Engineering design often involves engaging with users, clients, and stakeholders of products and systems. Therefore, designers should reflect on the societal and environmental implications of their design work so that they can design equitably, ethically, and justly. We reviewed three leading scholarly engineering design publications to investigate how, when, and why the terms “ethics,” “equity,” and “justice,” appear in the engineering design literature and what people mean when they use the terms. We find that these terms are minimally present within the field and suggest that design researchers may be using other terms to refer to their work that is aligned with principles of ethics, equity, and justice. We find that the presence of these terms in the literature has increased over time and that the terms come up throughout various stages of the design process. There appear to be a variety of motivations for including these terms. Specifically, sustainability and education of the next generation of designers are strong motivators for inclusion of these topics. Finally, we propose an expanded design justice framework that is specific to engineering design. We encourage designers in our field to adopt this framework to assist them in thinking through how their engineering design work can be used to advance justice.