Ethical Dimensions of Renewable Energy and Sustainability Systems

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Resource Description

This course presents an examination of ethical issues relevant to systems-based research procedures, professional conduct, social and environmental impacts, and embedded ethics in research and professional practice in RESS based jobs. In this course, you will consider case studies of ethical issues that can arise when engaging renewable energy and sustainability systems. You will also develop an ethics case study based on your area of RESS interests. The goals of the course are to provide you with tools for analyzing ethical issues both in the line of professional duties and in consideration of the various ethical issues that face an entire sector of renewable energy and that underpin the very reasons for taking a sustainable and renewable approach.

This resource is part of the following programs: Graduate Certificate in Solar Energy (RESS), Graduate Certificate in Sustainability Management and Policy (RESS), and Master's Degree in Renewable Energy and Sustainable Systems.

Course Number

BIOET 533

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Erich Schienke

Erich W. Schienke, PhD. Lecturer, John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, and Sustainability Management and Policy Option Leader in the Renewable Energy and Sustainability Systems (Online Masters and Graduate Certificates Program); and Ethics Co-Leader for the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, The Pennsylvania State University. I received my Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in August 2006 and have been intellectually engaged with STS as a field since 1990.