Assessing the Ethical Development of Civil Engineering Undergraduates in Support of the ASCE Body of Knowledge
Assessing the Ethical Development of Civil Engineering Undergraduates in Support of the ASCE Body of Knowledge
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评估土木工程本科生的道德发展以支持 ASCE 知识体系
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2014
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C. Finelli
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D. Carpenter;T. Harding;J. Sutkus;C. Finelli
AbstractDeveloping engineers must be aware that technological development and emerging global issues will require a keen sense of ethical responsibility. Therefore, they must be prepared to reason through and act appropriately on the ethical dilemmas they will experience as professionals. From a civil engineering professional perspective, graduates need to conform to the ASCE Body of Knowledge as they prepare for the Vision of 2025. This investigation evaluated different institutional approaches for ethics education with a goal of better preparing students to be ethical professionals. The project included visiting 19 diverse partner institutions and collecting data from nearly 150 faculty and administrators and more than 4,000 engineering undergraduates including 567 civil engineering undergraduates who completed the survey. Findings suggest that co-curricular experiences have an important influence on ethical development, that quality of instruction is more important than quantity of curricular experienc...