EESE: Maryland Initiative on Research Ethics

该奖项是通过科学和工程伦理教育征集（NSF 06-524）。该项目将开发一套侧重于研究生教育的道德课程和讲习班，但也为博士后助理和新的助理教授提供研究诚信培训，使这些人能够成为研究生研究道德方面的更好“榜样”。这些课程将首先在马里兰州大学帕克分校的主要研究者学院内开发，利用主要研究者在此类课程中的丰富经验。在赠款的第二年，课程将扩展到学院公园校园的其他科学和工程学院和部门。在第三年，课程将在整个马里兰州的马里兰州大学系统提供。这些课程将使研究生积极解决现实世界的研究诚信问题，课程的影响力将通过培训博士后同事作为伦理教师来扩大。这些受过训练的教师以后将分散在这个国家和国外。研究生的课程，研究伦理学，将包括介绍道德和价值体系的哲学，并介绍科学的哲学和科学是如何构建的。然后，它将讨论在试图做“好科学”和避免偏见的研究中出现的问题，以及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，指导，知识产权和代表性不足的群体。第二门课程，高级研究伦理学，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，也将开发。本课程将更深入地发展课程主题，并将涵盖道德培训的教学法。将为科学和工程领域的非终身教职教职人员开发一个新的研究伦理讲习班，为期4至6小时，为期一天，向他们介绍伦理问题，并为他们指导自己的学生进行研究诚信做好准备。该项目将让研究生和博士后研究人员参与分析所有科学家和工程师面临的严重而复杂的伦理问题更广泛的影响：该项目将产生（1）知道如何解决道德问题的研究生;（2）博士后研究助理，他们不仅了解这些问题，而且知道如何就这些问题进行教学，并可以扩大该项目在马里兰州，美国和其他地区的影响;（3）认识到研究诚信的重要性并能将其应用于培训自己学生的新教员;（4）将在帕克学院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.