Whose Words Can We Trust?: Prime's Modules For Teaching And Assessing Undergraduate Learning In Information Ethics

Abstract

Most undergraduate engineering programs in the United States face a common problem in designing curricula that develop students' professional responsibilities as well as their mathematical, scientific, and technical skills. As Thomas K. Grose explains, 1 ABET's EC 2000 standards, which require that graduates possess such skills as "an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility," 2 pose particular challenges to engineering faculty, who typically resist the kind of course content associated with liberal arts. Grose also notes a complementary "hurdle" of humanities and social science professors' reluctance to form interdisciplinary teams with engineers.