Academic Conference Paper Sessions

Engineering Ethics, Session 1

Sponsored by the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology

Bass Lecture Hall

Karl Stephan, session chair

• Janet Rochester, Lockheed-Martin Co.
  "Becoming a Professional" (Invited Paper)

Military Ethics

Sid Richardson Hall, Rm. 3.109

Howard T. Prince, II, session organizer

The session will consist of a panel discussion with representatives from the military academies.

• Colonel James L. Cook, Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy, United States Air Force Academy
• Lieutenant Colonel Daniel S. Zupan, Academy Professor, Department of English, United States Military Academy
• Mr. John Truslow, Assistant Director, Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics, United States Naval Academy

Business and Legal Ethics

Sid Richardson Hall, Rm. 3.102

Joel Wiggins and John Dzienkowski, session organizers

• Donald Nolen, Parkland College
  "Is there business ethics after Enron?: In search of a new apology"
• Michael Shaub, St. Mary's University
  "Materialism and materiality"
• Thomas Bost, Pepperdine Law School
  "The lawyer as truthteller: Lessons from Enron"

Philosophy

Sid Richardson Hall, Rm. 3.111

Rob Koons, session chair

• John Corvino, Wayne State University
  "Answering the 'Why be moral?' question"
• Michael Taber, St. Mary's College of Maryland
  "Why the professional cannot opt out of ethics"

Bioethics

Sid Richardson Hall, Rm. 3.106

Kenneth Diller, session organizer

• M. Conrad Huffstutler, KMED Associates
  "2003 Bioethics highlights and future trends"
• Karen J. Rayne, Nate J. Kemp, Kenneth R. Diller, and Taylor Martin, UT Austin
  "Teaching Bioengineering ethics for adaptive expertise"
• Stacy Sanders, St. Mary's College of Maryland
  "The pitfalls of a pluralistic approach—in bioethics and daily life"
• Joy H. Penticuff, UT Austin
  "Parent-Professional Collaboration in Ethical Decisions about Life-Sustaining Treatments for Extremely Premature Infants undergoing Neonatal Intensive Care"

Education

Sid Richardson Hall, Rm. 3.108

Tommy Darwin, session organizer

• Ted Aanstoos, Kathy Schmidt, UT Austin
  "Are engineers ethical: Our students need to know"
• Charles J. Capps, III, Patricia J. Capps, G. Keith Jenkins, Sam Houston State University
  "Human resource development matrix: A proactive ethical approach to training needs analysis"
• Ernest J. Zarra, III, California State University—Bakersfield
  "Steps to categorizing and understanding ethical dilemmas"
• Carolyn Spence Cagle, Suzanne Rayermann-Lockwood, Keith Whitworth, TCU
  "An interdisciplinary educational approach to fostering ethical leadership for diverse population health care needs"

Religion and Ethics

Sid Richardson Hall, Rm. 3.110

James Kraft, session organizer

Session Title: Origins of ethical universals in fiction, organization identity, and Confucian wonder

• David Weber, Valparaiso University
  "Hobbitus: Characterizing Vocation"
• Maggie Chiang, UT Austin
  "Wonder and the cultivation of moral subjectivity in Confucian ethics"
• Larry Ruddell, Houston Baptist University
  "Presuppositionalism as the honest approach to universal ethics standards?"