Engineering Ethics Education: Methods and Effectiveness

This lecture explores the importance of ethics in professional education, different types of ethics education methods such as lectures, case studies, and dilemmas, and the evidence on their effectiveness. It delves into the role of ethics in engineering as a profession, the use of peer instruction at EPFL, and the impact of professional codes on ethics education. The lecture also discusses common engineering ethics case studies, types of ethics cases like case histories and dilemmas, and the pedagogical and ethics questions that arise in ethics education.