A Transatlantic Program for Teaching Engineering Ethics

As part of the CDIO program, teaching modules for ethics, communication and group work have been developed. The author of this paper, together with philosopher Martin Peterson, is responsible for the ethics module, In this paper, Collste discusses the module as part of the CDIO curriculum project. The ethics instructor guide is presented on a web-site. The paper includes a summary of the content of the ethics module, some particular so called “best practices,” and raises some questions for discussion. Presented at the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics annual conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 28 February 2004.