The precept session was just getting underway when Jay Benziger started raising questions. “Should engineers always make a product failure-proof?” (“Impossible,” one student said.) “Is an engineer who ...

Brian Patrick Green is the director of Technology Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. There are many ways to integrate ethical education into the software ...

The Certificate Program in Engineering, Ethics & Society welcomes students from across the College of Engineering and Applied Science. The certificate prepares students to: Develop an ethical ...

Revisions includes more guidance for instructors who want to use the materials in one, two, or three class periods, as well as an extended bibliography. Writing in 1999, in an article titled “ABET’s ...

Humans are not inherently born with ethics. Instead, these moral principles are instilled through our environment. A part of that environment is education and the values taught through schooling. Here ...

According to its mission statement, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) is an organization that “serves the public through the promotion and advancement of engineering ...

When most people think of engineering courses, they imagine complex equations or intricate machines. To Rich Eva, director of the Pratt School of Engineering’s Character Forward Initiative, ...

No longer just the province of the humanities, the study of ethics is taking on a greater role in Princeton University's training of future researchers. Across classrooms and research labs, faculty ...

The Engineering Leadership Program cultivates leaders of curiosity and character, whose technical expertise is enriched through the study of the political, moral and philosophic dilemmas posed by the ...

Nearly three in four college students say they have somewhat high or very high media literacy skills (72 percent), according to a 2025 Student Voice survey by Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab.

I met Harry Bovay in 1988, shortly after I arrived at Cornell’s College of Engineering as an assistant professor in the history of technology. The dean of the College, Bill Streett, asked me when I ...

Throughout history, engineering has resulted in innovations that have improved lives around the world. However, without a strong moral compass to guide them, engineers are also capable of causing ...