A survey on the status of engineering ethics in Iranian engineering education: A systematic review

Engineering ethics is one of the issues that has attracted the attention of the engineering community in recent years. The most important challenge in engineer training in the country is the development of human and moral values in engineering students. Therefore, considering the importance of engineering ethics training, this study reviews the studies and articles related to engineering education, engineering ethics and engineering ethics education which published in Iranian journals over a period of 20 years. In this study, Persian language journals were systematically studied. The purpose was to find, classify and analyze the articles published in the journals from the beginning of 1994 to the end of 2016 related to the engineering education, engineering ethics, and engineering ethics education. Initially, a list of journals containing articles in these fields were prepared. Then, the dedicated web site of each journal and other scientific databases were studied. Finally, 46 journals with 232 articles were selected. It can be concluded that the engineering community has recognized the importance of ethics in engineering, but unfortunately, there has not been much research on the methodology and quality of engineering education ethics for engineering students. Therefore, it can be said that ethics training is inadequate in the field of engineering, and it is necessary to carry out studies in this regard and provide some solutions.