Ethics and Engineering

This is a 1-day seminar at Kettering or your location. The target audience is engineers and managers in an industrial environment. The goal of the course is to provide a base line of information from which the engineer can identify an ethical dilemma and formulate a defensible position. The course format is lecture / discussion and interactive case studies. Class size will be limited to facilitate interaction among the students and course-reading assignment will be made prior to the class.

Topics:

• What is ethics?
• Conflict of interest
• Identifying ethical dilemma
• Plagiarism
• The team
• Rights and obligations
• The professional engineer.
• Information and how it's used
• Who is responsible?
• The end game and whistle blowing

Coordinator:

C.V.White

Instructors:

C.V.White
B. Jones