Conference Session

New Areas of Ethical Inquiry

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Joseph Benin, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; William Randall, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

reasons in and of itself.”The final course description is given in Table 2. Please see Appendix III for the full catalog entryand Appendix IV for the syllabus. Once the curriculum was developed it was time to test out thiscourse with students. The initial offering of this course was in the spring of 2019 as a one creditdirected studies for nine brave cadets who wanted to dive deeper into the topic of cyber ethics.Given the Cyber Systems curriculum was (and still is) in the process of being deployed, therewere some challenges to the first “test drive” of this material. For example, some of the studentshad not previously completed the Introduction to Moral and Ethical Philosophy course.Additional peculiarities include the fact that it was taught by