Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
Sci Eng Ethics. 2009 Dec;15(4):577-600. doi: 10.1007/s11948-009-9184-8.
The creation of new technologies that serve humanity holds the potential to help end global poverty. Unfortunately, relatively little is done in engineering education to support engineers' humanitarian efforts. Here, various strategies are introduced to augment the teaching of engineering ethics with the goal of encouraging engineers to serve as effective volunteers for community service. First, codes of ethics, moral frameworks, and comparative analysis of professional service standards lay the foundation for expectations for voluntary service in the engineering profession. Second, standard coverage of global issues in engineering ethics educates humanitarian engineers about aspects of the community that influence technical design constraints encountered in practice. Sample assignments on volunteerism are provided, including a prototypical design problem that integrates community constraints into a technical design problem in a novel way. Third, it is shown how extracurricular engineering organizations can provide a theory-practice approach to education in volunteerism. Sample completed projects are described for both undergraduates and graduate students. The student organization approach is contrasted with the service-learning approach. Finally, long-term goals for establishing better infrastructure are identified for educating the humanitarian engineer in the university, and supporting life-long activities of humanitarian engineers.
新技术的创造为帮助人类结束全球贫困带来了潜力。然而，在工程教育中，相对较少的工作是为了支持工程师的人道主义努力。在这里，引入了各种策略来增加工程伦理的教学，目的是鼓励工程师作为社区服务的有效志愿者。首先，道德规范、道德框架和专业服务标准的比较分析为工程专业的志愿服务期望奠定了基础。其次，工程伦理教育中对全球问题的标准涵盖使人道主义工程师了解影响实践中遇到的技术设计约束的社区方面。提供了关于志愿服务的范例作业，包括一个将社区约束以新颖的方式整合到技术设计问题中的原型设计问题。第三，展示了课外工程组织如何为志愿服务的教育提供理论与实践相结合的方法。描述了本科生和研究生的范例完成项目。学生组织方法与服务学习方法形成对比。最后，确定了建立更好的基础设施的长期目标，以便在大学中教育人道主义工程师，并支持人道主义工程师的终身活动。
