University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA.
Sci Eng Ethics. 2019 Dec;25(6):1817-1820. doi: 10.1007/s11948-017-9949-4. Epub 2017 Jul 18.
The development of the curriculum for engineering education (course requirements as well as extra-curricular activities like study abroad and internships) should be based on a comprehensive understanding of engineers' responsibilities. The responsibilities that are constitutive of being an engineer include striving to fulfill the standards of excellence set by technical codes; to improve the idealized models that engineers use to predict, for example, the behavior of alternative designs; and to achieve the internal goods such as safety and sustainability as they are reflected in the design codes. Globalization has implications for these responsibilities and, in turn, for engineering education, by, for example, modifying the collection of possible solutions recognized for existing problems. In addition, international internships can play an important role in fostering the requisite moral imagination of engineering students.
工程教育课程（课程要求以及留学和实习等课外活动）的发展应该基于对工程师责任的全面理解。构成工程师责任的内容包括努力满足技术规范设定的卓越标准；改进工程师用来预测替代设计行为等理想化模型；并实现设计规范中反映的内在利益，如安全和可持续性。全球化对这些责任以及工程教育产生影响，例如，通过修改现有问题公认的可能解决方案集合。此外，国际实习可以在培养工程专业学生所需的道德想象力方面发挥重要作用。
