Publications de Roland John Tormey

Teaching ethical decision making to students as 21st-century professionals

Ethical decision making by professionals is an important element in working towards a sustainable future. This chapter explores the different learning goals which apply to professional ethics education, highlighting a historical shift from a focus on purel ...

Taylor and Francis2025

"I felt there was no team to be included in": Navigating social emotions and masculinities in engineering team projects

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

Background: Engineering education often upholds masculinity norms such as individual competitiveness and emotional stoicism. These norms affect team dynamics and students' satisfaction with learning experiences in team projects. Purpose: This study explore ...

American Society for Engineering Education2025

"Jupyter-Notebook-as-Script": Investigating the Nature and Impact of Implicit Collaboration Scripts in Computational Notebooks

Pierre Dillenbourg, Roland John Tormey, Richard Lee Davis

There are a variety of CSCL scripts that offer different levels of flexibility, ranging from high-structured guidance towards low-rigidity support. This study is grounded in the view that scripts should be designed with a certain degree of structuredness, ...

2025

Emotions in Engineering Ethics Education: Systematic Review and Ways Forward

Roland John Tormey

Emotion is an increasingly important concept in ethics, education, and engineering. It is also important for the intersection of these three domains: engineering ethics education. Despite extensive research being conducted independently in each field, ther ...

2025

Exploring the emotional dimension in engineering ethics case studies: the latent emotions and associated features

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

Ethics cases are widely used in engineering ethics education, offering ethical dilemma scenarios to analyse and discuss. Recent research highlights the importance of both cognitive and emotional dimensions involved in analysing ethical dilemmas. However, t ...

Informa UK Limited2025

Jupyter Analytics: A Toolkit for Collecting, Analyzing, and Visualizing Distributed Student Activity in Jupyter Notebooks

Pierre Dillenbourg, Roland John Tormey, Richard Lee Davis

Jupyter is a web-based, interactive computing environment that supports many commonly-used programming languages. It has been widely adopted in the CS education community and is now rapidly expanding to other STEM disciplines due to the growing integration ...

ACM2025

Mapping engineering ethics education

Roland John Tormey

Writing a handbook implies describing the fundamental information needed by those teaching or researching in a field. This is a challenging task when the field is still maturing. This handbook grew from the idea that we could ‘collaboratively write’ engine ...

Routledge2024

Interdisciplinary contributions to engineering ethics education

Roland John Tormey

This section of the handbook aims to provide readers with a conceptual toolbox that can enhance the reading of ideas and concepts that emerge in other sections and later chapters. This reflects that many of the ideas and directions of travel in engineering ...

Routledge2024

Exploring Engineering Students' Perception of Sustainability and Ethics in Their Curriculum Across Disciplines

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Yousef Jalali

Sustainability and ethics are topics of significant, current importance in higher education. In engineering education, they take on even greater importance as engineers play a key role in addressing global issues. While multiple institutions have implement ...

2024

Reason and emotion in engineering ethics education

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

This chapter discusses the relationship between reason and emotion in engineering ethics education (EEE), focusing on psychological and sociological perspectives. It identifies some factors that have led to emotions not being adequately considered alongsid ...

2024