This Explorer was built to help you navigate the landscape of engineering ethics education. Choose a path depending on what you want to do: each path leads you through content such as learning outcomes, graduate attributes, and accreditation criteria, while also pointing you to supporting activities and resources linked to the content. Find your way using the map at top right or by navigating to the links in the menu bar.
Note: The Accreditation for Higher Education Programmes (AHEP) is a standard produced by the UK's Engineering Council to assess the competence and commitment of engineers and technicians. It is used by Higher Education institutions to achieve accreditation for their engineering programmes. Users outside the UK can refer to their national frameworks or other international competencies to map ethics learning accordingly.
Evaluate the environmental and societal impact of solutions to complex problems and minimise adverse impacts.
Identify and analyse ethical concerns and make reasoned ethical choices informed by professional codes of conduct.
Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
Capstone Design or Research Projects, Advanced Modules. Ethical Judgement can best be displayed in the context of a design or a project. It can show whether and how students have engaged with ethical issues in their teamwork or their solution.
Engaging in Ethical Judgement:
Reaching moral decisions and providing the rationale for those decisions.
