#22 Sarah Jayne Hitt from EPC UK on Ethics Toolkit

Welcome back to the fourth season of the SEFI podcast! In this first episode we talk to Professor Sarah Jayne Hitt, who, amongst her many roles, project manages the Engineering Professors Council or EPC’s Ethics Toolkit, a resource designed to help engineering educators embed ethics in teaching.  Join Dr. Natalie Wint (University College London) and Dr. Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) to learn about the power of crowdsourcing in capacity building in teaching engineering ethics. Timestamps0.00 Welcome and introduction to episode0.16 Podcast Intro0.35 Experiences in teaching ethics to engineering students from Natalie and Neil2.34 Sarah's Background5.45 The Engineering Professors Council (EPC)7.35 The role of Liberal Arts in Engineering Education9.52 The Joint Statement of Ethical Principles and its role in the toolkit12.33 How the toolkit came about 14.44 What does the toolkit consist of? 16.37 The crowdsourcing process and creation of the toolkit 19.31 The role and benefits of the review process 20.11 The benefits of crowdsourcing and diversity of contributors22.08 Navigating the Ethics Explorer and the landscape 25.55 The growth and future of the toolkit27.04 What makes a good case study?29.56 An example of a case study from the toolkit33.12 Consideration for micro and macro ethics35.00 Guidance documents 39.33 What still needs to be done?42.22 Final advice from Sarah44.01 Key takeaways from Natalie and NeilResources: Ethics Explorer - Engineering Professors Council (epc.ac.uk)Educating the Whole Engineer by Integrating Engineering and the Libera (taylorfrancis.com)https://www.ijee.ie/latestissues/Vol38-3/07_ijee4189.pdfhttps://raeng.org.uk/media/kr0j2ejr/rae-engineering-ethics-full-report_v7.pdfhttps://serc.carleton.edu/geoethics/Decision-Makinghttps://epc.ac.uk/toolkit/tackling-tough-topics-in-discussion/https://epc.ac.uk/resources/toolkit/about-toolkits/contribute-a-resource-to-one-of-our-toolkits/Join us! Become a member of the European Society for EngineeringEducation, SEFI, Europe's largest network of engineeringeducators: www.sefi.be Music by ComaStudio: https://pixabay.com/users/comastudio-26079283/ Written and produced by Neil Cooke and Natalie Wint. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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