Open AccessA SHORT ONLINE COURSE TARGETING PROFESSIONALISM, THE IMPACT OF ENGINEERING ON SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, AND ETHICS AND EQUITY
Author(s) -
Nasim Razavinia,
Laurent Mydlarski
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
proceedings of the ... ceea conference
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2371-5243
DOI - 10.24908/pceea.vi0.14171
Subject(s) - equity (law) , engineering ethics , curriculum , relevance (law) , online course , medical education , engineering management , engineering , psychology , political science , pedagogy , mathematics education , medicine , law
Understanding the role and responsibilities of Professional Engineers is of immediate relevance to those who aspire to enter the profession. These obligations most prominently manifest themselves in three of the twelve graduate attributes: Professionalism; the Impact of engineering on society and the environment; and Ethics and equity. Following an analysis of the curriculum map of programs that was performed as part of the CEAB-mandated Continual Improvement process at McGill University, it was concluded that our students could benefit from additional training in the aforementioned three graduate attributes. To this end, a required, 0-credit, online course was created to further expose and train Engineering students in all programs on these three important topics. The present paper will i) review the motivation behind the creation of this new course, ii) describe the evolution of its format and design, and iii) discuss the course’s contents and implementation.