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Engineering Ethics: Activities for the Classroom

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.

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.

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

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

Dilemma Game (Phone App)