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

工程教育者和工程教育以外的专家越来越认识到，为了让工科学生为他们作为工程师面临的伦理问题做好准备，本科工程课程必须以某种方式纳入伦理学教学。为此，有必要开发教学材料以及工程学教师的背景和技能，并必须争取有权影响课程的工程学院长的支持。这个项目主要针对后一个目标；这辆车是为德克萨斯州约20名工程学院院长准备的工程伦理研讨会。工作坊将为院长提供一个机会，展示他们的承诺，并充分详细地研究这一主题，以了解教/学工程伦理如何类似于工程教育的某些传统组成部分(例如设计课程)，以及它与传统的工程技术材料讲授有何不同。研讨会还将重点讨论如何向教职员工传达伦理学教学的重要性，以及如何将工程伦理学融入工程学位课程。国家科学基金会的资金将用于支持外部顾问的参与，一些行政费用，以及首席调查员在该项目上的部分时间。德克萨斯州职业工程师注册委员会也在为这个项目提供资金。讲习班的成果将在期刊上发表文章，面向两个主要受众，即工程教育者和从事工程伦理及相关问题工作的工程学以外的专家。这项建议是一个温和的支持请求，以使领先的工程教育者和工程伦理顾问能够承担起招募工程主任的任务，努力将工程伦理纳入工程课程。首席调查员和项目伙伴都很有资格；机构支助很特殊；讲习班计划制定得很好；传播范围可能很广，能够接触到适当的受众。强烈建议您提供支持。

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.