TEAMWORK MAKES THE ETHICS WORK

Engineers play a critical role in solving complex environmental and social issues. In response, the focus of engineering ethics is shifting from merely preventing harm to also ensuring social responsibility. A new paradigm for students' engineering education integrates strong technical knowledge with real-world economic, ethical, social, and environmental concerns. Team-based projects and multidisciplinary applications inspire collaboration with classmates. In contrast, engineering ethics education still mostly focuses on decisions by individual engineers and disaster case studies. It does not reflect the type of everyday decisions that practicing engineers must make and neglects the fact that most engineers work on teams.