What Can We Learn from Character Education? A Literature Review of Four Prominent Virtues in Engineering Education

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is a Postdoctoral Assistant for the Wake Forest Department of Engineering supporting with the development and assessment of character and ethics education in the engineering program. Since 2015 until her current position at Wake Forest she worked as the Director of Research at a youth development non-profit, The Future Project, which has worked with tens of thousands of underserved high school students nationwide to support their development of purpose, agency, hope, and resilience. Prior to this, she spent a decade as a STEM educator (mostly K-12). Her primary interests are in bridging research to practice to create deeply meaningful and impactful educational experiences. Jessica completed her PhD in Adolescent Motivational Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education in 2017. She also has a BA in Biochemistry from The Colorado College, and an MS in Chemistry from

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ETHICS-2021 Special Session 7: Integrating virtue ethics into STEM courses: ETHICS-2021 Session, Sunday October 31, 2021, 3:00 AM-4:30 PM ET

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