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Teaching ethics to engineers: ethical decision making parallels the engineering design process.

Bridget Bero¹, Alana Kuhlman

¹Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northern Arizona University, Box 15600, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA. Bridget.bero@nau.edu

Science and Engineering Ethics

|June 5, 2010

Summary

Engineering ethics education uses a design process model to teach students how to navigate complex "grey" problems. This approach helps students identify, assess, and solve ethical dilemmas in engineering design.

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Area of Science:

Engineering Education
Professional Ethics

Background:

ABET accreditation requires ethics integration in engineering curricula.
Engineering students often struggle with the ambiguity of ethical problems, similar to design challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

To present a step-wise ethics module for engineering students.
To adapt the engineering design process for ethical decision-making.

Main Methods:

An ethics module was integrated into a 3rd-year engineering design course.
The engineering design process was paralleled with an adapted ethical decision-making model (Martin and Schinzinger).

Main Results:

Students initially found it difficult to identify broad, global ethical issues.
Post-module, students improved in identifying broader issues, assessing specifics, and generating solutions.

Conclusions:

A step-wise, design-process-based approach is effective for teaching engineering ethics.
This method enhances students' ability to manage complex ethical problems in engineering design.