Group evaluation of group 6, by group 5 (section 102)

Group 6 has, based on its multiple interviews with industry professionals and engagement with students during Engineering Ethics Week, identified some shortfalls of addressing engineering ethics for students here at UC Berkeley. After some brainstorming of methods to address these shortfalls, they settled on creating a “summary” video of community members addressing common ethics themes for everyone else to view. We feel that this is a great and extremely feasible way to introduce people who may not have given much thought to ethics beforehand to the actual state of affairs that everyone else is involved in. Furthermore, and perhaps most importantly, this video would be great for highlighting the difference of opinions and views that one person of a particular background may have failed to consider when shaping his opinion on a certain topic. By holding interviews with individuals of various backgrounds and summarizing results in not only an informative, but also fun, video to watch, everyone who comes across the video stands to gain some information that they previously neglected to consider or not known about. However, we must stress that the video must cover a broad background of people in order to be full effective and avoid the bias that single person is likely to exhibit (that would partially degrade the “awareness” goal of the video). This is a point that needs to be considered when creating the video. Also, we would like to see that the group has a follow-up plan for this video. We believe this video is a good start, but they can use the end of this video to propose a blog (as one of their original brainstormed ideas) or another group’s project efforts in order to keep the discussion going, and so that a viewer’s interest and engagement doesn’t end with the end of the video.

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