“Technically-minded People” in Elitism’s Silo: Invisibility of the Social and Ethical Dimension of Engineering among Undergraduate Engineering Students

• In Event: Current Issues in STEM: Sense of Belonging, Ethics, and Faculty-Student Interactions

Abstract

This paper explored how undergraduate students understood the social relevance of their engineering course content knowledge and drew larger social and ethical implications from that knowledge. Our findings revealed a crucial need for a renewed perspective on engineering ethics that proactively examines the ethical and social consequences of engineers’ work.

Authors

• Nickcoy Findlater, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC) - Charlotte, NC

• Jae Hoon Lim, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• Peter Tkacik

• Jerry Dahlberg, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• Claudia Interiano, UNC Charlotte

• Brittany Hunt, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• Nhu Nguyen, UNC Charlotte