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Online Ethics Center: Expectations and Experiences of Ethical Issues in Engineering: A Survey of Stanford Engineering Students and Practicing Engineers The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science "Expectations and Experiences of Ethical Issues in Engineering: A Survey of Stanford Engineering Students and Practicing Engineers" (Do not cite, quote from, or reproduce any part of this paper or its appendices, including the survey questionnaire, without the written permission of the author.) by Robert E. McGinn Stanford University International Conference on Ethics in Engineering and Computer Science Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio March 23, 1999 Presented at the OEC International Conference on Ethics in Engineering and Computer Science, March 1999 I. Introduction II. Survey III. Basic Respondent Data and Aggregated Responses to Short-Answer Survey Questions IV. Long-Answer Survey Questions: Selected Findings for the Engineering Student and Practicing Engineer Groups V. Summary and Conclusion Appendix 1 Appendix 2 I. Introduction In alternate years I teach E 131, a course in the Stanford School of Engineering entitled "Ethical Issues in Engineering." Students who come to the first class meeting are asked to complete on the spot a questionnaire about various aspects of ethical issues in engineering. In addition, those admitted into the course—29 of the 70 first-day attendees in 1997—must recruit at least 6 fellow Stanford engineering students not in the class and at least 3 practicing engineers outside academia and have each of them fill out the appropriate part of the same questionnaire. Each class member retrieves and hands in at least 9 completed questionnaires at the end of the second week of class. The following week, two hours of class time are devoted to discussion of responses to selected survey questions, including short presentations on the two questions each student was asked to design and add to the questionnaire and respondents' most interesting answers to them. Full Article: http://onlineethics.org/essays/education/mcginn.html?text


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