Proposal to Design a Program in Engineering Ethics for Doctoral Engineering Students

为了发挥领导力，科学和工程教育者需要为他们的学生提供工具，以识别和适当地应对具有伦理层面的职业问题。该项目涉及4至8名工科本科生，以确定有希望的伦理问题和问题来源，这些问题可以为研究生的工程伦理课程提供基础。在首席调查员的监督下，与一组合作教员合作，学生将收集有关当前学位论文主题的信息，这些主题是有希望的来源。他们将与从事这些主题工作的教职员工和学生会面，以获得有关如何处理道德问题的信息。他们还将更广泛地考虑工程中出现的伦理问题。随着他们的研究和采访结果的形成，他们将被纳入工程伦理研究生课程并进行测试，该课程将于明年春天在麻省理工学院教授。研究将在夏季和秋季继续进行，以确定新的问题，并更深入地检查之前发现的问题。研究结果将被纳入麻省理工学院的研究生工程学和其他项目，并在会议和工程学出版物上广泛报道。这项建议侧重于道德和价值观研究的一个重要领域。调查人员非常合格；计划深思熟虑，可行；大学支持很好。结果可能会改善这个校园和全国研究生课程中的工程伦理学教学。强烈建议您提供支持。

To exercise leadership, science and engineering educators need to provide their students with the tools to identify and respond appropriately to professional problems with ethical dimensions. This project involves four to eight undergraduate engineering students in the identification of promising sources of ethical questions and problems that can provide the basis for a curriculum in engineering ethics for graduate students. Under the supervision of the principal investigator, in association with a group of collaborating faculty, the students will gather information about current dissertation topics that are promising sources. They will meet with the faculty and students working on these topics to obtain information about how the ethical issues are being handled. They will also consider ethical issues that arise in engineering more generally. As the results from their research and interviews are developed, they will be incorporated and tested in a graduate course in engineering ethics to be taught at MIT in the spring. Research will continue over the summer and fall, to identify new issues and examine those previously identified more deeply. Results will be incorporated into graduate engineering as well as other programs at MIT, and be reported on widely at meetings and in engineering publications. This proposal focuses on an important area in Ethics and Values Studies. The investigators are very well qualified; the plan is thoughtful and feasible; university support is good. Results are likely to improve the teaching of engineering ethics on this campus and in graduate curricula nationwide. Support is highly recommended.