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Online Ethics Center: Teaching Ethics Across the Engineering Curriculum The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science Teaching Ethics Across the Engineering Curriculum by Michael Davis Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions Illinois Institute of Technology Presented at the OEC International Conference on Ethics in Engineering and Computer Science, March 1999 I. Why Engineers Should Teach Ethics II. What is Teaching Engineering Ethics? III. Fitting Ethics Into the Curriculum IV. Examples V. How Do You Develop Problems Like These? VI. Conclusion Appendix Footnotes The sponsors of this conference included a question mark at the end of the title to my talk. I think there is no better way to begin this accompanying paper (prepared after my presentation) than to point out that its title does not have a question mark. The question mark is absent because there is, I believe, nothing questionable about teaching ethics across the engineering curriculum. Ethics, as I will show here, fits nicely into every engineering course, from a first year Introduction to the Profession to analytic courses like Thermodynamics, from Calculus to senior design. I shall show this by giving a few examples of what can be done in engineering's most analytic courses. But, before I can show anything, I must explain what I am, and am not, proposing. I. Why Engineers Should Teach Ethics "Ethics" has at least three senses in English: it can be 1) a synonym for ordinary morality, 2) the name for a field of philosophy, or 3) the name for a set of special (morally permissible) standards (for example, engineering ethics). The beginning of wisdom in the teaching of ethics across the curriculum is being clear about what you mean by "ethics". "Morality", as I use the term here, refers to those standards of conduct everyone (every rational person at his rational best) wants every other to follow even if everyone else's following them would mean having to follow them too. Morality (in this sense) is the same for everyone, engineers included. Full Article: http://onlineethics.org/essays/education/davis.html?text |
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