Exploring the Constitutive and Social Processes of Ethics in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Teams

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication

Year

2015

Author dc:creator

• Kenny Feister, Megan

Contributors dc:contributor

• Patrice M Buzzanell
• Stacey Connaughton
• Seungyoon Lee
• Carla B Zoltowski
• William C Oakes

• Constitutive
• Discourse Analysis
• Engineering Ethics
• Organizational Communication
• Social Network Analysis
• Teams

Repository record dc:identifier

https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1188

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:open_access_dissertations-2404