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Online and In-seat Ethics Instruction: The View from Both Sides

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Conference

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

San Antonio, Texas

Publication Date

June 10, 2012

Start Date

June 10, 2012

End Date

June 13, 2012

ISSN

2153-5965

Conference Session

Ethical Cases and Curricula

Tagged Division

Engineering Ethics

Page Count

9

Page Numbers

25.1000.1 - 25.1000.9

DOI

10.18260/1-2--21757

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https://peer.asee.org/21757

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465

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Kenneth R. Leitch P.E. West Texas A&M University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0003-3322-779X

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Kenneth R. Leitch holds a Ph.D. is civil engineering from New Mexico State University and a M.B.A. from Colorado Christian University. He is an Assistant Professor of civil engineering at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas. He is a registered P.E. in Texas and Indiana.

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Rhonda B. Dittfurth West Texas A&M University

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Abstract

Online and In-Seat Engineering Ethics Instruction: The View from Both SidesThe ABET 2000 Criterion 3f states that engineering programs must educate students with “anunderstanding of professional and ethical responsibility.” In addition, the Fundamentalsof Engineering and Professional Engineering examinations also address the need for ethicsinstruction. As such, undergraduate engineering curricula must address ethics instruction withina designated course and/or across engineering coursework.Traditionally, engineering ethics instruction has been conducted in a formal classroom setting.However, online instruction has gained rapidly in acceptance in many disciplines. Engineeringprograms are catching up with some programs offering all or part of their coursework online.Ethics instruction can be readily implemented in an online learning environment.This paper will address the author’s experience in instructing engineering ethics at multipleuniversities in the traditional lecture format and compare and contrast that experience withoffering an online engineering ethics format. The author will describe course construction foruse with traditional lecture and online instruction.

Leitch, K. R., & Dittfurth, R. B. (2012, June), Online and In-seat Ethics Instruction: The View from Both Sides Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21757

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