Investigation and Analysis of the Present Situation of Engineering Ethics Education for Masters of Engineering

Abstract

Under the comprehensive background of the development of engineering education in the world today and the promotion of quality education in China, strengthening engineering ethics education of engineering masters meets the needs of engineering technology development, and is also an indispensable part of shaping high-quality engineers. However, engineering ethics awareness cannot be generated spontaneously. It needs to be cultivated and improved through engineering ethics education. Therefore, this paper designs a closed questionnaire from three aspects: school curriculum education, engineering ethics cognition and the application of ethical dilemma of driverless cars. The statistical data of the questionnaire shows that engineering masters do not pay enough attention to the engineering ethics curriculum and it is difficult to use the knowledge of engineering ethics to analyze and solve the actual ethical dilemmas. In addition, it is further found that there is a gap between professional masters and academic masters in the ethical awareness, and the reasons are related to the distribution of engineering ethics education courses offered by the school. This paper proposes three specific recommendations in response to the above problems.