Engineering Education needs to address both current and future economic, social and environmental challenges. An understanding of ethics, ethical decision making and responsibilities becomes a necessary tool for the global engineer, which helps support his/her day-to-day activities, as well as international policy making.
Objectives
- Establish a network of educators and practicing engineers who want to develop ethics education
- Stimulate discussion, opinion formation and decision making about the needs and opportunities for ethics in the engineering curricula
- Share experiences, practices, developments and teaching resources in ethics and ethical leadership education
Activities
- Organisation of themed workshops at the SEFI Annual Conference
- Organisation of themed workshops or seminars during the whole year
- Joint research and publications in the field of Engineering Ethics Education
- Reporting on congresses, conferences or different meetings that take place all over the world, related to the ethics of engineering and engineering ethics education
- Preparation the SEFI Ethics Special Interest Group Newsletter
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