Current engineering ethics pedagogies are limited because they primarily focus on teaching reasoning skills. To promote the professional development of engineers beyond ethical reasoning, engineering educators need fundamental knowledge about engineers’ moral formation. To investigate engineers’ moral formation, the first author has begun a dissertation project that has three parts. The first part is a mixed-methods study of the influence of organizational culture on the moral formation of practicing engineers. The second part is a similar mixed-methods study of engineering students. The third part is an educational intervention whose content will be informed by the results of the first two parts. This work-in-progress paper describes the dissertation project, with specific details about the quantitative phase of the first mixed-methods study.
Dayoung Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech with research interest/expertise in engineering practice, ethics, and related policy concerns.
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Purdue University, West Lafayette
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Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University.
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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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Now retired, Michael C. Loui held the Dale and Suzi Gallagher Professorship in Engineering Education at Purdue University from 2014 to 2019. He was previously Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and University Distinguished Teacher-Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has conducted research in computational complexity theory, in professional ethics, and in engineering education. He is a Carnegie Scholar, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education. Professor Loui was the editor of the Journal of Engineering Education from 2012 to 2017 and the executive editor of College Teaching from 2006 to 2012. He was Associate Dean of the Graduate College at Illinois from 1996 to 2000. He directed the theory of computing program at the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 1991. He earned the Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980 and the B.S. at Yale University in 1975.
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