Collaborative Research: Early Career Engineers' Views of Ethics and Social Responsibility: Trends, Influences, and Contexts

合作研究：早期职业工程师对道德和社会责任的看法：趋势、影响和背景

• 批准号: 2024301
• 负责人: Brent Jesiek
• 金额: $ 17.5万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2024301&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Early; Career; Engineers

Collaborative Proposal: Early Career Engineers' Views of Ethics and Social Responsibility: Trends, Influences, and Contexts Public Abstract Responding to frequent concerns about a lack of attention to ethics in engineering education and professional practice, a variety of formal course-based interventions and informal or extracurricular programs have been created and assessed to improve the social and ethical commitments of engineering graduates. Additionally, many employers offer or require training in ethics, compliance, and related topics. Most prior research into the impacts of such experiences has focused on engineering students, especially undergraduates. There have been very few studies that have tracked these students as they enter the workforce in order to study the impacts of these experiences early in their careers. This project explores how early career engineers’ perceptions of ethics and social responsibility change in the transition from undergraduate engineering degree programs to the workplace (or graduate studies) and how those perceptions are shaped or influenced. It also asks how those perceptions vary depending on an individual’s engineering discipline, background, and current professional setting. Specific priority is given to investigating differences in perceptions and experiences among underrepresented groups. In addition to contributing to the literature and impacting practices in engineering education and professional ethics, the findings from this project have implications for workforce development by revealing how employers can better align onboarding programs, professional development opportunities, and organizational climate with the views and perceptions of young professionals. This study uses both survey (quantitative) and interview (qualitative) research methods. Data is being gathered in two phases. The first study phase will begin by surveying and interviewing participants from a prior study who are now early career professionals and/or pursuing graduate degrees. The responses of participants in these surveys and interviews can be compared to their prior responses as engineering students, making visible how their perceptions have changed over time and across the transition from school to professional practice. In the second phase of the study, a new group of participants will be surveyed and interviewed, which will allow for a larger and more diverse participant pool. Appropriate statistical techniques will be used to investigate longitudinal changes and group-level results in the survey data set, while thematic and phenomenographic approaches will be used to analyze the interview data. This analysis will shed light on how young career engineers’ perceptions of social and ethical responsibility are shaped by their experiences in their undergraduate studies and their current contexts. This proposal was funded through the ER2 program by the CISE directorate.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

合作提案：早期职业工程师的道德和社会责任的观点：趋势，影响和背景公共摘要回应经常关注缺乏重视工程教育和专业实践中的道德，各种正式的基于课程的干预和非正式或课外计划已经创建和评估，以提高工程毕业生的社会和道德承诺。此外，许多雇主提供或要求在道德，合规和相关主题的培训。大多数先前对这种经历的影响的研究都集中在工程专业的学生，特别是本科生。很少有研究跟踪这些学生进入劳动力市场，以研究这些经验在职业生涯早期的影响。这个项目探讨了早期职业工程师对道德和社会责任的看法如何在从本科工程学位课程到工作场所（或研究生学习）的过渡中发生变化，以及这些看法如何形成或影响。它还询问这些看法如何根据个人的工程学科、背景和当前的专业环境而有所不同。特别优先调查代表性不足群体的看法和经验的差异。除了有助于文献和影响工程教育和职业道德的实践，该项目的研究结果揭示了雇主如何更好地调整入职计划，专业发展机会和组织氛围与年轻专业人士的观点和看法，从而对劳动力发展产生影响。本研究采用问卷调查（定量）和访谈（定性）相结合的研究方法。数据收集分两个阶段进行。第一个研究阶段将开始调查和采访参与者从以前的研究谁现在是早期的职业专业人士和/或追求研究生学位。参与者在这些调查和访谈的反应可以与他们以前的反应作为工程专业的学生，使可见他们的看法如何随着时间的推移和整个从学校到专业实践的过渡而变化。在研究的第二阶段，将对一批新的参与者进行调查和访谈，这将使参与者人数更多、更多样化。将使用适当的统计技术来调查调查数据集中的纵向变化和组级结果，同时将使用专题和现象学方法来分析访谈数据。这种分析将揭示年轻的职业工程师的社会和道德责任的看法是如何塑造他们的本科学习和他们目前的背景下的经验。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Senior Engineering Students’ Reflection on Their Learning of Ethics and Morality: A Qualitative Investigation of Influences and Lessons Learned

• DOI: 10.1007/s40889-022-00139-5
• 发表时间: 2022-03
• 期刊: International Journal of Ethics Education
• 影响因子: 0.8
• 作者: S. Howland;Dayoung Kim;B. Jesiek

User vs. Engineer: Student Perceptions of Responsibility in Social Media

用户与工程师：学生对社交媒体中的责任的看法

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
• 作者: Stepback, L.;Hwang, M. H.;Claussen, S.;Leonardo, Y.
• 通讯作者: Leonardo, Y.

Longitudinal Qualitative Case Study of One Engineering Student’s Perceptions of Ethics and Social Responsibility: Corvin’s Story

一名工科学生对道德和社会责任的看法的纵向定性案例研究：科文的故事

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 2021 American Society of Engineering Education Virtual Annual Conference
• 作者: Claussen, S.;Howland, S. J.;Nittala, S.;Jesiek, B. K.;Zoltowski, C. B.
• 通讯作者: Zoltowski, C. B.

Influences on U.S. undergraduate engineering students’ perceptions of ethics and social responsibility: findings from a longitudinal study

对美国本科工程生道德和社会责任观念的影响：纵向研究的结果

• DOI: 10.1080/22054952.2022.2154009
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Australasian Journal of Engineering Education
• 作者: Howland, Shiloh James;Claussen, Stephanie;Jesiek, Brent K.;Zoltowski, Carla B.
• 通讯作者: Zoltowski, Carla B.

Exploring Perceptions of Ethics and Social Responsibility Among Engineering Students and Professionals: Research Highlights and Implications for the Field

探索工程专业学生和专业人士对道德和社会责任的看法：研究亮点和对该领域的启示

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
• 作者: Jesiek, B.;Claussen, S.;Kim, D.;Stepback, L.;Zoltowski, C. B.
• 通讯作者: Zoltowski, C. B.