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Online Ethics Center: Teaching Ethics Across the Engineering Curriculum
This page discusses teaching ethics as a part of the engineering curriculum.
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Professional Ethics and the NCEES
Authored by R. L. Greene, The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying
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Three Teaching Case Studies of Accidents in Nuclear Energy Development in Japan
An essay describing the use of historical Japanese cases in the relatively recent development of ethics education in Japan.
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Professionalism in Computing: A Web-based Learning System
Starting from a project to develop a digital library for a Computer Science course studying social impact and computer ethics, the paper describes a highly interactive Web-based, active-learning system that is a highly developed work-in-progress.
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The Concrete Sumo
The story of The Concrete Sumo and Taft H. Broome's thoughts on ethical decisionmaking.
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Teaching Ethics Across the Engineering Curriculum
An essay by Michael Davis exploring the teaching of ethics and how problems used in ethics courses are developed.
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Integrating Ethics & Engineering: A Graduate Option in Systems Engineering, Ethics and Technology Studies
This paper describes an engineering graduate option that attempts to overcome the negative side effects of specialization and compartmentalization by building an intimate link between technical and ethical training.
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A European Textbook on Engineering Ethics: Second draft for an epilogue
The European Ethics Network has fostered the formation of an editorial team to produce a textbook in Engineering Ethics. This committee has selected about thirty specialists from eleven European Countries to summarize the ethics of their discipline in readable terms for engineering students. The book methodologically separates three levels of analysis: Chapter 1 focuses on engineers' problems within their technical institutions, Chapter 2 sketches the mezzo level where technical systems complete, and Chapter 3 presents technical developments as a society issue.
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ABET's Engineering Criteria 2000 and Engineering Ethics: Where Do We Go From Here?
This paper discusses the portions of Criteria 2000 with relevance to engineering ethics education, some encouraging and discouraging developments in the field of engineering ethics, and the work that remains in order to achieve meaningful ethics education for all engineering students, with particular emphasis on competing curriculum models.
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Fieldwork and Cooperative Learning in Professional Ethics
In this essay Michael Loui explains fieldwork and cooperative learning in professional ethics. The paper describes two courses relating to professional ethics in which students develop skills for working in multidisciplinary teams and deepen their understanding of collective moral responsibility.
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Expectations and Experiences of Ethical Issues in Engineering: A Survey of Stanford Engineering Students and Practicing Engineers
In this essay, Robert E. McGinn talks about the results of a survey of engineering students and practicing engineers. In addition to displaying the results of the survey McGinn also compares and contrasts the results.
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Designing Engineers: Integration of Engineering "Professional Responsibility" in the Capstone Design Experience
This essay discusses the use of industrial sponsored capstone design projects to encourage active discussion of engineering professional responsibility that naturally occurs in engineering design.
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Problems and Cases: New Directions in Ethics 1980-1996
This essay summarizes many points developed in detail in the Philosophical Appendix to <cite>Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research.
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Using the Web for Teaching Engineering Ethics Across the Curriculum
This essay discusses a different approach to the untrained instructor problem-the development of a web-based co-instructor. The web resources described in this paper have as their primary goal assisting engineering faculty in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan teach and assuming some of the work of teaching engineering ethics across the curriculum.
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Teaching Ethics to Scientists and Engineers: Moral Agents and Moral Problems
In this essay, Dr. Whitbeck outlines an 'agent-centered' approach to learning ethics. The central aim is to prepare students to act wisely and responsibly when faced with moral problems. The methods characteristic of this approach are suitable for integrating material on professional and research ethics into technical courses, as well as for free-standing ethics courses. <cite>Science and Engineering Ethics</cite>, vol.1:3 (1995), 299-308.
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Essays on Ethics Educations in Engineering and Science
An index of essays on ethics education in engineering and science.