General information

Course name	Lecture: 01-ET-MA-EngE-V Engineering Ethics
Subtitle
Course number	01-ET-MA-EngE-V
Semester	SoSe 2025
Current number of participants	23
expected number of participants	25
Home institute	Elektrotechnik
Courses type	Lecture in category Teaching
First date	Friday, 25.04.2025 14:00 - 18:00, Room: NW1 S1270
Type/Form
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung	Ja
ECTS points	3

Lecturers

M. Sc Inga Meyenborg (LB)

Rooms and times

NW1 S1270: Friday, 25.04.2025 14:00 - 18:00
Friday, 09.05.2025, Friday, 16.05.2025, Friday, 23.05.2025 14:00 - 20:00
Friday, 13.06.2025 14:00 - 18:00
Friday, 20.06.2025, Friday, 11.07.2025 14:00 - 20:00

Module assignments

Comment/Description

This course gives an introduction into basic features and concepts of ethics with respect to scientific research, political institutions and business. It is laid out when and how responsibility arises. Basic moral values will be introduced, and together with common moral theories, these will be applied to several typical case studies in engineering. Various Codes of Ethics will be analyzed and discussed. We will also discuss values in the design process, environmental ethics, and space ethics.
There is a reading assignment to every session, which is a text from a pool consisting of introductory teaching material, Codes of Ethics from various organizations and papers about Engineering Ethics.

Registration mode

After enrolment, participants will manually be selected.

Potential participants are given additional information before enroling to the course.

Lecture: 01-ET-MA-EngE-V Engineering Ethics - Details