Teaching Ethics to Engineers: A Socratic Experience.

In this paper we present the authors' experience of teaching a course in Ethics for Engineers, which has been delivered four times in three different universities in Spain and Chile. We begin by presenting the material context of the course (its place within the university program, the number of stu...

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Publicado en:Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 567 - 581
Autores principales: Génova, Gonzalo, González, M.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Apr2016
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