Overview

Engineering Ethics Essentials is a concise and informative short course designed to introduce engineering professionals and students to the fundamental principles of ethical decision-making within the engineering field. This course explores the ethical dilemmas and challenges that engineers often encounter in their careers, providing practical guidance and tools to navigate them responsibly.

This course is ideal for Professional Engineers (PEs) and other license and certificate holders seeking to earn ongoing professional development units or continuing education credits.

What you will learn:

At the conclusion of the course, you will be able to:

• Define what ethics means in the context of engineering
• Articulate why ethics are violated
• Identify and describe several ethical frameworks useful to engineers

Course Content

The online course contains:

• 75 minutes of video lecture and discussion on the role of Engineering Ethics
• 3 downloadable documents on ethical frameworks