Engineering Ethics: Activities for the Classroom
Choose-Your-Own-Path Ethics Module with two case studies
An interactive, team-based, choose-your-own adventure activity that gives students the opportunity to make multiple sequential ethical decisions while navigating a scenario where an engineering design flaw impacts a product after it is sold.
- Team-Based, Choose-Your-Own-Path Engineering Ethics ActivityA 50-minute interactive, team-based activity that allows students to practice ethical decision-making in real-world scenarios and observe potential outcomes.
Cards Against Engineering Ethics Online Game
Similar to the popular card games Cards Against Humanity and Apples to Apples, this is a fun fill-in-the-blank game focused within an engineering ethical framework.
- Not All Bad Cards WebsiteThe website used for the Cards Against Engineering Ethics Game
Evaluating Popular Inventions
Whom are inventions intended to benefit, who has access to them, who might be harmed by them, and who is profiting by them?
This activity is created by Teach Engineering of the University of Colorado Boulder
- Evaluating Popular Inventions Documents .zip file that contains the materials to conduct this activity.
Role-Playing Ethics Case Scenario
From George Mason University
In this activity, students take on the roles of different stakeholders in the Boeing Max Air Disaster case and consider ethical decision making through those different lenses.
This is a multi-week activity.
NSF Workshop Cases with Numerical Problems
Interested in linking an ethical case to the mathematical problem-solving that you are teaching in your engineering classes? These NSF case studies provide both a description of the ethical issue and the numerical problems you can assign to students.
NIEE Ethics Videos
- NIEE Ethics Vidoes, Handouts, and AssignmentsThe National Institute for Engineering Ethics (NIEE) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of the understanding and practice of ethics within the engineering profession.
Dilemma Game (Phone App)
- Dilemma GameThe Dilemma Game confronts researchers with difficult dilemmas in the context of a critical dialogue, supporting them in further developing their own 'moral compass'.
Links to download to Andriod or iOS from page - Nature Article on Dilemma GameNature spoke to Nick den Hollander, a senior policy officer at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where the game was developed.