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Online Ethics Center: Using the Web for Teaching Engineering Ethics across the Curriculum The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science Using the Web for Teaching Engineering Ethics across the Curriculum Nicholas H. Steneck University of Michigan College of Engineering nsteneck@umich.edu Presented at the OEC International Conference on Ethics in Engineering and Computer Science, March 1999 Objectives and Community Technology Prospects and Problems Bibliography World Wide Web (WWW) resources for engineering ethics have grown significantly over the past few years. Sites mounted at Case Western Reserve University, Texas A&M, Illinois Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University and other universities with engineering ethics programs, as well as sites maintained by engineering societies, such as the National Society of Professional Engineers, provide easy access to cases, articles, newsletters, codes of ethics, related links and more . For the experienced teacher, these sites provide convenient, up-to-date materials for bringing ethics into the classroom. Four years ago, the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan made the decision to teach ethics "across the curriculum," along with technical communication, teamwork skills, and environmental issues. Teaching engineering ethics "across the curriculum" raises a difficult pedagogical problem-the problem of the "untrained" instructor. To embed ethics in and across a curriculum rather than teaching it in one or a few specific courses requires that faculty who have little or no experience teaching ethics accept responsibility for doing so. The problem of the untrained teacher has most commonly been addressed through instruction. Over the past decade, workshops, seminars, and training programs, both local and national, have been organized in an effort to prepare engineering faculty to teach engineering ethics [2-12]. This paper discusses a different approach to the "untrained" instructor problem-the development of a web-based co-instructor. Full Article: http://onlineethics.org/essays/education/steneck.html?text |
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