An Ethical Toolkit for Engineering/Design Practice View website

Crafted by: Markkula Center of Applied Ethics ยทย 2018

A set of seven tools that represent concrete ways of implementing ethical reflection, deliberation, and judgment into tech industry engineering and design workflows. Each tool performs a different ethical function, and can be further customized for specific applications. Team/project leaders should reflect carefully on how each tool can best be used in their team or project settings.

The toolkit includes seven tools:

  • Tool 1: Ethical Risk Sweeping
  • Tool 2: Ethical Pre-mortems and Post-mortems
  • Tool 3: Expanding the Ethical Circle
  • Tool 4: Case-based Analysis
  • Tool 5: Remembering the Ethical Benefits of Creative Work
  • Tool 6: Think About the Terrible People
  • Tool 7: Closing the Loop: Ethical Feedback and Iteration