Professional Values and Ethical Issues in the Education of Scientists and Engineers

科学和工程教育培养个人和专业价值观以及技术知识和技能。传统上，前一种教育经验是隐性的，而不是显性的。近年来，关于职业培训和职业行为的道德内容，以及影响职业培训的价值冲突应该如何解决的问题不断出现。该项目由美国科学促进会科学自由与责任委员会、美国研究生院理事会和西格玛Xi科学与社会委员会共同主办，将对影响科学研究生教育、工程本科和专业教育专业价值的政策和实践的当前知识进行汇编和评估。将准备关于学术指导、研究赞助、不当行为和工程教育伦理等主题的工作文件。将制定对学生和教师进行调查的计划和预试，以确定社会化是如何发生的，并了解有关这些问题的机构政策和程序。此外，项目工作人员将征求，设计和预测试案例场景，其中学生和教师的道德或价值问题已经出现。除了确定问题和制定进一步研究的计划外，该项目还将与有相关兴趣的调查人员和组织建立联系。该项目的结果将包括对相关文献和实践的初步“最先进”评估以及相关项目的确定。这一系列工作文件中的几份应该值得发表。最后，共同提案国将制定一项全面的进一步工作计划。这个项目将定义实质性问题和适当的方法来调查科学和工程教育的规范组成部分。调查小组和顾问非常有资格承担这个项目，而机构共同发起人是最合适的。结果很可能是有启发性的、有用的和广泛传播的。研究设计非常适合这一探索阶段，成本合理。建议支助总额为47 572美元。

Education in science and engineering fosters personal and professional values as well as technical knowledge and skills. Traditionally, the former kind of educational experience has been more implicit than explicit. Recently, questions have arisen about the moral content of professional training and conduct, and about how value conflicts affecting professional training ought to be resolved. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Council of Graduate Schools in the U.S., and Sigma Xi's Committee on Science and Society, this project will compile and provide an assessment of current knowledge about policies and practices that affect professional values in graduate education in science and undergraduate and professional education in engineering. Working papers on the topics of academic guidelines, research sponsorship, misconduct, and ethics in engineering education will be prepared. Plans and pretests for a survey of students and faculty, to identify how socialization occurs and knowledge of institutional policies and procedures on these matters, will be developed. In addition project staff will solicit, devise, and pretest scenarios of cases in which ethical or value issues for students and faculty have arisen. Besides identifying the issues and developing a plan for further study of them, the project will establish contacts with investigators and organizations with related interests. Results from the project will include an initial "state of the art" assessment of relevant literature and practice and the identification of related programs. Several from the series of working papers should merit publication. Finally, the co-sponsors will develop a comprehensive plan for further work. This project will define the substantive issues and appropriate methodologies to investigate normative components in science and engineering education. The investigative team and consultants are very well qualified to undertake the project, and the institutional co- sponsors are most appropriate. Results are likely to be revealing, useful, and widely disseminated. The research design is very appropriate for this exploratory phase, and costs are reasonable. Total support is recommended in the amount of $47,572.