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Atsushi Fujiki Kobe City College of Nursing, Japan The case study is one of the most familiar pedagogical methods in engineering ethics. However, most of the cases introduced in textbooks are a little far from our everyday life, both temporally…

Andrew Valentine University of Queensland Sally Male University of Western Australia Cases in Engineering Ethics Education are often very complex and distant in nature, and it can be hard for students to take away clear skills or knowledge they can…

Dympna O'SullivanAndrea Curley and Damien Gordon TU Dublin, Ireland Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. They are an increasingly common occurrence…

Aditya Johri George Mason University, USA I recently designed and implemented online role-play case studies in an undergraduate ethics course. I make students accountable to a person or a committee who has to act on the advice they receive. I…

Cindy Rottmann University of Toronto, Canada How can engineering educators facilitate student learning about ethical dilemmas using case studies? More importantly, how can we honour the micro-ethical nature of individual decision-making without ignoring the macro-political impact of these decisions? One…

What is this case also a case of? What are your underlying assumptions in having students go through your cases? Thomas LennerforsUppsala University, Sweden Our own research on cases in management education shows that cases provide heroic, individualistic and uncritical perspectives on leadership and…

Rob Lawlor Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre, University of Leeds Several authors in Engineering Ethics Education Research claim that that “The best way to teach engineering ethics is by using cases”. But why focus on the best way to teach engineering…