Integrating ethics into the freshman year experience

Various attempts are described in an effort to integrate ethics into the freshman year engineering classes. The attempts include formal lectures on moral reasoning theories, ethics focused videos/DVDs, environmentally focused design projects, design projects that force students to consider societal and global issues. A somewhat different type of design project, compassion practicum, is also described. The compassion practicum requires students to use an engineering design methodology to identify, design a solution an implement that solution with the charge to the student stated as "do something compassionate for some being other than you".