Workshop: Designing Active Learning Activities with Ethics in Mind, and Body (no matter if this is a fundamental principles class or an ethics-as-a-stand alone class, or any class in-between)

Participants will walk away from this workshop with insights and confidence to apply an approach to integrating engineering ethics into engineering topics: a socio-technical systems (STS) approach. This approach designs learning experiences around three areas – analytical approaches, data collection, and body/mind engagement – and is rooted in the interdisciplinary field of the same acronym, Science and Technology Studies (STS)(Tomblin and Mogul, 2020). Workshop attendees will practice "STS thinking" during interactive demonstrations of classroom-tested activities, participate in debriefs for reflection and listening, and have studio time during which they propose "experiments" to test this approach in their own classrooms. No matter the participants' disciplinary field, work setting, or type of class (from a fundamental principles course that includes no ethics component to an ethics-as-a-stand-alone class, and any level of ethics in between) participants will imagine ways to operationalize this framework in pursuit of their workplace/classroom goals.