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- Title
- Engineering Ethics in China
- Creator
- Zhang, Hengli, Davis, Michael
- Date
- 2018
- Description
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This article describes China’s century-long concern...
Show moreThis article describes China’s century-long concern with the professional ethics of engineers, especially a succession of codes of engineering ethics going back at least to 1933. This description is the result both of our own archival research and of “philosophical history”, the application of concepts from the philosophy of professions to the facts historians (or we) have discovered. Engineers, historians, social scientists, and philosophers of technology, as well as students of professional ethics, should find this description interesting. It certainly provides a reason to wonder whether those who write about codes of professional ethics as if they were an Anglo-American export unlikely to put down roots elsewhere might have overlooked many early codes outside English-speaking countries. While code writers in China plainly learned from Western codes, the Chinese codes were not mere copies of their Western counterparts. Indeed, the Chinese codes sometimes differed inventively from Western codes in form (for example, being wholly positive) or content (for example, protecting local culture).
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- Business and Professional Ethics Journal
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- Professionalism Among Chinese Engineers: An Empirical Study: Effective raw data(229)
- Creator
- Wei, Lina, Davis, Michael
- Date
- 2019-03-18, 2019-03-18
- Description
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This is a copy of a dataset - in English and Chinese - completed in 2018 looking at concepts of professionalism. Following on the Davis, Zhang...
Show moreThis is a copy of a dataset - in English and Chinese - completed in 2018 looking at concepts of professionalism. Following on the Davis, Zhang survey of 2016, this study continues to evaluate the claim that China has a profession of engineering (as defined by Davis) with a larger, better educated, demographically different pool of two hundred and twenty-nine Chinese engineers, using more specific and deeper questions about “profession”, for example, by adding the investigation of competence (the discipline of engineering)—the perceived knowledge, skill, and judgment of the interviewees as evidence of one aspect of profession. The dataset includes a copy of the questionnaire in Chinese and English, as well as both the entire dataset of surveyed individuals as well as the data from individuals who were deemed to have enough experience in engineering to be included in the final data set analyzed.
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- Professionalism Among Chinese Engineers: An Empirical Study
- Creator
- Wei, Lina, Davis, Michael
- Date
- 2019
- Description
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Spreadsheet of answers from a questionnaire sent out in 2018-2019 to Chinese engineering students looking at their perceptions of professional...
Show moreSpreadsheet of answers from a questionnaire sent out in 2018-2019 to Chinese engineering students looking at their perceptions of professional and engineering ethics.
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- Center for the Study of Ethics in the Collection - "China's Unwritten Code of Ethics"
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- China's Unwritten Code of Engineering Ethics. English Final Data Set
- Creator
- Wei, Lina, Davis, Michael
- Date
- 2020, 2020
- Publisher
- Springer
- Description
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This dataset contains the final results of a survey completed by several hundred engineers in China about what they think about engineering...
Show moreThis dataset contains the final results of a survey completed by several hundred engineers in China about what they think about engineering ethics, their awareness of ethics in their work, and how Chinese engineers' view of engineering ethics is not very different from those of American Engineers.
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- Assessing Graduate Student Progress in Engineering Ethics
- Creator
- Davis, Michael, Feinerman, Alan
- Date
- 2010-11-10, 2011
- Publisher
- Springer
- Description
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Under a grant from the National Science Foundation, the authors (and others) undertook to integrate ethics into graduate engineering classes...
Show moreUnder a grant from the National Science Foundation, the authors (and others) undertook to integrate ethics into graduate engineering classes at three universities—and to assess success in a way allowing comparison across classes (and institutions). This paper describes the attempt to carry out that assessment. Standard methods of assessment turned out to demand too much class time. Under pressure from instructors, the authors developed an alternative method that is both specific in content to individual classes and allows comparison across classes. Results are statistically significant for ethical sensitivity and knowledge. They show measurable improvement in a single semester.
