Report of the Workshops on Ethical Issues in Engineering

Workshops on Ethical Issues in Engineering, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), were conducted from July 16 to July 1979 at Illinois Institute of Technology (lIT). The idea for the Workshops grew out of the experience of lIT philosophers and engineering educators who worked together from September, 1976 through May, 1977. Their project was to develop and offer an innovative experimental course on Moral Issues in Engineering. The interchange between philosophers and engineers at lIT during the development phase enabled the philosophers to familiarize themselves with concrete moral problems faced by engineers. The exchange persuaded the engineering educators that philosophical moral concepts, theory, and reasoning could provide useful approaches to their problems.