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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
ISG 5037	PROFESSIONAL ETHICS	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ÇAĞATAY PAMUKÇU

Offered to

Ph.D. in Occupational Health and Safety
Occupational Healty and Safety

Course Objective

To be aware of engineering ethical problems that engineers would face in their professional life, introduction to international accepted ethical codes for engineers; learning ethical decision making on scientific, professional, business subjects. The study of engineering ethics within an engineering course helps students prepare for their professional lives. These skills enhance student s abilities and help them engage with other aspects of the engineering programme such as group work and work placements.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	To define the ethics and its basic concepts
2	To recognize the Engineers obligations
3	To recognize the Engineers responsibilities
4	To identify values in engineering profession
5	To recognize the code of engineering ethics
6	To evaluate ethical judgments
7	To clarify ethical problems with engineering case studies
8	To define ethics in the global engineering profession

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Introduction, syllabus
2	History of engineering, A brief history of ethics
3	Introduction to ethics and basic concepts
4	Engineers obligations and responsibilities, examples
5	Values in engineering profession, examples
6	What is Ethics
7	Lesson followed from web [www.feexam.ou.edu] (part 1)
8	Midterm exam
9	(DVD- Incident at Morales)+presentations)
10	Incident at Morales discussion/reporting
11	Engineering ethics +case studies+in class discussions
12	Engineering ethics +case studies+in class discussions
13	Engineering ethics +case studies+in class discussions
14	Methods of Establishing the Code of Ethics

Recomended or Required Reading

- A Brief History of Ethics/
- Engineer and Ethics
- Values in Engineering Profession,
- History of Engineering,
- Business Ethics,
- Computer Ethics,
- www.onlineethics.org
- quizzes: www.feexam.ou.edu
- DVD and its power point presentation: Incident at Morales, Texas University College of Engineering,
- Case studies: www.onlineethics.org

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, case studies, scenarios

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	MTE	MIDTERM EXAM
2	ASG	ASSIGNMENT
3	FIN	FINAL EXAM
4	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	MTE * 0.25 + ASG 0.25 +FIN 0.50
5	RST	RESIT
6	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)	MTE * 0.25 + ASG 0.25 +RST 0.50

*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-6 will be evaluated by the mid-term exam
LO 6-8: will be evaluated by assignments
LO 1-8: will also be evaluated by final exam.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Students are obliged to prepare an assignment.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çagatay Pamukçu
cagatay.pamukcu@deu.edu.tr, office phone: (232) 301 7533

Office Hours

It will be announced at the beginning of the semester

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	13	3	39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	13	6	78
Preparation for midterm exam	1	15	15
Preparation for final exam	1	15	15
Preparing assignments	1	12	12
Preparing presentations	1	10	10
Final	1	2	2
Midterm	1	2	2
Quiz etc.	1	2	2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.5	PO.6	PO.7	PO.8	PO.9
LO.1	5				4	4		4	5
LO.2			4
LO.3		5				4	4	4
LO.4	5		4	4	4		5		5
LO.5	4	4
LO.6				4		5		5
LO.7				5
LO.8	4	5				5			5

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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