THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING

On Education

This section provides curriculum ideas and teaching advice for incorporating ethics into the engineering classroom at the university and precollege level. The goal is to help engineering professors design courses and curriculum that will enable students to think of ethics as part of the very process of their work and to give them the tools for articulating and resolving these issues.

This section offers both general pedagogical information (essays, general guides, and sample syllabi) and specific information organized by topics. For each topic, we provide a background of key issues and concepts to stress, a bibliography of helpful readings and web resources, advice for leading discussions on these issues, sample syllabi, and curriculum ideas/projects. In some cases, information from professors who have tried these projects will be shared.

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