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Integrating Ethics Education at All Levels: Ethics as a Core Competency
Integrating Ethics Education at All Levels: Ethics as a Core Competency
Pages 125-132
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This recent attention to engineering ethics reflects, in part, the realities of engineering practice. In a survey of engineering students and practicing engineers, Robert McGinn found that 80 to 90 percent of the practicing engineers surveyed (n = 294)
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For these reasons, responsible and ethical engineering practices should be addressed explicitly. Faculty and senior members of the community are key participants in this discussion, not only because they have developed expectations regarding professional behavior, but also because they set the professional standards for the engineering community.
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programs that begin early in the curriculum and continue throughout graduate and postgraduate education, demonstrating that standards within the community continue to evolve and that, with experience, students and trainees become more sophisticated in addressing complex problems; and (6) reinforcement of professional standards and ethical values through a variety of programs and activities, including courses, laboratory meetings, and departmental seminars.
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The purpose of research practice seminars, and by extension workshops on engineering practices, is to provide a forum for faculty and senior professionals to discuss their expectations and their understanding of acceptable and unacceptable behavior in terms of specific situations and cases. These workshops provide an opportunity for small-group mentoring, that is, for faculty and senior engineers and researchers to interact and discuss details of professional practice that are not normally covered in formal classes.
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The students discuss their projects and associated ethical concerns with other students, include a discussion of ethical issues in their presentations at the end of the summer, and most important, select one ethical issue or implication for an in-depth written discussion. Students in the REU program have examined a wide range of topics, from the fair allocation of credit for contribution to a project to bias in communicating research results to the humane treatment of laboratory animals in teaching and research to limitations on computer access by those who are visually impaired and people in the developing world.
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Pp. 283292 in Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition.
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STEP 4 Formulate viable alternative courses of action that could be taken, and continue to check the facts. STEP 5 Assess each alternative (i.e., its implications; whether it is in accord with the ethical standards being used, and if not, whether it can be justified on other grounds; consequences for affected parties; issues that will be left unresolved; whether it can be publicly defended on ethical grounds; the precedent that will be set; practical constraints, e.g., uncertainty regarding consequences, lack of ability, authority or resources, institutional, structural, or procedural barriers)
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