Blog: Engineering Ethics Advisory Group
The Engineering Ethics Toolkit is produced by the Engineering Professors’ Council with support from the Royal Academy of Engineering as part of the profession’s on-going work to embed ethical practice...
Case study: Power-to-food technologies
This case involves an engineer navigating multiple demands on a work project. The engineer must evaluate trade-offs between social needs, technical specifications, financial limitations, environmental needs, legal requirements, and safety....
Case 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, environmental sustainability, and human health. It introduces the perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a lens...
Blog: Welcome to the Engineering Ethics Toolkit
An ambitious new initiative to ensure engineering education is a force for good.
RAEng Engineering Ethics Report Launch Webinar
Registration is now open for the “Engineering Ethics: Maintaining society’s trust in the Engineering Profession” report launch webinar. This event marks the publication of this important work produced the Engineering...
Case study: Glass safety in a heritage building conversion
This case concerns a construction engineer navigating multiple demands.
Case study: Facial recognition for access and monitoring
An engineer is hired to manage the development and installation of a facial recognition project.
Case 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 student support chatbot for a Sixth Form college.
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 their careers: which job offer to accept.
Case 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 water leaks.
Best practice in teaching engineering ethics through case studies
Recent scholarship on best practices in teaching engineering ethics through case studies.
Pedagogical approaches to integrating ethics in engineering
It is essential to embed ethics into any project or learning outcome.
Methods for assessing and evaluating ethics learning in engineering education
Educators may use these ethics learning aims and outcomes as guidance for developing assessments.
Welcome to the Engineering Ethics Toolkit
An ambitious new initiative to ensure engineering education is a force for good.
Engineering Ethics Toolkit: Case studies
Welcome to the case studies pages of the EPC's Engineering Ethics toolkit, produced in partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering. Click here for the toolkit homepage. Case studies are...