Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893434
V. Troesch
Despite evidence that undergraduate engineering students do not affectively engage in the study of ethics, the way we teach engineering ethics remains substantially unchanged. Engineering ethics pedagogy traditionally uses case studies to examine professional engineering conduct against three standards of ethics: the rules-based NSPE Code of Ethics, a virtue-based approach, and a formulaic cost-benefit consequentialist approach that seeks the greatest good for the greatest number. For this research, I hypothesized that a phenomenological method of inquiry could improve the emotional engagement of undergraduate engineering students with the study of ethics. Phenomenology is a philosophical and research method that investigates and describes phenomena as they are consciously experienced in the real world. In a pilot ethics course using a phenomenological approach, students demonstrated significantly improved ethical reasoning scores based on the Defining Issues Test-2 (DIT-2). To test the impact of a phenomenology-based ethics pedagogy on a larger scale, we are introducing a revised four-module Ethics curriculum in the first-year Engineering Fundamentals course at Michigan Tech. Student sections are divided into those who use the revised Ethics modules (~250 students) and a control group (~400 students) that uses the existing traditional Ethics modules. All students will take pre and post- DIT-2 tests. Additionally, qualitative research using student essays will help determine if students express differences in their understanding of what it is to be an ethical engineer and if these differences signify stronger engagement with the study of ethics. Results are expected in spring 2014.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893401
C. Holloway, J. C. Knight, J. Mcdermid
The terms Pollyanna and Chicken Little are used as caricatures for those who are relentlessly positive and those who, in contrast, see problems in everything. Many opinions about automation in aviation tend to reflect these contrasting viewpoints. In this paper we propose the introduction of an ethical safety case as a means to reconcile these views by clearly articulating ethical issues involved in automation.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893431
J. C. Hanks, R. McLean, J. Tate, Satyajit Dutta, D. Fazarro, F. Alhoff, W. Trybula
The paper reports on our work developing a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional approach to teaching Ethical, Social, Safety, Health, and Environmental Issues in Nanotechnology. Under a grant from NSF, we are developing, implementing, and assessing two modular courses that include societal, ethical, environmental, health, and safety issues related to nanotechnology for undergraduates in engineering and engineering technology. It is a collaborative project between Texas State University, a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and the University of Texas at Tyler (UT Tyler), whose student population is 60 percent women. The work is being conducted by a highly interdisciplinary team of faculty who bring to the project expertise from mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, industrial education and technology, physics, biology, philosophy, and ethics. Here we explain the origin of the project, explicate how we have developed the course modules, review the first two semesters (Summer and Fall 2013) teaching from these modules, and examine our initial results and evaluations.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893435
K. Pimple, Donald R. Searing, Cynthia Jones, K. Seelman, K. Miller, Katie Shilton
In this panel, 6 of 13 contributors to a recent book on ethics and pervasive information and communication technologies, or PICT [1], will make short presentations on their areas of expertise. About half of the panel's time will be reserved for open discussion.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893453
J. Murray, Joshua Fairfield
For more than three decades, research ethics in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, in the U.S. and beyond, has been guided by policies and standards derived from the Belmont Report. Although they have been adapted and revised over time, the underlying guidelines have limited applicability to the challenges of today's research environment, especially because of the influence of modern communications and information technologies and their ubiquitous presence across varied, and often incompatible, legal regimes and social norms. This paper examines a number of issues in this research context, with particular stress on the challenges posed by transnational experimental projects in virtual worlds and social networks. Several key aspects of the Menlo Report - a 2011 update to the Belmont Report - are also discussed. Consideration is given to a more rational and coordinated approach to managing ethics observance in multiple jurisdictions, with special attention on guidelines for the conduct of transnational research in and on virtual environments and online social network systems.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893440
P. Hylton
