Ethics Education for Integrated Product Design

集成产品设计的伦理教育

• 批准号: 1033014
• 负责人: Mark Yim
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1033014&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Ethics; Education; Integrated; Product; Design

This Ethics Education in Science and Engineering project proposes to educate the next generation of product designers and product engineers on the ethical production of products. This proposal focuses on three particular aspects:1) manufacturing life cycle issues (recycling, packaging, environmental impact) 2) impact on developing countries and emerging markets including humanitarian and environmental concerns 3) advancing technology in products such as privacy concerns or robots in the workplace. Students who have knowledge in all of these disciplines will be uniquely poised to understand the complex ethical issues for products that are often deeply coupled with business and engineering design concerns. This proposal will address this need by using a novel experiential learning approach to educate students in the three focus areas above. Students will experience developing products that impact life in developing countries and emerging market (Ghana, Bangladesh or South Africa) by going there and working with NGO?s and design firms. Students will experience both the creation side and the abuse side of advancingtechnology. The impact of this program will extend beyond Penn?s graduate program in three ways. First, other universities have committed to follow successful practices as we discover them. Second, we have six committed local and international industry partners as well as another six NGO?s in process that will both supply context for our students as well as take the results of their work. Third, we will publish multimedia content of the projects andcoursework on the internet. As society begins to grapple with how to evaluate the impact of advancing technology in products and how to respond to them at the level of policy, we will need citizens who are expert in the engineering and well- versed in its ethical and social implications. The proposed program will establish a growing cohort of young product designers who will be familiar with the ethical frameworks and perspectivesthat can be brought to bear on the analysis of problems, and be able to apply a methodology to solve problems. Broader impact. At the broadest level, the program will influence the development of manufacturingtechniques and ethics education, bringing awareness of the human impacts of existing manufacturing processes to the design table of the next generation of production processes. It will do so by seeding the next generationof product designers with individuals who have thought deeply about the societal implications of their work and have learned the basics of ethical manufacturing and high technology product design in the increasinglyglobal context.

这一科学与工程道德教育项目旨在教育下一代产品设计师和产品工程师有关产品道德生产的知识。该提案侧重于三个方面：1)制造生命周期问题(回收、包装、环境影响)2)对发展中国家和新兴市场的影响，包括人道主义和环境问题3)推动产品技术进步，如隐私问题或工作场所的机器人。拥有所有这些学科知识的学生将独一无二地准备好理解产品的复杂伦理问题，这些问题往往与商业和工程设计问题密切相关。这项建议将通过使用一种新颖的体验式学习方法来满足这一需求，以教育上述三个重点领域的学生。学生们将通过与非政府组织S和设计公司合作，体验开发影响发展中国家和新兴市场(加纳、孟加拉国或南非)生活的产品。学生们将同时体验先进技术的创造和滥用的一面。这个项目的影响将从三个方面扩展到宾夕法尼亚大学S研究生项目之外。首先，其他大学已经承诺效仿我们所发现的成功做法。其次，我们有六个坚定的本地和国际行业合作伙伴，以及另外六个非政府组织--S正在进行中，他们将为我们的学生提供背景，并取得他们的工作成果。第三，我们将在互联网上发布项目和课程的多媒体内容。随着社会开始纠结于如何评估先进技术对产品的影响，以及如何在政策层面对其做出回应，我们将需要精通工程并精通其伦理和社会影响的公民。拟议的计划将建立一支越来越多的年轻产品设计师队伍，他们将熟悉可用于分析问题的道德框架和观点，并能够应用方法论来解决问题。更广泛的影响。在最广泛的层面上，该计划将影响制造技术和道德教育的发展，将现有制造过程对人的影响的意识带到下一代生产过程的设计表上。它将通过培养下一代产品设计师来实现这一点，这些人已经深入思考了他们工作的社会影响，并在日益全球化的背景下学习了道德制造和高科技产品设计的基础知识。