Social, Ethical and Global Issues in Engineering

O’Neill-Carrillo, Efraín; Frey, William; Jiménez, Luís Ortiz; Rodriguez, Madeline; Negron, Dariana M. Ramos

doi:10.1109/fie.2008.4720352

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“…Most of the engineering curricula consist of stand-alone ethics modules for undergraduates. But, consistent support from other lecturers and professional engineers is essential across the curriculum to develop the moral aspects of future engineers effectively (O'Neill-Carrillo et al, 2008). In such a case, future engineers should be taught and guided on how to make a value judgement, understand what is ethically significant and assess the impact of their actions.…”

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Guidance from the Senior Engineers during the Undergraduate Training-A Case Study

Wijesinghe

Jayawardane

2020

J. Univ. Ruhuna

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Senior Engineers have an ethical responsibility to enhance the engineering knowledge and professional experience of trainee engineers who work under their authority through proper supervision and guidance. This research paper investigates the incidents where senior engineers have neglected such kinds of responsibilities as perceived by final year engineering students of a state university in Sri Lanka during their industrial training period as a case study followed with a qualitative survey. An open-ended question was given to 200 final year engineering undergraduates of a state university in Sri Lanka as per the convenient sampling strategy to describe any ethical violation observed or experienced by them during their industrial training. Only 30% had reported such incidents while the rest of the incidents belong to the violation of health and safety practices and integrity issues in engineering practice. Incidents which only belong to less supportive behaviour of senior engineers were selected and analyzed following inductive thematic analysis. This study reveals the emergence of 4 major themes. They are the senior engineers' unwillingness to guide, assigning inappropriate tasks, unnecessarily blaming and negligence of training schedules. One-sided data collection is the major drawback of this research and further investigations can be done to identify the possible causes for the less supportive behaviour by having a few interviews with selected senior engineers in the industry. The outcomes of this case study will raise the awareness of senior engineers regarding their ethical responsibilities in guiding and supervision of trainee engineers to ensure proper professional development.

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Guidance from the Senior Engineers during the Undergraduate Training-A Case Study

Wijesinghe

Jayawardane

2020

J. Univ. Ruhuna

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“…Courses that combining GE topics with engineering or STEM content have been presented in the literature for many years [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11], and there have been GE only capstone programs that have been successful [12][13][14][15], but there seem to be no multi-course package that combines GE and an engineering capstone course. This work is important because future engineers need to take into account societal needs when designing a product.…”

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Integration of an electrical engineering capstone course with social justice and global studies

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2018

2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)

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A four course package (six units total) consisting of two general education (GE) classes and two electrical engineering capstone classes that are taught in a highly integrated manner, that not only meets university GE requirements, but also meets the new ABET criteria in which the need to address a societal need is embedded with design criteria. The prompts for the new integrated GE/capstone Assessment results are also presented, along with methods to increase student motivation for studying GE.

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Teaching socio-cultural impacts of technology in advanced technical courses: a case study

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Albu

2018

European Journal of Engineering Education

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Social, Ethical and Global Issues in Engineering

Cited by 15 publications

References 7 publications

Guidance from the Senior Engineers during the Undergraduate Training-A Case Study

Guidance from the Senior Engineers during the Undergraduate Training-A Case Study

Integration of an electrical engineering capstone course with social justice and global studies

Teaching socio-cultural impacts of technology in advanced technical courses: a case study

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