FASPE is an intensive, two-week study program in professional ethics and ethical leadership. FASPE is neither a Holocaust studies course, nor a genocide prevention program. Rather, the curriculum is designed to challenge Fellows to critically examine constructs, current developments and issues that raise ethical concerns in their professions in contemporary settings where they study and work.

FASPE Design and Technology (D&T) Fellows examine the motivations and conduct of technologists and designers in enabling and executing Nazi policies. FASPE then draws on these historical examples to help D&T Fellows grasp their role and responsibilities as designers of built environments; and to encourage them to identify and confront ethical issues currently facing architects, engineers, designers, and other technologists today.

Fellows will spend two weeks in Germany and Poland, where they will visit key sites of Nazi history and participate in daily seminars led by specialized faculty.

Eligibility 

FASPE defines these professionals as those who “build things”. Thus, Design & Technology applicants must be actively pursuing a career in architecture, design, computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, engineering, or any related professions.

Applicants must fit into one of the following categories:

1) be enrolled in a graduate program in design, architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics and applied math, electrical engineering, or a program in a related field at the time of their application; OR

2) have completed an undergraduate degree and be working in a related field, with a maximum of 5 years of professional experience at the time of application.