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SE = structural engineering? That's cool, I'm glad your discipline is receiving some ethical training. I've never heard of any CS program including any sort of

by MFLoon 7y ago

SE = structural engineering? That's cool, I'm glad your discipline is receiving some ethical training. I've never heard of any CS program including any sort of engineering or general ethics courses in their curricula.

TickleSteve 7y ago
My CS degree certainly did from University of Manchester. Its also my understanding that most do. BTW: SE typically means Software Engineering in this context.
tofof 7y ago
Every single CS baccalaureate degree from the University of Illinois has required from at least 2005[1] a mandatory engineering ethics course (CS 210). Note that the UofI has always been in the top ten nationally for CS; its 2020 rank is #6 (behind MIT, CMU, UCBerkeley, Georgia Inst. of Tech, and Stanford). 1: 2005: https://web.archive.org/web/20050321215749/http://courses.uiuc.edu/cis/programs/urbana/2004/fall/undergrad/engin/comp_sci.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050321215749/http://courses.ui... 2: 2019: https://cs.illinois.edu/academics/undergraduate/degree-program-options/bs-computer-science https://cs.illinois.edu/academics/undergraduate/degree-progr...
uxp100 7y ago
Yeah, as others said, by SE I meant software engineering. Lots of overlapping acronyms, I usually don't use them, but in this context I thought I'd get away with it. I liked my ethics course in the philosophy department, but that's more about J.S. Mill, and Kant and the rest. Engineering ethics was a course any Eng. degree had to take, interesting, but hard to apply also. You go through case studies and look at them, but to have any productive class discussion they kinda have to be broken down to be at least somewhat clear and concise. I don't feel like getting into here, but I feel like even this Boeing issue, which is pretty clear, is less clear than any case study in a textbook.

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SE = structural engineering? That's cool, I'm glad your discipline is receiving some ethical training. I've never heard of any CS program including any sort of

by MFLoon 7y ago

TickleSteve 7y ago
My CS degree certainly did from University of Manchester. Its also my understanding that most do. BTW: SE typically means Software Engineering in this context.
tofof 7y ago
Every single CS baccalaureate degree from the University of Illinois has required from at least 2005[1] a mandatory engineering ethics course (CS 210). Note that the UofI has always been in the top ten nationally for CS; its 2020 rank is #6 (behind MIT, CMU, UCBerkeley, Georgia Inst. of Tech, and Stanford). 1: 2005: https://web.archive.org/web/20050321215749/http://courses.uiuc.edu/cis/programs/urbana/2004/fall/undergrad/engin/comp_sci.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050321215749/http://courses.ui... 2: 2019: https://cs.illinois.edu/academics/undergraduate/degree-program-options/bs-computer-science https://cs.illinois.edu/academics/undergraduate/degree-progr...
uxp100 7y ago
Yeah, as others said, by SE I meant software engineering. Lots of overlapping acronyms, I usually don't use them, but in this context I thought I'd get away with it. I liked my ethics course in the philosophy department, but that's more about J.S. Mill, and Kant and the rest. Engineering ethics was a course any Eng. degree had to take, interesting, but hard to apply also. You go through case studies and look at them, but to have any productive class discussion they kinda have to be broken down to be at least somewhat clear and concise. I don't feel like getting into here, but I feel like even this Boeing issue, which is pretty clear, is less clear than any case study in a textbook.