Listening to Community Voices as Part of Ethical Civil Engineering: Experiences in Civil Engineering Courses

Bielefeldt, Angela R.

doi:10.18260/1-2--34930

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“…The course also includes in-depth "learning to listen" exercises, with activities such as interviewing someone with a different viewpoint on a subject specifically in order to gain a deeper understanding of their position. The incorporation of listening to "community voices" in civil and environmental education has recently been associated with students reporting greater self-assessed recognition of "ethical and professional responsibilities" for engineers [19].…”

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Engineering ethics and the public: Impacts of a graduate-level course on students' ethical perceptions and conduct in research and professional settings (2010-20)

Mazzola,

Roy,

Edwards

2023 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Frank is a PhD student in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. He researches the corrosion of drinking water infrastructure, focusing on lead complexation by polyphosphate and on the impact of water treatment strategies on the galvanic corrosion of lead solder. In 2022, Frank began serving as teaching assistant for the graduate level course "Engineering Ethics and the Public," co-founded by his advisor, Dr. Marc Edwards. Frank received both his bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from Virginia Tech.

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Engineering ethics and the public: Impacts of a graduate-level course on students' ethical perceptions and conduct in research and professional settings (2010-20)

Mazzola,

Roy,

Edwards

2023 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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“…Segments of the video were shown and discussed in three different courses in fall 2019: a first-year introduction to civil engineering course, a senior-level professional issues course in civil engineering, and a senior/graduate level course in site remediation/hazardous waste management. During these implementations, students were directed to practice their listening skills toward realizing learning outcomes related to ethics and sustainability; these results have been previously described [22]. The genesis for this idea was the ethical listening work from Lambrinidou and Edwards [23][24][25].…”

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Environmental Justice and Equity Issues: In Our Backyards and Beyond

Bielefeldt,

Silverstein

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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Boulder in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) and Director for the Engineering Plus program. She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where students learned about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt's research interests in engineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.

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Empathy’s Role in Engineering Ethics: Empathizing with One’s Self to Others Across the Globe

Hess

2024

Sci Eng Ethics

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Engineers make decisions with global impacts and empathy can motivate ethical reasoning and behavior that is sensitive to the needs and perspectives of stakeholders across the globe. Microethics and macroethics offer two frames of reference for engineering ethics education, but different dimensions of empathy play distinct roles in micro- and macroethics. Microethics emphasizes individual responsibility and interpersonal relationships whereas macroethics emphasizes societal obligations and impacts. While empathy can support ethical reasoning and behavior for each, in this paper I argue that affective empathy plays a primary (but not exclusive) role in microethics whereas cognitive empathy plays a primary role in macroethics. Gilligan’s and Kohlberg’s theories of moral development are used to further depict how affective empathy aligns with care (depicted as an interpersonal phenomenon) and how cognitive empathy aligns with justice (depicted as a systems-focused phenomenon), thus positioning these ethical principles as playing primary (but again, not exclusive) roles in micro- and macro-ethics, respectively. Building on these ideas, this study generates a framework that describes and visualizes how empathy manifests across six frames of reference, each of which are increasingly macro-ethical in nature: self, team, operators, participants, bystanders, and future generations. The paper describes how proxy stakeholders can be identified, developed, and leveraged to empathize with stakeholder groups. Taken together, the manuscript seeks to clarify the role of empathy in engineering ethics and can enable engineering students to better empathize with the range of stakeholders impacted by engineering decisions, ranging from one’s self to stakeholders across the globe. The intrapersonal understandings and motivations that students generate by empathizing across six frames of reference can facilitate ethical reasoning processes and behaviors that are more inclusive and comprehensive.

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Listening to Community Voices as Part of Ethical Civil Engineering: Experiences in Civil Engineering Courses

Cited by 3 publications

References 31 publications

Engineering ethics and the public: Impacts of a graduate-level course on students' ethical perceptions and conduct in research and professional settings (2010-20)

Engineering ethics and the public: Impacts of a graduate-level course on students' ethical perceptions and conduct in research and professional settings (2010-20)

Environmental Justice and Equity Issues: In Our Backyards and Beyond

Empathy’s Role in Engineering Ethics: Empathizing with One’s Self to Others Across the Globe

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