A benchmark for curricula in engineering education: The Leonardic Oath

The “Leonardic Oath” was developed as benchmark for engineering curricula by understanding, that engineering work is more than a process to transfer technology in products and solutions. It is an act of design and influence the live on earth. Because engineering work create as example medical diagnostic instruments, communication-frames, water- and food-supply for more and more people. Looking therefore, the development of a design-responsibility must be an equitable aim of engineering education. To integrate this in academic teaching means to create action-causes for the students as moments, that they can use to reflect their way of decision-making based on their attitudes. The report shows looking to this idea the consequences in curriculum design by using a combination of project-learning, Micro-teaching and reflection-stages.