Course title
技術者倫理(専門職)   [Engineering Ethics]
Course category The Professional Degree Program of Industrial Technology and Innovation  Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year   Semester Spring 
Course type Spring  Course code 1060810
Instructor(s)
北原 義典   [KITAHARA Yoshinori]
Facility affiliation Graduate School of Engineering Office   Email address

Course description
A technologist should acquire the ethic not only as the individual, but also as a expert. In this class, we learn the issues of ethics about technology with case studies and the ethic attitude that engineers should have systematically.
Expected Learning
(1) To understand the ethics that engineers should have systematically
(2) To acquire ability to extract the issue of ethics to be inherent from the examples that occurred in the past
(3) To learn the technique to advance the research and development of chemistry, biotechnology and information processing field based on the engineer ethics
Course schedule
【Module 1】
1. Research ethics
2. Social responsibility and ethics of the engineer
3. The history of the ethics and engineer’s code of conduct


【Module 2】
4. Accountability
5. Intellectual property protection
6. Whistle-blowing
7. Product liability

【Module 3】
8. Chemistry/nanotechnology and ethics
9. Biotechnology and ethics
10. Information networked society and ethics
11. New technology and ethics

【Module 4】
12. Environmental conservation and ethics
13. Diversified society and engineering ethics
14. Problems in the ethics
15. Report and discussion
Prerequisites
As this lecture is a basic subject in Industrial Technology Institute, it is recommended to take both "Engineering Ethics " (The first half year) and " Industrial Safety Management " (The latter half year ) .
Required Text(s) and Materials
We use “A first course in engineering ethics” written by Y.Kitahara as a textbook
References
Assessment/Grading
Only students who attend the classes more than 70% times are evaluated. They are evaluated as five levels with S, A, B, C, and D.
Message from instructor(s)
Course keywords
Ethics, morals, research ethics, ethics, accountability, product liability, applied ethics
Office hours
Tue.11:00〜16:00, Wed.11:00〜17:00, Thu.17:30〜18:00, Fri.11:00〜17:00, Sat.12:30〜16:00. Please send me a mail in advance.
Remarks 1
Remarks 2
Related URL
http://web.tuat.ac.jp/~ykita/
Lecture Language
Japanese
Language Subject
Last update
3/1/2018 2:08:03 PM