Designing Ethics: Exploring the Integration of Ethics into Engineering Curricula

Catalog description

Many engineering challenges contain thorny moral questions, yet ethical considerations are often secondary. In fact, nationwide ethics is rarely addressed in standard engineering disciplinary courses at Duke or elsewhere. This course seeks provide a blueprint and testing ground for addressing this gap. Students will work to research best practices from the educational and private sectors. Incorporating those insights with a study of the landscape of Engineering design education at Duke, students will design interventions that may be deployed in Duke Engineering classes. Graduate students will take a leadership role in the classroom and on projects. Instructor consent required.