Acclimating International Graduate Students to Professional Engineering Ethics

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 171-194

  Newberry, Byron ^a   Austin, Katherine ^b   Lawson, William ^c   Gorsuch, Greta ^b   Darwin, Thomas ^d  

^a Baylor University   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Engineering ethics; Graduate students; Instructional materials development; International students; Online instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951957965     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 16605454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-009-9178-6     Document Type: Article

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