| Course title | |||||
| 技術者倫理 [Engineering Ethics] | |||||
| Course category | general education courses | Requirement | Credit | 2 | |
| Department | Year | 3～ | Semester | Fall | |
| Course type | Fall | Course code | 01SD0106a | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 吉田 健彦 [YOSHIDA Takehiko] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Graduate School of Agriculture | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
| We cannot live daily life in the modern society without technology. Therefore, in this society, engineering ethics is not a manual which only engineers should learn nor a just one part of an ethics. Engineering ethics involves basic problems which every people confront in their everyday life. The purpose of this course is to study about the basic problems of technology and ethics (ex. the difference between science and technology, the ethics of the future generation, or risk society, etc.), and to study how to solve the peculiar problems (like pollution problems, environmental destructions, whistle-blowing, handling the big data and cyborg technology, etc.) which especially agricultural science engineer are faced not infrequently. We study these topics through the specific cases. |
| Expected Learning |
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1. To understand the basic framework of ethics, apply it and determine the various specific case which engineers are faced. 2. To understand the various problems which engineering were faced, and explain how they responded in terms of ethics. 3. To have a knowledge about how to various technologies which support our everyday life save our safety. |
| Course schedule |
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Lecture 1 Guidance/engineering ethics (1); What is ethics Lecture 2 Engineering ethics (2); Who is the engineer ?the history and the characteristics at modern times Lecture 3 Information society and engineering ethics (1); Bio-power and big data Lecture 4 Information society and engineering ethics (2); Whistle‐blowing Lecture 5 Information society and engineering ethics (3); Cyborg technology Lecture 6 Information society and engineering ethics (4); Bioethics Lecture 7 Summary of the 1-6 lecture, mid-term test Lecture 8 Science and technology and engineering ethics (1); The ethics of the future generation and engineer Lecture 9 Science and technology and engineering ethics (2); MINAMATA disease and engineer Lecture 10 Science and technology and engineering ethics (3); 3.11 and engineer Lecture 11 Science and technology and engineering ethics (4); Risk and engineer Lecture 12 Agriculture and engineering ethics (1); Inheritable genetic modification and its use Lecture 13 Agriculture and engineering ethics (2); Industrialization of agriculture Lecture 14 Modern society and engineer; Research ethics Lecture 15 Summary of whole lecture, final test |
| Prerequisites |
| Nothing |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| Distribute handouts at each lecture |
| References |
| Nothing |
| Assessment/Grading |
| Mid-term test (30%), final test (30%), presence and active participation for class (small report at the class) (40%) |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| Ethics and technology are not just academic learning. It is a lively essential element to support our daily life. Therefore, to study about these things is extremely important for our life. I hope we study together joyfully through concreate examples of engineering ethics. |
| Course keywords |
| Technology, Ethics, Pollution, Environmental problem, Life, Agriculture, Information technology, Social responsibility |
| Office hours |
| Remarks 1 |
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| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
| Language Subject |
| Last update |
| 9/27/2017 6:16:16 PM |