- cluding long-term international assignments in Tokyo and Paris. These roles have provided a keen appre- ciation for the cross-disciplinary aspects of an engineering career in today’s global environment, includ- ing such things as business acumen, cultural sensitivity, communications, ethics, logistics, manufacturing and technology infrastructure. James’ doctoral research involved understanding the unique challenges of First-Generation Students and designing systems and pedagogy to remove unintentional barriers. James resides in Seattle with his wife and their daughters. James is a Certified Flight Instructor, and in his free time trains pilots through the Boeing Employee Flying Association at Renton Municipal
BehavioralResearch Ethics Board at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Participants were recruitedthrough professional networks. Recruitment was aimed at participants of diverse genders andethnicities. Participants were selected in their 3rd or 4th year of study as they would likely havehad more opportunities to participate in co-curricular student groups. Participants were offered a$30 gift card as compensation for the time taken to complete the study. Eight participants wereinterviewed in total. Following interviews, transcripts were produced and analyzed usingthematic coding.Results and DiscussionAmong the eight student leaders interviewed, three identified as male, four as female, and one astransgender. Of the three domestic students, one student
Social responsibility attitudes among undergraduate computer science students: an empirical analysisAbstractScholars have called for improved ethics and social responsibility education in computer sciencedegree programs in order to better address consequential technological issues in society. Indeed,rising public concern about computing technologies arguably represents an existential threat tothe credibility of the computing profession itself. Despite these increasing calls, relatively little isknown about the ethical development and beliefs of computer science students, especiallycompared to other science and engineering students. Gaps in scholarly research make it difficultto design and evaluate ethics education
morals and ethics ofothers (Noah Cross), and the damage done to people and place when greed and corruption winout.On a deeper level, the film is a tale about human frailty, the weakness that pervades all the film’scharacters, their innate inability to foresee the future confounded by their inability to see withclarity the world of the present, its truths and complexities as they are. This is especially true ofprivate eye, Jake Gittes, whose blindness ironically prevents him from seeing the world beforehim, though it is his job to see the truth of things, sort them out and solve/resolve complexhuman conflicts and problems. His eye is too private, not open to what his work andresponsibilities require him to see. This failure of sight is true, as
engineering on the basis of the direct use of activities that correspond to the fiveclassical branches of philosophy – aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic and metaphysics. Hedemonstrates the relevance of philosophies such as empiricism, idealism, existentialism,logical positivism, and rationalism. It is unfortunate that he omitted realism from his list sincethe contrasting positions of constructivism and realism have been the subject of a major debatein education especially in the sciences and school education21 and more generally in respect ofethics.22Education and philosophyMany schools of teacher education require their students to take a course in philosophy as itmay be applied to education. There are different ways of approaching such
education program consists of about 35credit hours, or 29% of a 120-hour curriculum. This percentage is significantly different fromthe figures cited by Stouffer and Russell.From the Ratcliff survey, 61.3% of the schools report content requirements in literature, 60.7%in History, 60.6% in Philosophy and Ethics, 46.9% in Foreign Languages. Further, in keepingwith the understanding that cognitive areas (and related outcomes) are as important as contentareas, Ratcliff’s survey reveals that 91% of the schools report goals in the area of critical readingand writing, 72% in critical thinking, 63% in speaking and listening, 67% in cultural diversityand 55% in global studies. While the Ratcliff study provides a picture of goals in generaleducation, it is
.” Journal of Engineering Education. Vol. 94, No. 1, Pp. 103-120.4 Van der Poel, Ibo and Peter-Paul Verbeek, Guest Editors. 2006. Special Issue of Science, Technology, and Human Values on “Ethics and Engineering Design.” Vol. 31, No. 3 (May).5 E.g., Grasso, Domenico, Kara M. Callahan, and Sandra Doucett. 2004. “Defining Engineering Thought.” International Journal of Engineering Education. Vol. 20, No. 3, Pp. 412-415.6 Winner, Langdon. 1980. “Do Artefacts Have Politics?” Daedalus. Vol. 109, Pp. 121-36.7 Winner, Langdon. 1995. “Political Ergonomics.” In Richard Buchanan and Victor Margolin, Editors. Discovering Design. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 146-70.8 Ibid, p. 151.9 Ibid, p. 165.10 Ibid, p
