Ethics Training for Engineers in Emerging Technologies and Fieldwork in Developing Communities

本研究教育项目的目标是培养工程专业的研究生将社会和伦理方面的问题，包括隐私、风险、公平、本土知识和可持续性，融入到他们对新兴技术的技术研究和在发展中社区的实地考察中。这将通过四个目标来实现：i）教育学生关于与他们在新兴技术和发展中社区实地工作相关的伦理问题; ii）将伦理融入学生思考他们工作的方式中，这表现在他们的实验设计、预期结果和分析中明确提到伦理问题; iii）使学生在对话中清楚地表达科学和工程专业的道德问题，iv）记录，评估，并向科学和工程领域的教育工作者和实践者传播项目的结果。其目的是使这项研究成为将伦理学和工程学纳入其他领域的典范。除了系统工程之外，工程学科，并且有可能在弗吉尼亚大学和科罗拉多大学博尔德分校创建一个追求伦理学和工程学的学生社区，这可以在其他地方模仿。

This project will emphasize integrative ethics training for students in engineering laboratory research and fieldwork in water and sanitation infrastructure in developing communities.The goal of this research and education project is to train engineering graduate students tointegrate societal and ethical dimensions, including privacy, risk, equity, indigenous knowledge,and sustainability into their technical research in emerging technologies and fieldwork indeveloping communities. This will be achieved by four objectives; i) to educate students aboutthe ethical issues associated with their work in emerging technologies and fieldwork indeveloping communities; ii) to integrate ethics into the way students think about their work asevinced by the explicit mention of ethical issues in their experimental design, expected results,and analysis; iii) to make students articulate in dialogue on issues of ethics in the professions ofscience and engineering, iv) to document, evaluate, and disseminate the results of the project toeducators and practitioners in science and engineering.The intent is for this research to serve as a model for integrating ethics and engineering in other engineering disciplines besides Systems Engineering, and that it will be possible to create a community of students pursuing ethics and engineering at the University of Virginia and at the University of Colorado-Boulder, that could be modeled elsewhere.