Paper ID #20335Design and Assessment of the Social Responsibilities of Researchers’ Gradu-ate Training Program at the University of Notre DameDr. Mark L. Bourgeois, University of Notre Dame I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values at the University of Notre Dame. I have a professional background in engineering, a PhD in philosophy of science, and for many years taught ethics and design in the Engineering school at Northwestern University. My current responsibilities are for implementing the NSF-sponsored Social Responsibilities of Researchers project at ND
Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. She is currently investigating the intersections between engineering and CSR on the NSF grant ”The Ethics of Extraction: Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility into Engineering Education.”Dr. Nicole M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines Dr. Smith is a Assistant Professor in Mining Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. She is a cultural anthropologist with research and teaching interests in livelihoods and extractive industries, corporate social responsibility, indigenous peoples, artisanal and small-scale mining, and engineering education.Dr. Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines Greg currently teaches in Humanitarian Engineering at Mines
for Engineering Education, 2018 The Effectiveness of Webinars in Professional Skills and Engineering Ethics Education in Large Online Classes.AbstractOnline learning is revolutionizing education, especially in post-secondary institutions whereclass sizes are already in the hundreds. Engineering-science-based courses are ideal for onlinelearning with their focus on formulas and solving numerical problems. The black and whitenature of technical content makes it easier to communicate via concrete video lectures andexamples as well as automatically assess in a mass-production fashion (Hugo, Brennan, 2016).What about teaching non-technical engineering courses online to hundreds or thousands ofstudents?ABET student
Paper ID #21429The Ethical Judgement Processes of Students in Computing: Implications forProfessional DevelopmentMr. Amir Hedayati Mehdiabadi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Amir Hedayati is a PhD Candidate in Human Resource Development at College of Education at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2008 and his M.B.A. from University of Tehran in 2011. He has presented his research in past years at multiple conferences including American Evaluation Association, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, and Academy of
. She is the author of Mining Coal and Undermining Gender: Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West (Rutgers University Press, 2014), which was funded by the National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2016 the National Academy of Engineering recognized her Corporate Social Responsibility course as a national exemplar in teaching engineering ethics. Professor Smith holds a PhD in Anthropology and a certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan and bachelor’s degrees in International Studies, Anthropology and Latin American Studies from Macalester College.Dr. Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines Greg currently teaches in Humanitarian Engineering at CSM
student organiza- tions, internships/co-ops, undergraduate research, and study abroad programs. Prior to joining USF, Joel served as an Advanced Programs Engineer and Business Development Manager for Harris Corporation. Joel has also served as the Vice Chair of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) National Capital Section (NCS) and the Workforce Committee Chair for the Aerospace Industries Asso- ciation Space Council. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Ethical Education in Engineering: A Pedagogical Proposal Based on Cognitive Neurosciences and Adaptative Complex Systems Luis Fernando Cruz Quiroga1,3, Joel Howell2
Paper ID #25530Exploring Ethical Development from Standard Instruction in the Contexts ofBiomedical Engineering and Earth ScienceDr. Justin L Hess, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Dr. Justin L Hess is the Assistant Director of the STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of STEM Education Research in the Department of Technology Leader- ship and Communication at IUPUI. Dr. Hess’s research interests include exploring empathy’s functional role in engineering and design; designing STEM ethics curricula; and evaluating learning in the spaces of design, ethics, and
Paper ID #26389Facing Computer Ethics Dilemmas: Comparing Ethical Decision-MakingProcesses of Students in Computer Science with Non-Computer Science Ma-jorsDr. Amir Hedayati Mehdiabadi, University of New Mexico Amir Hedayati is an Assistant Professor of Organization, Information & Learning Sciences at College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences at University of New Mexico. He received a Ph.D. in Human Resource Development from University of Illinois in 2018. He has a B.S. degree in Computer Engi- neering from Sharif University of Technology and an M.B.A. degree from University of Tehran. He has presented his
Paper ID #26370First-Year Engineering Students’ Experiences with a Course of Ethics andHistory of TechnologyDr. Gunter Bombaerts Gunter Bombaerts is Assistant Professor for Philosophy and Ethics of Technology at Eindhoven Univer- sity of Technology, the Netherlands. His research fields include ethics in engineering education (moti- vation, deep learning, competence measurement), comparative ethics and questions concerning applied ethics in the field of energy ethics, in particular on participation and innovation. He is coordinating the TU/e USE program and is teacher of USE courses (amongst which the USE basic course on
Paper ID #25600Board 71: A Website to Host Educational Modules on Global EngineeringEthics and Conduct Research in Cross-Cultural Moral Psychology: A Workin ProgressDr. 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
attitudes also have broad implications inengineering such as design bias [4], algorithmic bias [5, 6], hiring/management bias [7], as wellas other types of workplace bias [8]. These ethically and economically relevant topics to allfields of engineering can be difficult to integrate into courses that are already laden with contentand technical skill development [9]. On the other hand, students find stand-alone ethics trainingless relevant to their field [10]. The most common method for balancing these opposites isintegrating a module into an engineering design course that uses a case study approach. Thetopics covered are canonical (i.e. Space Shuttle Discovery O-rings) and are almost alwaysassociated with ethical behavior in regards to job
