Ethics Education for Integrated Product Design

这个科学与工程伦理教育项目旨在教育下一代产品设计师和产品工程师如何道德地生产产品。该提案侧重于三个特定方面：1）制造业生命周期问题（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）推进产品技术，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能够理解产品的复杂道德问题，这些问题往往与商业和工程设计问题紧密相关。这项建议将通过使用一种新的体验式学习方法来满足这一需求，在上述三个重点领域教育学生。学生将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，并与非政府组织合作？和设计公司。学生将体验先进技术的创造和滥用方面。该计划的影响将超越宾夕法尼亚大学？的研究生课程在三个方面。首先，其他大学已承诺遵循我们发现的成功做法。第二，我们有六个本地和国际的行业合作伙伴，以及另外六个非政府组织？这一过程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。随着社会开始努力解决如何评估先进技术对产品的影响以及如何在政策层面对它们作出回应，我们将需要在工程方面具有专家资格并精通其伦理和社会影响的公民。拟议的计划将建立一个不断增长的年轻产品设计师群体，他们将熟悉道德框架和观点，这些框架和观点可以用来分析问题，并能够应用方法来解决问题。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，使人们意识到现有制造工艺对下一代生产工艺的设计表的人类影响。它将通过培养下一代产品设计师来实现这一目标，这些设计师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。

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.