Raising the Level of Environmental Concern of Senior Students Taking the Electronics Engineering Laws and Ethics through Climate Change Awareness Study

• Main Authors: Recto, King Harold A, Neyra, Romano Q
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: environmental concern; engineering ethics; engineering education; climate change; Climate; Engineering; Engineering Education; Sustainability
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/ecce-faculty-pubs/180; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/ecce-faculty-pubs/article/1174/viewcontent/11_Recto_Neyra_Psychosocial.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Two general areas that future electronics engineers are honed are competence and character. Most of the courses he takes fall in the general area of competence. This includes subjects like Circuit Theory, Electronic Design and Analysis, Communication Systems, and the like. Subjects dealing with character, in contrast, are limited. In some universities, it may just be Electronics Engineering (ECE) Laws and Ethics and the focus is on “engineering made by man for man.” In this traditional view of Engineering, the environment is often neglected since it’s not about “man” (as opposed to the “society”). Over the last years, however, concerns about the environment have been heightened as evidenced by the inclusion of clauses on the environment on the code of ethics of certain institutions. For this reason, is also important that such concern and care are taken to the classrooms. In the Philippines, a major topic under this is climate change due to the Philippines’ high vulnerability due to its limited resources to adapt socially, financially, and of course, technologically. This paper sought to determine the level of awareness on climate change of ECE Laws and Ethics students and use this as the basis of recommendation to improve course delivery In particular, this paper would like to find out: (1) the level of awareness on climate change of Senior Students of Electronics Engineering (ECE) Laws and Ethics; (2) the factors which would the ECE students perceive to significantly influence their level of awareness on climate change; and (3) the recommendations on the development of the course to further raise the level of awareness on climate change. Qualitative and quantitative methods were employed in this paper. Using the instrument modified from the one created by Barreda (2018), students enrolled in the ECE Laws and Ethics were surveyed and results were analyzed to answer the research question. The recommendations were collected and considered for the next syllabus review.