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Work in Progress: Toxic Workplaces: Game-Based Exploration of Engineering Ethics for First-Year Engineering Students

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

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June 28, 2023

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - WIPS 1: Programs & Curricula

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

Page Count

9

DOI

10.18260/1-2--44486

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https://peer.asee.org/44486

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Kevin D. Dahm Rowan University

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Kevin Dahm is Professor and Undergraduate Program Chair for Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He earned his BS from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has published two books, "Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics" with Donald Visco, and "Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance" with his father Donald Dahm.

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Abagael Riley

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Daniel D. Burkey University of Connecticut

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Daniel Burkey is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Lehigh University in 19

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Richard Tyler Cimino New Jersey Institute of Technology Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0003-4171-4133

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Dr. Richard T. Cimino is a Senior Lecturer in the Otto H. York Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering from Rutgers University. His research interests include engineering ethics and process safety, and broadening inclusivity and belonging in engineering, especially among the LGBTQ+ community. His funded research has explored the effects of implicit bias on ethical decision making in the engineering classroom and gamification of engineering ethics education.

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Jennifer Pascal University of Connecticut

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Jennifer Pascal is an Assistant Professor in Residence at the University of Connecticut. She earned her PhD from Tennessee Technological University in 2011 and was then an NIH Academic Science Education and Research Training (ASERT) Postdoctoral Fellow at

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Scott Streiner University of Pittsburgh

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Scott Streiner is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department, teaches in the First-Year Engineering Program and works in the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Scott has received funding through NSF to conduct research on the impact of game-based learning on the development of first-year students’ ethical reasoning, as well as research on the development of culturally responsive ethics education in global contexts. He is an active member of the Kern Engineering Entrepreneurship Network (KEEN), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and serves on the First-Year Engineering Education (FYEE) Conference Steering Committee.

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Abstract

Through an NSF-sponsored project, a series of game-based activities have been developed for the purpose of enhancing instruction in engineering ethics. These activities have been integrated into first year engineering courses on several campuses. One of these activities is called Toxic Workplaces. In gameplay, the students are presented with scenarios that involve ethical dilemmas. Each scenario comes with several possible responses. The game involves the student/player attempting to rank these possible responses in order of popularity. Thus, players don’t necessarily need to take a position on what they themselves would do, but rather are attempting to match the results of survey data that was collected previously, a game play mechanic that is reminiscent of the popular TV game show Family Feud.

In the Fall of 2022, a team of eight undergraduate students are completing a project in which they are authoring new scenarios, greatly expanding the range of options available to an instructor who wishes to incorporate the game into a course. This paper will describe the game itself and its motivation, and will also describe the process by which the undergraduate student team generated, refined and tested their new scenarios.

Dahm, K. D., & Riley, A., & Burkey, D. D., & Cimino, R. T., & Pascal, J., & Streiner, S. (2023, June), Work in Progress: Toxic Workplaces: Game-Based Exploration of Engineering Ethics for First-Year Engineering Students Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44486

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