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 | 53631 63631 |
| Type | Seminar |
| ECTS | 5 |
| Site | Fribourg |
| Track(s) |
T5 – Information Systems and Decision Support T6 – Data Science |
| Semester | A2025 |
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 September! |
| 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_3419464.html. |
Schedules and Rooms
| Period | On Appointment |
| Location | UniFR, PER21 |
Evaluation
| Evaluation type | continuous evaluation |
Additional information
| Comment | First Lecture Prerequisites For admission to the book group, interested students should apply in advance by sending a short video and a one-page application to the course instructors, arguing why they should be included in this colloquium, latest by end of September. |