Courses Taught at the University of Twente
CreaTe - Reflection I & II
This is a RESTS course which consists of two parts: 1) Reflection I (3 EC), and 2) Reflection II (2 EC). The object of this class is to explore the social and moral significance of design, the design process, and especially the role of one’s own life and work in crafting a better world.
Students will engage in design as a reflective process for developing solutions to address real-world problems through the engagement of stakeholders, research, and interdisciplinary problem-solving.
IBA - Business Ethics
Business Ethics is part of module 11 for the International and Business Administration Program. The course introduces students to different ways that companies and individual managers, employees or investors reason through ethical issues, including consequences of policy as well as of their own actions and due the products they design, produce, market, sell, and support. I introduce students to corporate social responsibility and stakeholder engagement theory which are student apply to real-world business ethics case studies.
CivEngineering - Social Sustainability
Social sustainability is a key component to design in that it refers to the quality of life, well-being, and fundamental rights of the community that lives within the infrastructure we design. As civic engineers, being able to understand the linkage between design and social well-being is key to understanding the ways in which infrastructure can shift and change life-habits and everyday life. Additionally, infrastructure can exacerbate or mitigate dynamics already within society, such as equitable access to civic services, social disparities, and environmental health. Using specific case studies, student develop their own solution that relates social sustainability consideration to design.
CreaTe - Acting Responsibly: Innovation and Engineering Module
The Acting Responsibly Component for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will provide you an opportunity to critically assess and reflect upon the role of ethics in innovation, design, professional conduct, and successful entrepreneurship. Issues addressed are: ethical theory (the foundations for reasoning about ethical issues), key issues relevant for developing new technologies and innovations including privacy, paternalism, the ontology of design, and factors relevant for user well-being. Throughout the module we will consider case studies and theory in ethics and technology to explore and critically assess the relationship of innovation and entrepreneurship to the larger well-being of society as a whole.