Educational Design Project: Ethical Effects, Community Concerns

INTRODUCTION

In order to effectively develop an educational activity that will generate interests in engineering amongst middle-schoolers, we need to grasp the key ethical considerations that will be raised by the Educational Design project: ethical effects, community concerns, and user concerns. We plan on designing a week long summer program that would allow seventh and eighth graders to design and implement a mock cityscape. From Armin’s research into the ethical effects of such a project, Victor’s research into the community concerns, and Artin’s research on user concerns, we hope to design our project to have a positive impact on the participants and society.

ETHICAL EFFECTS

Engineerings or in general STEM are some of the professions that have affected us positively in terms of solving problems and well-being of society. The

For that purpose, our team is planning to make this activity involved with challenges that will follow the ABET’s Criterion 3, Student Outcomes, especially the subsections (h) and (f), which specifies the importance of the “impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context” and “an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.”[2] Given these criteria, we will provide guidelines to help the students to start the projects. These guidelines will include the facts about the goal of the design, intellectual property rights, and safety protocols. For the goal of the design, we will include a few instructions to challenge the students in designing in the areas that ABET focuses. These challenges can be one of the economic or environmental challenges that we currently are struggling with. Additionally, by providing only a few instructions, we will challenge the students to think