Comparing First-Year Engineering Student Conceptions of Ethical Decision-Making to Performance on Standardized Assessments of Ethical Reasoning
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
Collection
Assessing Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
Essentially, this topical collection aims to shake up the literature on ethics education assessment. This is not to suggest that validation of assessment tools isn’t important. It is to suggest that we shouldn’t be satisfied with assessment tools – even if validated – that seem ill-suited to assess novel ethics education interventions. How can we move forward so that ethics education assessment can help us determine whether new approaches to ethics education are successful? To read more, click here
Editors
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Michael Hoffmann
Dr. Michael Hoffman Dr. Hoffmann directs the VIP Digital Deliberation and the project Digital Deliberation and Social Justice in the Digital Age. Both are supported by a grant from the Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center (DILAC). In a previous project, Hoffmann developed the interactive and web-based argument visualization tool "AGORA" (see http://agora.gatech.edu). This project was supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
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Adam Briggle
Adam Briggle is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in our Department. He holds a PhD in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado and served for three years as a postdoctoral fellow working on the philosophy of technology at the University of Twente in The Netherlands. His research and teaching interests focus on the intersections of ethics and policy with science and technology.
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J. Britt Holbrook
J. Britt Holbrook is assistant Professor in the Dept of Humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology. I earned a PhD in philosophy from Emory University. I’ve held teaching positions at Emory and at Georgia State University. I became Research Assistant Professor in the Dept of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas in 2005. In 2008, I became Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity (CSID) at UNT. In 2013 I moved back to Atlanta, where I spent two years as Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech.
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Chet McLeskey
Chet McLeskey holds a PhD in Philosophy that is grounded in ethics, broadly construed, and focuses on bioethics, virtue theory, and the epistemic and psychological aspects of ethical decision making. His current research involves the notion of moral expertise in bioethics and how best to form ethical decision making bodies, such as ethics committees. Chet also works on the Scientific Virtues Project developed by Prof. Robert T. Pennock, and has published and presented work on the role of virtue and character in scientific practice.
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Michael O’Rourke
Michael O'Rourke is Professor of Philosophy and faculty in AgBioResearch at Michigan State University. His research interests include environmental philosophy, the nature of epistemic integration and communication in collaborative, cross-disciplinary research, and the nature of linguistic communication between intelligent agents. He has been a co-principal investigator on funded projects involving environmental science education, facilitating cross-disciplinary communication, biodiversity conservation, sustainable agriculture, resilience in environmental systems
