Work in progress — The ethics across the curriculum toolkit: An online environment for ethics resources

Ethics across the curriculum (EAC) is an approach to ethics education that relies on ethics modules integrated directly into the mainstream curriculum. It empowers engineering instructors, to serve as ethics mentors to their students by providing them a supportive infrastructure of tools and resources that can be customized for specific classroom needs. Because of this, EAC must be built on an interdisciplinary community of collaborators; ethicists team up with engineers, university faculty with ethics officers from businesses. The authors of this work in progress have received a grant from the National Science Foundation (SES 0551779) to develop a prototype toolkit using an open courseware tool, Connexions^reg. In FIE 2005, they outlined the toolkit in its preliminary stages. This work in progress will update that earlier work.