National Insti- tute for Engineering Ethics Texas Tech University Lubbock, TexasMr. Lakshmojee Koduru, I am a Data Scientist at Schneider National where I build predictive models for the Transportation and Logistics.John Richard Schumacher, Texas Tech University I am a PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Texas Tech University. My primary research interests lie in studying memory as it applies to an academic setting, and moral decision making. I also have a strong interest in studying different statistical analytical techniques to appropriately and efficiently model data.Micah Iserman, Texas Tech University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Using Machine Tools to Analyze Changes
Paper ID #16919A Longitudinal Study of Social and Ethical Responsibility Among Under-graduate Engineering Students: Preliminary ResultsDebra S. Fuentes, Brigham Young University Debra S. Fuentes is a doctoral student at Brigham Young University in Educational Inquiry, Measurement, and Evaluation specializing in Mathematics Education. She received a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction emphasizing English as a Second Language, and a Bachelor’s degree in elementary education, minoring in Spanish and pre-medicine studies. She previously worked in education as a teacher and administrator in Utah and Mexico for
assessing the students’ learning as well as emphasizing the common threads.IntroductionCase studies have been utilized in engineering to teach ethics and demonstrate the practicalapplication of learned skills 2,4,6 since the 1960s and 1970s 7 . Data has been collected regardingtheir use in lieu of, or supplementing, lecture-based delivery of information 1 , and utilizing casestudies enables students to actively participate in class and allows them to see engineering as itapplies in the real world 8 . While some of the faculty interviewd by Haws use both real andhypothetical case studies, there is no mention of engineering achievements utilized in the study ofmechanical and electrical engineering programs at seven universities 3 . However, it seems
a new paradigm for engineering education,one based upon a contemplative pedagogy in conjunction with service learning. The nexus of thetwo paradigms seems to hold great promise in developing the skills in engineering students theNational Academy of Engineering has described. Such a paradigm has been utilized in acombined senior capstone design and engineering ethics sequence.IntroductionMy goal in the present work is to share some teaching tools and resultant impacts on students Ihave recently experienced. I offer them with complete humility in the same spirit of an openingcomment made by the Dalai Lama at a conference on the environment held at MiddleburyCollege in the 1990’s.1 His Holiness began by asserting that he was not very special
department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Dr. McCormack received his PhD in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003. His areas of research interest include engineering education, computational design, and manufacturing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Enhancing Student Learning Through Using and Writing EPSA Scenarios ABSTRACTEngineering programs often contain a senior level “Professional Issues” course to cover topics,such as ethics, which are related to the professional practice of engineering. These coursescommonly utilize case studies focusing on ethics as the basis for student discussions. Measuringthe student
are coupled with their conceptual and epistemological reasoning. He is also interested in developing models of the dynamics of categorizations (ontological) underlying students’ reasoning in physics. Lately, he has been interested in engineering design thinking and engineering ethics education.Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park Andrew Elby’s work focuses on student and teacher epistemologies and how they couple to other cognitive machinery and help to drive behavior in learning environments. His academic training was in Physics and Philosophy before he turned to science (particularly physics) education research. More recently, he has started exploring engineering students’ entangled identities and
Paper ID #14479A Cohort Study on the Effectiveness of Ethics Education in Engineering &Engineering Technology ProgramsProf. Jason K. Durfee, Eastern Washington University Jason Durfee is a Professor of Engineering & Design at Eastern Washington University. He received his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University. He holds a Profes- sional Engineer certification. Prior to teaching at Eastern Washington University, he was a military pilot, an engineering instructor at West Point and an airline pilot. His interests include aerospace, aviation, computational fluid dynamics
Paper ID #17414Assessing a Scaffolded, Interactive, and Reflective Analysis Framework forDeveloping Ethical Reasoning in Engineering StudentsDr. Lorraine G. Kisselburgh, Purdue University, West Lafayette Lorraine Kisselburgh (Ph.D., Purdue University) examines organizing and communicative practices in sociotechnical contexts, particularly collaboration in engineering design teams, spatial and material in- fluences on organizing, and gendered practices in technological settings. She has backgrounds in com- munication, human performance, and computer science, and over twenty years experience designing and supporting
Paper ID #15871On the Integration of Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues into a Computer Sci-ence Senior Design Capstone ProgramDr. Shawn Bowers, Gonzaga University Dr. Bowers is the Chair and an Associate Professor of Computer Science within the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Gonzaga University. He graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from the OGI School of Science and Engineering at OHSU. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD and an Associate Project Scientist at the UC Davis Genome Center prior to joining the faculty at Gonzaga. His research interests are in the
