Newhart, K., & Pfluger, A., & Butkus, M. (2022, August), The Green Escape Room: Part 2 - Teaching Students Professional Engineering Ethics by Applying Environmental Engineering Principles and Deciphering Clues and Puzzles  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40424

\bibitem{asee_peer_40424}
  Newhart, K., \& Pfluger, A., \& Butkus, M. (2022, August), \emph{The Green Escape Room: Part 2 - Teaching Students Professional Engineering Ethics by Applying Environmental Engineering Principles and Deciphering Clues and Puzzles}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--40424

Kathryn Newhart, Andrew Pfluger, and Michael Butkus.  "The Green Escape Room: Part 2 - Teaching Students Professional Engineering Ethics by Applying Environmental Engineering Principles and Deciphering Clues and Puzzles".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://strategy.asee.org/40424 Internet.  11 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_40424}
  Kathryn Newhart, Andrew Pfluger, and Michael Butkus.
  "The Green Escape Room: Part 2 - Teaching Students Professional Engineering Ethics by Applying Environmental Engineering Principles and Deciphering Clues and Puzzles".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://strategy.asee.org/40424 Internet.  11 Apr, 2024

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author = "Kathryn Newhart, Andrew Pfluger, and Michael Butkus"
title = "The Green Escape Room: Part 2 - Teaching Students Professional Engineering Ethics by Applying Environmental Engineering Principles and Deciphering Clues and Puzzles"
booktitle = "2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition"
year = "2022"
month = "August"
address = "Minneapolis, MN"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Escape rooms use a sequence of related clues and puzzles to lead participants to a final answer. While escape rooms have been used in technical aspects of engineering education as an active learning exercise, very few have been applied to ethics and none to engineering ethics as reported in the literature. Conventional ethics education is often taught by lecture and passive analysis of case studies which does not actively engage students with ethical principles or codes like the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Code of Ethics. The objective of this work is to evaluate escape rooms as a tool to improve student’s understanding of professional engineering ethics. The escape room exercise in this study is geared towards environmental engineering students, engaging them with relevant subject-matter problems including water treatment, wastewater treatment, and solid waste management in the developing world. Each technical problem is compounded by an ethical dilemma and participants must justify their final action to resolve each problem by using the NSPE Code of Ethics. To measure student learning, a NSPE-developed, 25-question, True-False quiz designed for professional engineers is administered immediately before and after the escape room exercise. Of 17 participants, the ethics escape room improved the average participant’s grade on the NSPE quiz by 7.8% (p=0.002). All participants agreed or strongly agreed that the ethics escape room was “effective as a learning tool,” “should become a regular part of ethics education,” and “encouraged team building,” on a feedback form administered prior to the post-quiz. This work demonstrates the effectiveness of the escape room as a format for active learning in engineering ethics education and provides an outline for ethics education in a wide range of professional disciplines.
AU  - Kathryn Newhart
AU  - Andrew Pfluger
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CY  - Minneapolis, MN
DA  - 2022/08/23
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - The Green Escape Room: Part 2 - Teaching Students Professional Engineering Ethics by Applying Environmental Engineering Principles and Deciphering Clues and Puzzles
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--40424
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