Ethics, Technology and Engineering

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Eindhoven University of Technology

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This module offers a short introduction to the course. The lecture will show a video in which Micaela dos Ramos, executive director of KIVI (the largest professional association of engineers in the Netherlands), illustrates the relevance of ethics for engineers.

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There is an increasing attention to ethics in engineering practice. Engineers are supposed not only to carry out their work competently and skilfully, but also to be aware of the broader ethical and social implications of engineering and to be able to reflect on these. According to the Engineering Criteria 2000 of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) in the US, engineers must have “an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility” and should "understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context.” This course provides an introduction to ethics in engineering and technology. It helps engineers and students in engineering to acquire the competences mentioned in the ABET criteria or comparable criteria formulated in other countries. More specifically, this course helps engineers to acquire the following moral competencies: - Moral sensibility: the ability to recognize social and ethical issues in engineering; - Moral analysis skills: the ability to analyse moral problems in terms of facts, values, stakeholders and their interests; - Moral creativity: the ability to think out different options for action in the light of (conflicting) moral values and the relevant facts; - Moral judgement skills: the ability to give a moral judgement on the basis of different ethical theories or frameworks including professional ethics and common sense morality; - Moral decision-making skills: the ability to reflect on different ethical theories and frameworks and to make a decision based on that reflection. With respect to these competencies, our focus is on the concrete moral problems that engineers encounter in their professional practice. With the help of concrete cases is shown how the decision to develop a technology, as well as the process of design and production, is inherently moral. The attention of the learners is drawn towards the specific moral choices that engineers face. In relation to these concrete choices learners will encounter different reasons for and against certain actions, and they will discover that these reasons can be discussed. In this way, learners become aware of the moral dimensions of technology and acquire the argumentative capacities that are needed in moral debates with stakeholders (e.g. governments, users, and commercial business departments).

伦理,技术与工程:工程实践中越来越重视伦理。工程师不仅被要求熟练和熟练地开展工作,而且还应意识到工程技术在道德和社会方面的广泛含义,并能够对此进行反思。根据美国工程技术认证委员会(ABET)的2000年工程标准,工程师必须“了解专业和道德责任”,并且应“了解全球和社会背景下工程解决方案的影响。” 本课程介绍了工程技术伦理。它可以帮助工程学的工程师和学生获得ABET标准或其他国家制定的类似标准中提到的能力。更具体地说,本课程可帮助工程师获得以下道德能力: -道德感:承认工程中的社会和道德问题的能力; -道德分析能力:根据事实,价值观,利益相关者及其利益分析道德问题的能力; -道德创造力:根据(相互冲突的)道德价值观和相关事实思考采取不同行动方案的能力; -道德判断能力:根据包括职业道德和常识道德在内的不同道德理论或框架作出道德判断的能力; -道德决策技巧:能够反思不同的道德理论和框架,并根据这种反思做出决策的能力。 关于这些能力,我们的重点是工程师在其专业实践中遇到的具体道德问题。在具体案例的帮助下,表明了开发技术的决定以及设计和生产过程的内在道德。学习者的注意力被吸引到工程师面临的特定道德选择上。关于这些具体的选择,学习者会遇到反对某些行为的不同原因,并且他们会发现可以讨论这些原因。通过这种方式,学习者可以了解技术的道德层面,并获得与利益相关者(例如政府,用户和商业部门)进行道德辩论所需的论辩能力。

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