Integrated Ethics in Technical Curricula
Assignment material that embeds ethical reasoning inside technical coursework, released for reuse so the marginal cost to a lecturer is close to zero.
A final-year ethics module teaches students that ethics is what you consider after the engineering is finished. This programme produces material that teaches the opposite by putting the ethical question inside the technical assignment.
What we produce
- Data structures assignments where a specification omits a population, and the omission carries marks.
- Systems design briefs requiring a decommissioning plan, assessed as rigorously as the architecture.
- Code review exercises where the defect is a defensible-looking default with a distributional consequence.
- Capstone requirements to state what withdrawal of the system would involve.
- Marking rubrics, worked solutions and lecturer notes for each.
Licensing
Everything is released for reuse and adaptation without permission or attribution requirements beyond the licence. Integration fails when it requires a technical lecturer to become confident in unfamiliar material; the only version of this argument that has ever changed a curriculum is one where the material already exists and can be dropped into next term.
Working with us
We are interested in partner institutions willing to run material and report honestly on how it went, including when it went badly. Negative results are more useful to us than endorsements.
