title: A survey of student opinions on ethical design standards in Taiwan.
abstract: Design ethics has been offered as a course in undergraduate design programs in Taiwan for over a decade, but research on teaching design ethics and the results of teaching these courses is scant. We conducted two tests to examine (1) the effect of an ethics course, and (2) the differences among the effects of design department, gender, and study year on student opinions regarding ethical design standards (EDSs) at the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech) in Taiwan. The participants comprised 934 undergraduates (660 women and 274 men) from the five design departments at YunTech's College of Design from Years 1-4. The results confirmed the effect of an ethics course on student EDS opinions. In addition, we observed significant variations among students according to design departments, suggesting that the characteristics of the design departments also affected students' EDS opinions. The results indicated that gender did not significantly affect design students' EDS opinions; however, students in their early years of study produced higher scores than those in their advanced years of study did, based on the six EDS opinions. The implications of these results for teaching design ethics and future research are discussed in this paper.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Design, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, 123 University Road, Section 3, Douliu, Yunlin, 64002, Taiwan, g9730816@yuntech.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Yingying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Manlai
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: You
authors.forename: Ming-Ying
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003479:Curriculum; D004995:Ethics, Professional / Q000193:education; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D028681:Moral Obligations; D009790:Occupations; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013624:Taiwan; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult
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