This $399,998 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) aims to design, implement, and evaluate a new engineering education pedagogy called Scaffolded Ethics Autobiography (SEA). The SEA module is intended to promote engineering students' professional identity development with explicit ethics components, which is expected to improve their persistence in engineering careers and align with significant national interests. The project will involve three phases: 1) designing the SEA module and assessment tools, 2) evaluating the effectiveness of the SEA module in cultivating students' moral narratives and engineering identity, and 3) examining the relationship between students' engineering identity and their career choices. This work will help engineering students grow as ethical professionals with strong intentions to pursue engineering careers.
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