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Engineering professionals are expected to conduct their work in an ethical manner. However, students may receive limited instruction on ethics and demonstrate resistance to learning about ethics in practice, contributing to graduates being ill-prepared to face ethical dilemmas in the workplace. This study investigated the nascent learning by engineering students (N = 183) about the relevance of ethics to engineering practice in a two-hour workshop that included recounts of experiences that were of immediate relevance to engineering interns and graduates, through use of videos and a serious game. Thematic analysis of qualitative responses highlighted that students gained understanding of how ethics influences engineering practice in general, and how ethical issues influence the work of engineering professionals. Exposing students to the presence of ethical issues in practice through immediately relevant examples early during their studies is likely to improve the way they approach ethics throughout their studies, and subsequently, the workplace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Authors of papers in this special issue, I Agents of Change i , have reported studies that readers will find valuable in informing positive change in engineering education. The Australasian Association for Engineering Education is supporting a new Best Paper Award, of open access to the best paper in the most recentvolume, or to a paper by the first author of the said paper in one of the following three volumes. Open call for papers for a special issue Disrupting Business as Usual Authors are invited to submit full papers to the Journal for a special issue on I Disrupting Business as Usual i , the theme of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education Virtual Conference 2020. [Extracted from the article]

The special issue was nominated and edited by members of the Research in Engineering Education Network Governing Board led by Shannon Chance, following the Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2019 in Cape Town. Call for papers: special issue engineering education research capability development The Research in Engineering Education Symposium and Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference (REES AAEE) 2021 will be held at The University of Western Australia in Perth (ree-aaee21.org). " REES/AAEE Special Focus on Ethics: Introduction by Guest Editor, Shannon Chance.". [Extracted from the article]