustainable Energy. She has won several teaching awards including ChE Sioui Award for Excellence in Teaching, COE Essigmann Outstanding Teaching Award, and AIChE Innovation in ChE Education Award. She also won best paper at the Annual ASEE conference in both Design in Engineering Education
offers theplatform for ethically upright professional action.At every level of engineering education, ethics is vital to provide students with the knowledgeand abilities to make moral judgments that benefit society. Many engineering schools realize theimportance of laying a strong foundation of ethics with engineering students to complement theirtechnical knowledge [6]. In fact, all ABET-accredited engineering programs must demonstratethat their graduates are able to “recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineeringsituations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineeringsolutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts.”There are many models of ethics education across four-year
fulfill this role and forestall abuse,many faculty members have understandably limited and scrutinized student use of Gen AI. Perhapsthis stance comes across as curmudgeonly. How best to make use of this technology in the academywill be an important and evolving process that may significantly impact our paradigms on curriculardelivery and student assessment.Notwithstanding real concerns over abuse, the proverbial genie will not return to the bottle. The issuefor students who will practice engineering leadership is how to apply it effectively and in a way thatdoes not promote abuse. Similarly, the issue for faculty is how to welcome this technology in teachingwhile upholding high ethical standards.Leadership is fundamentally an intervention
emphasizing ethics [6] and with calls for curricula that reflect a prominent need for ethicalreasoning in engineering practice (e.g., [7 - 9]). At the same time, recent studies suggest much work 8remains in establishing how to best deliver engineering ethics learning in programs [10 - 13]. Ongoing 11 12challenges include strengthening students’ sense of a pragmatic connection between ethical reasoningskills and their use in day-to-day engineering work [10 - 12], sharpening students’ recognition of whendecisions carry ethical implications [10, 11], and helping students to see ethics from beyond a lens ofindividual
knowledgesharing and collaboration among computer science researchers in virtual communities to identifyand address potential undesirable consequences of their work. By sharing best practices anddeveloping new solutions, researchers can help computer scientists use their research for societal 4good. Finally, IT #7 leverages faculty social networks to expand the impact of the research ethicstraining program, promoting a culture of responsible research across disciplines and institutions.Theoretical FrameworksSimilar to the findings in the motivation section above, there are two groups of theories ortheoretical frameworks used by these institutional
the editorial board chair for the Online Ethics Center, deputy director for research for the National Institute of Engineering Ethics, and past-division chair for the ASEE Liberal Education/Engineering and Society division.Matthew James P.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Matthew James is an Associate Professor of Practice in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Virginia. He holds bachelors and masters degrees from Virginia Tech in Civil Engineering.Dr. Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Andrew Katz is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He leads the
multipleperspectives. Some of the debate topics were designed to lead students to inhabit a role anddefend their decision making in that role and based on that context.Final project - analysis of a topic from a chosen branch of engineeringStudents formed pairs for the final project, which was designed to help students practice using thetools they have learned in the semester - biases, ethical frameworks, roleplaying scenarios. This Figure 5: A student made scenario on government corruption. Figure 6: A student made scenario on environmental action.final project was meant to help students practice their frameworks and bias analysis to look atwhole fields, not focusing on just one aspect of a type of disaster or issue.The
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 The Development and Application of a Comprehensive Questionnaire Used to Evaluate the Effect of Engineering Ethics CoursesAbstract:Different countries, colleges and universities, and even majors provide students withdifferent kinds of engineering ethics courses. Practical course evaluation is conduciveto presenting students' learning effects and subsequent course improvement. In theexisting research and practice, the evaluation of engineering ethics education focusingon students' learning output has produced many positive results. On this basis, fromthe perspective of the sustainable development of the curriculum and benefiting morestudents, this study proposes
education institutions have the practicalrequirement to include ethics education to maintain ABET accreditation for engineeringprograms [7]. Ideally, students are equipped to consider ethical dilemmas from the microethics ofindividual ethics decisions to the macroethics of policy implications on an organization andsociety as a whole, and students should understand how microethics and macroethics areconnected [4], [8], [9]. Graduates should not only be equipped to behave ethically as professionalengineers in their individual practice as an engineer but also be equipped to understand broaderethical complexities that could arise as a corporate manager or executive, a research director, orany other local, national, or global position of leadership.An
