Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy-Philosophy of Engineering (TELPhe) Division Technical Session 3 / Perspectives on Advances in Promoting Technological Literacy

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stephen T. Frezza, Gannon University; Justin Michael Greenly, Franciscan University of Steubenville

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE)

work lays out the case for connecting virtue to competency, presents a collectionof operational definitions for various virtues and explores a collection of engineering andcomputing codes of ethics as a means of identifying virtues more necessary to engineering andcomputing competence. Thereupon, this work proposes four virtues as more essential to the E/Cprofessional: Prudence, disinterestedness, truthfulness, and justice.IntroductionVirtue focuses on the morally good, or as Julia Annas describes it, “A virtue is a lasting featureof a person, a tendency for the person to be a certain way.” [1] This matters significantly inengineering and computing. For example, the virtue of prudence is shown by theengineering/computing (E/C) professional who