ABSTRACT
Teaching ethics to engineering students often occurs in classes that enroll students from many engineering disciplines. The content in such interdisciplinary engineering classes is general and often not perceived as relevant for students specialized in particular engineering disciplines. There are, as we will see in the chapters in this section, issues in engineering ethics that are transversal to most, if not all, engineering disciplines and relevant for most, if not all, engineering students. This section of the handbook investigates how transversal ethical issues can be linked to specific engineering disciplines and, in this way, be perceived as relevant by specialized engineering students. We, the editors of this handbook, selected five engineering disciplines – civil engineering, aerospace and mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, chemical engineering, and software engineering – and invited prominent scholars of each discipline to author chapters where they identify, analyze, and discuss the ethical issues that they perceive relevant for students of their specific engineering area to become acquainted with during their education. Thus, this section contains five chapters coining ethical content of engineering ethics teaching in civil, mechanical, and aerospace, chemical, software, and electrical and electronic engineering.
