On June 12 and
13, 1990, Vivian Weil directed a conference on Engineering Ethics in
Engineering Education, which was supported by a grant from the National
Science Foundation. An invited group of specialists at the forefront
of research and teaching in engineering ethics and of leaders in engineering
education met in Chicago. Their purpose was to determine what are the
core ideas in engineering ethics to which students should be exposed,
what are effective methods for conveying those ideas, and what preparation
and mastery are needed to teach. The product of the conference will
be a report summarizing the points on which participants agreed and
including reference to resources for teaching, such as the bibliography
soon to be available from the National Institute for Engineering Ethics
of the National Society of Professional Engineers. This report will
be sent to all deans of engineering schools and directors of engineering
programs and will be circulated to a wider audience in engineering education,
the professional societies, and in applied and professional ethics education.