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Online Ethics Center: Service-Learning and Engineering Ethics The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science Service-Learning and Engineering Ethics1 Michael S. Pritchard Willard A. Brown Professor of Philosophy and Director, Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008 email: pritchard@wmich.edu Presented at the OEC International Conference on Ethics in Engineering and Computer Science, March 1999. Is Community Service an Aspect of Engineering Ethics? Service-Learning Service-Learning in Engineering: A Range of Possibilities Footnotes Calvin: How good do you have to be to qualify as good? I haven't killed anybody. See, that's good, right? I haven't committed any felonies. I didn't start any wars. I don't practice cannibalism. Wouldn't you say I should get lots of presents? Hobbes: But maybe good is more than the absence of bad. Calvin and Hobbes (Dec. 23, 1990) Current ABET requirements for accredited engineering programs in the United States include helping students acquire "an understanding of the ethical characteristics of the engineering profession and practice."2 ABET 2000 more specifically requires engineering programs to demonstrate that their graduates also understand the impact of engineering in a global and social context, along with a knowledge of current issues related to engineering. It also requires students to have a "major design experience" that includes ethical factors in addition to economic, environmental, social, and political factors.3 The recent mushrooming of engineering ethics resources (books, articles, cases, videos, and the like) can be of great assistance in meeting these requirements. However, in this paper I will explore a possibility that has received relatively little attention in engineering ethics literature—service-learning.4 This involves combining community service and academic study in ways that invite reflection on what one learns in the process. Given ABET 2000's "major design experience" requirement, the idea of service-learning in engineering may be especially promising. Full Article: http://onlineethics.org/essays/education/pritchard.html?text |
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