Responsibly Educating Responsible Engineers

Educating responsible engineers is the challenge engineering schools are tackling today to address the needs of society, today and in the future. Instead of thinking of how to redesign courses and curricula to include relevant topics on ethics, sustainability and more generally social science and humanities subjects, in this paper we propose an institutional strategy that engages diverse stakeholders in creating a holistic engineering education. Focusing on our approach to enrich the learning journey with transversal skills opportunities for all students at our institution, we promote the integrated view of curricular and extracurricular activities to bring a responsible mindset in focus, while acknowledging the importance that self-directed learning has on the motivation to become a responsible professional able to solve complex challenges of the future.