Engineering Ethics Education at Texas A&M

In this essay I first chronicle the evolution of the engineering ethics course at Texas A&M and consider some of the encouraging and discouraging experiences along the way. I then discuss the history of the textbook, Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases and how the issues that emerged in writing the textbook relate to engineering ethics education. In the remaining sections I describe my increasing interest in aspirational ethics and how this orientation can contribute to the continuing vitality of the discipline of engineering ethics and to engineering ethics education.

Part of the Engineering Trailblazers Collection on the Online Ethics Center.