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 ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

The goal of engineering design is to address physical needs using practical, analytical, and technical skills to develop robust, efficient, and appropriate solutions. Unlike many of the calculations ...

Engineering ethics education has evolved into a fundamental component of modern engineering curricula, bridging the gap between technical expertise and moral responsibility. This discipline seeks to ...

As engineers, our creations have an immeasurable effect on the world, often one that continues to evolve after us in unimaginable ways. From bridges that tragically collapse to robots that are used as ...

Technology is constantly evolving and so is engineering education. Secules, who teaches the new Foundations of Interdisciplinary Engineering course, instills in his students the notion that the class ...

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 ...

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 ...

Engineers seek to produce robust, effective, efficient, safe, and creative solutions to world problems. One dimension of design that cannot be numerically analyzed or calculated, however, is the ...

Mark Moujabber, a fourth-year mechanical engineering and mechanics major, and Sean Rassa, a second-year electrical and computer engineering major, made a strong showing at the 7th annual Lockheed ...

Engineering ethics, like medical ethics, has become a branch of the larger field of practical and professional ethics. Engineers first formulated ethical norms specifically for engineering practice in ...