PHL 316 01:  Engineering Ethics

Winter Term, 2004

T Th 1:30-2:45 p.m. / HM 109

Paul Benson, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Philosophy

Office: HM 421 (inside the Philosophy Department office)

Phone: 9-2933 (office); 223-5986 (home; please don't call after 10:30 p.m., except in cases of emergency)

E-mail: Paul.Benson@notes.udayton.edu

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Office hours: Tues/Wed/Thurs, 3:00-4:15 p.m.; and by appointment

"It is not enough to teach a man [sic] a specialty.  Through it he may become a kind of useful machine, but not a harmoniously developed personality.  It is essential that the student acquire an understanding of and a lively feeling for values.  He must acquire a vivid sense of the beautiful and the morally good.  Otherwise he—with his specialized knowledge—more closely resembles a trained dog than a harmoniously developed person."  [Albert Einstein]

            Unit 1: January 6 - February 10

            Unit 2: February 12 - February 26

            Unit 3: March 2 - March 25

            Unit 4: March 30 - April 22

"If engineers are to be more than technical functionaries in the next millennium, there is a need to provide young engineers with an understanding of the social context within which they will work, together with skills in critical analysis and ethical judgment and an ability to assess the long-term consequences of their work.  Engineering in the modern world also involves many social skills."  [Sharon Beder, Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, Jan. 1999]

Last updated:  January 5, 2004

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