Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Justice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caroline Baillie, University of Western Australia

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

manygraduates working in the mining sites9, there is an urgent need to help engineering students learnto see the world through new eyes, those of their own Indigenous people. A further criticallyimportant reason for bringing in social and environmental issues has been an awareness thatfemale students are increasingly interested in technologies, which seem relevant and beneficial tosocieties10. As early as 1989 it was recognised that approaches which were more appealing towomen encouraged interaction, cooperation and trust, connected, holistic thought, joined feelingand thinking, and had an increased focus on social responsibility11.Social responsibility (often “corporate” social responsibility or CSR) is a term frequently used inthe current economic