Areas of Interest: Ethics
Project Type: NAE Program
Latest Update: December 8, 2011
The overarching mission of Center for Engineering, Ethics and Society (CEES) is to engage engineering leaders in examining the ethical and societal challenges of engineering and bringing them to the attention of the engineering profession and society.
The NAE remembers Harry E. Bovay, Jr., who passed on May 24, 2011.
As globalization leads to increasing interaction among regions and peoples of the world, ethical questions raised by technological development and innovation also become more complex. As key players in the design, testing, implementation and evaluation of these technologies engineers and engineering professions and organizations must be involved, and can, in fact, lead the discussion of these crucial issues.
The Center will sponsor activities that encourage multi-disciplinary examination of these ethical and societal issues by engineers, academics, and representatives of public and private organizations and government. It will draw on the expertise of NAE members to develop priorities and programs in the following areas:
- identification and examination of issues in engineering, ethics, and society,
- promotion of research, teaching, and practice of engineering ethics,
- development of unique resources in engineering, ethics, and society for individual engineers and engineering organizations.
Advisory Group
The NAE has appointed a CEES advisory group, chaired by Dr. John Ahearne, an NAE member and former director of the Sigma Xi’s ethics program. The full list of members can be viewed on the Online Ethics Center (OEC) website along with the current members of the OEC advisory group.