Roland Tormey and Martin Boyer, EPFL , Switzeland Wikipedia is techno-ethical marvel, and a conundrum. For those teaching engineering ethics, it is an endless source of material for exploring how technology, morality, and social forces interact. Wikipedia is a free and…
Pieter de Vries, TU Delft, The Netherlands Universities across the globe shifted to fully online delivery as campuses locked down. For most institutions this meant a swift move from their face-to-face teaching model to the ‘Zoom classroom’. This attempt was…
Lavinia Marin, TU Delft, The Netherlands During the course of last year, universities had to move online their teaching because of the restrictions posed by the Corona pandemic. In an effort to not lose any educational quality, we moved online…
Dear Reader, The medium is the message, also in Engineering Ethics Education. This newsletter focuses on formats that touch students at a personal level needed to have good ethics education. It reports on the “Film and fiction in engineering ethics…
Atsushi Fujiki Kobe City College of Nursing, Japan The case study is one of the most familiar pedagogical methods in engineering ethics. However, most of the cases introduced in textbooks are a little far from our everyday life, both temporally…
Andrew Valentine University of Queensland Sally Male University of Western Australia Cases in Engineering Ethics Education are often very complex and distant in nature, and it can be hard for students to take away clear skills or knowledge they can…
Dympna O'SullivanAndrea Curley and Damien Gordon TU Dublin, Ireland Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. They are an increasingly common occurrence…
Aditya Johri George Mason University, USA I recently designed and implemented online role-play case studies in an undergraduate ethics course. I make students accountable to a person or a committee who has to act on the advice they receive. I…
Cindy Rottmann University of Toronto, Canada How can engineering educators facilitate student learning about ethical dilemmas using case studies? More importantly, how can we honour the micro-ethical nature of individual decision-making without ignoring the macro-political impact of these decisions? One…
What is this case also a case of? What are your underlying assumptions in having students go through your cases? Thomas LennerforsUppsala University, Sweden Our own research on cases in management education shows that cases provide heroic, individualistic and uncritical perspectives on leadership and…