EESE: Maryland Initiative on Research Ethics

该奖项通过科学与工程伦理教育招标（NSF 06-524）获得。该项目将开发一系列伦理课程和研讨会，重点关注研究生教育，但也为博士后助理和新助理教授提供研究诚信方面的培训，使这些人能够更好地成为研究生研究伦理方面的“榜样”。这些课程将首先在马里兰大学帕克分校的首席研究员学院内开发，利用首席研究员在此类课程中的丰富经验。在资助的第二年，这些课程将扩展到学院公园校区的其他科学和工程学院和部门。在第三年，这些课程将在马里兰州的大学系统中提供给整个马里兰州。这些课程将吸引研究生积极解决现实世界的研究诚信问题，并通过培养博士后成为伦理学教师来扩大课程的影响。这些训练有素的教师后来将分散到全国各地和国外。研究生课程“研究伦理”将包括伦理哲学和价值体系的介绍，以及科学哲学和科学是如何构成的介绍。然后，它将讨论在尝试做“好的科学”和避免研究中的偏见时出现的问题，以及对错误和偏见的交叉检查。其他主题将包括动物受试者、人类受试者、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，并涵盖伦理训练的教学法。一个新的研究伦理研讨会将为科学和工程领域的非终身教职人员开设，为期4至6小时，为期一天，旨在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。智力优势：该项目将吸引研究生和博士后研究人员分析所有科学家和工程师在其职业生涯中面临的严重而复杂的伦理问题。更广泛的影响：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，不仅了解这些问题，而且知道如何就这些问题进行教学，并能扩大项目在马里兰州、美国乃至其他地区的影响；(3)新教师认识到研究诚信的重要性，并能将其应用于培养自己的学生；(4)将学院公园开设的课程推广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.