Mitchell, John E;
Lord, Susan;
(2024)
Ethical issues in electronic and electrical engineering.
In: Chance, Shannon and Børsen, Tom and Martin, Diana and Tormey, Roland and Lennerfors, Thomas Taro and Bombaerts, Gunter, (eds.)
The Routledge International Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education.
(pp. 285-303).
Routledge: London.
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Abstract
This chapter considers ethical issues in electronic and electrical engineering (EEE). Often, engineering ethics courses and cases consider general topics that might seem abstract to EEE students focusing on, for example, contracts or construction projects. Countering this trend, the chapter discusses examples that seem to resonate with EEE students and help them perceive ethics as relevant to their lives and professional practices. The authors summarize the literature on ethics specific to electronic and electrical engineering education, including courses, discussions of professional responsibility connected to codes of ethics, and examples of integrating ethical considerations into specific technical EEE courses. They highlight ethical issues that instructors can use to incorporate ethics education into their curricula, beginning with specific problematic examples from EEE culture, such as racist and sexist language and artifacts, and then moving to broader issues in the field. The chapter identifies discipline-specific issues that teachers may be inspired to incorporate into their classes to enhance the ethical knowledge of EEE students and practitioners.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Ethical issues in electronic and electrical engineering |
| ISBN-13: | 9781003464259 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003464259 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003464259 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This chapter has been made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200978 |
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