One of the final publications from the NSF-funded engineering ethics & education project I headed (2013-2023) is finally out. This may not be our most important result, but it might be my favorite: "‘It’s up to the managers’: Strategies engineering students use to avoid discussing ethics" in JRI.
Studies show that engineering students are open to discussion of ethics; however, their overall understanding of it tends to be narrow and their engagement decreases over the course of their educat...