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- "China's unwritten code of engineering ethics": Table list (1), China's unwritten code of engineering ethics: Table list (1)
- Creator
- Davis, Michael, Wei, Lina
- Date
- 2019-08-02, 2019-08-02
- Title
- “Broader Impacts” or “Responsible Research and Innovation”? A Comparison of Two Criteria for Funding Research in Science and Engineering
- Creator
- Davis, Michael, Laas, Kelly
- Date
- 2013-10, 2013-10
- Publisher
- Springer
- Description
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Our subject is how the experience of Americans with a certain funding criterion, “broader impacts” (and some similar criteria) may help in...
Show moreOur subject is how the experience of Americans with a certain funding criterion, “broader impacts” (and some similar criteria) may help in efforts to turn the European concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) into a useful guide to funding Europe’s scientific and technical research. We believe this comparison may also be as enlightening for Americans concerned with revising research policy. We have organized our report around René Von Schomberg’s definition of RRI, since it seems both to cover what the European research group to which we belong is interested in and to be the only widely accepted definition of RRI. According to Von Schomberg, RRI: “… is a transparent, interactive process by which societal actors and innovators become mutually responsive to each other with a view to the (ethical) acceptability, sustainability and societal desirability of the innovation process and its marketable products (in order to allow a proper embedding of scientific and technological advances in our society).” While RRI seeks fundamental changes in the way research is conducted, Broader Impacts is more concerned with more peripheral aspects of research: widening participation of disadvantaged groups, recruiting the next generation of scientists, increasing the speed with which results are used, and so on. Nevertheless, an examination of the broadening of funding criteria over the last four decades suggests that National Science Foundation has been moving in the direction of RRI.
Sponsorship: European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme grant number 321400.
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- Title
- "China's unwritten code of engineering ethics", China's unwritten code of engineering ethics
- Creator
- Davis, Michael, Wei, Lina
- Date
- 2019-08-02, 2019-08-02
- Title
- "China's unwritten code of engineering ethics": effective raw data (191), China's unwritten code of engineering ethics: effective raw data (191)
- Creator
- Davis, Michael, Wei, Lina
- Date
- 2019-08-02, 2019-08-02
- Title
- "China's unwritten code of engineering ethics": total raw data (204), China's unwritten code of engineering ethics: total raw data (204)
- Creator
- Davis, Michael, Wei, Lina
- Date
- 2019-08-02, 2019-08-02
- Title
- "China's unwritten code of engineering ethics": Chinese Questionnaire on the Professional Ethical Awareness of Chinese Engineering Practitioners, China's unwritten code of engineering ethics: Chinese Questionnaire on the Professional Ethical Awareness of Chinese Engineering Practitioners
- Creator
- Davis, Michael, Wei, Lina
- Date
- 2019-08-02, 2019-08-02
- Title
- "China's unwritten code of engineering ethics": English Questionnaire on the Professional Ethical Awareness of Chinese Engineering Practitioners, China's unwritten code of engineering ethics: English Questionnaire on the Professional Ethical Awareness of Chinese Engineering Practitioners
- Creator
- Davis, Michael, Wei, Lina
- Date
- 2019-08-02, 2019-08-02
- Title
- Engineering Ethics in China
- Creator
- Zhang, Hengli, Davis, Michael
- Date
- 2018
- Description
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This article describes China’s century-long concern...
Show moreThis article describes China’s century-long concern with the professional ethics of engineers, especially a succession of codes of engineering ethics going back at least to 1933. This description is the result both of our own archival research and of “philosophical history”, the application of concepts from the philosophy of professions to the facts historians (or we) have discovered. Engineers, historians, social scientists, and philosophers of technology, as well as students of professional ethics, should find this description interesting. It certainly provides a reason to wonder whether those who write about codes of professional ethics as if they were an Anglo-American export unlikely to put down roots elsewhere might have overlooked many early codes outside English-speaking countries. While code writers in China plainly learned from Western codes, the Chinese codes were not mere copies of their Western counterparts. Indeed, the Chinese codes sometimes differed inventively from Western codes in form (for example, being wholly positive) or content (for example, protecting local culture).
