期刊名称：Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
出版年度：2015
语种：English
出版社：The Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)
摘要：ECE290 (Engineering Profession, Law and Ethics) is a second year core course in the undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering program at the University of Waterloo. This course was designed to move away from achieving desired ethical outcomes or “right” answers and instead to focus on refining individual decision-making processes. Ethics was framed as stemming from the fundamental identity question faced by each individual and the core beliefs held by the individual with an aim to make the course more personal, engaging and introspective for the student. Students also gained practical experience in deconstructing their own identity by identifying and understanding master behavioral patterns and the perspectives of various characters in pertinent literature and case studies where ethical ambiguity is at the forefront. Evaluation and testing methods for the ethics component of the course were designed to focus on evaluating the depth and breadth of the students’ decision-making processes. Student course evaluation questionnaires had a response rate of between 60-75% and indicated that students strongly believed they were being encouraged to think critically and reason independently
