Bridging Macro and Micro Ethics: Advancing Ethics Education for Nano-Scale Researchers

杜克大学的科学与工程伦理教育奖支持由土木与环境工程系Tod a . Laursen博士领导的一个由五名教师组成的团队，对可能对社会产生深远不利影响的伦理问题进行研究和教育，例如纳米科学突破所带来的意想不到的后果。这个结合研究和教育的项目由工程师、科学家、伦理学家和教育专家组成，共同为新兴领域的研究生水平的研究人员开发一种新的伦理教育范式。该团队包括来自几个这样的跨学科领域的研究人员，并受益于其存在于一所已经在其所有博士课程中系统化提供负责任研究行为（RCR）的大学。本项目将在此基础上开发、实施和评估微观和宏观伦理培训的多种交付模式，并与博士生和专业硕士生合作，将这些模式融入他们的研究生经历。该项目的合作方式将涉及杜克大学内的多个学校和中心，以及与北卡罗来纳中央大学生物医学/生物技术研究所、北卡罗来纳州立大学研究生院、研究和职业道德项目以及北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校研究生院的互动和合作。该奖项的提案是根据科学与工程伦理教育公告NSF 05-532收到的，由工程理事会的工程教育和中心部（EEC）以及社会，行为和经济科学理事会资助。

The Ethics Education in Science and Engineering award to Duke University supports a team of five faculty led by Dr. Tod A. Laursen, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, to conduct research and education on ethical issues which can have profoundly adverse impacts on society, such as those posed by unintended consequences of nanoscientific breakthroughs.This combined research and educational project consists of a team of engineers, scientists,ethicists, and educational specialists to collaboratively develop a new paradigm of ethical education of graduate-level researchers in emerging fields. The team includes researchers from several such interdisciplinary fields and benefits from its presence in a university that has already systematized the delivery of Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) in all its Ph.D. programs. This project will build upon that base by developing, implementing, and assessing multiple modes of delivery for micro- and macroethical training and by working with doctoral and professional master's students to imbed these modes within their graduate experience. The project's collaborative approach to providing ethics education will involve multiple schools and centers within Duke as well as interactions and partnerships with NC Central University's Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute, NC State University's Graduate School and Research and Professional Ethics Program, and the UNC-Chapel Hill's Graduate School.The proposal for this award was received in response to the Ethics Education in Science and Engineering announcement, NSF 05-532, and was funded by the Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) in the Directorate for Engineering and by the Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences.