Verantwortung im Ingenieurberuf

What it is about

You learn fundamental questions of normative and applied ethics and explore how responsibility in the field of construction and environmental engineering looks. You practice recognizing, classifying and assessing professional and socio-normative value conflicts, and critically analyze models of responsible problem solving with regard to implementation, stakeholders, societal acceptance and sustainability goals.

What you will be able to do

• Familiarity with social-normative and ethical challenges in the engineering profession
• Understanding of central topics of responsibility ethics
• Analysis, classification and assessment of activity-related goal conflicts
• Critical analysis and discussion of models of responsible problem-solving competence

What the module consists of

• Seminar / VortragIntroduction to the central literature and discussion of fundamental topics
• Fallanalyse / DiskussionProcessing and evaluation of concrete case studies for applying what has been learned
• PräsentationPresentation and defense of one's own analyses and solutions

Teaching method

• Studium der EinführungsliteraturConveying the main topics, questions and debates
• Analyse und Diskussion von FallbeispielenTraining in structuring knowledge, evaluation and critical reflection on professional goal conflicts
• Präsentationen und DiskussionenTraining to structure arguments concisely and to defend one's positions in discussion