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, responsibility and societal engagement in the engineering curricula
- Share experiences, practices, developments and teaching resources in ethics and ethical leadership education
- Develop projects, collaborations, and initiatives to foster the development and worldwide adoption of engineering ethics education
- Advance how engineering ethics is conceptualised and implemented in engineering education, accreditation requirements and professional codes
Activities
- Organisation of themed workshops at the SEFI Annual Conference
- Organisation of themed workshops, seminars and a two day spring symposium during the whole year
- Joint research and publications in the field of Engineering Ethics Education, such as the Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education Research, and an international comparative research study on ethics in accreditation
- Editing the SEFI Ethics Special Interest Group Newsletter and thematic opinion pieces
- Facilitating the development of international research groups on specific themes of engineering ethics education: accreditation, emotions. Feel welcome to contact the co-chairs to propose new thematic projects
- Capacity building in engineering ethics education, with a current focus on Eastern Europe
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