Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

the importance ofinstilling this behavior in society, it is critical that engineering educators and researcherscontinue to seek out effective approaches. This article reviews the quest to find such anapproach in a redesigned industrial engineering course at Montana State University (MSU).Literature ReviewThe literature investigating how college students in general and engineering students in particularcan learn and apply the concepts of ethics is considerable. While some writing laments the lackof ethics focus in current engineering programs,6,7 most continue to seek more effective ways toincorporate ethical training into engineering education.7,8,9 Why are engineering educators sofocused on this soft skill? Of course, there are the external