2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Engineering Undergraduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Science and Engineering Ethics (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Shigeru Nakagawa
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- EEE.L331
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course discusses and investigates the ethics for engineers; e.g. an aspect of social ethics for technology and industrial products, the social role and basics of the behavior of engineers, the relationship with organizations and laws, a corporate ethic, research fraud, intellectual properties and copyright. This course also instructs skills to write reports and technical papers.
Course description and aims
At the end of this course, students will be able to acquire the following abilities to:
1) Explain the aspects of social ethic for technology and industrial products.
2) Explain the social role and basics of the behavior of engineers and the relationship with organizations and laws.
3) Explain the corporate ethics and code of ethics.
4) Explain the ethics of researchers, the compliance of copyright and the intellectual properties.
5) Have an interest in the ethics for engineers, researchers, and corporations, and learn to properly make an ethical judgment.
6) Make a logical description on academic and technological contents.
7) Make academic papers and technical reports.
Keywords
Ethic for engineers, engineering ethic, research ethic, corporate ethic, specialist, risk management, whistle-blowing, accountability, paper writing, invention, intellectual property, copyright, research fraud, fabrication
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
- ・Applied specialist skills on EEE, Practical problem-solving skills
Class flow
Students must read the lecture notes uploaded to Science Tokyo LMS before each class. Students must make a report on the tasks shown in the previous class and submit it in class.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | What is engineering ethics？ | Can explain the necessity of the ethic for engineers. |
| Class 2 | Social role of engineers | Can explain the social role of engineers. |
| Class 3 | Basics of the behavior of engineers | Can explain the basics of the behavior of engineers. |
| Class 4 | Relationship with organizations and laws for engineers | Can explain the relationship with organizations and laws for engineers. |
| Class 5 | What is technical paper? | Can explain the meaning of technical papers. |
| Class 6 | Technical paper writing | Can explain the technical paper writing. |
| Class 7 | Intellectual property, copyright, research fraud | Can the intellectual property, copyright and research fraud |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to course materials.
Textbook(s)
None
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Course materials will be posted on Science Tokyo LMS.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students’ course scores are conducted based on the due reports (100%).
Related courses
- None
Prerequisites
No prerequisite.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
Shigeru Nakagawa, nakagawa[at]first.iir.isct.ac.jp
Office hours
Contact by e-mail in advance.