Ethics Seminar by UW-Madison (Meets PE Ethics Training Requirement)
As of 2012, Wisconsin requires 30 hours of continuing education every two years, of which 2 hours must be in the area of Professional Conduct and Ethics.
This course is approved for 2 professional development hours and fulfills the requirements for Professional Conduct & Ethics in all states (except FL). Attendees will receive University of Wisconsin-Madison certificates of attendance to document meeting the requirement.
Waiting List
If you are unable to register because the class is full, contact Charles J Gervasi to be put on a list to be notified about future classes or if a slot opens up for this class. We are planning to have another class early next year, well before the deadline for PDHs.
This course will provide two professional development hours, satisfying the ethics requirement for professional engineering licensure in Wisconsin. After completing this seminar, attendees will be more aware of the fundamental canons of a recognized Code of Ethics for Engineers (particularly the IEEE code). They will recognize when they are facing a complex ethical dilemma, and be able to identify stakeholders and potential consequences for them (longterm costs, safety concerns, violations of privacy or rights, breaches of contracts, breaches of confidentiality, conflicts of interest, etc.). They will be asked to discuss and analyze situations involving multiple conflicting personal, professional, and ethical obligations.
- Use professional codes of ethics and moral reasoning to evaluate options and arrive at well-justified, ethical resolutions of a dilemma.
- Effectively communicate ethical decisions to best minimize damages to stakeholders.
- Understand ethical obligations, social justice implications, and sustainability of international engineering work, particularly for those practicing engineering in foreign countries.
Cost
Non-members - $10Members - $5
Students or not eating - Free
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Location: Building: Promega Room Number: Auditorium 5445 E Cheryl Pkwy Fitchburg, Wisconsin United States 53711 Click here for Map |
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Date: 07-November-2012 Time: 10:00AM to 01:45PM (3.75 hours) All times are: US/Central
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No Admission Charge.
Registration Closed (Full)
Speakers:
Rosen Rosen
Biography:
Howard Rosen is a Program Director in the Department of Engineering Professional Development, College of Engineering, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He specializes in developing continuing education programs on issues in public works infrastructure. His academic research interest is in the dynamics of technological development and organizational change. He has written and taught extensively on these subjects. Rosen received his doctorate from the Division of Social Sciences of the University of Chicago. He was a member of the Stanford University (Program in Values, Technology & Society) and on the faculty of the Illinois Institute of Technology.
While at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Rosen was a member of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions. He developed and taught the Center’s first class on Engineering Ethics and was co-author of A SELECTED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN ENGINEERING. As a member of the Department of Engineering Professional Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he continues to teach a course on “Ethics in Public Works”.
Laura Grossenbacher
Biography: Laura Grossenbacher is Director of the Technical Communication Program in the Department of Engineering Professional Development, College of Engineering, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas at Austin, and has been teaching courses in engineering communication at UW-Madison for sixteen years. She has done consulting work in proposal writing for private engineering firms (such as HNTB, Inc. and Affiliated Engineers, Inc.) and has taught communication and ethics as part of the UW-Madison College of Engineering study abroad programs in both Toulouse, France, and Hangzhou, China. She is an active member of the Association for Practical and Profession Ethics, serving as a judge at their National Ethics Bowl collegiate competition since 2003. Her particular interests within engineering ethics have been informed by her work abroad and by her development of case studies for a capstone course she teaches for undergraduate engineering students, Current Issues in International Engineering. She has given several professional presentations on issues in engineering ethics, most recently at the APPE Conferences in 2011 and 2012 and at the Congress for Social and Ethical Implications at Arizona State University in November 2011. In January 2012, she was invited ethics faculty for the “NNIN Winter School,” a two-week intensive study-abroad program held at UNICAMP, Brazil, designed for outstanding US and Brazilian graduate students, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Meeting Agenda:
10:00 Check-in
10:30 Presentation Begins
1:00 Presentation Ends
Lunch will be served in the middle of the seminar