Ética e Deontologia Aplicada à Engenharia

Methods (from a constructivist perspective) of teaching include:
– lecture and debates.
– Game based learning – using serious games developed for this UC and enhancing students’ commitment, curiosity and interest in the
content and analysis, as well as critical sense.
– Group and individual work and reflections.
– Presentations of works and oral or written arguments.
– Document consultation/search.
In all of these tools, the student is at the center of the teaching/learning process, essentially using active methodologies and the analysis of
examples from the specific area of the course.

The objectives and skills to be developed are:
• recognize and understand the ethical dimension of engineering and electromechanical engineering action
• know and understand ethical values
• know the ethical and deontological principles that are defined in the professional deontological codes in the field of Engineering, applied to
Portugal
• understand the potential scope of the consequences (positive and negative) of engineering action (including the social, economic and
environmental dimensions) – macroethics
• know how to critically and ethically analyze practical situations (level of deontology/micro-ethics applied to engineering)
• know how to argue and justify decision-making based on professional ethics/deontology (level of deontology/micro-ethics applied to
engineering)
• know the principles of ethics for sustainability and the importance of a macro view of complex problems.

1. Introduction: concepts of ethics, morals, deontology, values, micro-ethics and macro-ethics
2. The professional practice of electromechanical engineering
3. Ethical principles and ethics that are defined in the Professional Codes of Ethics in the Engineering area (practical analysis):
Engineering as a profession of public trust
Responsibility in the professional practice of engineering
4. The ethical values necessary for the professional practice of engineering.
5. How to carry out a critical and ethical analysis: practical examples at the deontology/micro-ethics level
6. How to structure an ethical foundation: practical examples at the deontology/micro-ethics level
7. Macro-ethics:
The consequences (positive and negative) of engineering action (including the social, economic and environmental dimensions)
The ethical limits of science and technology
Ethics for sustainability / ethics of responsibility by Hans Jonas.

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