naa a22 4500 510778860 CHVBK 20180411083240.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11948-011-9332-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11948-011-9332-9 Introducing Survival Ethics into Engineering Education and Practice [Elektronische Daten] [C. Verharen, J. Tharakan, G. Middendorf, M. Castro-Sitiriche, G. Kadoda] Given the possibilities of synthetic biology, weapons of mass destruction and global climate change, humans may achieve the capacity globally to alter life. This crisis calls for an ethics that furnishes effective motives to take global action necessary for survival. We propose a research program for understanding why ethical principles change across time and culture. We also propose provisional motives and methods for reaching global consensus on engineering field ethics. Current interdisciplinary research in ethics, psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary theory grounds these proposals. Experimental ethics, the application of scientific principles to ethical studies, provides a model for developing policies to advance solutions. A growing literature proposes evolutionary explanations for moral development. Connecting these approaches necessitates an experimental or scientific ethics that deliberately examines theories of morality for reliability. To illustrate how such an approach works, we cover three areas. The first section analyzes cross-cultural ethical systems in light of evolutionary theory. While such research is in its early stages, its assumptions entail consequences for engineering education. The second section discusses Howard University and University of Puerto Rico/Mayagüez (UPRM) courses that bring ethicists together with scientists and engineers to unite ethical theory and practice. We include a syllabus for engineering and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) ethics courses and a checklist model for translating educational theory and practice into community action. The model is based on aviation, medicine and engineering practice. The third and concluding section illustrates Howard University and UPRM efforts to translate engineering educational theory into community action. Multidisciplinary teams of engineering students and instructors take their expertise from the classroom to global communities to examine further the ethicality of prospective technologies and the decision-making processes that lead to them. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Philosophy of engineering nationallicence Survival ethics nationallicence Checklist model nationallicence Cross-cultural ethics nationallicence Multidisciplinary education nationallicence Appropriate technology nationallicence Verharen C. Howard University, 20059, Washington, DC, USA aut Tharakan J. Howard University, 20059, Washington, DC, USA aut Middendorf G. Howard University, 20059, Washington, DC, USA aut Castro-Sitiriche M. University of Puerto Rico, 00681, Mayagüez, PR, USA aut Kadoda G. University of Khartoum, 13314, Khartoum, Sudan aut Science and Engineering Ethics Springer Netherlands 19/2(2013-06-01), 599-623 1353-3452 19:2<599 2013 19 11948 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-011-9332-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-011-9332-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Verharen C. Howard University, 20059, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tharakan J. Howard University, 20059, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Middendorf G. Howard University, 20059, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Castro-Sitiriche M. University of Puerto Rico, 00681, Mayagüez, PR, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kadoda G. University of Khartoum, 13314, Khartoum, Sudan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science and Engineering Ethics Springer Netherlands 19/2(2013-06-01), 599-623 1353-3452 19:2<599 2013 19 11948 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer