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Thematic Areas

Present attitudes in engineering

Analytical and critical reflection about ideas and facts, mature and autonomous processes in making decisions, coherence and personal commitment when facing conflicts, attention to the diversity of the people involved in shared activities...

Education in values in engineering

Education in human values in engineering careers, specific subjects about attitudes, history of engineering and other matters, impregnation with values of studies plans, humanistic education in engineering studies, participation of students in volunteering, implementation of units around the axis of social repercussion of technology, consideration of the important role of energy (electrical...) in society...

Interactions between engineering and society

Technology in the basic education of people, suitable technologies in international cooperation in order to help to human development, engineering and sustainability as an important matter in the world, engineers and engineering in mass media, patent and technology transfer rights, global views of professional activities in technological areas, women and engineering...

Ethics in engineering

Relations between engineers and businesspeople, between engineers and people directly involved in their tasks, between engineers and environment, between engineers and devices. Ethics of the engineer and social responsibility of the enterprises. Engineering before different signs of sectors in society (NIMBY...). Dilemma in the use of biotechnologies. Engineering and struggle against poverty.

Significant professionals of engineering in XXth century

Dignitary directives, important promoters, rational organisers, significant pioneers, visionary thinkers.

Struggle against corruption from the perspective of engineering

Why and how laws, regulations and impacts on anti-corruption, engineering against poverty, education and training about anti-corruption...

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Organisers

WFEO World Federation of - Engineering Organisations
Cátedra UPC - Endesa red Valores Humanos en la Ingeniería - Victoriano Muñoz Oms

Contacte

Sr. Jaume Fabregat
catedra.vmo@upc.edu
Phone: + 34 93 401 17 14
Fax: + 34 93 405 41 02