Engineering Ethics Syllabus

Engineering Ethics

UC Santa Cruz – CMPE 80E – Spring 2003
M W F 9:30 --10:40AM

Social Science 2 Room 71

http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/classes/cmpe080e/Spring03

SYLLABUS

Instructor:	Guy Cox
Office: Office Phone:	Baskin Engineering, BE 189A (831) 459-5846
Email:	guymcox@soe.ucsc.edu guymcox@cal.berkeley.edu
Office Hours:	Monday and Wednesday 11-12, or by appointment

Text:

A Gift of Fire: Social, legal, and ethical issues for computers and the Internet (Second Edition) by Sara Baase, Pearson Education, Inc. [Prentice-Hall], 2003. (GOF)

Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases (Second Edition) by Harris, Pritchard, and Rabins, Wadsworth Thomson Learning, 2000. (EE)

Plus additional articles.

Week 1 (Week of March 31) – Introduction and Ethical Theories

Reviews due: Friday, April 4

1. GOF – Chapter 10 pages 401 – 411

2. EE – Chapter 4 pages 75 – 95

3. “Three Kinds of Engineering Ethics for Three Kinds of Engineering,” Moriarty, Gene; IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Fall 2001.

Week 2 (Week of April 7) – Ethical Analysis

Reviews due: Monday, April 7

** SHORT PAPER DUE **
in-class, Wednesday, April 9

1. EE – Chapter 2 and 3 pages 30 -74

2. Research Ethics: An Introduction The URL the title is linked to is the original source for the document at North Carolina State. If that link doesn’t work I have stored a local copy here (Research Ethics – Local Copy).

3. GOF – Chapter 3, “Encryption and Interception of Communications,” pages 97- 128

Week 3 (Week of April 14) – Ethics and Design

Reviews due: Monday, April 14

1. GOF – Chapter 2, “Privacy and Personal Information,” pages 35 – 96

2. “Interface Design: Ethical Consideration” by Scott, Jan

3. “Ethical Considerations in Engineering Design Processes,” Anke van Gorp and Ibo van de Poel; IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Fall 2001

Week 4 (Week of April 21) – Safety, Risk, and Liability

Reviews due: Monday, April 21

1. GOF – Chapter 4 pages 135 - 191

2. EE – Chapter 7 pages 145 - 172

Week 5 (Week of April 28) – Professionalism

Reviews due: Monday, April 28

** PRESENTATION/PAPER **
in-class, Wednesday, April 30

1. GOF – Chapter 10, “Professional Ethics and Responsibility,” pages 411- 436.

2. EE – Chapter 6, “Honesty Integrity and Reliability,” pages 117 – 144

Week 6 (Week of May 5) – Codes of Ethics

Reviews due: Monday, May 5

1. “The Straight and Narrow Path: Ethical Issues for Design Professionals” by Steven G.M. Stein, Esq. & Jeffrey H. Winick, Esq.

2. ACM Code in GOF, pages 446 - 453

3. IEEE code located on EE CD ROM …\Codes\ieee.htm

4. GOF – Chapter 5, “Freedom of Speech in Cyberspace,” pages 192 - 233

Week 7 (Week of May 12) – Legal Obligations

Reviews due: Monday, May 12

** PRESENTATION/PAPER **
in-class, Wednesday, May 14

1. EE – Chapter 8 “Engineers as Employees, “ pages 175 – 205 and Chapter 11, Engineering Professionalism and Ethics,” pages 265 – 278

2. GOF – Chapter 6 “Intellectual Property,” pages 234 - 279

Week 8 (Week of May 19) – Environmental Ethics

Reviews due: Monday, May 19

1. EE – Chapter 9, “Engineers and the Environment,” pages 206 – 232

2. GOF – Chapter 1, “Unwrapping the Gift,” pages 11 – 34 and Chapter 9, “Broader Issues on the Impact and Control of Computers,” pages 364 – 399

Week 9 (Week of May 26) – Social Impact of Technology

Reviews due: Monday, May 26

1. EE – Chapter 5, “Responsible Engineers,” pages 99 - 116

2. GOF – Chapter 8, “Computers and Work,” pages 328 – 363

Week 10 (Week of June 2) – Engineering and Sustainable Development

Reviews due: Monday, June 2

** FINAL PAPER DUE **
Wednesday, June 4

The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability, Prepared for EXPO 2000 The World’s Fair, Hannover, Germany by William McDonough & Partners
“Harnessing Corporate Power to Heal the Planet,” L. Hunter Lovins and Amory B. Lovins

Finals Week (Week of June 9)

** FINAL EXAM **
Tuesday, June 10, 4:00 – 7:00 PM

Social Science 2 Room 71

Acknowledgments

I must, of course acknowledge the authors of the text books used in this course. Withut the work of Sara Baase, Charles Harris, Michael Pritchard, and Michael Rabins it would be extremely difficult to cover all the material contained in “engineering ethics”. But also I must acknowledge my debt to all those who have taught courses such as this before.