Tag: Collective action problems

IEEE Ethics Week: Horizons of Engineering Ethics (HEE) Webinar

By on September 10th, 2026 in Articles, Blog Posts, IEEE Ethics Week, Social Implications of Technology, Webinar

Collective action problems can be resolved only through the coordination of individual actions and not through the unilateral action of any single individual. For this reason, such problems pose a distinctive challenge to engineering ethics educators: how to engage and motivate students to take seriously macro-ethical problems that they—as mere individuals—may lack sufficient incentive or power to resolve alone.