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Outcomes of engaging engineering undergraduates in co-curricular experiences
(2011-06)
The effects of involvement in co-curricular experiences (i.e. internships, co-ops, service projects, and clubs and organizations) on student persistence in college is well documented in the education literature. What remains ...
Work in progress - A Mixed-methods Approach to Developing an Instrument Measuring Engineering Students’ Positive Ethical Behavior
(2009)
Ethics education and the drive to produce ethical professional engineers is an important focus of one body of research on engineering education. This research often defines the positive outcome of ethics education as ...
Using Research to Identify Academic Dishonesty Deterrents Among Engineering Undergraduates
(2010)
The E3 Research Team, lead by the authors, has conducted several major investigations and has surveyed and/or interviewed over 1500 engineering and non-engineering undergraduates at 23 institutions [http://www.engin.umic ...
Institutional Obstacles to Integrating Ethics into the Curriculum and Strategies for Overcoming Them
(2010)
Several national reports emphasize the importance of providing undergraduate engineering students with effective ethics education, and most engineering faculty and administrators agree that ethics is an important aspect ...
Engineering culture and the ethical development of undergraduate students
(2009)
The Survey of Engineering Ethical Development is a holistic assessment of the
curricular and co-curricular experiences of engineering undergraduates that lead to
improved ethical development. This project will collect ...
Work In Progress – Building the Survey of Engineering Ethical Development (SEED) Instrument
(2008-10)
When developing surveys, researchers can readily identify the concepts they intend to study, but how do they create individual survey items that will most accurately
measure those concepts? Here we describe the first year ...
Understanding the Differences between Faculty and Administrator Goals and Students’ Experiences with Ethics Education
(2010)
There is strong agreement about the need for effective ethics education in engineering academic programs, but students who graduate with a bachelor’s degree in engineering continue to be unprepared to face the ethical ...
We can’t get no satisfaction!: The relationship between students’ ethical reasoning and their satisfaction with engineering ethics education
(2011-06)
Student satisfaction is a common metric for evaluating classes and other educational programs,
and sometimes that satisfaction is seen as a proxy for effectiveness of those programs. For this
paper, we examine student ...