enormously successful for many years, but changing technological and global competitive realities make such a limited approach no longer appropriate. With the emerging need for multidisciplinary teams, non-technical design constraints, and the ethical implications of engineering projects, it has become evident that engineers must understand and consider the larger context of their work and have the knowledge and attitudes necessary to foresee the potential impact of their work on society and the natural environment.1 Achieving this important goal begins with the way we educate our students. The question is how can we go about doing this? The authors of this paper found useful insights into this question from an unlikely source – a graduate program
Session 3661 Missing White House E-Mail: A Whistleblowing Case Study Edward F. Gehringer North Carolina State University efg@ncsu.eduAbstractWhistleblowing is a core topic for ethics courses taught to Computer Science and ComputerEngineering majors. However, most of the prominent engineering whistleblowing cases havelittle if anything to do with computing (the Hughes Aircraft case being a notable exception).Another recent case is appropriate for study, especially given the increasing focus on e-mailprivacy in the workplace
ethics professionals at these universities. Academic partnerships withleading bioengineering programs in the U.S., and industrial and practice partnerships with someof the leading bioengineering, education science and enabling technology companies andlaboratories, are being forged.The German Consortium. The state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) in north centralGermany possesses some of that country’s greatest resources in biotechnology. Strongeducational institutions exist in Hannover (University, medical and veterinary schools) andBraunschweig (Technical University (TU) of Braunschweig). The University of Hannover’sexpertise in biotechnology extends to plant and environmental biotechnology and biochemistry(see discussion of collaborators below
How do we really prepare engineers to face ethical problems – and are we doing enough? A proposal to study engineering pedagogies and practices in the community. Laura Grossenbacher, Director Technical Communication Program College of Engineering UW-Madison 1550 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706 I am interested in conducting some research this summer on the teaching and practiceof engineering ethics. My proposed research would be somewhat limited in scope, because Iwould interview
Paper ID #37665’It Gives Me a Bit of Anxiety’: Civil and Architectural EngineeringStudents’ Emotions Related to Their Future Responsibility as EngineersDr. Madeline Polmear, Vrije Universiteit Brussel 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
ResearchersAbstractThis pilot study explores engineering students' views on social responsibility in undergraduateresearch experiences. Participants displayed high concern for human welfare and safety butneeded more education and training to understand the importance of being socially responsiblescientists and engineers. To address this, the authors recommend incorporating a formalcurriculum to facilitate students' understanding and articulation of their views on socialresponsibility in science and engineering research. The authors provide suggested case studiesfor engineering educators to incorporate social responsibility topics into their curriculum,enabling students to learn and debate the ethical and social implications of their research,promoting critical
student success; and (c) cultivate more ethical future scientists and engineers by blending social, political and technological spheres. She prioritizes working on projects that seek to share power with students and orient to stu- dents as partners in educational transformation. She pursues projects that aim to advance social justice in undergraduate STEM programs and she makes these struggles for change a direct focus of her research.Devyn Elizabeth ShaferDr. Brianne Gutmann, San Jos´e State University Brianne Gutmann (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at San Jos´e State University. She does physics education research with expertise in adaptive online learning tools, identity-responsive mentoring and community
graduate attributes that address issues such ascommunications, the role of engineers for society and the environment, ethics, or lifelonglearning, are often taught in standalone courses in otherwise packed “technical” curricula, whereconnections to engineering can be tenuous. Student workloads fail to represent the humane,ethical society we try to instill, with study schedules that disrupt healthy eating, sleeping, orengagement with the world. Engineering education rarely has student-centric pathways andflexible assessment to overcome systemic barriers to diverse learning. Attempts to tackle thesechallenges individually often prove difficult, where the issues are often intertwined. As a result,the Space Engineering program at the Lassonde School
helped inform that this teamsize might be preferable and more manageable.5. Intra-team evaluation:Qualtrics-based intra-team evaluation survey instrument was used by the instructor to gaininsights on an individual student’s project participation and work ethic. Each member of theteam provided an evaluation of their team members working on the project. The evaluationresults were shared with each student as an aggregate (without disclosing the names of teammembers who provided the comments) if there were project participation issues. The intra-teamevaluation was used by the instructor to adjust the team assignment scores based on their peer-perceived participation levels. We feel that intra-team evaluation is a good way to capturestudent
