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GENE 412Ethics and the Engineering Profession

Faculty
Engineering
Last listed
Spring 2023

No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2023 and last ran in Winter 2023. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.

When it ran

  1. W23

Ran in 1 term, Winter 2023 to Winter 2023.

An analysis from the standpoint of philosophical ethics of moral issues arising in professional engineering practice. Issues include the social responsibility of engineers, conflict of interest and obligation, morally acceptable levels of risk, and moral implications of technology.

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: Level at least 2A Engineering students.

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In the scanned calendars

How it read in each calendar from 1984–85 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.

1984–85 to 1994–95 10 calendars

An application of philosophical analysis and theories of ethics to issues of moral conduct in the engineering profession. Discussions will include such matters as the social responsibilities of engineers, standards of product safety and liability, the assessment of acceptable risk, conflicts of interest and obligation, professional loyalty and "whistle blowing”, use and enforcement of professional codes of ethics, the “democratization” of the profession, and the moral implications of technology. Not open to Year 1 students.