title: Teaching Engineering Ethics to PhD Students: A Berkeley-Delft Initiative : Commentary on "Ethics Across the Curriculum: Prospects for Broader (and Deeper) Teaching and Learning in Research and Engineering Ethics".
abstract: A joint effort by the University of California at Berkeley and Delft University of Technology to develop a graduate engineering ethics course for PhD students encountered two types of challenges: academic and institutional. Academically, long-term collaborative research efforts between engineering and philosophy faculty members might be needed before successful engineering ethics courses can be initiated; the teaching of ethics to engineering graduate students and collaborative research need to go hand-in-hand. Institutionally, both bottom-up approaches at the level of the faculty and as a joint research and teaching effort, and top-down approaches that include recognition by a University's administration and the top level of education management, are needed for successful and sustainable efforts to teach engineering ethics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, PO 5015, 2600 GA, Delft, The Netherlands. b.taebi@tudelft.nl.|Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA. b.taebi@tudelft.nl.
authors.forename: Behnam
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Taebi
authors.affiliation: University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
authors.forename: William E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Kastenberg
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004738:Engineering; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D013334:Students; D014495:Universities
keywords: Academic challenges; Engineering ethics; Institutional challenges; Teaching ethics