Moral Narratives of Practicing Engineers Across Industry Sectors for Engineering Ethics Education

This work-in-progress research paper reports on an ongoing research study which addresses two research questions: RQ1) What are the moral narratives of engineering practitioners across industry sectors? RQ2) How are the engineers' moral narratives influenced by the organizational cultures of their workplaces? As stories that support and sustain one's moral life, moral narratives influence one's ethical decision-making. While it is expected that a better understanding of engineers' moral narratives can be helpful for improving engineering ethics education, little is known about engineers' moral narratives. This paper explains the methodological approach we are taking to answer the research questions. This paper also describes potential implications of this study by introducing a new pedagogical approach called Scaffolded Ethics Autobiography for engineering ethics education.