STS 4600

The Engineer, Ethics, and Professional Responsibility

Course Description

Prerequisites

STS 4500

This course focuses on ethical issues in engineering. The key theme is that ethics is central to engineering practice. The professional responsibilities of engineers are examined. Students produce an STS Research paper linked to their technical thesis project and complete all of the requirements for the undergraduate thesis. Students must be in residence to take this course. Students are not permitted to take STS 4500 and STS 4600 simultaneously. Prerequisites: STS 4500.

Instructors

Fall 2026 Last 5 Years

Peter Norton

Fall 2026

Course Description

Instructors

Peter Norton

William Davis

Coleen Carrigan

Joshua Earle

Travis Elliott

Rider Foley

MC Forelle

Pedro Francisco

Richard Jacques

Benjamin Laugelli

Sean Murray

Karina Ripley

Bryn Seabrook

Kent Wayland

Caitlin Wylie

Karina Rider

Kathryn Webb-Destefano

Kathryn Neeley

To Announced

William Stafford

Catherine Baritaud

Sean Ferguson

Adarsh Ramakrishnan

Hannah Rogers

Faculty Staff

Tsai-Hsuan Ku

Patricia Click

Michael Gorman

Catherine Click

Toluwalogo Odumosu

Rosalyn Berne

Sean Elliott

Marlit Hayslett

Bryn Whiteley

Lisa Messeri

Jong Lee

Matthew Eisler

Michael Redwine

Andrew Hogan

Deborah Johnson

Michael Voss

W Carlson

James Patterson

Bryan Pfaffenberger

Edmund Russell

Benjamin Cohen

Margaret Gardiner

Douglas Jerolimov

Anna Lim