“Engineers don’t do ethics courses and this is why Silicon Valley...” is a classist slur designed to reallocate social status between engineers and virtuous paragons like journalists, MBAs, legislators, health insurance executives, lawyers, and others who take ethics classes.
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I think he may be talking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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The iron ring is a symbol of responsibility, but it's distinct from the accreditation which requires ethics and professional practice courses.
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Every Engineering accreditation I'm familiar with has "students must take X units of ethics and professional practice". But accreditation varies around the world, so there may be some exceptions.
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“Informatik und Gesellschaft” aka “With great power comes great responsibility” is something we also had to internalize at Technical University of Vienna (Austria)
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Maybe! I took an ethics course in my fourth year of undergraduate (studied EE+CS at
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It’s a US thing. We had to take ethics at my alma mater.
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In Ireland, we have more that one class per year for 5 years that covers all forms of ethics in engineering, management and supply chain!
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