Educating Engineering Students to Address Bias and Discrimination Within Their Project Teams.

IF 2.7 2区 哲学 Q1 ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Siara Isaac, Nihat Kotluk, Roland Tormey
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What training should engineering students receive to enable them to contribute to reducing bias, discrimination and the persistent lack of diversity in engineering? Collaboration is central to professional engineering work and, consequently, teamwork and group projects are increasingly present in engineering curricula. However, the influence of unconscious bias on interactions within teams can negatively affect women and underrepresented groups and is now recognised as an important engineering ethics issue. This paper describes a workshop designed to enable engineering students to work equitably in diverse teams. Key features of the workshop include (1) the emotionally safe, empowering and warm environment created, (2) the creation of opportunities for students to discuss and apply the issues raised to their own engineering projects, and (3) the opportunities to practice the use of both proactive and reactive strategies to address bias and discrimination in teams. The evaluation of the workshop suggests that engineering students regarded both onsite and online formats as providing useful skills that they intended to apply in practice. Follow-up evaluations suggest that the workshop leads to behavioural change, especially the use of proactive teamwork strategies intended to reduce the impact of unconscious bias.

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教育工程专业学生解决项目团队中的偏见和歧视问题。
工程学专业的学生应该接受什么样的培训,才能使他们为减少工程学领域的偏见、歧 视和持续缺乏多样性做出贡献?协作是专业工程工作的核心,因此,团队合作和小组项目越来越多地出现在工程学 课程中。然而,无意识偏见对团队内部互动的影响会对女性和代表性不足的群体产生负面影响,现已被公认为一个重要的工程伦理问题。本文介绍了一个旨在帮助工程专业学生在多元化团队中公平工作的工作坊。工作坊的主要特点包括:(1) 营造情感安全、赋权和温暖的环境;(2) 为学生创造机会,讨论所提出的问题并将其应用到自己的工程项目中;(3) 提供机会,让学生练习使用主动和被动策略来解决团队中的偏见和歧视问题。对讲习班的评估表明,工程专业学生认为现场和在线形式都提供了有用的技能,他们打算将其应用于实践。后续评估表明,讲习班带来了行为上的改变,特别是使用积极主动的团队合作战略,以减少无意识偏见的影响。
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Science and Engineering Ethics
Science and Engineering Ethics 综合性期刊-工程:综合
CiteScore
10.70
自引率
5.40%
发文量
54
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Science and Engineering Ethics is an international multidisciplinary journal dedicated to exploring ethical issues associated with science and engineering, covering professional education, research and practice as well as the effects of technological innovations and research findings on society. While the focus of this journal is on science and engineering, contributions from a broad range of disciplines, including social sciences and humanities, are welcomed. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, ethics of new and emerging technologies, research ethics, computer ethics, energy ethics, animals and human subjects ethics, ethics education in science and engineering, ethics in design, biomedical ethics, values in technology and innovation. We welcome contributions that deal with these issues from an international perspective, particularly from countries that are underrepresented in these discussions.
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