Panel on software engineering ethics

Abstract

The panel addresses practical issues and approaches for integrating the study of ethics into professional software engineering education. The three presentations summarized below assume that one goal of applied ethics in software engineering education is to equip professionals to recognize and reason about ethical issues in practical situations. All three address the question of how best to do so, from different but complementary perspectives: the case-based approach to ethics (Leslie Burkholder), practical methods for ethical reasoning (Preston Covey), and models for integrating ethics in software engineering curricula (Donald Gotterbarn).