In fast-paced and rapidly-changing industries, achieving a competitive advantage can make or break an organization. This paper examines whether adhering to ethical practices presents a roadmap to achieving success in such an environment, or an impediment to that success. In particular, ethics in the motorsports industry is examined through the eyes of the students and faculty of the motorsports engineering program at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). This program is the only one of its kind in the United States, with both bachelors and masters programs in motorsports. Graduates seek careers in which they will be active participants in advancing the technology in, and making the decisions for, the most fast-paced industry on earth. Viewpoints from the literature of ethics and the literature of engineering leadership will be examined in light of contemporary news-making decisions and events from the motorsports industry. These events will be discussed as seen through the filter of faculty-student interaction and discussion within this engineering education program. All students enrolled in the program are required, from early in their plans of study, to spend time in industry internships and practicum courses working on the university race team. Thus, their exposure to the industry is strongly connected by experiential learning opportunities. Similarly, all faculty members in the program have spent time working in the motorsports industry, serving on race teams, with sanctioning bodies, or in other engineering-related supporting roles. Thus, the in-class discussions between these faculty and students yield an interesting perspective on the machinations witnessed and reported within the industry, examined in the context of ethical standards for professional practice. Real life incidents will be examined as the students wrestle with the conundrums of ethical decision making in an industry where a chance to gain competitive advantage can literally mean the difference between victory and defeat.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893375
Sarah J. Duda, Vickie Peters
Since the 1970's, the field of ethics in software engineering has attempted to define the boundaries of what was morally correct when dealing with problems aggravated, transformed, or created by computer technology. Efforts to codify ethics for computer software engineers resulted in bright line rules such as “thou shalt not appropriate other people's intellectual output” [1] and “honor property rights including copyrights and patent” [2]. Few instances in practice are, however, as black and white as these rules suggest. Rather, there are a number of grey areas where computer software engineers must question whether an action is morally correct. One ambiguity is when and to what extent it is morally acceptable to copy computer software code. This paper investigated whether software engineers comply with existing ethical standards surrounding intellectual property rights associated with computer software code.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893377
A. Ferrero, Veronica Scotti
Different definitions can be found for professional ethics. An attractive one, often defined in many codes of ethics, states that, when practicing a profession, an individual must refer to the state-of-the-art knowledge, and should not disregard any of the pieces of information that it provides him or her. There are however important professions, such as forensic metrology, that are across two very different disciplines, and refer to principles that may appear as conflicting. This paper discusses them briefly and proves, also referring to real cases, that favoring one instead of the other may result in a violation of professional ethics. On the contrary, the correct and complete exploitation of the available evidence is not only ethical, but helps justice accomplish its mission.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893436
S. Bringsjord, Naveen Sundar G., Daniel P. Thero, Mei Si
Alas, there are akratic persons. We know this from the human case, and our knowledge is nothing new, since for instance Plato analyzed rather long ago a phenomenon all human persons, at one point or another, experience: (1) Jones knows that he ought not to - say - drink to the point of passing out, (2) earnestly desires that he not imbibe to this point, but (3) nonetheless (in the pleasant, seductive company of his fun and hard-drinking buddies) slips into a series of decisions to have highball upon highball, until collapse.1 Now; could a robot suffer from akrasia? Thankfully, no: only persons can be plagued by this disease (since only persons can have full-blown P-consciousness2, and robots can't be persons (Bringsjord 1992). But could a robot be afflicted by a purely - to follow Pollock (1995) - “intellectual” version of akrasia? Yes, and for robots collaborating with American human soldiers, even this version, in warfare, isn't a savory prospect: A robot that knows it ought not to torture or execute enemy prisoners in order to exact revenge, desires to refrain from firing upon them, but nonetheless slips into a decision to ruthlessly do so - well, this is probably not the kind of robot the U.S. military is keen on deploying. Unfortunately, for reasons explained below, unless the engineering we recommend is supported and deployed, this might well be the kind of robot that our future holds.
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Pub Date : 2014-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893451
A. Chattopadhyay
In this paper, we review the ethical issues involved with scientific publication. The possible mal-practices are discussed. Deterrents to those mal-practices are often difficult to apply considering the scale and scope of every issue. On the other hand, as a researcher, one can get a strong moral standpoint with an understanding of moral philosophies. In this paper we link a particular moral philosophy, namely, the Consequentialist philosophy to the scientific practices. From the perspective of Consequentialism, the issues of scientific mal-practice and their deterrents are discussed. We further discuss possible large-scale countermeasures via alternative publication systems and show its relation to Consequentialism.
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