New research is being conducted to explore how engineers understand and navigate ethics on a day-to-day basis, prompting questions about how ethics education can be improved. Engineering disasters are ...

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 ...

The Certificate Program in Engineering, Ethics & Society welcomes students from across the College of Engineering and Applied Science. The certificate prepares students to: Develop an ethical ...

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 ...

No training in ethical theory, applied ethics, or philosophy is required for either the instructor or the students as they tackle these materials.This ethics module for software engineering courses ...

According to its mission statement, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) is an organization that “serves the public through the promotion and advancement of engineering ...

The Herbst Program of Humanities in Engineering was launched 30 years ago through the vision and generosity of donors Clancy and Linda (Vitti) Herbst. Since then, the Herbst Program has been helping ...

Any engineering artifact—a bridge, software or something seemingly as simple as an electrical switch—can unintentionally cause harm. So engineering students need to think about the ethical aspects of ...

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 ...

This article originally appeared on Pacific Standard magazine’s website. When Irina Raicu first read about a new software program designed to take just a few details about a person, such as gender and ...