Paper Title
Effective Methodology for Teaching Ethics to Electrical and Computer Engineering Undergraduates – Planning & Strategy Development
Abstract
Engineering Ethics can be a challenging topic to incorporate into technical curricula such as engineering. Many
staff and students are under the impression that ethics is strongly connected to their personal behaviour only and not the
engineering process which in essence is seen to be inviolate. As such many students are unable to capture the relevance of
ethics to their engineering process. Despite the challenge of teaching, engineering ethics is a crucial topic which should be
included in all engineering programmes. From academic year 2023/2024 the department of electrical and computer
engineering must incorporate formal teaching and assessment of engineering ethics in the programme to satisfy IET
Accreditation AHEP4 requirements. This paperproposes the study of an effective approach to teaching engineering ethics to
level-two (2) Electrical and Computer Engineering students which will easily satisfy IET Accreditation AHEP4
requirements. This paper focuses on the proposal phase of this study. The mandatory level-two (2) laboratory course of the
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the UWI will be used as the basis of this study.
Keywords - Accreditation, Engineering Education, Teaching Ethics, Undergraduate Education, Teaching Undergraduates,
Engineering Ethics, Teaching Ethics to Engineering Undergraduates