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	1st
Course type	1st	Course code	1060810
Instructor(s)
北原 義典   [KITAHARA Yoshinori]
Facility affiliation	Graduate School of Engineering	Office	afjgxte/L1151	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. Universal design and problems in the ethics 15. Writing a report

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

The grade evaluation in this online class is premised on all attendances, and　comprehensively evaluates the attitude to learn　and report. Standard study time set by the our university is required to get the grade. The rate of evaluation is as follows: Normal score: 20% and assignment test: 80%. Grade will be given according to the following criteria by comprehensive evaluation: S: 90 points or more, A: 80 or more and less than 90 points, B: 70 or more and less than 80 points, C: 60 or more and less than 70 points.

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.

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Related URL

http://web.tuat.ac.jp/~ykita/

Lecture Language

Japanese

Language Subject

Last update

5/28/2020 2:54:27 PM