Is engineering ethics optional?
Stephan, Karl D. Page(s): 6-12, 20(4), 2001 In this paper, Karl Stephan, of the Department of Engineering and Technology at Texas State University-San Marcos, argues that engineering ethics is now as important to good engineering education as many of the purely technical subjects that engineers study. He shows how the rise of engineering ethics as a recognized professional discipline and the availability of a wide variety of teaching materials and methods justify inclusion of engineering ethics in any well-balanced engineering program, and concludes with examples of both stand-alone courses and ways of teaching ethics “across the curriculum.” Using history and sociology to teach engineering ethics Kline, Ronald R. Page(s): 13-20, 20(4), 2001 Ron Kline, who teaches the history of technology at Cornell University, begins with a brief history of engineering ethics in the United States. Since all case studies are essentially real or imagined histories, the popular case-study method of teac
