Campaigns
Engineering Ethics
The EPC Board considered its own ethical responsibility – including representing our members’ views, supporting good practice and as an organisation – at its retreat in January 2020.
This led to the clear action for the EPC to promote engineering ethics more proactively and adopt clear ethical positions.
A key aspect of this is enabling the embedding of ethical best practice into the UK engineering higher education curriculum through creation of an ‘Engineering Ethics Toolkit’.
Please find a wide selection of resources related to this campaign below, including the Engineering Ethics toolkit (created by the Engineering Professors’ Council with support from the Royal Academy of Engineering), and Ethics Ambassadors, a new community of practice aimed at championing the embedding of ethics within engineering.
Engineering Ethics: How to promote it within your institution
A few ideas to get you started.
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Spotlight on ethics: Business growth models in engineering industries within an economic system
We have provided an expansion in the form of a Case enhancement: defending a profit-driven business versus a non-profit-driven business.
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Spotlight on ethics: What is ethics?
"There are three lenses that we can use when thinking about ethics within Engineering: Professional, Theoretical, and Practical." If you'd like to improve your own...
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Spotlight on ethics: Aid vs trade
You're a newly appointed engineer. You're being asked to sell equipment that you believe is entirely unsuitable to a developing country. What do you do?
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Spotlight on ethics: Engineers and public protest
As an engineer, you have a duty to ”maximise the public good and minimise both actual and potential adverse effects for their own and succeeding generations”....
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Spotlight on ethics: Microplastics in cosmetics
You're an engineering student on an industrial placement year at a company that manufactures cosmetics. You notice that a batch of products might have been...
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Spotlight on ethics: Choosing to install a smart meter
Our original case study Choosing to install a smart meter is an example of ‘everyday ethics’. Now we have provided an expansion in the form of...
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Spotlight on ethics: How to integrate ethics into a module or course
If you’d like to improve your own ethics learning, then our guidance article How to integrate ethics into a module or course is a great place...
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