Ethics education for engineers
Comprehensive Ethics Teaching for Engineering and Design students (COMET) is a series of research projects funded by the 4TU.Centre for Engineering Education and taking place at the Ethics and Philosophy of Technology Section (TPM). The aim of the research series is to strenghten the ethics teaching at TU Delft in terms of educational methods, by relying on a solid theoretical foundation.
van Grunsven, J., Stone, T., & Marin, L. (2023). Fostering responsible anticipation in engineering ethics education: how a multi-disciplinary enrichment of the responsible innovation framework can help. European Journal of Engineering Education, 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/03043797.2023.2218275
Van Grunsven, J., L. Marin, T. Stone, S. Roeser and N. Doorn (2021). ‘How to Teach Engineering Ethics? A Retrospective and Prospective Sketch of TU Delft’s Approach to Engineering Ethics Education’. Advances in Engineering Education [full article here]
van Grunsven, Janna, Lavinia Marin, Taylor Stone, Sabine Roeser, and Neelke Doorn. "How Engineers Can Care from a Distance: Promoting Moral Sensitivity in Engineering Ethics Education." [download link]
Neelke Doorn has published on engineering ethics education.
Doorn, N. and J.O. Kroesen, Using and developing role plays in teaching aimed at preparing for social responsibility. Science and Engineering Ethics, 2013. 19(4): p. 1513-1527.
Van Grunsven, J., L. Marin, T. Stone, S. Roeser and N. Doorn (2021). ‘How to Teach Engineering Ethics? A Retrospective and Prospective Sketch of TU Delft’s Approach to Engineering Ethics Education’. Advances in Engineering Education [full article here]
Lavinia Marin is working within the Comet project on conceptualising moral sensitivity as a competency for engineering ethics, and on refining the existing learning goals for engineering ethics education. She is the project manager of the SURF funded project "Ethics Education for Engineers" whose aim is to gather 60 case based exercises from the 4 universities members of the 4TU.Ethics federation and publish them as open-source material to be reused by other ethics teachers. Outside these projects, she is currently researching how critical thinking can play a role in conceptualising and teaching ethical reflection.
Marin, L., van Grunsven, J., & Stone, T. W. (2021). Performing Ethics of Technology. Using Improvisational Performance-Based Techniques in Engineering Ethics Education. In H.-U. Heiß, H.-M. Järvinen, A. Mayer, & A. Schulz (Eds.), Blended Learning in Engineering Education: challenging, enlightening – and lasting? SEFI 49 Annual conference proceedings (pp. 347–364). [link to text]
Marin, L. (2020). "Ethical reflection or critical thinking? Overlapping competencies in engineering ethics education." In Engaging Engineering Education: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Conference of the European Society or Engineering Education. Eds. J. van der Veen & H.-M. Järvinen, pp. 1354–1358. [link to document]
Together with Lambèr Royakkers, Ibo van de Poel wrote the textbook most used for teaching ethics to future engineers at TU Delft.
Van de Poel, Ibo, and Lambèr Royakkers. 2011. Ethics, technology and engineering. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.