Educating the Humanitarian Engineer.
The creation of new technologies that serve humanity holds the potential to help end global poverty. Unfortunately, relatively little is done in engineering education to support engineers’ humanitarian efforts. Here, various strategies are introduced to augment the teaching of engineering ethics wit...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 577 - 601 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2009
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