Engineering Innovations, Knowledge and Responsibility

工程创新、知识和责任

• 批准号: 8619877
• 负责人: Caroline Whitbeck
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-09-01 至 1991-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8619877&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engineering; Innovations; Knowledge; Responsibility

Using interviews and participant-observation, this field-based research project will examine the influences of technologies that change medical knowledge on human relationships and on the emerging moral responsibilities of bioengineers. In consultation with an engineer, an historian, and a scholar of law and science policy, the principal investigator, who is a philosopher, will study contemporary developments and effects associated with three technologies: diagnostic X-ray, ultrasound, and computer-aided simulation of orthopedic procedures. The project will try to identify how changes occur in moral standards for responsible work in bioengineering, in order to expand the abilities of engineering students, engineers, and professional societies to identify and establish new and better standards. The historian and the lawyer will prepare papers on the development of professional standards for licensure and on aspects of the law associated with these technologies. In consultation with the engineer, the principal investigator will prepare talks and articles on responsibility in bioengineering design and the use of innovative technologies. She will also prepare case studies on the three technologies. The cases will describe the evolution of the technologies and their influences on human relationships and bioengineering responsibilities. In addition, she will discuss the implications of the study for engineering education with relevant engineering faculty at MIT and in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. If appropriate, an additional paper on this topic will be prepared. The PI will also incorporate results from this study in a book she is writing on biomedical technologies, knowledge and responsibility. This project will make a unique contribution to professional and scholarly understanding of the moral implications of technologies that change what we know. It can also contribute to the development of new approaches to teaching engineering ethics, and to better standards for professional practice and for policies affecting that practice. The principal investigator is very well qualified to undertake the research; she has assembled a fine team with which to work. The research design is appropriate and feasible; it incorporates opportunities for discussion, review and adjustment as the project progresses. Costs are reasonable; results are likely to be widely distributed and useful. Support in the amount of $119,018 is recommended, with $70,000 to be awarded now and the remainder at later date.

本研究采用访谈和参与观察的方法， 该项目将研究技术的影响，改变医疗 关于人际关系和新兴道德的知识 生物工程师的责任 在与工程师协商后， 历史学家，法律和科学政策的学者，校长 研究者是一位哲学家，他将研究当代 与三种技术相关的发展和影响：诊断 X射线、超声和计算机辅助模拟骨科 程序. 该项目将试图确定变化是如何发生在 生物工程中负责任工作的道德标准，以便 扩大工程专业学生，工程师的能力， 专业协会，以确定和建立新的和更好的 标准 历史学家和律师将准备关于 制订颁发执照的专业标准， 与这些技术相关的法律。 在谘询 工程师，首席研究员将准备会谈和文章， 在生物工程设计和使用创新的责任 技术. 她还将编写关于这三个问题的案例研究， 技术. 这些案例将描述 技术及其对人际关系的影响， 生物工程责任。 此外，她还将讨论 研究对工程教育的影响， 麻省理工学院和哈佛-麻省理工学院卫生部的工程系 科学和技术。 如果适当，还将就此问题提交一份补充文件。 将准备专题。 PI还将纳入此结果 她正在写一本关于生物医学技术的书， 和责任 该项目将为专业和 对技术的道德含义的学术理解， 改变我们的认知 它还可以促进新的 工程伦理教学的方法，以及更好的标准， 专业实践和影响该实践的政策。 的 首席研究员非常有资格承担 她组织了一个很好的团队来一起工作。 的 研究设计是适当和可行的;它包括 讨论、审查和调整的机会， 进步。 成本合理;结果可能会广泛 分布式和有用的。 119 018美元的支助是 建议，70，000美元将被授予现在和其余的在以后 约会