One aspect of Edward Snowden's revelations in the Guardian about the NSA's surveillance activities has received less attention than it should. The algorithms that extract highly specific information ...

UK engineers are being invited to contribute to a new consultation run by Leeds University exploring engineering ethics. Engineering Ethics 2028 is aiming to establish a new ethical framework for the ...

Engineering ethics education has evolved into a fundamental component of modern engineering curricula, bridging the gap between technical expertise and moral responsibility. This discipline seeks to ...

Engineering has evolved beyond the equations, laboratory inventions, and drawings. Engineers now have a significant impact on public safety, data privacy, infrastructure reliability, environmental ...

Lucky Vidmar (CompSci'94; M'97) is working to empower ethics-focused engineers through the Moulakis Lecture Series on Responsible Engineering in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society.

In 1956, as an 18-year-old, I entered UC-Berkeley as a freshman in Civil Engineering. Coming from a chronically poor, dysfunctional family, and being a strong math and science student, engineering was ...

We like to think of engineering as an ethical profession. IPSOS-Mori surveys show that we are one of the most trusted professions, sixth behind nurses and doctors among others. But some recent ...

The short answer to this question is: yes, they do, but it is perhaps in the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ that the real need and necessity for ethics among engineers and the engineering profession unfolds.

Recently I came across an article that commented on the fact that many state highway departments are still promoting increased road construction. Their motivation is reduced congestion and reduced CO2 ...