FIGURE 1: Business decisions are made for a variety of reasons, including the cost of construction, energy costs, operating costs, owner preferences, past experiences, and industry trends, just to ...

Engineers uphold and advance the integrity, honor, and dignity of the profession by using their knowledge and skills for the enhancement of human welfare, by being honest and impartial, by serving ...

The precept session was just getting underway when Jay Benziger started raising questions. “Should engineers always make a product failure-proof?” (“Impossible,” one student said.) “Is an engineer who ...

When most people think of engineering courses, they imagine complex equations or intricate machines. To Rich Eva, director of the Pratt School of Engineering’s Character Forward Initiative, ...

New research is being conducted to explore how engineers understand and navigate ethics on a day-to-day basis, prompting questions about how ethics education can be improved. Engineering disasters are ...

Engineering ethics education has evolved into a fundamental component of modern engineering curricula, bridging the gap between technical expertise and moral responsibility. This discipline seeks to ...

Michael McFarland, SJ, computer scientist and Jesuit priest, talks about why ethics is important for engineers and the impact of his Jesuit education on his interest in the human dimension of ...

Before there was Google, there was the Online Ethics Center. Roughly 25 years ago, the late philosopher of science, technology and medicine Caroline Whitbeck founded the center at the Massachusetts ...

Brian Patrick Green is the director of Technology Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. There are many ways to integrate ethical education into the software ...

Mark Moujabber, a fourth-year mechanical engineering and mechanics major, and Sean Rassa, a second-year electrical and computer engineering major, made a strong showing at the 7th annual Lockheed ...