Educating scientists and engineers with respect to the ethical implications of their professional actions is an increasingly urgent, demanding, and complex task, and we do them and society a disservice if they inadequately grasp the ethical significance of the work they do. Education in ethics in engineering and the sciences has been recognized as intrinsically important. The Institute for Science, Technology, Ethics, and Policy at The University of Texas at El Paso brings together scientists, engineers, and philosophers from the academic, industrial, and public policy domains to focus on training both graduate students and faculty in ethical theory related to science and engineering. This training will focus on the rigorous development of ethical thought as applied to current topics in the science, engineering, and technology sectors. Because education in ethics necessarily involves subjective as well as objective factors, in order to evaluate the efficacy of this approach, an innovative assessment of student development that integrates both quantitative and qualitative approaches needs to be made. This paper describes such an experimental method that will be used to assess students for an ethics in engineering course.