Sleep, M., & Rohwer, Y. (2021, July), Development of a Social-justice Mindset Through Discovery Learning from the Conflict Between Safety and Welfare in Engineering Ethics  Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. 10.18260/1-2--36962

\bibitem{asee_peer_36962}
  Sleep, M., \& Rohwer, Y. (2021, July), \emph{Development of a Social-justice Mindset Through Discovery Learning from the Conflict Between Safety and Welfare in Engineering Ethics}
  Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference.
  10.18260/1-2--36962

Matthew Sleep and Yasha Rohwer.  "Development of a Social-justice Mindset Through Discovery Learning from the Conflict Between Safety and Welfare in Engineering Ethics".  2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2021.  https://peer.asee.org/36962 Internet.  18 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_36962}
  Matthew Sleep and Yasha Rohwer.
  "Development of a Social-justice Mindset Through Discovery Learning from the Conflict Between Safety and Welfare in Engineering Ethics".
  \emph{2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2021.
  https://peer.asee.org/36962 Internet.  18 Apr, 2024

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AB  - The National Society of Professional Engineer’s Code of Ethics states that engineers shall, “Hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public.”  Previous studies have shown that when engineering solutions to problems, welfare may trade off with safety, if the financial expense of safety negatively impacts a client’s financial welfare. Thus, there is the potential for conflict if engineers seek to hold both safety and welfare to be paramount. Research has shown that undergraduate engineering students favor safety over welfare independent of a client’s ability to pay.    

This paper completes a review of published research on student responses to safety and welfare in design supplemented with additional analyses. Based on these results, the authors developed a classroom module, which we present in this paper. In the module, students are presented with a task in which they must design an engineering solution for clients of different socio-economic backgrounds.  The task calls upon universal engineering skillsets such that it can be completed by engineering students from any discipline. By highlighting the conflict between safety and welfare in the engineering code of ethics, students may organically arrive at definitions and ideas of social justice such as equity and fair distribution of wealth through a discovery learning process.  

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