PHIL 6540 - Engineering, Ethics, and Society

This course will focus on the ethical issues that arise in the practice of engineering. Issues to be covered include engineering's effect on public safety and the environment; engineers as professionals; engineering as large-scale human experimentation; conflicts between profit and the common good in business enterprises; the role of codes of conduct; and ethical issues raised by globalization. This course meets with 4540. Students enrolled in 6540 will be assigned a workload and evaluated in a manner appropriate to the graduate level.