| Course title | |||||
| 技術者倫理 [Engineering Ethics] | |||||
| Course category | Liberal Arts and Fundamental Studies | Requirement | Credit | 2 | |
| Department | Biological Production, Applied Biological Science, Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Ecoregion Science | Year | 3～ | Semester | 3rd |
| Course type | 3rd | Course code | 01sg3004a | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 吉田 健彦 [YOSHIDA Takehiko] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Graduate School of Agriculture | Office | afjgxte/L1151 | Email address | |
| Course description |
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【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. This course is designed as one of the courses for 'Science, Technology and Society' in General Education curriculum. |
| 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 Lecture 3 Engineering ethics (3); Risk Lecture 4 Engineering ethics (4); Whistle‐blowing Lecture 5 Engineering ethics (5); Accountability Lecture 6 Information society and engineering ethics (1); Bio-power and big data Lecture 7 Information society and engineering ethics (2); Cyborg technology Lecture 8 Information society and engineering ethics (3); Bioethics Lecture 9 Agriculture and engineering ethics (1); Inheritable genetic modification and its use Lecture 10 Agriculture and engineering ethics (2); Industrialization of agriculture Lecture 11 Modern society and engineer (1); The ethics of the future generation and engineer Lecture 12 Modern society and engineer (2); 3.11 and engineer Lecture 13 Modern society and engineer (3); MINAMATA disease and engineer Lecture 14 Modern society and engineer (4); Research ethics Lecture 15 Summary of whole lecture, Clues to become a better engineer |
| Prerequisites |
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This course carries 2 credits. In addition to 15 lectures, please continue to prepare and review this lecture spending the standard amount of time as specified by the University for each class, while paying attention to the daily news related to science and technology. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| Distribute handouts accordingly |
| References |
| Nothing |
| Assessment/Grading |
| Grades are given based 60 % on the two written assignments, and 40 % on contribution during the classes. |
| 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 |
| You can ask questions at any time by email. |
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| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
| Language Subject |
| Last update |
| 2/1/2021 11:05:38 AM |