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Course Outline
During this ethics workshop you will:
- Discuss a range of common conflicts of interest that professionals may encounter in their roles
- Explore the importance of recognizing these potential conflicts and how they may be perceived differently by private and public sector firms
- Examine professional codes of ethics and how these guiding documents provide greater clarity when facing ethical dilemmas
- Evaluate real case examples of ethics problems
Course Schedule
Event Date/Time:
5/16/2025 1:00pm - 3:00pm Central Time
Program Director & Instructors
Program Director
Joy Altwies
Laura Grossenbacher
Director of Technical Communication
Laura Grossenbacher, PhD, is the Director of the Technical Communication Program in the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been teaching courses in engineering communication for over twenty years. Dr. Grossenbacher has been an active member of the Association for Practical and Profession Ethics, serving as a judge at the National Ethics Bowl Intercollegiate Competition for several years. She has served a three-year rotation as an NSF proposal reviewer for the Ethics in Engineering and Science Education panel, and actively develops cases for her undergraduate capstone course, Contemporary Issues in International Engineering.