ETHICS-2025 Session E1 - Panel: The Routledge International Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education

This panel sought to spread awareness of new support for engineering ethics education, which has emerged in the last decade as a discipline in its own right, seeing philosophers and engineers expanding their work to include a pedagogical focus. This session aimed to foster an active discussion connected to the recent launch of The Routledge International Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education(Chance, Boersen et al., 2025). The volume includes contributions on both theoretical and practical themes ranging from foundational aspects, interdisciplinary and disciplinary approaches, accreditation. teaching, and assessment in engineering ethics education. Its author list features 115 established and emerging scholars based on six continents. The panel discussion featured an editor of the Handbook, North American contributors to the Handbook, and engineering ethics educators for a conversation on the prospects, challenges, and innovations in the teaching of engineering ethics. The session highlighted key advancements associated with teaching engineering ethics as well as recommendations for the next decade inspired by the Handbook. The conversation between panelists and audience members provided insights and recommendations from practical experience that were closely linked to emerging issues in the fields of philosophy and ethics, as well as in engineering and engineering education more generally.