TY - JOUR
T1 - Teaching Engineering Ethics to PhD Students
T2 - A Berkeley–Delft Initiative: Commentary on “Ethics Across the Curriculum: Prospects for Broader (and Deeper) Teaching and Learning in Research and Engineering Ethics”
AU - Taebi, Behnam
AU - Kastenberg, William E.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - A joint effort by the University of California at Berkeley and Delft University of Technology to develop a graduate engineering ethics course for PhD students encountered two types of challenges: academic and institutional. Academically, long-term collaborative research efforts between engineering and philosophy faculty members might be needed before successful engineering ethics courses can be initiated; the teaching of ethics to engineering graduate students and collaborative research need to go hand-in-hand. Institutionally, both bottom-up approaches at the level of the faculty and as a joint research and teaching effort, and top-down approaches that include recognition by a University’s administration and the top level of education management, are needed for successful and sustainable efforts to teach engineering ethics.
AB - A joint effort by the University of California at Berkeley and Delft University of Technology to develop a graduate engineering ethics course for PhD students encountered two types of challenges: academic and institutional. Academically, long-term collaborative research efforts between engineering and philosophy faculty members might be needed before successful engineering ethics courses can be initiated; the teaching of ethics to engineering graduate students and collaborative research need to go hand-in-hand. Institutionally, both bottom-up approaches at the level of the faculty and as a joint research and teaching effort, and top-down approaches that include recognition by a University’s administration and the top level of education management, are needed for successful and sustainable efforts to teach engineering ethics.
KW - Academic challenges
KW - Engineering ethics
KW - Institutional challenges
KW - Teaching ethics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84978159478&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cfef8ba9-de6f-41a4-946b-f4d9f629d788
U2 - 10.1007/s11948-016-9809-7
DO - 10.1007/s11948-016-9809-7
M3 - Article
SN - 1353-3452
SP - 1
EP - 8
JO - Science and Engineering Ethics
JF - Science and Engineering Ethics
ER -