Despite the fact that Northeastern is home to one of the most prestigious engineering colleges in the United States, students within the college have very little exposure to the ethics of their field of study. Considering a typical mechanical engineer, for example, merely 1 out of the 69 required engineering credit hours are devoted solely to ethics. Considering the immense global impact that engineers can have in the modern era, this is unacceptable, but it is also unreasonable to expect the university to discontinue some classes to make room for ethics classes.

Thus, the concept of an Ethics in Engineering Speaker Series was born. After having partnered with several other interested students, my team and I have drafted an attainable speaker series concept to bring the ethical conversation back to campus. The plan is to partner the series with the freshman general engineering seminar class (known as GE 1000). These classes often feature speaker series within their curriculum, and attendance is used in calculating students' grades. Additionally, since they are merely seminar classes, they are most likely to allow for a more malleable curriculum.

Currently, my project is still in the early stages of networking and development, since I believe that in order for any project to be successful, there must exist a strong group of officers willing to commit time and energy into advancing the project. This is especially critical for my project since having a widespread network would grant us access to more professors who would ultimately be the speakers in our series. In time, our intentions are to grow a network of students (in progress), grow a network of professors, pitch the idea to the College of Engineering and partner with GE 1000 to bring the speaker series to campus.