Ethical issues in engineering

Sixth, a quite different kind of reason why bridging the ethics gap in contemporary engineering is important is that in recent years, pressure to provide engineering students with opportunities to study ethical issues in engineering has grown. This pressure has come from multiple sources. 

Requiring engineering students to enroll in a traditional philosophy-department ethics course is unlikely to be fruitful. Few such courses in the United States pay any attention to ethical issues in engineering. They tend to be concerned with ethical concepts and theories, the nature of ethical reasoning, and the status and justification of ethical judgments. With rare exceptions, the examples explored in such courses typically involve non-professional contexts. ... 

Thus, what may sound ideal in principle - having instructors who are engineers provide education about ethical issues in engineering in technical engineering classes - faces serious practical barriers in the real curricular world of undergraduate engineering education. ... 

SIXTEEN CASE STUDIES OF ETHICAL ISSUES IN ENGINEERING... 

Before proceeding, a seeming anomaly needs comment. Schon s Ph.D. was in physics, not in a field of engineering. Why, then, has this case been included in a book on ethical issues in engineering I chose to include it for several reasons. 

Turner related what he had done on this project during a visit to my seminar on ethical issues in engineering in the 1990s. 

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