Ethics and engineering education
By L. Bucciarelli. 2008
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In the US, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) recommends the study of ethics so that students acquire ‘an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility’. For the most part, teaching of the subject relies upon the use of scenarios – both hypothetical and ‘real’– and open discussion framed by the codes. These scenarios and this framing are seriously deficient – lacking in their attention to the complexities of context, almost solely focused on individual agency, while reflecting too narrow and simplistic a view of the responsibilities of the practicing engineer. A critique of several exemplary scenarios, and consideration of the demands placed upon today's professional, prompt reflection on the need for, not just a more expansive reading of the codes of ethics re what it might mean to be ‘responsible’, but a substantial reform of undergraduate engineering education across the board.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Information Systems and Management
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- A Model of Empathy in Engineering as a Core Skill, Practice Orientation, and Professional Way of Being (2017, background): “Framed in this way, holistic service to society also connects to the notion of social responsibility as conceptualized in engineering and business settings (Bucciarelli, 2008; Conlon, 2008; Heikker€o, 2008).”