A Proposal to Develop and Test an Intensive Short Course to Train Engineering Faculty to Teach Engineering Ethics

本项目将为工程学院策划和测试一门密集的工程伦理短期课程。该课程将采取两至三天的夏季讲习班、秋季系列讨论会和1994年1月的顶点半天讲习班的形式。这些活动强调案例研究、角色扮演、沟通技巧的发展、团队教学以及分析和创造性思维的应用，以达到解决工程伦理问题的目的。本课程将训练工程教员在德州农工大学的工程伦理课程中讲授讨论部分。这门3学分的选修课很快将成为该校大多数工科本科生的必修课，每年可能会有多达800名学生选修这门课程。短期课程将使25名教师接触到课程中涵盖的大部分材料，并使他们能够分配和评分课程作业，领导讨论，并确定课程的基调。因此，这些教师将准备撰写写作作业，批改学生论文，领导课堂讨论，并确定课程的基调。他们也将更好地准备在自己的工程课程中引入伦理学案例研究叙事。来自德州农工大学系统其他校区的几个工程学院也将被邀请参加这个短期课程。教授这门课程的教师将来自德州农工大学，以及其他几所开设类似课程的大学。这些教员可以在他们自己的机构开设类似的短期培训课程。短期课程也可以作为专业发展活动在专业协会会议上提供，学费自理。

This project will plan and test an intensive engineering ethics short course for engineering faculty. The course will take the form of a two to three day summer workshop, a fall seminar series, and a capstone half day workshop in January 1994. These activities emphasize case studies, role plays, the development of communication skills, team teaching and application of both analytical and creative thinking to arrive at solutions of problems in engineering ethics. The course will train engineering faculty to teach discussion sections in the engineering ethics course at Texas A&M. This 3 credit, elective course is soon to be required of most engineering undergraduates at the university, and could involve as many as 800 students each year. The short course would expose 25 faculty to most of the material covered in the course and enable them to assign and grade coursework, lead discussions, and set the tone of the course. As a result, these instructors will be prepared to make writing assignments, grade student papers, lead class discussion, and set the tone of the course. They will also be better prepared to introduce ethics case study narratives into their own engineering courses. Several engineering faculty from other campuses of the Texas A&M system will also be invited to participate in the short course. Faculty for the course will come from Texas A&M, and from several other universities where courses similar to theirs are in existence. These faculty may develop similar training short courses at their own institutions. The short course could also be offered as a professional development activity at professional society meetings on a tuition, self supporting basis.