Until recently, there has been no research programs, courses in engineering ethics and no code of ethics for engineers in France. For cultural and historical reason, the question of being or not being a profession is not an issue in France. Therefore, professional ethics have not been developed as in English-speaking countries. If we consider that a code of ethics is a relevant, if only partial means to study the engineers ethos, where should we start our investigation on French engineers ? An historical investigation shows that the engineering profession did not succeed in organizing itself in France. The scattering of the profession has led to the absence of a discourse representative of French engineers. Even if French engineers adopted through this professional association their first code of ethics, more than in other countries, the perception that engineers have of ethical issues within their profession needs to be studied elsewhere. 1 Christelle Didier, Pour un questionnement éthique des choix techniques : une ouverture dans la formation des ingénieurs, collection « dossier à fenêtre », Editions Fondation Charles-Leopold Mayer, Paris, 1999. 2 To read more about non-technical subjects in engineering curriculum in France, Humanités et Grandes Ecoles,

:The first chapter relates to the development of non-technical education (and ethics within them)

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In this paper, we present and discuss the results of a survey of how corporate social responsibility (CSR) is being discussed and taught in engineering education in France. We shall first describe how those questions have been recently tackled in various programmes of higher education in France. We shall also analyse what faculty members have to say about their motivation or reluctance to enhance these new topics in their teaching. While this survey covered various fields of higher education, in this present, we mostly discuss the issues surrounding CSR teaching in engineering education.