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Ethics and the Engineer as Expert Witness: A Module for Classroom Exercises
A classroom education module dealing with the ethical issues surrounding testifying as an expert witness. To quote the abstract: "The training, perspective, and motives of the engineer and of the lawyer differ in many respects. In these classroom exercises we explore these differences as manifested in the engineer serving as an expert witness in US courts of law."
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Using Materials from the OEC in the Engineering Curriculum: A Response to a Request from Case's ABET Readiness Committee
A guide to selecting ethics education materials from the OEC for Use in Meeting the ABET requirement for education in professional and ethical responsibility.
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Undergraduate Education in Practical Ethics: A general plan plus sample assignments for engineering students using materials from the Online Ethics Center
A Plan for Undergraduate Education in Practical Ethics with sample assignments for engineering and science students and teaching materials from the Online Ethics Center.
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Instructional Resources in Engineering Ethics, Computer Ethics and Research Ethics
Index of instructional resources for engineering ethics, research ethics, computer ethics, internet ethics, and professional ethics applicble to secondary school, university and college.
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Online Ethics Center: Teaching Engineering Responsibility for Societal Consequences
An instructional resource for teaching engineering responsibility for societal consequences
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Online Ethics Center: Teaching Engineering Responsibility for Societal and Environmental Consequences
This section focuses on methods for teaching engineers about the social and environmental impacts of the technology they create.
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Online Ethics Center: Teaching the Individual Engineer's Responsibility for Safety
An essay with suggestions on how to teach engineers responsibility for safety.
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Background Concepts for Teaching Engineering Responsibility for Societal and Environmental Consequences
This essay discusses background concepts for teaching engineering responsibility for societal and environmental consequences.
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Online Ethics Center: Using the Film, "The Matrix," in an Engineering Ethics Course
Suggestions for using the film, The Matrix, as a teaching tool in an engineering ethics course.
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Speaker's Guide for the Presentation: How to Be a Good Engineer
This set of pages comprises a sample lecture that might be given to an audience of engineering students on the topic of the importance of ethical behavior in the engineering profession. Text for slides, an annotated bibliography, and several examples of engineering ethics pledges and oaths are also included. The talk was prepared by the authors for the Ethics Committee of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Washington, DC.
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Teaching Engineering Ethics: A Case Study Approach
From the Center For the Study of Ethics in Society, Western Michigan University. Thirty-two cases which address a wide range of ethical issues that can arise in engineering practice.
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Making Connections: Engineering Ethics on the World Wide Web
This paper focuses on the use of the World Wide Web in courses and course units dealing with engineering ethics and/or the social implications of engineering.
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EC2000 and the Engineering Ethics Dilemma
A page about EC2000 and dilemmas faced in engineering ethics.
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Service-Learning and Engineering Ethics
This page adresses the topic of using community service as a part of the engineering ethics curriculum.
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Ethics in Engineering Curricula
An essay outlining a program that integrates ethics education into the engineering curriculum.
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Ethical Issues in Engineering E131/STS 115
"The description and syllabus of a class on ethical issues in engineering."
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Ethical Issues in Civil and Environmental Engineering (course syllabus): CEE 174
A course syllabus for Ethical Issues in Civil and Environmental Engineering, CEE 174