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Inadequate ethical conditioning can undermine the credibility of individuals and institutions. Fortunately, the professional staff of the Hanson Center for Technical Communication have devised a series of innovative workouts for the ethically winded. These workouts, consisting of writing–intensive exercises integrated into department-level and core curriculum courses at The University of Iowa’s College of Engineering, challenge students to revitalize lazy arguments, pursue accuracy to the point of exhaustion, and recognize that there are few (if any) merely technical decisions. In addition, we encourage students to visit the Hanson Center for one-on-one sessions with our peer consultants: fellow students who serve as role models for tackling the rhetorical challenges of engineering. Although the regimen of activities at the Hanson Center defies simple categorization, the Center’s ethic of “no pain, no gain” means simply that there are no short cuts to good writing or public speaking, and that the process of drafting, obtaining feedback, and revising is part of an overall exercise in ethical behavior that enables engineers to balance their responsibility to themselves, their profession, and the world. Background Mission Now in its 14th year of service, the Hanson Center is an endowed writing program within the College of Engineering. Centrally located in the College’s Student Commons, the Center is the scene for hundreds of one-on-one and team tutorial sessions each year (1201 in AY 2013-14). This level of traffic suggests that the Center is an ideal forum for modeling the practice of technical communication—particularly when students and tutors share the same disciplinespecific interests and aspirations. The Hanson Center supports, creates, and delivers writing-intensive assignments across the engineering curriculum. Working closely with faculty, the Center provides verbal feedback and written evaluations to hundreds of engineering students each semester. Our goal as a writing center is to train students to not only purge their writing of vagueness and hyperbole but to consider “the global” import of their communications. Have they addressed the key questions they were tasked to answer? Have they considered the needs and expectations of their audience? And above all, have they behaved ethically as writers? In the quest for good grades, it is easy for students to forget that the field of engineering holds its members to the highest standards of excellence. Given this reality, the Hanson Center devotes the majority of its time training students to display and interpret data, to view problems from multiple perspectives, to make clear and unbiased recommendations, and to give credit where credit is due.

Ethical Aerobics: Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace