NDLI: Teaching Engineering Ethics using BLOCKS Game

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Author	Lau, Shiew Wei Tan, Terence Peng Lian Goh, Suk Meng
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	The aim of this study was to investigate the use of a newly developed design game called BLOCKS to stimulate awareness of ethical responsibilities amongst engineering students. The design game was played by seventeen teams of chemical engineering students, with each team having to arrange pieces of colored paper to produce two letters each. Before the end of the game, additional constraints were introduced to the teams such that they faced similar ambiguity in the technical facts that the engineers involved in the Challenger disaster had faced prior to the space shuttle launch. At this stage, the teams had to decide whether to continue with their original design or to develop alternative solutions. After the teams had made their decisions, a video of the Challenger explosion was shown followed by a post-game discussion. The students’ opinion on five Statements on ethics was tracked via a Five-Item Likert survey which was administered three times, before and after the ethical scenario was introduced, and after the video and post-game discussion. The results from this study indicated that the combination of the game and the real-life incident from the video had generally strengthened the students’ opinions of the Statements.
Starting Page	1357
Ending Page	1373
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13533452
Journal	Science and Engineering Ethics
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	14715546
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-10-13
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Engineering ethics Design game Video Historical case-scenario Ethics Philosophy of Science Engineering Biomedical Engineering Medicine/Public Health Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects Health (social science) Management of Technology and Innovation Health Policy

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