Teaching engineering ethics to undergraduates: Why? What? How?

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 291-302

  Rabins, Michael J ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Curriculum; Engineering; Ethics; Professionalism; Teaching; Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004747291     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-998-0021-2     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. These are the so-called "Hasting Center Goals". Callahan, D. "Goals in the Teaching of Ethics," in: eds: Callahan, D. & Bok, S., (1980) Ethics Teaching in Higher Education, Plenum, New York.
2. Rabins, M., Harris, E. & Hanzlik, J. (1996) "NSF/Bovay Endowment Supported Workshop to Develop Numerical Problems Associated with Ethics Cases for Use in Required Undergraduate Engineering Courses," 1996 Annual Professional Society Meeting, Washington. D.C..
3. Two other valuable web sites with a wealth of engineering ethics resource material are www4.ncsu.edu.edu/unity/users/jljherkert/ethicind.html and ethics.cwru.edu Professor Joseph Herkert of North Carolina State University developed the former. It has many computing ethics, environmental ethics, and electrical engineering cases. Professor Caroline Whitbeck, originally at MIT and subsequently at Case Western Reserve University developed the latter. Both web sites are excellent resources for the teacher just embarking into the engineering ethics teaching domain.
4. Vesilind, P.A. & Gunn, A.S. (1996) Engineering Ethics and the Environment, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom.
5. Johnson, D.G. (1993) Computer Ethics, 2nd ed., Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
6. Martin, M.W. & Schinzinger, R. (1996) Ethics in Engineering, 3rd ed., McGraw Hill Book Company, New York.
7. Whitbeck, C. (1998) Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom.