From combatting climate change, to improving pharmaceuticals for global health, society needs chemical engineers to solve many critical problems over the next decades. This’ll only happen if engineers, researchers and industries have a strong ethical commitment: a determination to use engineering to prioritise environment, society and wellbeing.
Our project will get the engineers of the future—kids at schools right now—exploring for themselves the ethics behind the latest innovations in chemical engineering. Groups of children from schools across Glasgow and the West of Scotland will be mentored by engineering researchers to explore the ethics behind the researchers’ work, producing videos, blogs and presentations.
Using these we’ll build an EngineeringEthics ResourceBank that, over the coming critical years, will help schools, businesses, universities and policymakers ask—and answer—the question: So Are We Really Ethical Engineers?
