An instructional module for teaching ethics within an ECE curriculum

Author

Ekong, Donald U.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Mercer Univ., Macon, GA, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

9-12 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Incorporating Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) case studies when teaching ethics can help ECE students to relate to the engineering ethics concepts that are taught in the classroom. This paper describes an instructional module that has been used to teach ethics to ECE undergraduates. This module includes ECE case studies, as well as classroom activities that utilize the ethics code of conduct of the following professional bodies: IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), and the NSPE (National Society of Professional Engineers).

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; electrical engineering education; ethical aspects; teaching; ACM; Association for Computing Machinery; ECE curriculum; ECE students; ECE undergraduates; IEEE computer society; NSPE; National Society of Professional Engineers; classroom activities; electrical and computer engineering; engineering ethics concepts; ethics teaching; instructional module; Computers; Ethics; Security; computer engineering; electrical engineering; ethics; information technology; teaching module;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SoutheastCon 2015

Conference_Location

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.2015.7132928

Filename

7132928