Abstract— Educating scientists and engineers with
respect to the ethical implications of their professional
actions is an increasingly urgent, demanding, and complex
task.
It is a disservice to scientist, engineerings, and society
if they inadequately grasp the ethical significance of the
work they do. Education in ethics in engineering and the
sciences has been recognized as intrinsically important.
The Center for Science, Technology, Ethics, and Policy at
The University of Texas at El Paso brings together
scientists, engineers, and philosophers from the academic,
industrial, and public policy domains to focus on training
both graduate students and faculty in ethical issues
related to science and engineering.
This training will focus on the rigorous development of
ethical thought as applied to current topics in the
science, engineering, and technology sectors. Because
education in ethics necessarily involves subjective as well
as objective factors, an innovative assessment of student
development that integrates both quantitative and
qualitative approaches needs to be made in order to
evaluate the efficacy of this approach.
This paper describes such an experimental method that will
be used to assess students for an ethics in such
courses.
Young Scientists and the Ethos of Current Science
This e-zine is entirely written, edited,
and produced by students who are involved in
interdisciplinary courses focusing on applied ethics in
the fields of engineering, science, and technology.
The published articles were written by students attending
these courses as class projects. A student is selected from
each course to be the editor-in-chief of each journal
issue.
The e-zine is co-sponsored by CSTEP and
the Medical Professions Insitute.