EESE: A Model Curriculum for Land Grant Universities in Research Ethics

EESE：赠地大学研究伦理示范课程

• 批准号: 0530217
• 负责人: Gary Comstock
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0530217&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EESE; Model; Curriculum; Land; Grant

This award is made under Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (NSF 05-532).Doctoral students in engineering and the life, physical and social sciences face increasingly complex ethical issues in their careers. These students, tomorrow's professionals, need preparation to recognize ethical issues, to reason carefully about them, and to make responsible decisions in the face of difficult dilemmas. The Model Curriculum for Land Grant Universities in Research Ethics (LANGURE) addresses this problem. LANGURE's ultimate aim is to institutionalize the teaching of research ethics.LANGURE is the first interdisciplinary, interinstitutional initiative to create a national network of eight land-grant universities (LGUs) and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) teaching research ethics to doctoral candidates in engineering and the physical, social and life sciences. LANGURE, based at North Carolina State University, involves a network of seven other universities: Hawaii, Iowa State, North Carolina A&T, NC Central, UNC-Fayetteville State, Purdue, and Wisconsin. Senior faculty and graduate students at these institutions will in Year 1 conjointly develop a one-credit course, "Introduction to Research Ethics," and then teach it in Years 2 and 3. Among its synergistic effects, LANGURE will create momentum for a required graduate course in research ethics at the participating schools. Intellectual Merit: LANGURE will develop a novel suite of 15 interactive, online research-ethics modules covering statistics, nanotechnology, physics, chemical engineering, computer science, nuclear engineering, intellectual property, the role of women and underrepresented minority students in engineering and scientific research, and 7 other areas, and will train faculty and graduate students to use the materials developed. Intellectual advances will be made in several key areas of research ethics, including social and value questions associated with nanotechnology and agricultural biotechnology; statistical interpretation, use, and misuse; computer database privacy and equity of access, and the challenges facing minorities aspiring to careers in science and engineering.Broader Impacts: During the project period, more than 100 science and engineering faculty members and graduate students on eight campuses will develop and test new a new research-ethics course containing a common core curriculum and discipline-specific modules. These faculty members will join ethicists on each campus to team-teach the course. Over the three-year period of the grant, the course will reach as many as 500 doctoral students. By developing alliances in science, engineering, and social-sciences education across the U.S., LANGURE will create an interinstitutional template to integrate research ethics education into LGU doctoral programs. It will enhance the research programs at three HBCUs, improve efforts to recruit minority students into science and engineering graduate study, enrich the training of dozens of high-school science teachers who will use a version of one of the modules to enliven units on agricultural biotechnology with a discussion of the technology's ethical dimensions, and broaden ethics education nationally by providing free online access to the course and modules. LANGURE will model and capitalize upon the efficiencies and synergies created when institutions collaborate.

该奖项是根据科学与工程伦理教育（NSF 05-532）颁发的。工程和生命，物理和社会科学的博士生在职业生涯中面临越来越复杂的伦理问题。这些学生，未来的专业人士，需要准备认识到道德问题，仔细推理，并作出负责任的决定，面对困难的困境。赠地大学研究伦理示范课程（LANGURE）解决了这个问题。LANGURE的最终目标是将研究伦理学教学制度化。LANGURE是第一个跨学科、跨机构的倡议，旨在创建一个由八所赠地大学（LGU）和历史悠久的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）组成的全国网络，为工程、物理、社会和生命科学领域的博士生教授研究伦理学。LANGURE总部设在北卡罗来纳州州立大学，涉及其他七所大学的网络：夏威夷，爱荷华州，北卡罗来纳州AT，NC中央，北卡罗来纳州费耶特维尔州，普渡大学和威斯康星州。这些机构的高级教师和研究生将在第一年联合开发一个学分的课程，“研究伦理学导论”，然后在第二年和第三年教授。在其协同效应中，LANGURE将为参与学校的研究伦理学研究生必修课程创造动力。智力优势：LANGURE将开发一套由15个交互式在线研究伦理模块组成的新颖套件，涵盖统计学、纳米技术、物理学、化学工程、计算机科学、核工程、知识产权、妇女和代表性不足的少数民族学生在工程和科学研究中的作用以及其他7个领域，并将培训教师和研究生使用开发的材料。将在研究伦理的几个关键领域取得知识进步，包括与纳米技术和农业生物技术相关的社会和价值问题;统计解释、使用和滥用;计算机数据库隐私和公平访问，以及渴望从事科学和工程职业的少数群体面临的挑战。在项目期间，八个校区的100多名科学和工程教师和研究生将开发和测试一门新的研究伦理课程，其中包括共同的核心课程和特定学科的模块。这些教师将加入每个校园的伦理学家团队教授课程。在为期三年的赠款期间，该课程将达到多达500名博士生。通过在美国各地建立科学、工程和社会科学教育联盟，LANGURE将创建一个跨机构的模板，将研究伦理教育融入LGU博士课程。它将加强三个HBCU的研究项目，加强招收少数民族学生进入科学和工程研究生学习的努力，丰富数十名高中科学教师的培训，他们将使用其中一个模块的版本来活跃农业生物技术单元，讨论该技术的伦理维度，并通过提供免费的在线课程和模块来扩大全国的伦理教育。LANGURE将对机构合作时产生的效率和协同效应进行建模和利用。