Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Beever, University of Central Florida

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

conceived of as much broaderthan merely responsible of professional conduct. The expertise of professional ethicistsarticulates the ways in which ethics is broader and deeper than the mere development ofintuitions, and is thus a necessary component of engineering ethics education. I conclude thatthere is a need for more careful study of the nature and place of ethics – and ethicists – in theteaching and training of graduate students in engineering.Toward that end, the next section of this paper more differentiates between questions about thevalue of ethics and questions about the value of ethicists. Next, I describe the methods of anempirical pilot study before discussing the results of that study. Finally, I draw preliminaryconclusions that are