What was in your engineering ethics course, then? Ours was pretty much summarized by "Rich assholes will try to convince your boss to convince you to do some evil shit in the name of money. It is your obligation to reject such requests". Followed by a painful amount of tragic examples. Like, this may have been the only message of the entire course. The Ethics course in the Philosophy department was way more engaging, because it had a bit more variety.
My course was very much a "don't do bad things because there could be bad consequences" type of course without too much ambiguity as to what the right action was and definitely no reference to topics relevant to software engineering.
It was not a "why do good people end up performing unethical actions, and how you can prevent yourself from equivocating and rationalizing unethical actions as well" course.
