Shivani Dharanipragada ‘25, is a computer science and economics major and was a 2022-23 environmental ethics fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. As Earth’s climate ...

In practice when we are faced with an ethical dilemma, we seldom think it through from first principles. We usually draw on existing experience and past judgments. Making a sound ethical judgment is ...

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 ...

The University of Washington College of Engineering is offering a day course, Applied Engineering Ethics, on Feb. 5. The course examines case studies of ethical challenges based on interviews with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ethics in STEM is a research area that focuses on the critical ethical dimensions of our designed and engineered world. We seek to challenge various cultural assumptions about what ethics is and how ...

News Ethics Journals A sampling of relatively new journals related to science, medical, and engineering ethics that have started in the past seven years: Cambridge Quarterly Journal of Healthcare ...

The sole professional practice and engineering ethics witness that attorneys had planned to have testify against the consulting engineers in the 2015 Flint, Mich., water crisis negligence trial has ...

Clancy Herbst, who studied engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, hadn’t attended a philosophy seminar until he was in his 60s and his wife, Linda Herbst, suggested he join her for one.