Implementation Of Ethics Education Throughout An Engineering College

The engineering community is rediscovering its roots of professionalism. During the past decade engineering education moved beyond single minded devotion to science and technology by embracing multidisciplinary studies. To complete the transition from engineering scientists back to engineering professionals, education for the next decade is focusing on incorporating ethics and social responsibility into the curriculum. Davis illuminates the nature of professional engineering; “knowing engineering ethics is as much a part of knowing how to engineer as knowing how to calculate stress or design a circuit is. Indeed, insofar as engineering is a profession, knowing how to calculate stress or design a circuit is in part knowing what the profession allows, forbids, or requires.”1