ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes using value-sensitive design (VSD) in engineering and design teaching. The authors suggest that VSD – as a framework for considering how values are present in technologies and how stakeholders can be considered and specific values can be designed for – can help cultivate responsible engineers and designers. The first part of the chapter introduces VSD and its methods. It then focuses on teaching VSD, and through a recurring example, the authors illustrate how existing VSD tools and practices can be fruitfully adapted to teaching contexts. VSD is more open-ended and context-oriented than other ways of teaching engineering and design students about ethics and values. The chapter's third section highlights best practices for assessing VSD in the classroom. Then, the authors employ three recent critiques of VSD to suggest how VSD, including the teaching of VSD, should be expanded to train responsible engineers and designers now and in the future.
