Engineering Ethics Advanced Level

Course Description

A course on engineering ethics covering responsibility in engineering; framing the moral problem; organizing principles of ethical theories; computers, individual morality, and social policy; honesty, integrity, and reliability; safety, risk, and liability in engineering; engineers as employees; engineers and the environment; international engineering professionalism; and future challenges.

What Do Participants Learn?

• Describe the different types of responsibilities that engineers have towards society and their employers

• Explain the concept of corporate liability and the problem of many hands

• Describe the possible conflicts that may arise between engineers and managers and the options available to engineers to overcome or avoid these problems

• Explain how to join the Lebanese order of engineers and what the benefits are

• Identify the conditions that make an engineer morally responsible (blameworthy) and/or legally responsible (liable)

• Describe the main tenets, strengths, and weaknesses of the classical ethical theories

• Analyze classic ethics texts in philosophy and apply these principles to case studies

• Describe what makes an argument valid and recognize logical fallacies

• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of engineering and corporate codes of conduct,

understand the importance of social responsibility, and use engineering codes to solve engineering ethics problems

• Recognize and describe the different ethical issues or forms of dishonesty that engineers

may come across in practice, such as conflicts of interest, bribery, and data manipulation

• Identify the optimal solution to complex engineering ethical problems and provide sound arguments for the decision

• Identify and explain the importance of ethics at different stages of the design process

• Outline the moral justifications for environmental sustainability

Who Should Attend?

Participants that may benefit from this training course should have an Engineering background

What Will the Learning Experience Include?

Phase: 1

Introduce

• Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
• Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
• Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.

• During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
• Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
• Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
• **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.

Phase: 2

Explore & Practice

Phase: 3

Apply

• Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
• To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
• Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
• Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)

• Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
• Participant's Evaluation
• Trainer's Evaluation

Phase: 4

EVALUATE