Teaching Ethics in the Context of Engineering Courses: A Blended Approach of Theory and Practice

Developing and Applying Knowledge and Skills in Ethics and Professional Morality: An Evidence-based Practice Paper

“…These modules will be available online so they may be assigned in a "blended" style classroom that reserves classroom time for crucial interaction between faculty and students. The blended classroom method has shown to be effective in this context for this purpose [25] .…”

Integrating Ethics into the Curriculum Through Design Courses

“…They recommend the inclusion of ethical theory course content that specifically includes this concept, as students do not gain this understanding through a typical case study based curriculum. This and other studies make a case for supplementing case study instruction with ethical instruction that is more closely tied with course content and every day decisions [5,10,11,12]. The use of case study examples where there is a correct answer and where there is a clear tragic outcome or heroic action suggests that ethical decisions are a once in a career event of major consequence.…”

“…Pfieffer and Billiar [10] note that different well-developed ethical theories can result in equally valid opposing decisions. They recommend the inclusion of ethical theory course content that specifically includes this concept, as students do not gain this understanding through a typical case study based curriculum.…”

“…So, how can this best be included in an engineering curriculum? Herkert [6] recommends that systematic inclusion of ethics within a curriculum is required, and studies have shown the effectiveness of across-the-curriculum models [10,11]. Survey results have also shown that faculty support ethics inclusion in multiple courses, and propose that ethics inclusion only in freshmen and senior classes can be detrimental by isolating ethics from the technical content, implying that students should prioritize the technical over the ethical [3,19].…”