Educating Ethical Engineering [roundtable]

A PANEL OF EXPERTS convened by IEEE Spectrum met on 1 March, in Dallas, to discuss engineering ethics education. For Spectrum, it was the second roundtable on engineering ethics, the first having taken place in New York City at Columbia University in the fall of 1996 [see "Doing the right thing," December 1996, pp. 25–32]. That discussion centered on ways the profession could support the ethically minded engineer, but also touched on matters of educational technique and resources. Concentrating a roundtable strictly on ethics education seemed the next logical step.