Engineering values: An approach to explore values in education and practice (original) (raw)

We might imagine that what we do as engineers and why we do it, is based on our underlying values. However, rarely in engineering education is any consideration taken of our values, what they are and where they come from. Helping professors and students, as well as practitioners begin to examine their values and consider the implications of work based on those underlying values requires some means to expose these. In this study we present an emerging methodology to create a values mapping approach for engineering, such that students, teachers, engineers and engineering organizations might better understand the decisions they make and the impact these will have on the various communities in which we work.