researcher, biomedical and mechanical engineer, and national leader in transforming undergraduate engineering education. She has served as founding faculty of two brand new engineering programs (the first at James Madison University) and served on several national roles across ASEE, ABET, AAAS, NSF, KEEN, etc. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Educating the Whole Engineer: Leveraging Communication Skills to Cultivate Ethical Leadership CharacterABSTRACT - Effective communication skills are fundamental to the practice of engineeringand thus essential to engineering education. In this paper, we highlight how effectivecommunication skills can also become a vehicle to
Distinguished Chair in ICT at Aalto University, Finland (2021). He is a past recipient of the NSF Early Career Award (2009) and received the University Teaching Excellence Award (2002) and Mentoring Excellence Award (2022) for undergraduate research at George Mason University. His edited volume International Handbook of Engineering Education Research (IHEER) will be published by Routledge in 2023. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Learning Sciences & Technology Design (2007) from Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. More information is available at: http://mason.gmu.edu/˜johri ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Recognizing Principles of AI Ethics through a Role-Play Case Study on
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
U.K. Marche comments, “Sharples’ intent was to urge educators to‘rethink teaching and assessment’ in light of the technology, which he said, ‘could become a giftfor student cheats, or a powerful teaching assistant, or a tool for creativity.’ ”Susan Agostino quoted Robert Cummings, “AI can impact every stage of the writing process –from invention to research, drafting, proofreading and documentation.” She went on to quoteFyfe who said, “Think about it as a partner, that we humans and AI computers are not doingthings the same way and aren’t good at the same things, either. Each has unique specializations.What are the kind of partnerships we can imagine [3]?”Beth McMurtrie commented, “It is critical, [scholars] say, to begin conversations with
sceneand performing specific roles for the purpose of carrying out a rescue. The third trait is“previewing a purposeful life,” which involves “(1) careful planning to act in a cooperative andresponsible way; (2) anticipating opportunities for having positive and beneficial impact in thelives and the circumstances of others; and (3) actively promoting the well-being of self andothers.” These findings from research on the character of WWII rescuers highlighted for Gentilethe paramount importance of habits of reflection and rehearsal for people’s ability to respond toethical quandaries.Another realm of practice that inspired Gentile in the development of GVV was the ImpactEmpowerment Self-Defense pedagogy (also known as Model Mugging). In one of
Michigan. Her educational research interests include conceptual understanding of electrical engineering concepts and assessing the impact of curriculum changes. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Incorporating Giving Voice to Values (GVV) into an Engineering Ethics CourseAbstractThe Department of Engineering and Society instructors at the University of Virginia recentlydeveloped a new course on Engineering Ethics aimed at second- and third-year students. Unlikeprevious courses in the department, the mid-level course emphasizes micro-ethics and employsthe Giving Voice to Values (GVV) framework. The emphasis on micro-ethics is timely andappropriate
ethical considerations or virtues are in conflict. Imagine a situationwhere a minor design flaw, which has an astronomically small probability of causing damage(~0%), is identified just after the construction of a multi-story building. The building is stillunder the contractor’s warranty and addressing this flaw will cost the construction companyquite a bit of money to fix. In a situation like this, it might be unclear how to proceed.Regardless, it is the person, who has phronesis, that is best suited to weigh the considerations ina method that generates concern for everyone and to integrate these considerations in a way thatis valuable to everyone [25]. This is exactly what we need in our engineers when it comes toethical decision making
212 – Transport Phenomena ResilienceEGR 311 – Controls and Instrumentation Creativity, Curiosity, Intellectual Humility Practical Wisdom, Intellectual Humility,EGR 312 – Computational Modeling Curiosity, CreativityEGR 313 – Capstone Design I PurposeEGR 315 – Capstone Design II Empathy, Courage, TeamworkIV. MethodsThe original rationale for this study was to gather student feedback for internal learning andcontinuous improvement, such as to inform curricular and pedagogical revisions. This wasimportant because we observed a lack of student engagement with the explicitly developedcharacter modules, consistent with the
Paper ID #39625Ethical Implications of COBOT ImplementationC.J. Witherell, Grand Valley State University CJ Witherell is a graduate student studying Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering at Grand Valley State University. Their undergraduate minor in philosophy inspired them to promote deep thinking, ethical reasoning, compassion, diversity, and equity-focused design within the engineering field. As the 2022 Wisner Engineering Fellow, they are developing a new product for Gentex Corporation in Zeeland, Michigan. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Ethical