), populated by channelssuch as #lees-liberal-ed-slash-engr-and-society, #ethics, #hallway, and #onlin-learning-and-covid-response.[3] The channel #craftingwhileconferencing also offered an important understoryto the virtual conference on engineering education. It offered refrain from the formal panels andworkshops of the virtual conference through craft. It created a virtual space of multisensoryepistemology and opened up an alternative digital (maker) space: “This is the very beginning ofthe craftingwhileconferencing channel. Description: Frivolous or fundamental to survival in avirtual conference? This channel was created for all the crafters out there who are knitting,crocheting, doodling, whatevering their way to staying focused while attending
transformation of engineering education.Dr. Ryan C. Campbell, Texas Tech University Having completed his Ph.D. through the University of Washington’s interdisciplinary Individual Ph.D. Program (see bit.ly/uwiphd), Ryan is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Texas Tech University. He currently facilitates an interdisciplinary project entitled ”Developing Reflective Engineers through Artful Methods.” His scholarly interests include both teaching and research in engineering education, art in engineering, social justice in engineering, care ethics in engineering, humanitarian engineering, engineering ethics, and computer modeling of electric power and renewable energy systems.Dr. Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University
. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue. Prior to this she was Co-Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue where she was responsible for developing curriculum and assessment tools and overseeing the research efforts within EPICS. Her academic and research interests include the profes- sional formation of engineers, diversity and inclusion in engineering, human-centered design, engineering ethics, leadership, service-learning, and accessibility and assistive-technology.Prof. Patrice Marie Buzzanell, University of South Florida Patrice M. Buzzanell is a Professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication and the School of Engineering Education (courtesy) at Purdue University. Editor of three books and author of over
chemicals.Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University Michelle Bothwell is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Oregon State University. Her teaching and research bridge ethics, social justice and engineering with the aim of cultivating an inclusive and socially just engineering profession.Dr. Christine Kelly, Oregon State University Dr. Kelly earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona and her PhD in Chem- ical Engineering from the University of Tennessee. She served as an Assistant Professor for 6 years at Syracuse University, and has been an Associate Professor at Oregon State University in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering since 2004, where she also served for
’ learning, retention and commitmentby enhancing their interest, motivation and ability to see the relevance of classroom activities tosolving real world problems5–8. PBL is an excellent vehicle to help students recognize theintertwined ethical, social and technical dimensions of engineering, as called for by ABEToutcomes f, h, and j 9. This also allows for deep, authentic learning of important themes such associal justice (SJ) and social responsibility (SR), which otherwise currently exist primarily onimportant fringes of mainstream engineering curriculum.SR is a complex topic that most engineers would define quite differently. Some previousresearch shows the diversity, and sometimes misalignment, of definitions by engineeringfaculty10 and
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. Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines Juan Lucena is Professor and Director of Humanitarian Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM). Juan obtained a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech and a MS in STS and BS in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). His books include Defending the Nation: U.S. Policymaking to Create Scientists and Engineers from Sputnik to the ’War Against Terrorism’ (University
studies, Spanish, and other disciplines. We seek to demonstrate anew paradigm for development work that is rooted in education rather than in specific projects,which we tend to have low probabilities of success. By focusing on education, we can instillcapacities to generate and assess multiple projects, increasing the chances of success andeconomic empowerment in the long run.6. Enhance engineering ethics. Barakat and Carroll38 explore the issue of internationalengineering ethics education and point out some areas that lack emphasis in U.S. engineeringcodes but are important internationally: respect for human rights, intellectual property issues, andnatural resources, as well as anticipation of the social, cultural, political, and economic