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

这纳米技术本科教育（NUE）在工程计划，题为“NUE：纳米技术的社会伦理方面的跨学科教育”，在亚利桑那州立大学，博士的指导下，托马斯P.西格，将开发一个独特的为期四周的研讨会经验，将探讨纳米技术所提出的社会和伦理问题，建立跨学科的沟通能力，并提高工程领导和团队合作能力的本科生。 三个目标将通过调整最初由乐高集团开发的称为乐高严肃游戏（LSP，www.seriousplay.com）的学习活动来实现，这是一种开源的，方便的研讨会方法，允许材料审议。 LSP研讨会的参与者通过在乐高积木中建立象征性和隐喻性的见解模型并相互展示来探索与正在进行的项目，任务或战略相关的挑战。该研讨会将在一个互动的环境中解决跨学科交流的困难方面，计划将科学/工程和社会科学专业聚集在一起。该NUE计划将直接为教师和本科生的多元化群体提供培训，以及Herberger设计学院的博士生在LSP方面的专业知识。 它将促进学生可以获得他们的主要实践领域之外的沟通能力，并加强团队合作，领导能力和对工程专业学生社会问题的理解的过程的理解，同时提高非工程专业学生的纳米技术素养。 该计划将特别接触工程领域代表性不足的群体。 最后，该项目将利用技术工作和产品，从以前的NUE奖在亚利桑那州立大学，生产和传播一系列两分钟的视频，记录从本科生的经验研讨会的经验，并产生一个更长的“教师相声”的主持下亚利桑那州立大学办公室的机构包容性，记录教师的经验，并提供源材料，以其他大学寻求复制该计划的方法的成功方面。

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.