Integration of Ethics, Sustainability, and Social Responsibility Components in an Undergraduate Engineering Course on Finite Element Analysis

In this work, we use a series of case studies to introduce ethical thinking, environmental sustainability, and social responsibility in a level 3 undergraduate engineering course. Specifically, in teaching the principles of Finite Element Analysis, used to perform engineering and performance analysis of designs, we introduce several real-world engineering ethics situations closely connected to the technical topics taught in the class. In taking …