TY - GEN
T1 - Reimagining ethics education for peace engineering
AU - Bauschpies, Wenda
AU - Holbrook, J. Britt
AU - Douglas, Elliot P.
AU - Lambrinidou, Yanna
AU - Lewis, E. Yvonne
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/7/2
Y1 - 2018/7/2
N2 - Recent disasters, including the Flint water crisis, the Volkswagen emissions scandal, and the post-hurricane scandal in Puerto Rico, reflect a moral failure to respond to the social dimensions of engineering. We employ three jumping-off points: Ideological foundations in the culture of engineering education, dominant imaginaries of «community-engaged» research and practice, and the instruction of engineering ethics. We share the belief that these deficiencies are interconnected and mutually reinforcing, and more importantly that they render engineers vulnerable to causing or perpetuating injustice inside and outside the walls of the profession, and blind to recognizing such injustice when it occurs. In response, we propose how a focus on peace engineering can put engineers in dialogue with the publics they serve.
AB - Recent disasters, including the Flint water crisis, the Volkswagen emissions scandal, and the post-hurricane scandal in Puerto Rico, reflect a moral failure to respond to the social dimensions of engineering. We employ three jumping-off points: Ideological foundations in the culture of engineering education, dominant imaginaries of «community-engaged» research and practice, and the instruction of engineering ethics. We share the belief that these deficiencies are interconnected and mutually reinforcing, and more importantly that they render engineers vulnerable to causing or perpetuating injustice inside and outside the walls of the profession, and blind to recognizing such injustice when it occurs. In response, we propose how a focus on peace engineering can put engineers in dialogue with the publics they serve.
KW - community engagement
KW - ethics
KW - social justice
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U2 - 10.1109/WEEF-GEDC.2018.8629655
DO - 10.1109/WEEF-GEDC.2018.8629655
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85062860779
T3 - 2018 World Engineering Education Forum - Global Engineering Deans Council, WEEF-GEDC 2018
BT - 2018 World Engineering Education Forum - Global Engineering Deans Council, WEEF-GEDC 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2018 World Engineering Education Forum - Global Engineering Deans Council, WEEF-GEDC 2018
Y2 - 12 November 2018 through 16 November 2018
ER -