Teaching engineering ethics: a dissenting voice

Lawlor, Rob

doi:10.1080/22054952.2021.1925404

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“…It presupposes a bottom-up approach towards societal change, yet the military origins of engineering imposed top-down hierarchical processes that reinforce the status quo of current power relations over the public good (McGowan & Bell, 2020). For example, case studies have a diminished focus on power relations, ensuring equity, empowering individuals, fostering a dissenting voice, criticizing the profession and professional institutions, or addressing the "structural issues affecting an engineer's agency" (Martin et al, 2021b, p.55;Rottmann & Reeve, 2020;Morrison, 2020;Lawlor, 2021). Following Huckle (2017, p.70), it can be argued that the social oriented engineering education can do better in conveying "powerful knowledge" that would expose students to reflection on "the structures and processes at work in the world that lead to injustice, a lack of democracy, and a failure to realise sustainable forms of development," as well as the "ideology that masks these structures and processes."…”

Section: The Social Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pedagogical Orientations and Evolving Responsibilities of Technological Universities: A Literature Review of the History of Engineering Education

Martin,

Bombaerts,

Horst

et al. 2023

Sci Eng Ethics

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Current societal changes and challenges demand a broader role of technological universities, thus opening the question of how their role evolved over time and how to frame their current responsibility. In response to urgent calls for debating and redefining the identity of contemporary technological universities, this paper has two aims. The first aim is to identify the key characteristics and orientations marking the development of technological universities, as recorded in the history of engineering education. The second aim is to articulate the responsibility of contemporary technological universities given their different orientations and characteristics. For this, we first provide a non-systematic literature review of the key pedagogical orientations of technological universities, grounded in the history of engineering education. The five major orientations of technological universities presented in the paper are technical, economic, social, political, and ecological. We then use this historical survey to articulate the responsibilities of contemporary technological universities reflecting the different orientations. Technological universities can promote and foster the development of scientific, professional, civic, legal, or intra- and inter- generational responsibility. We argue that responsibility is not specific to any particular orientation, such that the concept is broadened to complement each orientation or mix of orientations of a technological university. Our contribution thus serves as a call for technological universities to self-reflect on their mission and identity, by offering a lens for identifying the orientations they currently foster and making explicit the responsibility arising from their current orientation or the ones they strive to cultivate.

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Section: The Social Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pedagogical Orientations and Evolving Responsibilities of Technological Universities: A Literature Review of the History of Engineering Education

Martin,

Bombaerts,

Horst

et al. 2023

Sci Eng Ethics

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“…Funding resources from universities and governments are an important support to continuously promote teachers' innovative educational practice. Teachers' career development opportunities also include the adequacy of teachers' access to teacher training opportunities (Lawlor, 2021 ). GI EEE must strengthen the construction of teaching resources of GI EEE.…”

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Enhancing engineering ethics education (EEE) for green intelligent manufacturing: Implementation performance evaluation of core mechanism of green intelligence EEE

Yin

Zhang

2022

Front. Psychol.

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The characteristics of green intelligent (GI) engineering ethics emphasize the necessity of GI engineering ethics education (EEE). The ethics education of GI engineering is in the development stage, and it is urgent to fully understand the significance of evaluating the development of GI EEE. Only based on the GI manufacturing situation system to understand the implementation status of the core education of EEE can we objectively grasp the improvement space of GI EEE. In this study, the corresponding indicators were selected from three dimensions of cultivation education, collaborative education, and situational education to form the element community of evaluation indicators. The fuzzy analytic hierarchy process and the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method were used to empirically evaluate the implementation of the key mechanism of GI EEE. The results are as follows. (1) The key education of GI EEE includes cultivation education of micro dimension, collaborative education of medium dimension, and situational education of macro dimension. (2) The most important education is to strengthen the ethics education of GI engineering in the training process of college students. The coordination of GI EEE is becoming more and more important, and the integration and construction are the important pursuit of GI EEE. (3) The cultivation education, collaborative education, and situational education of GI EEE are all at a general level. (4) There is not only a gap between theory and practice in GI EEE but also insufficient attention to localization and coordination issues. The willingness of the government to participate in the ethical education of GI engineering is very insufficient. The optimized space of training education includes teaching cases and full-cycle ethical education.

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“…Teachers prepare students and they must be sure that the students know the targets of learning activities (Mäkiö et al, 2021). Arguing that it should not aim to cover all the ethical issues an engineer may have to consider, but rather aim to equip students with relevant skills (Lawlor, 2021). Innovation and design teaching is a major responsibility for teachers (Turcsányi-Szabó , 2012).…”

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Enhancing Online Practical Courses in Mechanical Engineering: Development and Analysis of Innovative Methods

Gabsi,

Mathlouthi,

Ben Aissa

2023

JMEE

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This research paper introduces three innovative approaches for delivering online practical courses in the field of mechanical engineering. With the increasing popularity of eLearning platforms, educators have been encouraged to adapt their teaching methods accordingly. However, teaching practical mechanical engineering courses online has posed significant challenges due to the reliance on machinery and hands-on equipment. This study represents a pioneering effort in proposing new methods to address these difficulties. The primary goals of this research are to establish the feasibility of conducting practical courses online and to provide solutions for enhancing the quality of such courses. To achieve these objectives, the study focuses on the development, application, and analysis of pedagogical approaches, virtual tools, and simulation software. The research was carried out with three student groups enrolled in two Tunisian Higher Institutes of Technological Studies. Based on the evaluations of these experiences, the implementation of new methodologies has led to a significant improvement in students' practical skills.

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Teaching engineering ethics: a dissenting voice

Cited by 4 publications

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Pedagogical Orientations and Evolving Responsibilities of Technological Universities: A Literature Review of the History of Engineering Education

Pedagogical Orientations and Evolving Responsibilities of Technological Universities: A Literature Review of the History of Engineering Education

Enhancing engineering ethics education (EEE) for green intelligent manufacturing: Implementation performance evaluation of core mechanism of green intelligence EEE

Enhancing Online Practical Courses in Mechanical Engineering: Development and Analysis of Innovative Methods

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