Guntzburger Yoann, Pauchant Thierry C, Tanguy Philippe A
Department of Management, HEC Montreal, Montreal, QC, H3T 2B1, Canada.
Chemical Engineering Department, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, H3T 1J4, Canada.
Sci Eng Ethics. 2017 Apr;23(2):323-350. doi: 10.1007/s11948-016-9777-y. Epub 2016 Apr 6.
Risk management is certainly one of the most important professional responsibilities of an engineer. As such, this activity needs to be combined with complex ethical reflections, and this requirement should therefore be explicitly integrated in engineering education. In this article, we analyse how this nexus between ethics and risk management is expressed in the engineering education research literature. It was done by reviewing 135 articles published between 1980 and March 1, 2016. These articles have been selected from 21 major journals that specialize in engineering education, engineering ethics and ethics education. Our review suggests that risk management is mostly used as an anecdote or an example when addressing ethics issues in engineering education. Further, it is perceived as an ethical duty or requirement, achieved through rational and technical methods. However, a small number of publications do offer some critical analyses of ethics education in engineering and their implications for ethical risk and safety management. Therefore, we argue in this article that the link between risk management and ethics should be further developed in engineering education in order to promote the progressive change toward more socially and environmentally responsible engineering practices. Several research trends and issues are also identified and discussed in order to support the engineering education community in this project.
风险管理无疑是工程师最重要的专业职责之一。因此，这项活动需要与复杂的伦理思考相结合，所以这一要求应明确纳入工程教育之中。在本文中，我们分析了工程教育研究文献中伦理与风险管理之间的这种联系是如何体现的。我们通过回顾1980年至2016年3月1日期间发表的135篇文章来进行此项分析。这些文章是从21种专门研究工程教育、工程伦理和伦理教育的主要期刊中挑选出来的。我们的综述表明，在工程教育中探讨伦理问题时，风险管理大多被用作一则轶事或一个例子。此外，它被视为一种通过理性和技术方法来实现的伦理责任或要求。然而，少数出版物确实对工程伦理教育及其对伦理风险和安全管理的影响进行了一些批判性分析。因此，我们在本文中认为，工程教育应进一步发展风险管理与伦理之间的联系，以推动向更具社会和环境责任感的工程实践逐步转变。为了在这个项目中支持工程教育界，我们还确定并讨论了几个研究趋势和问题。
