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Ethics in Engineering EducationEthics across the Curriculum: Preparing Engineering and Science Faculty to Introduce Ethics into Their Teaching
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... Ethics in Engineering Education
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... My focus is on preparing engineering and science faculty to introduce ethics into their teaching. An important aim of teaching ethics is to prepare engineering students to identify and cope responsibly with ethical issues in emerging technologies.
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... However, we had never seen a plan for a diffusion method that specified what faculty should do in their classrooms, how their teaching of ethics would be evaluated, or how student evaluations would feed back into the program, let alone how a program would be monitored to make sure that diffusion teaching was taking place. We knew of some precedents, including workshops that had been tried at several other universities and one workshop on ethics for business educators at the old Arthur Anderson Company campus in St.
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... Providing information about the destination of the fluids and the nature of the fluids supplies context that is often absent from the problems students work on. Concrete details help bring ethical questions to the surface.
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... Again other participants and an instructor offered questions and comments, and the speaker responded. In advance of the workshops, participants received assigned readings of selected articles and one book.
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... The discussion that followed highlighted Kantian reasoning in the "New Software Case." Finally, there was a short lecture covering a group of ethical theories: social justice; virtue theories; pluralism; relativism; and moral minimum. Another discussion of the same case brought out examples of reasoning according to each theory.
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... In teaching ethics, our goal is to stimulate thinking about ethical issues and to help students acquire analytical skills that will be useful to them as they consider ethical issues in their professional lives. The experience of sitting in a classroom with other students and an instructor intent upon resolving ethical problems may strengthen their resolve to behave responsibly.
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... Although this was a relatively small sum of money, this requirement helped bring in the evaluations. CONCLUSION Looking to the future, we are currently working at IIT on developing ethics courses and pilot ethics modules for graduate departments in engineering and science.
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