ABSTRACT
This chapter considers ethical issues in electronic and electrical engineering (EEE). Often, engineering ethics courses and cases consider general topics that might seem abstract to EEE students focusing on, for example, contracts or construction projects. Countering this trend, the chapter discusses examples that seem to resonate with EEE students and help them perceive ethics as relevant to their lives and professional practices. The authors summarize the literature on ethics specific to electronic and electrical engineering education, including courses, discussions of professional responsibility connected to codes of ethics, and examples of integrating ethical considerations into specific technical EEE courses. They highlight ethical issues that instructors can use to incorporate ethics education into their curricula, beginning with specific problematic examples from EEE culture, such as racist and sexist language and artifacts, and then moving to broader issues in the field. The chapter identifies discipline-specific issues that teachers may be inspired to incorporate into their classes to enhance the ethical knowledge of EEE students and practitioners.
