EESE: Maryland Initiative on Research Ethics

该奖项通过科学和工程伦理教育征集(NSF 06-524)颁发。该项目将开发一套以研究生教育为重点的伦理课程和讲习班，但也将为博士后助理和新的助理教授提供关于研究诚信的培训，使这些人能够在研究生的研究伦理方面成为更好的“榜样”。这些课程将首先在马里兰大学帕克学院的首席调查员学院内开发，利用首席调查员在此类课程中的丰富经验。在拨款的第二年，这些课程将扩展到学院公园校园内的其他理工科学院和系。在第三年，这些课程将在整个马里兰州的马里兰大学系统中提供。这些课程将让研究生积极解决现实世界的研究诚信问题，并将通过将博士后助理培训为伦理学教师来扩大课程的影响。这些训练有素的教师稍后将分散在这个国家和国外。这门面向研究生的课程，研究伦理学，将包括伦理哲学和价值体系的导论，以及科学哲学和科学如何构建的导论。然后，它将讨论在尝试做“好科学”和避免研究中的偏见方面出现的问题，以及针对错误和偏见的交叉检查。其他主题将包括动物主题、人类主题、归属和作者身份、指导、知识产权和代表不足的群体。将为博士后助理和希望获得研究伦理学研究生证书的研究生开发第二门课程--高级研究伦理学，这一课程也将开发。这门课程将更深入地发展课程主题，并将涵盖道德培训的教育学。一个新的研究伦理研讨会将被开发为一个为期4到6个小时的为期一天的研讨会，面向科学和工程领域的未终身教职员工，向他们介绍伦理问题，并让他们准备好在研究完整性方面指导自己的学生。智力优势：该项目将邀请研究生和博士后研究助理分析所有科学家和工程师在其职业生涯中面临的严重和复杂的伦理问题。广泛的影响：该项目将培养(1)知道如何解决伦理问题的研究生；(2)博士后研究助理，他们不仅了解这些问题，而且知道如何在这些问题上授课，并能够将该项目的影响扩大到马里兰州、美国和其他地区；(3)新的教职员工，他们认识到研究诚信的重要性，并能够将其应用于他们自己的学生的培训；以及(4)将学院公园开发的课程扩展到马里兰州的其他校园。

This award is made through the Ethics Education in Science and Engineering solicitation (NSF 06-524). The project will develop a set of ethics courses and workshops that focus on graduate-student education, but also provide training on research integrity for postdoctoral associates and for new assistant professors that will enable these individuals to be better "role models" in research ethics for their graduate students. These courses will be developed first within the colleges of the Principal Investigators at the University of Maryland, College Park, using the extensive experience of the Principal Investigators in such courses. In the second year of the grant, the courses will be extended to the other science and engineering colleges and departments on the College Park campus. In the third year, the courses will be made available across the State of Maryland in the University System of Maryland. The courses will engage graduate students in actively solving real-world research-integrity problems, and the influence of the courses will be extended by training postdoctoral associates as ethics teachers. These trained teachers will later disperse across this country and abroad. The course for graduate students, Research Ethics, will include an introduction to the philosophy of ethics and value systems, and an introduction to the philosophy of science and how science is structured. Then it will discuss the issues that arise in trying to do "good Science" and to avoid bias in research, and the cross-checks against error and bias. Other topics will include animal subjects, human subjects, attribution and authorship, mentoring, intellectual property, and under-represented groups. A second course, Advanced Research Ethics, will be developed for postdoctoral associates and for graduate students who wish to obtain the Graduate Certificate in Research Ethics that will also be developed. This course will develop the course topics more deeply and will cover the pedagogy of ethics training. A new Research Ethics Workshop will be developed as a 4- to 6-hour one-day workshop for untenured faculty members in science and engineering, to introduce them to ethical concerns and to prepare them to mentor their own students on research integrity.Intellectual merit: The project will engage graduate students and postdoctoral research associates in the analysis of the serious and complex ethical issues that face all scientists and engineers in the course of their careers.Broader impacts: The project will produce (1) graduate students who know how to address ethical issues; (2) postdoctoral research associates who not only understand these issues, but know how to teach on these issues and can expand the impact of the project across Maryland, the United States, and beyond; (3) new faculty members who appreciate the importance of research integrity and can apply it in the training of their own students; and (4) extension of the courses developed at College Park to other campuses in Maryland.