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

这个纳米技术工程本科教育（NUE）项目名为“NUE：在亚利桑那州立大学Thomas P. Seager博士的指导下，“纳米技术的社会和伦理方面的跨学科教育”将为本科生开发一个独特的为期四周的研讨会经验，探索纳米技术引起的社会和伦理问题，建立跨学科的沟通能力，提高工程领导能力和团队合作技能。通过调整乐高集团最初开发的学习活动，乐高严肃游戏（LSP, www.seriousplay.com），将实现三个目标，这是一种开源的，便利的研讨会方法，允许材料审议。LSP研讨会的参与者通过在乐高积木中建立他们的见解的象征性和隐喻模型，并将其展示给彼此，探索与正在进行的项目、任务或战略相关的挑战。本工作坊将讨论在互动环境中跨学科交流的困难方面，计划将科学/工程和社会科学专业的学生聚集在一起。这个NUE项目将直接为各种各样的教师和本科生以及赫伯格设计学院的一名具有LSP专业知识的博士生提供培训。它将促进学生对过程的理解，通过这些过程，学生可以在他们的主要实践领域之外获得沟通能力，增强工程专业学生的团队合作、领导能力和对社会问题的理解，同时提高非工程专业学生的纳米技术素养。该项目将特别涉及工程界代表性不足的群体。最后，该项目将利用以前在亚利桑那州立大学获得的NUE奖的技术工作和产品，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机构包容办公室的主持下制作更长的“教师相声”，记录教师的经验，并为其他寻求复制该计划方法成功方面的大学提供原始材料。

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.