Journal of JSEE
Online ISSN : 1881-0764
Print ISSN : 1341-2167
ISSN-L : 1341-2167
On a New Approach to Education about Ethics for Engineers at Meijou University
Minoru FUKAYATsukasa MORIMOTONoritsugu KIMURA
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2005 Volume 53 Issue 5 Pages 5_65-5_70

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We propose a new approach to education of so called “engineering ethics”. This approach has two important elements in its teaching system. One is “problem-solving learning”, and the other is “discussion ability”. So far, engineering ethics started at the ethical standpoint. But we put the viewpoint of problem-solving learning at the educational base of engineering ethics. Because many problems have complicated structures, so if we want to solve them, we should discuss each other. Problem-solving ability and discussion ability, they help engineers to solve the complex problems in their social everyday life. Therefore, Meijo University names engineering ethics “ethics for engineers”. At Meijou University about 1300 students take classes in both ethics for engineers and environmental ethics for one year.
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© 2005 Japanese Society for Engineering Education
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