Professional ethics, like many other areas of academic study, is best taught through synthesis and application. Exposing students to the importance of ethics via, for example, a lecture on the NSPE Code of Ethics or a reading assignment on plagiarism may accomplish something on its own, but such relatively low-stakes activities do little to put students in the position of contemplating and then making ethics-related decisions - they do little, in other words, to bring the subject to life for students.
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