McCullough, C. L. (2023, March), Engineering Ethics Education: Why a Liberal Arts Ethics Class is Not Sufficient for Tomorrow’s Engineers  Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--45004

\bibitem{asee_peer_45004}
  McCullough, C. L. (2023, March), \emph{Engineering Ethics Education: Why a Liberal Arts Ethics Class is Not Sufficient for Tomorrow’s Engineers}
  Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia.
  10.18260/1-2--45004

Claire Lynne McCullough.  "Engineering Ethics Education: Why a Liberal Arts Ethics Class is Not Sufficient for Tomorrow’s Engineers".  ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 2023, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://strategy.asee.org/45004 Internet.  14 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_45004}
  Claire Lynne McCullough.
  "Engineering Ethics Education: Why a Liberal Arts Ethics Class is Not Sufficient for Tomorrow’s Engineers".
  \emph{ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 2023, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://strategy.asee.org/45004 Internet.  14 May, 2024

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AB  - While ethics has always been a concern for the engineering community, there has been a continual debate among engineering educators as to whether it was necessary to have some sort of dedicated engineering ethics curriculum, or whether ethics education could be safely left to the liberal arts portion of the students’ education. The growing emphasis on equity, diversity and inclusion in the ABET Engineering Accreditation Criteria has increased this dilemma for engineering educators. The author has been involved in engineering ethics education for over 15 years, both in teaching an independent engineering-only ethics course, and co-teaching a course with a classically educated philosophy professor, cross listed between engineering and philosophy departments, and certified as a General Education course. The opportunity to share the course with a philosopher provided a window, rare for an engineer, into ethics as it is taught from a liberal arts perspective. It has been the observations in this latter experience of how case studies are chosen, how they are presented, and how they are discussed from a philosophical perspective that have led the author to the view that a dedicated engineering ethics course, taught from a professional standpoint, is a necessary part of educating young engineers. The paper will include examples of such case studies and materials provided to the students, with examination of the viewpoints presented and encouraged in the class participants, along with the differences in how these case studies, materials, and viewpoints would necessarily differ from professional engineering perspectives. The paper will conclude with a discussion of how this experience has led the author to the conclusion that ethics taught from such a liberal arts point of view is not sufficient to prepare engineers for ethical professional practice, necessitating dedicated engineering ethics in the engineering curriculum.
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