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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

April 24, 2023: GAITHERSBURG, Maryland – The Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), the world’s leading professional society for fire protection and fire safety engineering, announces a new ...

Humans are not inherently born with ethics. Instead, these moral principles are instilled through our environment. A part of that environment is education and the values taught through schooling. Here ...

This article originally appeared on Pacific Standard magazine’s website. When Irina Raicu first read about a new software program designed to take just a few details about a person, such as gender and ...

Revisions includes more guidance for instructors who want to use the materials in one, two, or three class periods, as well as an extended bibliography. Writing in 1999, in an article titled “ABET’s ...

An interdisciplinary pair of RIT students is headed to Bethesda, Md., to participate in the 2023 Lockheed Martin Ethics in Engineering Case Competition. Emma Nastro, a third-year museum studies ...

According to its mission statement, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) is an organization that “serves the public through the promotion and advancement of engineering ...

Two Virginia Tech researchers, who previously worked together to expose lead contamination in Washington, D.C. drinking water, are developing an interdisciplinary graduate engineering and science ...

We’re well-positioned for the tough questions of the future, thanks to a history of looking beyond the technical The rise of generative artificial intelligence has shone a spotlight on the need for ...