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Disciplinary Leaders Perceptions of Ethics: An Interview-Based Study of Ethics Frameworks

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division: Perspectives on Engineering Ethics Education

Page Count

21

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41614

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https://peer.asee.org/41614

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287

Paper Authors

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Jonathan Beever University of Central Florida

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Beever is Associate Professor of Ethics and Digital Culture at the University of Central Florida, and director of the UCF Center for Ethics. Learn more at jonathan.beever.org

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Laurie Pinkert University of Central Florida

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Steven Kuebler

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Abstract

Understanding institutional leaders’ perspectives on ethics frameworks can help us better conceptualize where, how, and for whom ethics is made explicit across and within STEM related disciplines and, in turn, to better understand the ways developing professionals are enculturated toward responsibility within their disciplines. As part of an NSF‐funded institutional transformation project, our research team conducted interviews with academic leaders about the frameworks of ethics in their home departments, programs, and fields. This paper reports on a series of eleven (11) interviews whose content describes the perspectives of disciplinary leaders from biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, mechanical and aerospace engineering, optics, philosophy, physics, psychology, STEM education, and writing and rhetoric. Contextualizing frameworks through the participants’ identification of experience, content, and audience allows us to better understand the landscape of ethics practices and procedures that act as the explicit training and education STEM learners receive in their disciplines. If ethics is an important educational focus for engineering, and the work of engineering relies on interdisciplinary connections, then understanding how ethics is taken up both within and across those collaborating disciplines is an important means of supporting ethics in engineering.

Beever, J., & Pinkert, L., & Kuebler, S. (2022, August), Disciplinary Leaders Perceptions of Ethics: An Interview-Based Study of Ethics Frameworks Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41614

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