• DocumentCode
    1288157
  • Title

    Developing professionalism in the electrical engineering classroom

  • Author

    Cooley, Wils L. ; Klinkhachorn, Powsiri ; McConnell, Robert L. ; Middleton, Nigel T.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV, USA
  • Volume
    34
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    5/1/1991 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    149
  • Lastpage
    154
  • Abstract
    The authors share their experience in teaching electrical engineering students the ethical, social, safety, and economic considerations in engineering practice. The exercises take the form of a trial where the students have to defend their judgments. The approach is found to be successful in helping students to understand the true meaning of being an engineering professional. Professional ethics and hypothetical accident scenarios are presented
  • Keywords
    education; electrical engineering; professional aspects; teaching; economic considerations; electrical engineering; engineering practice; hypothetical accident scenarios; professional ethics; safety; social considerations; students; teaching; Accidents; Computer aided software engineering; Costs; Electrical engineering; Ethics; Manufacturing; Product liability; Product safety; Seminars; Sparks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Education, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9359
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/13.81594
  • Filename
    81594