NUE: Cross-disciplinary Education in Social & Ethical Aspects of Nanotechnology

在亚利桑那州立大学，在Thomas P.Seager博士的指导下，这个名为“NUE：纳米技术的社会和伦理方面的跨学科教育”的工程本科教育(NUE)项目将为本科生开发一个独特的为期四周的研讨会体验，探讨纳米技术引发的社会和伦理问题，建立跨学科沟通能力，并增强工程领导力和团队合作技能。通过调整最初由乐高集团开发的名为Lego Serious Play(LSP，www.Seriousplay.com)的学习活动，将实现三个目标，这是一种开放源码的促进研讨会方法，允许进行材料审议。LSP研讨会的参与者探索与正在进行的项目、任务或战略相关的挑战，方法是构建他们在乐高积木中的见解的象征性和隐喻性模型，并将它们相互呈现。本课程将在一个互动的环境中解决跨学科交流的困难，该课程计划将科学/工程和社会科学专业的学生聚集在一起。这一NUE项目将直接为不同的教师和本科生以及Herberger设计学院具有LSP专业知识的博士生提供培训。它将促进对学生在其主要实践领域之外获得沟通能力的过程的理解，并加强工科学生的团队合作、领导力和对社会问题的理解，同时提高非工科学生的纳米技术素养。该计划将特别针对工程界代表性不足的群体。最后，该项目将利用亚利桑那州立大学以前的NUE奖项的技术工作和产品，制作和传播一系列两分钟的视频，记录本科生的研讨会经验，并在亚利桑那州立大学院校包容办公室的赞助下制作更长的“教师相声”，记录教师的经验，并向寻求复制该项目方法的成功方面的其他大学提供原始材料。

This Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering program entitled, "NUE: Cross-disciplinary Education in Social & Ethical Aspects of Nanotechnology", at Arizona State University, under the direction of Dr. Thomas P. Seager, will develop a unique four weeks long workshop experience for undergraduate students that will explore the social and ethical issues raised by nanotechnology, build cross-disciplinary communicative competence, and enhance engineering leadership and teamwork skills. Three objectives will be achieved by adapting learning activities originally developed by the LEGO Group called Lego Serious Play (LSP, www.seriousplay.com), an open source, facilitated workshop method that allows for material deliberation. Participants in LSP workshops explore challenges related to an ongoing project, task, or strategy by building symbolic and metaphorical models of their insights in LEGO bricks and presenting them to each other. This workshop will address the difficult aspect of cross disciplinary communication in an interactive setting that plans to bring together science/engineering and social science majors.This NUE program will directly provide training to a diverse cohort of faculty and undergraduate students, and a PhD student in the Herberger Institute of Design with expertise in LSP. It will advance the understanding of the processes by which students can acquire communicative competence outside their primary field of practice and enhance teamwork, leadership, and understanding of social issues in engineering students, while improving nanotechnology literacy in non-engineering students. The program will specially reach out to underrepresented groups within engineering. Lastly, the project will leverage technical work and products from a prior NUE award at ASU, produce and disseminate a series of two-minute videos that document the workshop experience from the undergraduate student experience, and produce a longer "Faculty Cross Talk" under the auspices of the ASU Office of Institutional Inclusion that documents the faculty experience, and provides source materials to other Universities seeking to replicate the successful aspects of the program's approach.