HUM 310 - Engineering Ethics

Institution:

California Maritime Academy

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Description:

CLASS HOURS: 3, CREDIT: 3 Prerequisites: EGL 200, Junior or Senior Class Standing Addresses the major concepts of ethics as applied to the discipline and practice of engineering. Topics include the scope and aims of engineering ethics, moral reasoning and ethical theories, engineering and society, ethics and the law, the engineer's responsibility for safety, engineers and the corporation, conflict of interest/crime in the workplace, rights of engineers/rules of professional conduct, ethics, global ethical issues involving the engineering community, engineering ethics in the computer age, environmental ethics, engineers as managers and leaders, engineers as expert witnesses, and steps to principled reasoning/common rationalizations.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.csum.edu

Phone Number:

(707) 654-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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