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There are engineering ethics courses?
by bigbacaloa 3y ago
There are engineering ethics courses?
- WalterBright 3y agoThere was an article 3 days ago about rampant cheating in an ethics class. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36082650 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36082650
- 0xffff2 3y agoIt's a single one-term course in most universities I believe, but engineering ethics is a required subject for ABET-accredited (the standard in the US) engineering degrees.
- dgoldstein0 3y agoI was not required to take such a course, but it did exist in our catalog. I suspect the main requirement was actually fulfilled by a ~week or two in the intro course, where we talked about Therac-25 and maybe another disaster or two.
- is_true 3y agoEngineering and society. that was the name in my college