Who Wants to Be An Ethical Engineer?

Author

Bauer, Candice ; Adams, V. Dean

Author_Institution

Coll. of Eng., Nevada Univ., Reno, NV

fYear

2005

fDate

19-22 Oct. 2005

Abstract

An innovative lesson plan for teaching engineering ethics has been developed at the University of Nevada, Reno. The students are divided into two teams. Each team is asked to select four candidates. Just then, some famous music plays and "Who Wants to Be an Ethical Engineer?" begins. Modeled after the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?," the selected questions place the students into real scenarios and is modeled after the review questions for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam. Course evaluations and interviews reveal that this lesson is a student favorite. Inherently, the lesson serves as teaching tool and assessment tool. Reviewed here is a demonstration of a learner-centered session, complete rules of the game for implementations, best practices, pitfall avoidance, and suggestions on reinforcement and continued assessment

Keywords

educational aids; educational institutions; engineering education; ethical aspects; University of Nevada; assessment tool; engineering ethics; fundamentals of engineering; learner-centered session; teaching tool; Accreditation; Best practices; Bridges; Education; Educational institutions; Engineering profession; Ethics; Games; Iron; Videos; ABET; Ethics; FE Exam; Learner-centered;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education, 2005. FIE '05. Proceedings 35th Annual Conference

Conference_Location

Indianopolis, IN

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9077-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2005.1611893

Filename

1611893