Professional and ethical deliberation educating engineering students in responsible wellbeing

摘要

Engineering work involves constant deliberation, yet little effort is invested in most programs to provide a well-structured framework for engineering deliberation. The following paper presents how engineering students learn the virtue of professional and moral deliberation through various educational activities in the course Ethics in Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. In addition, it presents five levels of moral development that enable an assessment of students' degree of deliberative skills. The assessment results show that the activities designed for this course to improve UPRM students' deliberation skills achieved their objective. These activities could be used or modified elsewhere to suit the needs of other engineering courses and/or programs.