Conference Session

Engineering Social and Human Ethical Impacts

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark L. Bourgeois, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Design and Assessment of the Social Responsibilities of Researchers Graduate Training Program at the University of Notre DameWhy Social Responsibilities? “Ethics” is, by now, recognized as a necessary and important part of the training of bothundergraduate and graduate engineering students. But the word can mean different things indifferent contexts. While as received from philosophy the term is profoundly broad, coveringeverything from making good decisions to living the good life, when it enters the engineeringeducation context considerations beyond immediate pragmatic concerns tend to fall away.Engineering ethics education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels