Ethics

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