An Integrated approach of ethics and professional issues into engeneering curriculum.
The most common method used in the majority of higher education institutions remain to teach ethic as a standalone course. However, the courses currently offered appear insufficient to provide the students with the necessary ethics education needed by a practicing engineer. Hence, the need for some...
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iium-14142012-05-24T07:11:44Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/1414/ An Integrated approach of ethics and professional issues into engeneering curriculum. Hrairi, Meftah Khalifa, Othman Omran TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) The most common method used in the majority of higher education institutions remain to teach ethic as a standalone course. However, the courses currently offered appear insufficient to provide the students with the necessary ethics education needed by a practicing engineer. Hence, the need for some additional education in engineering ethics is a logical and obvious solution. There are two dilemmas to be faced: how to fit this into the curriculum, and how to make what it teaches into a routine part engineering? One way of answering these two questions is to teach engineering ethics in a way that brings home how integral it is to engineering work and avoid the addition of new ethics courses. If engineering ethics pervade the curriculum, then ethics will become a routine part of what engineerini students have to think about. In this paper, an integration approach of ethics and professional issue into some engineering courses is proposed. IIUM Press 2009 Book Chapter PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/1414/1/An_integration_approach_of_ethics_and_proffesional_issues_into_engineering_curriculum.pdf Hrairi, Meftah and Khalifa, Othman Omran (2009) An Integrated approach of ethics and professional issues into engeneering curriculum. In: Ethics of engineering education. IIUM Press, Kuala Lumpur, pp. 275-281. ISBN 9789833855674 http://rms.research.iium.edu.my/bookstore/Products/97-wwwgooglecom.aspx |
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The most common method used in the majority of higher education institutions remain to teach ethic as a standalone course. However, the courses currently offered appear insufficient to provide the students with the necessary ethics education needed by a practicing engineer. Hence, the need for some additional education in engineering ethics is a logical and obvious solution. There are two dilemmas to be faced: how to fit this into the curriculum, and how to make what it teaches into a routine part engineering? One way of answering these two questions is to teach engineering ethics in a way that brings home how integral it is to engineering work and avoid the addition of new ethics courses. If engineering ethics pervade the curriculum, then ethics will become a routine part of what engineerini students have to think about. In this paper, an integration approach of ethics and professional issue into some engineering courses is proposed. |
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An Integrated approach of ethics and professional issues into engeneering curriculum. |
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An Integrated approach of ethics and professional issues into engeneering curriculum. |
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An Integrated approach of ethics and professional issues into engeneering curriculum. |
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