[bioundgrd] Spring Bio-focused Ethics for Engineers

[Joshua Stone]

Please see the below email from Professor Mike Hemann.

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Dear Biology Students,



This spring I will be co-teaching, for the first time, a section of Ethics for Engineers (20.005 or 10.01), with a Bio/BE focus. This course offers you a great opportunity to consider ethically fraught case studies in Biology and Bioengineering, along with a range of ethical frameworks to help inform and guide your thinking about such situations.



My section will meet Mondays 3-5, and I'll be co-teaching with Dr. Peter Hansen. You may take the course as 20.005 for 9 units (with an 8-10 page paper/project assignment), or as 10.01 for 6 units (with no paper/project or other written assignment apart from short weekly summaries).



Please feel free to email me with any questions.



M. Hemann



20.005 Ethics for Engineers

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(Subject meets with 1.082[J]<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m1a.html#1.082>, 2.900[J]<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m2c.html#2.900>, 6.9320[J]<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m6e.html#6.9320>, 6.9321<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m6e.html#6.9321>, 10.01[J]<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m10a.html#10.01>, 16.676[J]<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m16b.html#16.676>, 22.014[J]<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m22a.html#22.014>)

Prereq: None

Units: 2-0-7
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Explores how to be an ethical engineer. Students examine engineering case studies along with foundational ethical readings, and investigate which ethical approaches are best and how to apply them as engineers. Topics include justice, rights, cost-benefit analysis, safety, bias, genetic engineering, climate change, and the promise and peril of AI. Discussion-based. All sections cover the same core ethical frameworks, but some sections have a particular focus for engineering case studies, such as Computer Science or Bioengineering. Students are eligible to take any section of the course, regardless of their registered course number. The subject is taught in separate sections. For 20.005, students additionally undertake an ethical-technical analysis of a BE-related topic of their choosing.

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