Welcome to the EPC’s Engineering Ethics Toolkit. Here you will find our resource designed to help engineering educators embed ethics in teaching.
The Ethics Toolkit goes on tour
It's conference season![Read More]
13 Nov 2024
Engineering Ethics Toolkit in the news
Seen #EngineeringEthicsToolkit featured elsewhere? Let us know![Read More]
1 Nov 2024
Blog: Building a Future of Inclusion - Deaf Awareness in Engineering
Inclusivity should be embedded into the heart of engineering education.[Read More]
11 Oct 2024
Engineering Ethics: How to promote it within your institution
A few ideas to get you started.[Read More]
10 Sep 2024
Share your story about teaching Ethics
Share your story with us.[Read More]
3 Sep 2024
Blog: How Knovel can support information literacy
Navigating the digital landscape.[Read More]
7 Jun 2024
Why information literacy is an ethical issue in engineering
Navigating the digital landscape.[Read More]
5 Jun 2024
What are the top ethical issues in engineering today?
What are the top ethical issues in engineering today, and how can you incorporate these in your t...[Read More]
10 May 2024
Blog: Embedding ethics in engineering education through wide use of deaf awareness: a gateway to a more inclusive practice
Wide use of deaf awareness: a gateway to a more inclusive practice.[Read More]
22 Apr 2024
About the Engineering Ethics Toolkit
The EPC’s Engineering Ethics Toolkit is supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering. This...[Read More]
1 Feb 2024
Engineering Ethics Toolkit - Tell us your experiences
Send us your blogs and testimonials![Read More]
21 Nov 2023
Using a constructive alignment tool to plan ethics teaching
Constructively align your learning outcomes with activities & assessments.[Read More]
4 Oct 2023
How to organise class sessions using Ethics case studies
Processes to help you integrate an Ethics case study in one of your engineering class sessions.[Read More]
29 Sep 2023
Blog: Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable teaching ethics
We need to move past our discomfort in order to teach ethics in engineering.[Read More]
25 Sep 2023
SEFI Conference 2023 - Engineering ethics workshop
Our workshop at the 2023 SEFI Conference.[Read More]
20 Sep 2023
We want you! Become an Ethics Ambassador
Do you want to champion the teaching of ethics within engineering? [Read More]
28 Jul 2023
Engineering Ethics Toolkit - Educators' pack
A pack of resources to help you present and promote the Engineering Ethics Toolkit.[Read More]
18 Jul 2023
Report: Ethics in the engineering profession - Royal Academy of Engineering (2023)
Ethics in the engineering profession - Royal Academy of Engineering report.[Read More]
15 Jun 2023
Media release: Engineering Professors’ Council launches new educational resource
An online resource that helps educators to build ethics directly into their engineering teaching. [Read More]
15 Jun 2023
News: Introducing the Ethics Explorer
An interactive tool to help you navigate the landscape.[Read More]
13 Jun 2023
Blog: Help! I’m teaching Engineering Ethics for the first time!
Dr. Jude Bramton of the University of Bristol discusses her first-hand experience of using the En...[Read More]
1 Jun 2023
Blog: Letting students flex their ethical muscles
Dr Matthew Studley looks at using case studies from the Engineering Ethics Toolkit to engage stud...[Read More]
27 May 2023
Engineering Ethics - Events
Events related to the Engineering Ethics Toolkit.[Read More]
30 Mar 2023
Case study: Neuroethics of brain-computer interfaces
This case involves Aziza, a biomedical engineer working for Neuraltrix, a hypothetical company th...[Read More]
23 Mar 2023
Case study: Implementing the use of homegrown mass timber for residential housing
An early-career consultant engineer working in the area of sustainable construction. [Read More]
23 Mar 2023
A recipe for creating a case study in engineering ethics
This article sets forth a “recipe” based on recent educational scholarship that can be used to cr...[Read More]
23 Mar 2023
Case study: Financially and politically motivated misinformation about STEM research
The case involves an engineering student whose personal choices may affect her future professiona...[Read More]
23 Mar 2023
Case study: Developing a decarbonisation roadmap
This case involves an engineer who is one of the stakeholders invited by the president of Nigeria...[Read More]
23 Mar 2023
Case study: Microplastics in cosmetics
This case study involves a young engineering student on an industrial placement year at a firm th...[Read More]
23 Mar 2023
Case study: Balancing safety, costs, and the environment in the inspection of wind turbine blades
The case is based on a genuine challenge raised by a multinational energy company that operates a...[Read More]
23 Mar 2023
Case study: Recycled materials and the circular economy
This case involves an engineer responsible for verifying the source of recycled construction mate...[Read More]
23 Mar 2023
Case study: Protecting data in an auto parts production facility
This case study involves an engineer hired to develop and install an Industrial Internet of Thing...[Read More]
23 Mar 2023
Case study: Balancing risk and benefits when working with offshore contractors
This case study puts students in the shoes of an engineer who is required to select a subcontract...[Read More]
23 Mar 2023
Case study: Engineers and public protest
This case study involves an engineer who has to weigh personal values against professional codes ...[Read More]
22 Mar 2023
Case study: Feasibility of installing heat pumps at scale to reach net zero
The environmental impacts of heat pumps & the social and economic impacts on the end user. [Read More]
22 Mar 2023
Case enhancement: Industrial pollution from an ageing pipeline and its impact on local communities
Prompts to facilitate discussion activities.[Read More]
21 Mar 2023
Case enhancement: Glass safety in a heritage building conversion
This enhancement is for an activity found in the Dilemma Part two, Point 1 section of the case st...[Read More]
21 Mar 2023
Case study: Debating the adoption of nuclear energy
An early career engineer is tasked with leading the development of plans for the construction of ...[Read More]
21 Mar 2023
Case study: Aid vs trade
This case study requires a newly appointed engineer to make a decision about whether or not to se...[Read More]
21 Mar 2023
Case enhancement: Developing an internet constellation
Anatomy of an internet satellite.[Read More]
21 Mar 2023
Case enhancement: Power-to-food technologies
An ethical evaluation of the technology and its impacts.[Read More]
21 Mar 2023
Case enhancement: Water wars: managing competing water rights
Role-play the council meeting, with students playing different characters representing different ...[Read More]
21 Mar 2023
Embedding equity, diversity and inclusion into a professional engineer’s lifestyle
The three values of EDI are timeless and should be embedded into the way that engineering profess...[Read More]
20 Mar 2023
Case enhancement: Facial recognition for access and monitoring
There are several points in this case - Facial Recognition for Access and Monitoring - during whi...[Read More]
20 Mar 2023
Case enhancement: Business growth models in engineering industries within an economic system
This enhancement is for an activity found in the case study Business growth models in engineering...[Read More]
20 Mar 2023
What is ethics?
