![]() ![]() The literature presents several attributes of complexity, but it does not clearly state which of these attributes are relevant for first-year engineering problem-solving and incorporate them into the engineering curriculum. To develop proficiency in solving such problems, accreditation bodies for engineering education mandate the development of knowledge and skills for solving complex problems. Background: Engineering professionals solve complex problems like design problems, troubleshooting problems, system-analysis problems, and decision-making problems. The findings are compiled as a set of guidelines to aid engineering educators in crafting design problems. From the results we conclude that students are able to identify and resolve ethical dilemmas which lie in the domain of public welfare, health and safety more than the others.Ĭontribution: This study identifies the attributes of complexity that can be incorporated into engineering design problems at first-year undergraduate engineering projects. We have designed an assessment in which the students are required to provide a resolution to the ethical dilemma by basing their decision on fundamental canons of National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). It also presents the approach followed in designing a module on Engineering Ethics in an introductory freshman course in our university. ![]() The objective of this paper is to explore the existing solution space for the curriculum design, content and assessment of ethics instruction. An aim to achieve this will require engineering educators to include of the principles of Engineering Ethics is the curriculum. Thus, the professionals need to be trained in exploring the solution space of problems related to engineering ethics during their formative four years. However, the ethical problems are ill-structured and lack a set of prescriptive and enumerable solutions. In such a professionally obligatory setting, ethical dilemmas come into foreplay which will decide the course of action which the problem solver will seek to take. An engineer thus works in an environment where equally competing considerations for different stakeholders need to be accounted for before providing uncompromised solutions. ![]() An engineering professional's work demands that the technological solutions designed to solve practical problems of society are addressing the safety, health and welfare of the public. ![]()
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