Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program in Ethics for Business Science and Engineering in the Puerto Rican Context

这个项目支持一项务虚会和务虚会后的活动，旨在(1)将伦理学纳入波多黎各大学的商业、科学和工程课程(2)将商业、科学和工程学内容纳入那里的伦理学和价值观研究课程，以及(3)将这种教学牢牢地置于波多黎各的文化、经济和政治背景中。--努力的核心是定于1998年12月13-18日举行的务虚会。这一静修课程旨在帮助大学教员选择和准备案例研究，这些案例研究可以有效地用于科学、工程、商业和人文课程。它还开设了一些课程，旨在让商业、科学和工程教师熟悉波多黎各商业、科学和工程实践中涉及的伦理方法和问题。为了为务虚会的成功奠定基础，开展了一系列务虚会前活动，包括一次规划和确定务虚会范围的讲习班，选择务虚会讨论的案例，并制定务虚会的结构和预期结果。其他筹备活动包括一个论坛，调查科学和工程中的伦理问题，以及1998年春季学期专门为工科学生设计的商业伦理实验班。在务虚会上开发的案例和其他材料将被引入大学课堂，并将实施几项务虚会后评估措施。结果还将在拉丁美洲和美国更广泛地传播。

This project supports a retreat and-post-retreat activities designed to (1) integrate ethics into the business, science and engineering curriculum at the University of Puerto Rico at-Mayaguez (2) integrate business, science, and engineering content into ethics and values studies courses there, and (3) place this teaching firmly in the Puerto Rican cultural, economic, and political context.--The heart of the effort is a retreat scheduled to take place December 13-18, 1998. This-retreat has workshop sessions designed to help university faculty select and prepare case-studies that can be used effectively in science, engineering, business, and humanities courses. It also has sessions designed to acquaint business, science, and engineering faculty with the ethical approaches and issues-that are involved in the practice of business, science, and engineering in Puerto Rico. To provide a foundation for a successful retreat, a-series of pre-retreat activities has been conducted, including a planning and scoping workshop that selected cases to be discussed in the retreat, and developed the retreat structure and expected outcomes. Other preparatory activities included a forum that investigated ethical problems in science and engineering and an experimental class of business ethics designed specifically-for engineering students offered in the-spring semester of 1998. The cases and other materials developed at the retreat will be introduced into university classes, and several post-retreat evaluation measures will be carried out. Results will also be more broadly disseminated in Latin America and the U.S.