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Skills Development of Professional Ethics in Engineering Degrees in the European Higher Education Area

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International Joint Conference SOCO’16-CISIS’16-ICEUTE’16 (SOCO 2016, CISIS 2016, ICEUTE 2016)

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Abstract

In this paper, an experience to approach the competence about ethical aspects of the profession is presented. Following an existing methodology, several cases are presented to the students in order to determine if people involved have had a professional or ethical behaviour. Codes of professional ethics or conduct have been also discussed with the students. The experience has been successful since students have actively participated and valued the methodology positively. This solves the lack of prior training in these ethical aspects.

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This work would have not been possible without the full cooperation of the students and faculty from the University of León who kindly participated in this experience.

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  1. Department of Mechanical, Computer and Aerospace Engineering, University of Leon, Campus de Vegazana s/n, 24071, Leon, Spain

    Lidia Sanchez, Javier Alfonso-Cendón & Hilde Pérez

  2. Departamento de Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Héctor Quintián & Emilio Corchado

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Correspondence to Lidia Sanchez .

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  1. Computational Intelligence Group, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), San Sebastian, Spain

    Manuel Graña

  2. University of the Basque Country, Vitoria, Spain

    José Manuel López-Guede

  3. Computational Intelligence Group, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), San Sebastian, Spain

    Oier Etxaniz

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain

    Álvaro Herrero

  5. University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Héctor Quintián

  6. University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Emilio Corchado

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Sanchez, L., Alfonso-Cendón, J., Pérez, H., Quintián, H., Corchado, E. (2017). Skills Development of Professional Ethics in Engineering Degrees in the European Higher Education Area. In: Graña, M., López-Guede, J.M., Etxaniz, O., Herrero, Á., Quintián, H., Corchado, E. (eds) International Joint Conference SOCO’16-CISIS’16-ICEUTE’16. SOCO CISIS ICEUTE 2016 2016 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 527. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47364-2_72

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