Many engineering programs are emphasizing ethics in their curriculum to better prepare students for the challenges they will face in their professional careers. (Image credit USC Viterbi School of ...

Adding social responsibility to technical training prepares students to protect the public good ...

Engineers face the ethical implications of their work every day. These implications, alongside the crucial nature of civil engineering, are necessary to improving human life around the world. Being ...

Brian Patrick Green is the director of Technology Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. There are many ways to integrate ethical education into the software ...

Facebook outing students. Google collecting personal information from wireless networks. A dating app used for stalking. The creators of a new three-day ethics program believe these incidents could ...

As engineers, we make many technical decisions every day. At times, we are faced with important ethical decisions that can have a profound effect on our clients, our business, ourselves, and the ...

Humans are not inherently born with ethics. Instead, these moral principles are instilled through our environment. A part of that environment is education and the values taught through schooling. Here ...

Revisions includes more guidance for instructors who want to use the materials in one, two, or three class periods, as well as an extended bibliography. Writing in 1999, in an article titled “ABET’s ...

The precept session was just getting underway when Jay Benziger started raising questions. “Should engineers always make a product failure-proof?” (“Impossible,” one student said.) “Is an engineer who ...

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