Post #1460838
2025-12-24 18:11 UTC
@hazelweakly I fully admit to HATING the mandatory "arts" courses (English lit, sociology, history, etc) I had to do as part of my uni degree. If I were doing it now I would probably have chatgpt'ed my way through most of the essay writing. Which is what I worry is happening with the next generation 😬
I'm at the point in life/career where I realize these were actually really useful.
how do we actually illustrate the value of these subjects to future generations? For me I know part of the issue was time management - trying to focus on reading a book and reflecting on it while also juggling all the "engineering" course work. Separate them into their own year/semester?
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@bob_zim@infosec.exchange 2025-12-24 19:29
@deliverator In my engineering degree plan, an engineering ethics course was mandatory. We discussed some high-profile failures like Bhopal and Chornobyl, as well as some lesser-known ones like the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, the THERAC-25, and the Gimli Glider incident. We also spent significant time on how IBM and other big companies built machines which powered Hitler’s extermination camps. The programming and IT degrees available at the time didn’t include any ethics courses, which is part of why I’ve never felt people doing either should be called engineers.