EESE: Graduate Education in Research Ethics for Scientists and Engineers

该奖项由理工科伦理教育项目（EESE: NSF06-524）资助。在这个项目中，一个由研究人员和教育工作者组成的跨学科团队正在将研究伦理整合到生命科学、生物技术和工程的研究生课程中。该团队正在研究生教育层面开展一系列研究伦理方面的协调活动，以便为教师和毕业生做好准备，使他们成为日益壮大的学者群体中的一员，这些学者高度意识到科学和工程研究中的伦理问题，并致力于在这些领域中促进诚信、诚实和责任。针对研究生的活动包括三个研讨会，一个独立的课程和一个顶点活动，旨在为研究生提供研究伦理的概念框架和相关的解决问题的技能。教职员工参加专业发展研讨会，以学习如何设计有效的研究伦理案例和材料，为研究生提供实践和指导，以应对研究中的伦理挑战。主要的研讨会是“贯穿课程的道德”（EAC）和教师指导研讨会，以促进具有整合道德经验的教师与新教师之间的合作。教师团队正在EAC工具包中开发案例和课堂材料，EAC工具包是一个在线环境，用于开发道德教学的最佳实践（NSF SES-0551779）。该项目包括详细的评估工作。它致力于确定哪些项目组成部分适合转移到其他机构并加以利用。它还记录了其精心的努力，以确保该项目在NSF支持期之后的可持续性。智力价值：该项目正在调整和整合伦理学教学的成功方法。EAC的活动正在与研究生研究伦理的独立课程相结合，以在两者之间发展新的协同作用。这个项目正在为道德心理学创造新的理解和见解。研究表明，掌握可教的技能是模范行为和优秀作品的基础。正在为研究生和教师研讨会、研究伦理课程和指导计划开发的活动将有助于在研究生研究伦理的背景下测试和评估这些理解。更广泛的影响：更广泛的影响规划在四个不同的方面。首先，参与设计独立课程和研究生研究伦理相关材料的教师团体也在用西班牙语设计其中的许多课程，以使它们在现实中“易于理解”，并可供讲西班牙语的利益相关者使用。第二，研究伦理方面的一套教员发展讲习班——这是一种具有高潜在价值的工具——正在被记录下来，以便于将其转移到其他机构并在它们中使用。第三，该项目为本科生和高中研究生提供指导机会。其中一项活动是在upm为即将入学的理工科学生举办的夏令营。最后，这个项目开启了北美和南美之间的对话。利益相关者正在交流EAC在研究伦理教学和实践、案例、练习和模块方面的专业知识和创新。这种交流正在传播在不同背景下工作的科学家和工程师所面临的伦理问题和挑战。这在传播工程和科学研究与实践的全球影响方面尤为重要。

This award is made under the Ethics Education in Science and Engineering Program (EESE: NSF06-524). In this project, an interdisciplinary team of researchers and educators is integrating research ethics into graduate programs in the life sciences, biotechnology, and engineering. The team is creating a coordinated series activities in research ethics at the graduate education level in order to prepare both faculty and graduates who are members of the growing community of scholars who highly aware of ethical issues in science and engineering research and committed to the advancement of integrity, honesty, and responsibility in these spheres. The activities targeting graduate students include three workshops, a freestanding course, and a capstone activity designed to provide graduate students with a conceptual framework in research ethics and related problem-solving skills. Faculty members are participating in professional development workshops in order to learn how to design effective research ethics cases and materials to provide graduate students with practice and guidance in confronting ethical challenges in research. Key workshops are "ethics across the curriculum" (EAC) and faculty-mentoring workshops to foster collaboration between faculty experienced with integrating ethics and those new to the task. Faculty teams are engaged in developing cases and classroom materials in an EAC Toolkit, an online environment for developing best practices in ethics teaching (NSF SES-0551779). This project includes detailed assessment efforts. It is engaged in identifying project components that are good candidates for transfer and use in other institutions. It is also documenting its deliberate efforts to ensure the project's sustainability beyond the period of NSF support. Intellectual Merit:This project is adapting and integrating successful approaches to ethics pedagogy. EAC activities are being integrated with a freestanding course in graduate research ethics to develop new synergies between the two. The project is creating new understandings and insights in moral psychology. Studies have shown that mastery of teachable skill sets underlies exemplary behavior and good works. Activities being developed for the graduate and faculty workshops, the research ethics course, and the mentoring program will help test and assess these understandings in the context of graduate research ethics.Broader Impacts:Broader impact is planned in four different dimensions. First, the faculty community involved in the design of the free-standing course and accompanying materials in graduate research ethics is also designing many of them in Spanish to make them realistically "accessible" as well as available to Spanish-speaking stakeholders. Second, the set of faculty development workshops in research ethics - a tool of high potential value - is being documented to facilitate its transfer to and use in other institutions. Third, the project is providing mentoring opportunities to graduate students in several outreach contexts at the undergraduate and high school levels. One such activity is a summer camp held at UPRM for incoming science and engineering students. Finally, this project is opening a dialog between North and South America. Stakeholders are exchanging EAC expertise and innovations in research ethics teaching and practice, cases, exercises, and modules. This exchange is disseminating the ethical issues and challenges faced by scientists and engineers working in diverse contexts. This is especially important in disseminating the global impacts of engineering and scientific research and practice.