Seminar Life Engineering

The idea of these lessons for an integral fuzzy engineering, or short life engineering, is to introduce the students into a human-centred reflection on ethics and sustainability of digitalization. We apply an ethics by design mindset as a humanistic way to design fair systems that involve ethical values and sustainable principles, requirements as well as procedures into engineering. During the semesters, we seek to understand computational ethics and sustainability approaches, by reading and discussing books on digital ethics and sustainability. In the end, the students will also write a joint paper on their experiences.

Details

Code 53646
63646
Type Seminar
ECTS 5
Site Fribourg
Track(s) T5 – Information Systems and Decision Support
T6 – Data Science
Semester S2026

Teaching

Learning Outcomes

The seminar offers students the opportunity to debate the constantly growing role of ethics and sustainability in digitalization. The aim is that, with in-depth discussions, the students acquire up-to-date knowledge of ethical and sustainable practices. At a kick-off, we open the seminar with the general condition as the dates, the books to be discussed, and the discussion leads for a particular book will then be settled. For admission to the seminar, interested students should apply to the course instructors in advance with a short video and a one-page application. Students should introduce themselves and explain why they want to attend and why they should be included. Please apply latest by the end of February!

Lecturer(s) Edy Portmann
Language english
Course Page

The course page in ILIAS can be found at https://ilias.unibe.ch/goto_ilias3_unibe_crs_3419489.html.

Schedules and Rooms

Period On Appointment
Location UniFR, PER21

Evaluation

Evaluation type continuous evaluation

Additional information

Comment

First Lecture
Please contact Edy Portmann (edy.portmann@unifr.ch) to select the date of the first meeting.

Prerequisites
Students are expected to have knowledge in “Fuzzy Sets and Systems Topics”.