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- Business and Professional Ethics Journal
- Title
- Engineering Codes of Ethics : Analysis and Applications
- Creator
- Luegenbiehl, Heinz C., Davis, Michael
- Date
- 2008, 1992-07-10
- Publisher
- Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
- Description
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This paper uses the events leading up to the explosion of the Challenger to begin a discussion about the important role professional codes of...
Show moreThis paper uses the events leading up to the explosion of the Challenger to begin a discussion about the important role professional codes of ethics play in shaping how professionals should respond to ethical questions and issues that come up in daily practice. The paper explores the history of codes of ethics, why different engineering professions, such as computer engineering, and mechanical engineering, have developed their own codes of ethics, and tries to answer the question, why obey your profession's code? The paper also analyzes a case study using the codes of ethics and offers a series of case studies for further discussion.
Manuscript of an unpublished paper originally written to be part of the Exxon Modules for Applied Ethics Series. http://ethics.iit.edu/index1.php/Publications/Modules%20in%20Applied%20Ethics
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- Title
- Conflicts of Interest in Engineering
- Creator
- Davis, Michael, Wells, Paula, Jones, Hardy
- Date
- 2009, 1986
- Publisher
- Kendalll/Hunt Publishing Company
- Description
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This module begins by examining the Hydrolevel case, and uses this as a way to highlight relevant principles regarding conflict of interest in...
Show moreThis module begins by examining the Hydrolevel case, and uses this as a way to highlight relevant principles regarding conflict of interest in engineering, and to discuss the importance of these principles for engineers as professionals and moral agents. The module then considers four applications of these principles drawn from the “Opinions” of the Board of Ethical Review of the National Society of Professional Engineers. The module also includes ten short cases to be used in classroom discussion. It also includes professional codes from the National Society of Professional Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Sponsorship: Exxon Education Foundation
The Module Series in Applied Ethics was produced by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions in under a grant from the Exxon Education Foundation. This series is intended for use in a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs in such areas as science and/or technology public policy, and professional ethics courses in engineering, business, and computer science.
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- Title
- An Introduction to the Societal Roles of Ethics Codes
- Creator
- Laas, Kelly, Davis, Michael, Hildt, Elisabeth
- Date
- 2022, 2022-01-03
- Publisher
- Springer, Cham
- Description
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In this collected volume, we are interested in the roles of ethics codes and ethical guidelines in professions in which research and...
Show moreIn this collected volume, we are interested in the roles of ethics codes and ethical guidelines in professions in which research and innovation play an important role and where emerging technologies bring about considerable, sometimes fast-paced change.
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- Codes of Ethics and Ethical Guidelines: Emerging Technologies and Changing Fields
- Title
- Ethics in the Details : Communicating Engineering Ethics via Micro-Insertion
- Creator
- Davis, Michael, Riley, Kathryn, Cox, Apryl, Maciukenas, James
- Date
- 2009, 2009
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Description
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Work is described on a National Science Foundation grant that supports the development, assessment, and dissemination of “micro-insertion”...
Show moreWork is described on a National Science Foundation grant that supports the development, assessment, and dissemination of “micro-insertion” problems designed to integrate ethics into the graduate engineering curriculum. In contrast to traditional modular approaches to ethics pedagogy, micro-insertions introduce ethical issues by means of a “low-dose” approach. Following a description of the micro-insertion approach, we outline the workshop structure being used to teach engineering faculty and graduate students how to write micro-insertions for graduate engineering courses, with particular attention to how the grant develops engineering students’ (and faculty members’) ability to communicate across disciplinary boundaries. We also describe previous and planned methods for assessing the effectiveness of micro-insertions. Finally, we explain the role that technical communication faculty and graduate students are playing as part of the grant team, specifically in developing an Ethics In-Basket that will disseminate micro-insertions developed during the grant.
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications Vol. 52, Issue 1, pp. 95-108.
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