TEACHING OF ETHICS IN ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS: TECNOLÓGICO NACIONAL DE MÉXICO’S CASE

Abstract

Considering the huge boom that the integration of ethical notions in college education has had in universities around the world, this work is a research about this process in Mexico’s National Tech (TecNM). It specifically looks into the training of teachers who teach the Ethics Workshop subject in the TecNM, given its traditional vocation to train almost exclusively engineers. Through a nationwide survey of the areas responsible for assigning teachers who teach the subject in question, it turns out that only 68% of these teachers have a related profile or have been trained to teach the Ethics Workshop. This shows that it is necessary to implement some strategy to improve the training of these teachers, and thereby reaffirm the importance of integrating ethical notions in the training of engineering students of the TecNM.

Keywords

• engineering ethics
• teaching of ethics