Engineering Ethics Education
Balamuralithara Balakrishnan
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TL;DR: This chapter emphasizes the importance of engineering ethics education, introducing definitions and concepts, and analyzing teaching approaches and their impact on socio-ethical issues, highlighting the need for improved education and strategies to enhance students' attitudes towards ethics.
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Abstract: In this chapter, the importance of engineering ethics education in engineering programmes is discussed, involving major elements that build ethics education. Definitions and concepts of engineering ethics are introduced, along with an engineering code of ethics. Ethical education in engineering programmes is analyzed, focusing on teaching approaches and the effect of science and technological development on engineering socio-ethical issues. Survey results are presented, which illustrate students' attitudes toward engineering ethics, where it is found that students' attitudes were poor. Some strategies are suggested to improve engineering ethical education in engineering programmes.
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