There is an increasing attention to ethics in engineering practice. Engineers are supposed not only to carry out their work competently and skilfully, but also to be aware of the broader ethical and social implications of engineering and to be able to reflect on these. According to the Engineering Criteria 2000 of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) in the US, engineers must have “an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility” and should "understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context.”
This course provides an introduction to ethics in engineering and technology. It helps engineers and students in engineering to acquire the competences mentioned in the ABET criteria or comparable criteria formulated in other countries. More specifically, this course helps engineers to acquire the following moral competencies:
- Moral sensibility: the ability to recognize social and ethical issues in engineering;
- Moral analysis skills: the ability to analyse moral problems in terms of facts, values, stakeholders and their interests;
- Moral creativity: the ability to think out different options for action in the light of (conflicting) moral values and the relevant facts;
- Moral judgement skills: the ability to give a moral judgement on the basis of different ethical theories or frameworks including professional ethics and common sense morality;
- Moral decision-making skills: the ability to reflect on different ethical theories and frameworks and to make a decision based on that reflection.
With respect to these competencies, our focus is on the concrete moral problems that engineers encounter in their professional practice. With the help of concrete cases is shown how the decision to develop a technology, as well as the process of design and production, is inherently moral. The attention of the learners is drawn towards the specific moral choices that engineers face. In relation to these concrete choices learners will encounter different reasons for and against certain actions, and they will discover that these reasons can be discussed. In this way, learners become aware of the moral dimensions of technology and acquire the argumentative capacities that are needed in moral debates with stakeholders (e.g. governments, users, and commercial business departments).
Status: Engineering Practices
Engineering Practices
Status: Ethical Standards And Conduct
Ethical Standards And Conduct
Beginner·Course·19 hours
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5.0
·Reviewed Aug 25, 2020
A truly amazing course on Ethics in Engineering. I thoroughly enjoyed every concept of this course. I would highly recommend every engineer to complete this course.
5.0
·Reviewed Feb 14, 2021
Explaination and quiz are good enough to learn and undestand.
5.0
·Reviewed May 27, 2022
Great course. I didnt expect that this course could bring me a lot of important information and knowledge. The topics are absolutelly great and the material and methodology is remarkable.
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 4, 2023
A really well designed course that provides critical and ethical thinking in area that greatly impacts our daily lives and significantly influences our future.
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 23, 2019
Great introductory course. This should be a must for every aspiring engineer or technology practitioner to get each in contact with one's humanity
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 9, 2022
I have got a very wonderful experience and knowledge by learning this courseThank you so much
4.0
·Reviewed Jul 11, 2021
It would have been better if there were more video lectures. Apart from that the course is all good.
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 13, 2021
It's a very good course ever i saw.....Thank You for this course on this platform
5.0
·Reviewed May 1, 2023
it was a very informative and though it was hard we thank god
4.0
·Reviewed Jun 15, 2021
THIS COURSE IS VERY HELPFUL AND I KNOW BETTER ABOUT ETHICS
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 13, 2021
It was a great course that provided me with invaluable insights. Thank you!
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 8, 2022
VERY GOOD TO LEARN ETHICAL VALUES AND IT MAKES US THINK IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION OR WHEN IN DILEMMA WEATHER IS RIGHT OR NOT
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Juan
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 7, 2019
It is a excellent course, I have learned the consequences that could present if we performed a project determined of a way correctly moral and ethic. It is important to know as evolve in environment prefessionaly. Thank you. In addition, the book of Ethics, Technolgy and Engineering is very helpful in the developed of the course. I recommender it. See you soon.
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CHANDRASEKHARAN
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 13, 2020
This course changed my perception on ethics relevant to my profession. The course is useful for not only engineers but for scientists and other professionals.
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chad
1.0
·Reviewed Apr 1, 2021
Refers to text that is not provided. Questions don't align with material. Theory is not useful.
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Silviya
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 30, 2020
It is an excellent course! The materials are very well prepared and presented. The accumulation of new knowledge goes smoothly and the modules are very coherent. I had preliminary training in ethics, more precisely in bioethics and I am teaching bioethics to medical students for years. So I expected that the course would be very easy and I just wanted to up-grade knowledge to a new field. However, I was pleasantly surprised that even the concepts that were familiar to me were presented in a new way. I did learn new things and gained an insight into things that I already knew. The tests were very well prepared and balanced to the amount of theoretical texts. The examples of real cases were very appropriate and interesting. The mixture of different educational tasks was also very good. The quality of videos was excellent. I really enjoyed this course and it was one of my best educational experiences. Congratulations to the team of the Eindhoven University of Technology for developing and offering this course in Coursera! Thank you!
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CHANDRASHEKHAR
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 7, 2020
It is really a wonderful course for a beginner and also to working professionals. It assumes greater significance in the present day technology development and its influence on the way people live, their thought process, and shapes their perspective. However, the irony is that not much attention is paid about virtues, morality, norms and legal awareness in the formative phase of human development. The course is an eye opener for all professionals and definitely help he/she to think in a different way after getting through the course. I really appreciate the efforts of the faculty in shaping and delivering such a course. ans also thank them profusely for providing such a course in such a lucid way.
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Dan
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 28, 2022
I feel like my only complaint would be that I just wish that I could reach out to the instructor. I also feel that open discussions seem to be limited in that it requires people to be active. It doesn't seem to be active enough unfortunately, and thus I can't really push myself to the fullest.
There were a few things that threw me off. There are strict rights and wrongs with each test, but I felt alot of it was more open ended than not.
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Christian
5.0
·Reviewed Dec 14, 2019
Fascinating and interesting course on ethics in combination with technology applied to engineering practices which was challenging but a great learning experience!
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Sumant
2.0
·Reviewed Jul 27, 2020
This course is compilation of only one book content, It required updation to includes few more sources (books).
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Debanjan
2.0
·Reviewed Mar 16, 2022
Lots of mandetory quizes and long answer questions
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Kirill
1.0
·Reviewed Jan 7, 2024
Bureaucracy and bullshit
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OSAMA
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·Reviewed Oct 22, 2024
bad course
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ioannis
1.0
·Reviewed Oct 17, 2023
bad
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Maliha
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 1, 2020
It is a comprehensive course and taught in a very well manner. The case study approach of teaching is very suitable and relevant with respect to the course content. I enjoy learning. Excellent work !
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Braulio
5.0
·Reviewed May 28, 2022
Great course. I didnt expect that this course could bring me a lot of important information and knowledge. The topics are absolutelly great and the material and methodology is remarkable.
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Carmela
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 20, 2020
I really enjoyed taking this course. Most of the modules require critical thinking skills that I think helped me develop in terms of getting the proper approach to the questions.
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MEHMET
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 22, 2024
A wonderful training program that teaches you how to approach life and every situation you may encounter in a correct and systematic way. I definitely recommend it.
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Kiran
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 26, 2020
A truly amazing course on Ethics in Engineering. I thoroughly enjoyed every concept of this course. I would highly recommend every engineer to complete this course.
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Rowan
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 5, 2023
A really well designed course that provides critical and ethical thinking in area that greatly impacts our daily lives and significantly influences our future.
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Gerard
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 24, 2019
Great introductory course. This should be a must for every aspiring engineer or technology practitioner to get each in contact with one's humanity
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David
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 22, 2022
Great course. Great information, and well laid out. Even with some training in ethics and technology I learned plenty of new material.
