A Principlist Approach for Thinking About the Social Impacts of Engineering

Beever, Jonathan; Brightman, Andrew O.

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“…Two major areas characterize current research in determining how to best prepare engineering students for ethical professional practice. One issue involves the fundamental nature of engineering ethics, like care ethics in the work of Warford [3] and Nair and colleagues [4] [5], empathy and care in Hess, Strobel, and colleagues [6] [7], and reflexive principlism in Beever and Brightman [8] [9]. The other issue involves developing effective methods to assess changes in ethical thinking as an outcome of instruction.…”

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Board 74: Using Machine Tools to Analyze Changes in Students’ Ethical Thinking

Taraban

Marcy

Koduru³

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Engineering ethics education entails the development of the ability to recognize the social, cultural, environmental, and global implications of engineering practice. Instructional activities often involve discourse among students and verbal and written responses to ethical issues and dilemmas. The present research applies two machine methods to extract the dominant concepts in engineering undergraduates' essays that were written at the beginning and end of an engineering ethics course. The two methods were Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) and naïve Bayesian analysis. Both methods showed little overall change in the conceptual basis of beginning versus end of semester essays. Closer analyses of the Bayesian results suggested there were observable individual differences in the essays. Further analysis of these differences may aid in better understanding which students changed their ethical thinking from the beginning to the end of the course. In the Discussion we suggest several ways in which success with these machine methods could aid instruction.

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Section: Background and Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Board 74: Using Machine Tools to Analyze Changes in Students’ Ethical Thinking

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Marcy

Koduru³

et al.

2019 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Building the bioethics tools of a community council to the future: the ecosystemic gap

LeBlanc

2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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These are times of crisis. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic and the resurgence of a form of Cold War raised international concerns about Health & Well-Being, Climate & Biodiversity, and Technology & Economy. Articulating bridges between disciplines, between cultures and between knowledges has never been more urgent to accelerate the translation of values and policies into actions. This comprehensive review argues for a radical ecosystemic approach to bridge the Medical & Environmental fields (studies, sectors, and technics) in an integrated management practice of Care, Production & Biodiversity. As bridging implies solving the epistemological gap, the argument emphasizes the need to raise awareness with theoretical hybridizations, fieldwork hypotheses, and working theories. According to Van Rensselaer Potter, who coined the term ‘bioethics’, awareness means to refocus the Medical & Environmental studies and surveillance processes from a target (e.g., the disease, the pathogen, or the resource) to its context (e.g., adding history, demography and ecology). Thus reframed, concerned researchers, leaders, and citizens should invest their effort in preparing the (contextual) terrain for ever-more organizational resilience. We conclude on the need for actions to shape the Health & Biodiversity determinants, to improve communication systems, data-sharing networks, and responsible innovations, and to foster knowledge translation to envision a better realistic future. “Ecology’s uneconomic, but with another kind of logic economy’s unecologic” (Potter 1988, p.9)

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A Principlist Approach for Thinking About the Social Impacts of Engineering

Cited by 2 publications

References 33 publications

Board 74: Using Machine Tools to Analyze Changes in Students’ Ethical Thinking

Board 74: Using Machine Tools to Analyze Changes in Students’ Ethical Thinking

Building the bioethics tools of a community council to the future: the ecosystemic gap

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