Omar A. Nasr
Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering, Electronics and Comm dept (email)
Humanities (GEN 217)
About this course:
In this part of the course, students learn about the fundamentals of engineering ethics. This part of the course has the following objectives:
- Understanding importance of ethics
- Tools and techniques to evaluate different situations
- Ethics in different settings for engineers
- Many real examples and cases
- Enhance presentation skills
- Enhance/writing skills
- Volunteer work
Students prepare presentations each lecture on one of the following topics, and we have a discussion during the lecture:
- Schools of ethics - the 5 rules - Least of two harms - Meaning of ethical behavior
- Ethics and volunteer work. Responsibilities of engineers and companies towards society - helping people to know
- Why people behave unethically? How to motivate people to behave ethically?
- Ethics with the environment, sustainable development , codes of ethics
- Rights/respobsibilities of engineers in companies - conflict of interest
- Team work, and ethical behavior towards coworkers, support groups - syndicates
- Conflict between company/individual rights and the society - whistle blowing
- Ethics with customers - gift rules - bribery
- Ethics to deal with humanity with technical advancements - universal basic income
Course work:
- 7 points for a presentation
- 3 points for participation during the class
- 10 points for volunteer work
Announcements:
Students can now use this link to reserve the on-class presentation. read the description in the form