Pilot Workshop for Engineering Deans: Introducing Ethics Into the Engineering Curriculum-Lubbock, TX, July 1991

工程教育工作者和工程以外的专家 教育界越来越认识到， 学生们作为工程师所面临的道德问题， 本科工程课程必须以某种方式塑造， 包括道德教育。 为此，有必要 开发教学材料和背景， 工程学院的技能，这是必不可少的争取 支持工程系主任谁有权影响 课程。 本项目主要针对后者 目标;车辆是一个工程道德讲习班， 德克萨斯州大约有20个工程系主任 讲习班将 为院长们提供一个展示他们承诺的机会， 来研究这个问题的细节， 教/学工程伦理学就像某些传统的 工程教育的组成部分（例如设计课程）以及如何 它不同于传统的工程技术表述 材料 研讨会还将重点讨论输送方法 教师伦理教学的重要性，并为整合 工程学位课程中的工程伦理。 资金 NSF将用于支持外部参与 咨询人、一些行政费用和 首席研究员在项目上的时间。 德克萨斯州 专业工程师注册委员会也是 资助这个项目。 研讨会结果 将在期刊文章中报道，针对两个主要的 观众、工程教育工作者和专家 从事工程道德和相关问题工作的工程师。 这一建议是一个温和的支持请求，以使领导 工程教育工作者，与工程道德顾问，以 承担起招募工程系主任的任务， 将工程伦理纳入工程课程。 的 主要研究者和项目助理具备良好的资质; 机构支持是例外;讲习班计划是良好的 制定;传播可能是广泛的，并达到 合适的观众。 强烈建议提供支持。

Engineering educators and specialists outside engineering education increasingly recognize that to prepare engineering students for the ethical issues they face as engineers, the undergraduate engineering program must somehow be fashioned to include the teaching of ethics. Toward that end, it is necessary to develop the materials for teaching and the background and skills of engineering faculty, and it is essential to enlist the support of engineering deans who have power to affect the curriculum. This project is directed primarily to the latter goal; the vehicle is an engineering ethics workshop prepared for about twenty engineering deans in Texas. The workshop will provide an opportunity for the deans to show their commitment and to study the subject in enough detail to appreciate how teaching/learning engineering ethics is like certain traditional components of engineering education (e.g. design courses) and how it differs from traditional presentation of engineering technical material. The workshop will also focus on methods for conveying to faculty the importance of ethics teaching and for integrating engineering ethics in engineering degree programs. Funds from NSF will be used to support the participation of outside consultants, some administrative costs, and a portion of the principal investigator's time on the project. The Texas State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers is also contributing to funding this project. Results of the workshop will be reported on in articles in periodicals aimed at two major audiences, engineering educators and specialists outside engineering who work on ethics in engineering and related issues. This proposal is a modest request for support to enable leading engineering educators, with engineering ethics consultants, to take up the task of enlisting engineering deans in the effort of incorporating engineering ethics in engineering curricula. The principal investigator and project associates are well qualified; institutional support is exceptional; the workshop plans are well worked out; dissemination is likely to be broad and to reach the appropriate audiences. Support is highly recommended.