Course title
技術者倫理   [Engineering Ethics]
Course category general education courses  Requirement   Credit 2 
Department Cooperative Department of Veterinary Medicine  Year 2  Semester Fall 
Course type Fall  Course code 01SD0106
Instructor(s)
吉田 健彦   [YOSHIDA Takehiko]
Facility affiliation Graduate School of Agriculture Office   Email address

Course description
【概要】Outline
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 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 biotechnology, etc.) which engineer are faced. We study these topics through the specific cases.
Expected Learning
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
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 accordingly
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
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9/20/2018 2:58:17 PM