TY - GEN
T1 - Professional and ethical deliberation educating engineering students in responsible wellbeing
AU - Jiménez-Rodríguez, Luis O.
AU - Santiago-Román, Aidsa I.
AU - Faculty, Theology
AU - O'Neill-Carrillo, Efraín
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/12/12
Y1 - 2017/12/12
N2 - Engineering work involves constant deliberation, yet little effort is invested in most programs to provide a well-structured framework for engineering deliberation. The following paper presents how engineering students learn the virtue of professional and moral deliberation through various educational activities in the course Ethics in Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. In addition, it presents five levels of moral development that enable an assessment of students' degree of deliberative skills. The assessment results show that the activities designed for this course to improve UPRM students' deliberation skills achieved their objective. These activities could be used or modified elsewhere to suit the needs of other engineering courses and/or programs.
AB - Engineering work involves constant deliberation, yet little effort is invested in most programs to provide a well-structured framework for engineering deliberation. The following paper presents how engineering students learn the virtue of professional and moral deliberation through various educational activities in the course Ethics in Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. In addition, it presents five levels of moral development that enable an assessment of students' degree of deliberative skills. The assessment results show that the activities designed for this course to improve UPRM students' deliberation skills achieved their objective. These activities could be used or modified elsewhere to suit the needs of other engineering courses and/or programs.
KW - Engineering design
KW - Engineering ethics
KW - Ethical deliberation
KW - Moral development
KW - Professional code of ethics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85043279406&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/FIE.2017.8190680
DO - 10.1109/FIE.2017.8190680
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85043279406
T3 - Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
SP - 1
EP - 9
BT - FIE 2017 - Frontiers in Education, Conference Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 47th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2017
Y2 - 18 October 2017 through 21 October 2017
ER -