Teaching Engineering Ethics to PhD Students: A Berkeley–Delft Initiative: Commentary on “Ethics Across the Curriculum: Prospects for Broader (and Deeper) Teaching and Learning in Research and Engineering Ethics”

Taebi, B.; Kastenberg, William E.

doi:10.1007/s11948-016-9809-7

Teaching Engineering Ethics to PhD Students

Title

Teaching Engineering Ethics to PhD Students: A Berkeley–Delft Initiative: Commentary on “Ethics Across the Curriculum: Prospects for Broader (and Deeper) Teaching and Learning in Research and Engineering Ethics”

Author

Taebi, B. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology; Harvard University)
Kastenberg, William E. (University of California)

Date

2016

Abstract

A joint effort by the University of California at Berkeley and Delft University of Technology to develop a graduate engineering ethics course for PhD students encountered two types of challenges: academic and institutional. Academically, long-term collaborative research efforts between engineering and philosophy faculty members might be needed before successful engineering ethics courses can be initiated; the teaching of ethics to engineering graduate students and collaborative research need to go hand-in-hand. Institutionally, both bottom-up approaches at the level of the faculty and as a joint research and teaching effort, and top-down approaches that include recognition by a University’s administration and the top level of education management, are needed for successful and sustainable efforts to teach engineering ethics.

Subject

Academic challenges
Engineering ethics
Institutional challenges
Teaching ethics

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-016-9809-7

ISSN

1353-3452

Source

Science & Engineering Ethics, 1-8

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