Student development and ownership of ethical and professional standards |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Kevin?D?HallEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Civil Engineering, University of Arkansas, 4190 Bell Engineering Center, 72701 Fayetteville, AR, USA |
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Abstract: | Ethics and professional conduct are vital to civil engineering undergraduate curricula. Many programs struggle to ensure that
students are given an adequate exposure to and appreciation of ethical and professional conduct issues. This paper describes
a two-part ethics/professionalism project used in a senior-level course taught at the University of Arkansas. Initially, students
scruitinize ethical canons and standards of professional conduct published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
and the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), and prepare an essay concerning the applicability of these standards.
The second part of the project builds on the first: based on the opinion(s) generated in Part 1, students are asked to develop
a set of canons or standards targeted specifically to the undergraduate student, and suggest processes for implementing those
standards within the department. Project objectives include: (1) exposure to nationally-recognized ethical canons and standards
of professional conduct; (2) personal formulation of ethical and professional standards; (3) skill enhancement for non-technical
written communications. Feedback by students prior to and after the project indicates success in meeting all objectives. The
feedback also indicates that for some students, definitions and applications of ethics and professionalism are being broadened
to include more than academic honesty issues.
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the “Ethics and Social Responsibility in Engineering and Technology” meeting,
New Orleans, 2003. |
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Keywords: | ethics professionalism ethical canons |
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