FIGURE 1: Business decisions are made for a variety of reasons, including the cost of construction, energy costs, operating costs, owner preferences, past experiences, and industry trends, just to ...

New research is being conducted to explore how engineers understand and navigate ethics on a day-to-day basis, prompting questions about how ethics education can be improved. Engineering disasters are ...

The precept session was just getting underway when Jay Benziger started raising questions. “Should engineers always make a product failure-proof?” (“Impossible,” one student said.) “Is an engineer who ...

Engineering ethics education has evolved into a fundamental component of modern engineering curricula, bridging the gap between technical expertise and moral responsibility. This discipline seeks to ...

Lucky Vidmar (CompSci'94; M'97) is working to empower ethics-focused engineers through the Moulakis Lecture Series on Responsible Engineering in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society.

Michael McFarland, SJ, computer scientist and Jesuit priest, talks about why ethics is important for engineers and the impact of his Jesuit education on his interest in the human dimension of ...

Six students from across the College of Engineering and Applied Science were selected as Herbst Fellows this semester, joining an elite group of scholars who embody the program’s commitment to ethical ...

According to its mission statement, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) is an organization that “serves the public through the promotion and advancement of engineering ...

In 1956, as an 18-year-old, I entered UC-Berkeley as a freshman in Civil Engineering. Coming from a chronically poor, dysfunctional family, and being a strong math and science student, engineering was ...

Ethics and Morality Why Engineers Need Ethics How a love/hate relationship with the field led me to crisis management. Posted March 3, 2021 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch In 1956, as an 18-year-old, I ...

In a world increasingly shaped by technology, engineers have a moral obligation to consider the consequences of their choices. In 1985, I sold six in-circuit emulators to the government of Iraq. Today ...