Ac 2007-938: Teaching and Assessment of Professional Ethics in the Nuclear Engineering Education According to the Abet Engineering Criteria

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Author	Abulfaraj, Waleed H. Arabia, Saudi Hassan, Mohamed H. A.
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	There is a general agreement that engineering students should receive ethics instruction as a part of their undergraduate education. However, there are diverse opinions on how engineering ethics instruction should be carried out. Abiding by the American Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria puts more emphasis on ethics teaching in a systematic manner that is subject to continual assessment and feedback. Preliminary surveys of ethics teaching in the nuclear engineering programs reveal adapting the trend of teaching professional ethics through ethics courses. The survey also indicates that existing code of ethics in the nuclear field need to be more comprehensive, and integrate issues related to education, and work environment, as well as industry. It is argued that proper teaching and assessment needs to follow the triangulation approach by using multiple methods to obtain and verify the results. It is also argued that there is more to engineering ethics than dwelling on the negative, wrongdoing and its prevention. There is the more positive side that focuses on doing one's work in a responsible and ethical way. In this work, analysis of existing methods of ethics teaching and assessment in the nuclear engineering field is presented. Proposal for integrating ethical issues in the different nuclear engineering courses are discussed. Finally, recent ethics teaching methodologies are applied to the nuclear engineering education through out-of-classroom activities such as the use of service learning approach, and use of student outreach programs directed to the local communities, as well as other on-campus activities.
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