Date of Award
January 2015
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Communication
First Advisor
Patrice M Buzzanell
Committee Member 1
Stacey Connaughton
Committee Member 2
Seungyoon Lee
Committee Member 3
Carla B Zoltowski
Committee Member 4
William C Oakes
Abstract
This study seeks to examine the communicative constitution of ethics in team-based design projects in an engineering education context. Engineering and design work involve complex social processes and ethical decision-making activities and collaboration (Bucciarelli, 2010). The understanding and development of ethics in future engineers is a primary concern for engineering educators, students, and the governing bodies that oversee this field (ABET, 2013; NAE, 2012). Specifically, given the highly fluid and subjective nature of ethics and the complications of the team-based context, challenges arise about how to move beyond codes and standards that are intended to guide ethical conduct (ASEE, 2012; NSPE, 2011) and encourage ethical orientations in future engineers that may help them guide themselves.
Recommended Citation
Kenny Feister, Megan, "Exploring the Constitutive and Social Processes of Ethics in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Teams" (2015). Open Access Dissertations. 1188.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1188