Teaching engineering ethics: a dissenting voice

The reference to ‘a dissenting voice’ in the title has a double meaning. On the one hand, this paper itself provides a dissenting voice, in that it challenges a number of common practices and widely held views. (For example, challenging the typical focus on case studies, and the focus on the decision-making of individual engineers.)In addition though, the paper argues that teachers of engineering ethics should be willing to discuss the state of...