Conference Session

Engineering and Sustainability

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines; Jon Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Junko Munakata-Marr, Colorado School of Mines; Jay Straker, Colorado School of Mines; Marcelo Simoes, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

humanitarian thought and action 3. To learn the basic history of humanitarianismIt then provides reading assignments and a brief objective personal assessment quiz. Althoughpresently only in hardcopy format, the team member in charge of this module wants to make itavailable in a web-based format. Faculty can add it to a course syllabus, either as a requiredcomponent or as a supplement. Then it could easily become a course assignment where studentscan imagine ways in which their technical learning could be adapted or put to humanitarian use.Rather than teaching ethics as a professional code that places boundary conditions onprofessional practice, this module would attempt to stimulate idealism among students andencourage the expansion of