Emotion in Engineering Ethics Cases: How Should Engineers Respond to Righteous Anger?

Recent years have seen a growth in interest in emotion in engineering ethics education, and it is now recognised that emotions are a component in engineering ethics cases, including those that are presented as 'emotionally neutral'. Scholars in engineering ethics have identified that emotion conveys important information about risk and injustice, while at the same time recognising the way the emotion may impact on the process of reflective decision making. Despite their prevalence and importance, however, there are, for now, few examples of how emotions can be included in an educational process of analysing ethics cases. This workshop provides engineering educators an example of how this can be done. Participants will learn to understand and describe how emotions (i) provide information about moral sentiments (information) and (ii) influence moral decisionmaking processes. They will also learn to apply this understanding in designing ethics or design activities for engineering students. The workshop will be structured around two interactive learning methods: (i) collaborative analysis of case studies using structured questions followed by plenary debriefing questions and (ii) a jigsaw peer learning and peer teaching activity. Participants will also have an opportunity to reflect on how they could apply these practices in their own teaching and be able to take away lesson plans and resources on case analysis and jigsaw, as well as the cases analysed.