Ethics of the Nanoscale

项目摘要：纳米尺度的伦理一个由代表化学、生物、工程、哲学和人文学科的教师组成的跨学科团队将开发课程材料，并使用它们来教育所有学科的一年级和二年级学生纳米技术及其潜在的伦理、社会和环境影响。教师将进行交叉教育，开发课程材料，传达每个领域的基本原理，并确定必须提出和讨论的关键伦理、社会和环境问题。将使用五种授课方法：纳米尺度的伦理学是一门新学期的课程，面向科学、工程、社会科学和哲学一年级和二年级的学生，他们将学习纳米技术的科学、其应用、伦理学的基础，以及纳米技术的伦理、社会和环境影响。塔斯基吉大学和蒙哥马利奥本大学的一年级和二年级学生将收到实时远程教育课程《纳米尺度的伦理学》。纳米技术及其伦理、社会和环境影响的模块将在三门核心课程中教授，面向所有学科的一年级/二年级学生。纳米技术和伦理模块将包括在奥本大学夏季桥梁计划中，面向即将入学的少数民族理科、工程学和医学预科新生。纳米技术、纳米技术及其应用的伦理问题的专家将向上述班级举办研讨会，并向教师、研究生和高年级本科生举办研讨会。拟议活动的智力价值。未来的科学家、工程师、社会科学家和伦理学家必须了解新兴科学和工程技术的伦理、社会和环境影响。随着发现和技术的发展，必须考虑和讨论这些问题。在发现过程中就发现对社会和环境的影响进行的伦理讨论将导致采取适当的保障措施来保护社会和环境。向大学一年级和二年级教授纳米科学和伦理学的综合概念，为培养学生的批判性思维和分析技能提供了新的机会。这种方法将增强他们的认知能力，并使他们能够从伦理角度分析纳米技术和其他科学和工程领域的进展。通过这些课程，作为选民的一部分，大学生将逐渐理解，每一项新兴技术都有其相关的伦理问题、风险和问题，必须通过选举和立法程序来理解、辩论并最终被公民接受或拒绝。开发和教授这些课程，并评估和评估它们对学生思维和伦理观点的影响，将为教师提供一个坚实的框架，以改进我们在这一领域的教育学。该项目成果的传播将为新课程的开发提供基础，这些课程将我们的社会和伦理责任与新兴的科学和工程技术知识相结合，并将加强美国的本科教育。

Project Summary: Ethics of the NanoscaleAn interdisciplinary team of faculty members representing chemistry, biology,engineering, philosophy, and the humanities will develop curriculum materials and use them to educate freshman and sophomore students in all disciplines about nanotechnology and its potential ethical, social, and environmental impacts. Faculty will cross-educate themselves, develop course material communicating the fundamentals of each field, and determine the key ethical, societal and environmental questions that must be asked and discussed. Five course delivery methods will be used: Ethics of the Nanoscale is a new semester course for science, engineering, social sciencesand philosophy freshman and sophomore students who will learn about the science ofnanotechnology, its applications, the fundamentals of ethics, and the ethical, societal andenvironmental implications of nanotechnology. Real-time distance education course, Ethics of the Nanoscale, will be transmitted to freshman and sophomore students at Tuskegee University and Auburn University at Montgomery. Modules on nanotechnology and its ethical, societal, and environmental implications will be taught in three core curriculum courses for freshman/sophomore students from all disciplines. A nanotechnology and ethics module will be included in the Auburn University Summer Bridge Program for incoming minority science, engineering and pre medicine freshmen. Experts in nanotechnology, the ethical issues of nanotechnology and its applications will present seminars to the previously mentioned classes and give seminars to faculty, graduate students, and upper division undergraduates.Intellectual Merit of the Proposed Activity. It is imperative that future scientists, engineers, social scientists, and ethicists understand the ethical, societal, and environmental implications of emerging scientific and engineering technologies. These issues must be considered and discussed as discoveries are being made and the technology developed. Ethical discussions concerning the impact of the discoveries on society and environment that occur during the discovery process will result in appropriate safeguards being put in place to protect society and the environment. Teaching integrated concepts of both nanoscience and ethics to university freshmen and sophomore presents new opportunities for development of critical thinking and analysis skills among students. This approach will strengthen their cognitive abilities and give them the ability to analyze in ethical terms advances in nanotechnology and other scientific and engineering fields.Broader Impacts Resulting from the Proposed Activity. Through these courses, university students, as part of the electorate, will come to understand that every emerging technology has its associated ethical questions, risks, and issues that must be understood, debated and, ideally, eventually accepted or rejected by the citizenry via electoral and legislative processes. Developing and teaching these courses and assessing and evaluating their impact on students' thinking and ethical views will provide faculty with a solid framework for improving our pedagogy in this area. Dissemination of the results from this project will provide the foundation for the development of new courses that integrate our social and ethical responsibilities with knowledge of emerging scientific and engineering technologies and will strengthen America's undergraduate education.