ABSTRACT

This chapter adapts some traditional case study material but place more focus on stories as conversation starters to illustrate the environmental challenges and dilemmas faced by today’s engineers. It often acts out stories using simple props and costumes. The costumes range from a simple hat to full-blown theatrical outfits. Hats have the great advantage that they are easy and quick to put on and to take off. The action of putting on and taking off a hat is a good way to bookmark a story with a definite start and end point. “The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.