Paper ID #16629Perception of Academic Integrity among Students and Faculty: A Compari-son of the Ethical Gray AreaDr. Teresa J. Ryan, East Carolina University Dr. Teresa Ryan teaches mechanical engineering fundamentals such as Dynamics, Mechanics of Materi- als, Acoustics and Vibrations. She also focuses on technical communication skills within an engineering context. Her research interests include acoustics and the dynamics of complex structures. She uses op- tical measurement systems (laser Doppler vibrometry) for characterization of a wide variety of targets including percussion instruments, landmines/IED, and coupled
Academic Integrity into Engineering CoursesAbstractThis study examined how a professional development workshop affected faculty members’perspectives about incorporating academic integrity into their engineering courses. Embedded inthe context of a new initiative at a large Mid-Atlantic University that aims to enhanceengineering students’ understanding of academic integrity and professional ethics, the workshopfeatured three aspects: 1) enhancing faculty members’ self-efficacy in teaching academicintegrity and professional ethics; 2) facilitating their development of instructional strategies forteaching integrity and ethics; and 3) supporting their classroom implementation of instructionalplans. Seven faculty participants were interviewed after
technologyAbstractUnderstanding the social, environmental, economic, and political impact of engineering is animportant aspect of being a professional engineer. Responding to this need, engineeringprograms increasingly offer engineering ethics education. However, courses in engineeringethics as well as research on students’ developing sense of engineering ethics often emphasizethe micro-ethics of research, mentoring, and publications. In comparison, research is limited onhow future engineers understand the social, ethical, environmental, economic, and politicalimpact of their scientific and technological contributions. In this manuscript, we present 2 case-study accounts of how future engineers think about an engineer’s responsibility towards thesocial and global impact
Evaluate Student Work in a Senior Level Professional Issues CourseAbstractThis paper describes a customization of the Engineering Professional Skills Assessment (EPSA)method within the ‘ethics’ section of a senior level “Professional Issues” course. The courseinstructors have found the interdisciplinary EPSA scenarios to generate more enthusiastic andhigher level discussion than case studies that focus solely on ethics. The paper describes use oftwo different EPSA scenarios, the standardized questions which are used to prompt the studentdiscussion, the EPSA rubric, and recommended facilitation plan for adoption by others.IntroductionEngineering programs often contain a senior level “Professional Issues” course to cover
PRACTICES COURSE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING1. AbstractThe coverage of ethics and professionalism in engineering and computer science programs hasbecome standard since ABET incorporated these and other “soft skills” as student outcomes inEngineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) and Computing Accreditation Commission(CAC) accreditation criteria. Many programs have chosen to incorporate these topics in variouscourses across the curriculum while others have developed standalone courses. The Universityof Texas at Arlington (UTA) Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department offersABET accredited programs in computer engineering, computer science, and softwareengineering. Initially, the department chose to cover
Paper ID #12096Differences in Ethical Decision making between experts and novices: A Com-parative StudyMs. Madhumitha Ramachandran, University of Oklahoma Madhumitha Ramachandran received her Bachelor of Technology in Bioengineering in May 2012 from SASTRA University, India. She is currently a M.S. candidate in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at The University of Oklahoma. Madhumitha is always excited about school and looks to other motivated students to share her learning with them. Looking forward for a career in academia, she developed an interest for engineering education. Her recent research on
. Ludlow, Missouri University of Science & Technology Dr. Ludlow has been an Engineering Educator for 29 years. He has been the department chair of Chem- ical Engineering three different times at two different Universities. He is currently the Director of the Freshman Engineering Program at Missouri University of Science & Technology. Page 26.642.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Engineering Students’ Understanding of PlagiarismAbstractThe engineering profession has clearly embraced the importance of ethical behavior amongstudents and working
where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity. Page 26.643.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Engineering Students’ Varied and Changing Views of Social ResponsibilityAbstractEngineering students have been found to have a wide range of opinions on their socialresponsibilities as engineers. These ideas relate
Paper ID #13696Ethics in Engineering Students’ Design Considerations: Case Studies of Elec-tric Power Systems for the ”Developing World”Mr. Ryan C. Campbell, University of Washington Ryan is a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Washington’s interdisciplinary Individual Ph.D. Program. His research interests include: engineering education, ethics, humanitarian engineering, and computer modeling of electric power and renewable energy systems.Dr. Ken Yasuhara, Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching, University of WashingtonDr. Denise Wilson, University of Washington Denise Wilson is a professor of electrical engineering
facultyparticipant implemented his redesigned plans. This study serves as an initial account of students’understanding of academic integrity and why academic integrity is important. Content analysisof students’ responses reveals that their responses shifted after taking the redesigned course suchthat responses linking the importance of academic integrity to professional ethics emerged. Theresults will be used to inform future academic integrity initiatives.IntroductionDefinitions of academic integrityThe Center for Academic Integrity, an association of colleges and universities, defined academicintegrity as “a commitment, even in the face of adversity, to five fundamental values: honesty,trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility.” They further outlined