Teaching ethics to chemical engineers 2. Further class room scenarios

Two new fictional scenarios are presented which pose ethical dilemmas set against industrial chemical engineering environments. These scenarios are designed for use in the undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum and present the participating students with a range of ethical dilemmas. Their simple nature allows vigorous discussions between students working in groups and between the students and the class facilitator. The scenarios are designed to confront undergraduate chemical engineering students with the sort of challenging situations that they might be faced with as graduate engineers. When surveyed the clear majority of students found the material presented to be both informative and useful in illustrating ethics principles. (C) 2009 The Institution of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.