Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Outside the Classroom

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Traci Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Kevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christine Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Thomas McGlamery, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Engineering Ethics

ofmoments, continually, all day long. The chance for students to see that engineering work is rifewith ethical, moment-to-moment choices is a rich lesson indeed. It is the small daily ethicalchoices that an engineer makes that could determine profit, credibility, safety, reliability, andprofessional integrity. The moments where an engineer has to allow personal ethics (get him outof the hole) to trump organizational ethics (avoid liability) is the moment we want to explore inethics training.We learned from the engineers at EngPro and Porter/Young that ethics training needs to bescaled to the worker; the same advice can be taken for undergraduate education. What will theyneed to understand about engineering, codes of ethics, and personal decision

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering Ethics into the Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Glynn, Villanova University; Frank Falcone, Villanova University; Mark Doorley, Villanova University

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Engineering Ethics

. Page 15.683.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Implementing Ethics Across Engineering CurriculaAbstractThis paper explores the origins, rationale and implementation of a faculty developmentworkshop in ethics for engineering faculty. This is part of the development of an ethics acrossthe curriculum approach to prepare undergraduate engineers for their professionalresponsibilities. The workshop emerged from research into the “best practices” of ethicseducation for engineers, sponsored by the Dean of the College of Engineering and conducted byan ethics faculty member and a Philosophy Ph.D. candidate. The results of that research pointedtoward the ethics across the curriculum approach, which the Dean endorsed. The