Differences in Engineering Students' Views of Social Responsibility between Disciplines
Differences in Engineering Students' Views of Social Responsibility between Disciplines
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10.1061/(asce)ei.1943-5541.0000248
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发表时间：
2015-10-01
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Bielefeldt, Angela R.
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作者：
Canney, Nathan E.;Bielefeldt, Angela R.
这项研究的目的是考察学生对不同学科的社会责任观的差异，寻找学生选择学科的原因，并将在线信息作为差异的可能解释。对五所大学的土木工程、环境工程和机械工程专业的学生进行了社会责任观的调查，采用李克特量表中的50个问题和开放式回答问题进行测量。结果表明，环境工程专业学生比土木工程专业学生具有更积极的社会责任态度，土木工程专业学生的社会责任态度比机械工程专业学生更积极。最大的差异是在一年级学生中，这表明对这些学科的先验认知比课程内容更具差异性。这一假设得到了学生选择每个专业的动机的差异以及这些学科之间关于社会责任要素的在线信息的支持。较高级别的环境工程专业学生的社会责任得分较低令人担忧，需要进一步研究。相比之下，较高级别的机械工程专业学生的积极社会责任感得分稳定或更高。(C)2015年美国土木工程师学会。
The purpose of this study was to examine differences in student views of social responsibility by discipline, looking at student reasons for their choice of discipline and online messaging as possible explanations for differences. Civil, environmental, and mechanical engineering students at five universities were surveyed regarding their views of social responsibility, which was measured using 50 questions on a 7-point Likert scale and open-ended response questions. Results showed that environmental engineering students had more positive social responsibility attitudes than civil engineering students, whose attitudes were more positive than mechanical engineering students. The greatest differences were among first-year students, suggesting that a priori perceptions of these disciplines differentiated more than curricular content. This hypothesis was supported by differences in the student motivations for choosing each major and online messaging between these disciplines with respect to elements of social responsibility. Lower social responsibility scores among environmental engineering students at higher ranks were troubling and require further study. This contrasted with stable or higher positive social responsibility scores among mechanical engineering students at higher ranks. (C) 2015 American Society of Civil Engineers.