Engineering Ethics Training by Expert Witness Role Play

该项目通过让学生作为专家证人参与诉讼角色扮演体验，发展了工程伦理学教学的科学。标准的教学方法使学生暴露于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方面提供了有价值的实践。专家证人角色扮演具有在此知识基础上扩展的潜力，以帮助学生发展意识和实践技能，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伦理挑战。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来扩展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。这项工作的更广泛影响包括建立一个框架，帮助其他教育工作者在其他工程专家主题上发挥专家证人的作用，并在常用的伦理门户网站上传播这一项目的结果，以便将专家证人的作用纳入他们自己的课堂。

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.