Abstract
Existing studies on the ethical perception of engineering students is based on observations among students who have been exposed to ethical courses in engineering schools. Whether the students have never been exposed to engi-neering ethical curriculum, can they perceive the specific ethical standards (such as the NSPE Code of Ethics) that apply to engineers? It is also not clear about the factors affecting the ethical perception of those students? This study aims to provide clarity in this area by examining the ethical per-ception of students who have never been exposed to engineering ethical cur-riculum. The results of quantitative analysis from survey data with 654 Vi-etnamese engineering students showed that the students have a positive per-ception of specific ethical standards that apply to engineers. Finally, the Pearson correlation analysis, exploratory factor analysis, and linear regression analysis are used to examine the effect of students 'characteristics (such as gender, student year, GPA, voluntary blood donation of students, students' opinion on technology) on the ethical perception of engineering students.
Highlights
Ethics is an important aspect in developing the professional identity of engineers [4, 5]
Using the keyword "engineering ethics" and searching the ERIC and Google Scholar databases, the researchers did not find any literature examining the ethical perceptions of engineering students who have never participated in the ethics curriculum
Research question 1: Engineering students who have never participated in the ethics curriculum, how do they perceive the codes of ethics?
Summary
Ethics is an important aspect in developing the professional identity of engineers [4, 5]. Students taking an ethics-based course or module is more likely to realize the core of an ethics problem in a certain complex situation than students with no previous experience [3]. Those findings came from observations among students who have participated in the ethics courses in the engineering school. Using the keyword "engineering ethics" and searching the ERIC and Google Scholar databases, the researchers did not find any literature examining the ethical perceptions of engineering students who have never participated in the ethics curriculum. This indicates a knowledge gap in the existing literature to answer the question of whether engineering students are able to recognize the specific ethical codes that apply to engineers
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