Ethics and engineering education

The Formal and Hidden Curricula of Ethics in Engineering Education

Emotion, Engineering and Ethics

Change brings benefits but can cause harm and introduce costs. An engineer’s task is to guide change and to evaluate it. This evaluation can be wide ranging and consider energy use, material use and disposal, visual impact, the potential users and their foibles, reliability, cost, safety, impact on health as well as the technical aspects of construction, configuration and delivery. Additionally...

Doctors, ethics and special education.

This discussion paper is drawn from a qualitative research project comparing the effect of special and ordinary schools on the lives of children, young people and their families. Special schools are recommended by health professionals who seldom know how ineffective these schools are. We question the beneficence and justice of health professionals' advice on education for children with disabili...

Ethics education and physician morality.

Medical ethics education remains an important venue of moral education. In spite of the intensity of these efforts, the desired outcomes of medical ethics education remain obscure, undefined and largely untested. In the first part of this study, the goals of medical ethics are operationalized along cognitive, behavioral and attitudinal dimensions. This includes a written moral judgment test, a ...

Ethics, engineering, and sustainable development

T he term 'sustainable devel-opment' dates back to the early 1970s when certain business and government leaders began to argue that exponential growth —in human populations and industrial-ization — simply cannot continue indefinitely. One such group of leaders, the Club of Rome, issued a report, Limits to Growth, now recognized as a cornerstone piece of literature for the movement. In a tone so...