Ethics and the UN Sustainable Development Goals: The Case for Comprehensive Engineering: Commentary on “Using Student Engagement to Relocate Ethics to the Core of the Engineering Curriculum”

van den Hoven, M.J.

doi:10.1007/s11948-016-9862-2

Ethics and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Title

Ethics and the UN Sustainable Development Goals: The Case for Comprehensive Engineering: Commentary on “Using Student Engagement to Relocate Ethics to the Core of the Engineering Curriculum”

Author

van den Hoven, M.J. (TU Delft Values Technology and Innovation)

Department

Values Technology and Innovation

Date

2016

Abstract

In the twenty-first century, the urgent problems the world is facing (the UN Sustainable Development Goals) are increasingly related to vast and intricate ‘systems of systems’, which comprise both socio-technical and eco-systems. In order for engineers to adequately and responsibly respond to these problems, they cannot focus on only one technical or any other aspect in isolation, but must adopt a wider and multidisciplinary perspective of these systems, including an ethical and social perspective. Engineering curricula should therefore focus on what we call ‘comprehensive engineering’. Comprehensive engineering implies ethical coherence, consilience of scientific disciplines, and cooperation between parties.

Subject

Comprehensive engineering
Engineering ethics
Global systems science
Responsible research and innovation
Sustainable development
Sustainable development goals

To reference this document use:

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:298e937a-7b26-4948-9ca6-30c68a3ac3a8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-016-9862-2

ISSN

1353-3452

Source

Science & Engineering Ethics, 1-9

Part of collection

Institutional Repository