Ethics can especially be seen through engineering innovations that mean life or death.[Read More]
20 Mar 2023
Why integrate ethics in engineering?
Technology not only shapes society, but it is shaped by society too. Therefore, engineering ethic...[Read More]
20 Mar 2023
Integrating a technical feasibility debate - a new approach to engaging students in ethics in engineering
We have developed a debate activity which appears to work very well, minimising the amount of ass...[Read More]
20 Mar 2023
Universal and inclusive co-design of the built environment and the transportation systems
Every citizen must have the same equality of opportunities in using spaces because the existence ...[Read More]
20 Mar 2023
How to integrate ethics into a module or course
Ethics can and should be embedded into most modules in a natural way, giving as much or as little...[Read More]
20 Mar 2023
Case enhancement: Choosing to install a smart meter
This enhancement is for an activity found in the Dilemma Part two, Point 1 section of the case: “...[Read More]
20 Mar 2023
Tackling tough topics in discussion
Discussing ethical issues can be a daunting prospect, whether one-to-one or with an entire classr...[Read More]
20 Mar 2023
Case enhancement: Developing a school chatbot for student support services
This enhancement is for an activity found in point five of the Summary section of the case study ...[Read More]
15 Mar 2023
Blog: Engineering inclusive outcomes is a question of ethics
Prof Dawn Bonfield explains how the decisions engineers make on a daily basis can have significan...[Read More]
24 Aug 2022
Blog: Engineering Ethics Toolkit case studies in action at TEDI-London
Prof Mike Bramhall reflects on how and why he incorporated the EPC's engineering ethics case stud...[Read More]
18 Aug 2022
Contributions sought for the Engineering Ethics Toolkit
Contributions sought for the Engineering Ethics Toolkit[Read More]
18 Jul 2022
Existing ethics case study libraries
The Engineering Ethics toolkit points to existing case study libraries.[Read More]
23 Mar 2022Case Study: Developing an internet constellation
This case is about an experienced engineer leading a team at a tech start-up. [Read More]
21 Mar 2022Case study: Water wars: managing competing water rights
This case involves a situation where environmental damage may be occurring despite the mechanism ...[Read More]
21 Feb 2022
Case study: Solar panels in a desert oil field
This case requires an engineer with strong convictions about sustainable energy to make a decisio...[Read More]
21 Feb 2022
Case study: Smart homes for older people with disabilities
This case involves a software engineer who has discovered a potential data breach in a smart home...[Read More]
21 Feb 2022
Blog: Engineering Ethics Advisory Group
The Engineering Ethics Toolkit is produced by the Engineering Professors’ Council with support fr...[Read More]
21 Feb 2022Case study: Power-to-food technologies
This case involves an engineer navigating multiple demands on a work project. The engineer must e...[Read More]
21 Feb 2022Case study: Industrial pollution from an ageing pipeline and its impact on local communities
This case requires an engineer to balance multiple competing factors including: economic pressure...[Read More]
21 Feb 2022Blog: Welcome to the Engineering Ethics Toolkit
An ambitious new initiative to ensure engineering education is a force for good.[Read More]
21 Feb 2022Case study: Glass safety in a heritage building conversion
This case concerns a construction engineer navigating multiple demands. [Read More]
21 Feb 2022Case study: Facial recognition for access and monitoring
An engineer is hired to manage the development and installation of a facial recognition project.[Read More]
21 Feb 2022Case Study: Developing a school chatbot for student support services
This case study involves the employees of a small software startup that is creating a customised ...[Read More]
21 Feb 2022
Case study: Choosing a career in climate change geoengineering
This case involves a dilemma that most engineering students will have to face at least once in th...[Read More]
21 Feb 2022Case study: Business growth models in engineering industries within an economic system
This case involves the CEO of Hydrospector, a newly formed company that makes devices detecting w...[Read More]
21 Feb 2022
Best practice in teaching engineering ethics through case studies
Recent scholarship on best practices in teaching engineering ethics through case studies.[Read More]
21 Feb 2022
Pedagogical approaches to integrating ethics in engineering
It is essential to embed ethics into any project or learning outcome.[Read More]
21 Feb 2022
Methods for assessing and evaluating ethics learning in engineering education
Educators may use these ethics learning aims and outcomes as guidance for developing assessments.[Read More]
21 Feb 2022Case study: Choosing to install a smart meter
This case is an example of ‘everyday ethics’. [Read More]
21 Feb 2022
Guidance for ethical decision-making rooted in research and practice
What if a decision is required quickly? How do we ensure that we are likely to make the best one?[Read More]
21 Feb 2022