Engineering Ethics Training by Expert Witness Role Play

本计画借由让学生担任诉讼角色扮演经验的专家证人，发展工程伦理学的教学科学。标准伦理学使学生接触到他们在职业生涯中可能遇到的广泛的伦理困境，并在与这些问题相关的伦理推理中提供有价值的实践。专家证人的角色扮演有可能扩展这一知识基础，帮助学生培养意识和实践技能，以应对在其特定研究领域作为专家证人保持科学客观性的道德挑战。本研究的智力价值来自于通过开发五个完整的专家证人角色扮演，扩展了一个基于重现交通事故的轶事成功的角色扮演经验并使用形成性和总结性评估技术在两个机构评估这种方法的有效性。这项工作的更广泛的影响包括开发一个框架，以帮助其他教育工作者在开发专家证人的角色扮演额外的工程专家的主题和传播这个项目的结果，在常用的伦理门户网站，将专家证人的角色扮演在自己的教室。

This project develops the science of teaching engineering ethics by engaging students as expert witnesses in a litigation role play experience. Standard pedagogies expose students to broad ethical dilemmas that they may encounter in their careers and provide valuable practice in ethical reasoning related to these problems. Expert witness role plays have the potential to expand on this base of knowledge to help students develop awareness and practical skills to deal with the ethical challenges of maintaining scientific objectivity as an expert witness in their specifica area of study.The intellectual merit of this research comes from extending an anecdotally successful role play experience based on reconstructing a traffic crash by developing five complete expert witness role plays and evaluating the efficacy of this approach in two institutions using both formative and summative evaluation techniques. The broader impact of this work includes developing a framework to aid other educators in developing expert witness role plays on additional engineering expert topics and disseminating the result of this project on commonly used ethics web portals to incorporate expert witness role plays in their own classrooms.