TY - JOUR
T1 - Design of web-based professional ethics modules to alleviate acculturation barriers for international graduate students in engineering
AU - Newberry, Byron
AU - Lawson, William
AU - Austin, Kathy
AU - Gorsuch, Greta
AU - Darwin, Thomas
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This paper reports on an ongoing National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored research and education project.1 In recent years, engineering programs in the United States have sought to develop a larger role for professional ethics education in the curriculum. Accreditation requirements have helped facilitate this shift. These requirements have themselves been developed to help ensure that engineering graduates have the knowledge and skills-nontechnical as well as technical-needed in today's engineering profession. With this in mind, it is worth noting that almost half of all engineering graduate students in the U.S. are international students. And about forty percent of these remain in the United States and are employed in some facet of engineering research and practice. It therefore seems prudent for the profession that these students, coming from diverse backgrounds, receive some systematic exposure to engineering ethics as it is conceived and practiced in the United States. International students face challenges that domestic students do not encounter - cultural competency, language proficiency, and acculturation stress - making them a natural audience for an educational intervention. This project aims to develop instructional materials that help international engineering graduate students in acclimating to engineering ethics standards and expectations in this country. The details of the materials and the research design to test their efficacy will be discussed.
AB - This paper reports on an ongoing National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored research and education project.1 In recent years, engineering programs in the United States have sought to develop a larger role for professional ethics education in the curriculum. Accreditation requirements have helped facilitate this shift. These requirements have themselves been developed to help ensure that engineering graduates have the knowledge and skills-nontechnical as well as technical-needed in today's engineering profession. With this in mind, it is worth noting that almost half of all engineering graduate students in the U.S. are international students. And about forty percent of these remain in the United States and are employed in some facet of engineering research and practice. It therefore seems prudent for the profession that these students, coming from diverse backgrounds, receive some systematic exposure to engineering ethics as it is conceived and practiced in the United States. International students face challenges that domestic students do not encounter - cultural competency, language proficiency, and acculturation stress - making them a natural audience for an educational intervention. This project aims to develop instructional materials that help international engineering graduate students in acclimating to engineering ethics standards and expectations in this country. The details of the materials and the research design to test their efficacy will be discussed.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85029080392
SN - 2153-5965
JO - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
T2 - 2008 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
Y2 - 22 June 2008 through 24 June 2008
ER -