Collaborative: Ethics in the Details

迈克尔·戴维斯，伊利诺伊州理工学院；艾伦·费纳曼，大学伊利诺伊州-芝加哥#0629416/0629393号提案科学、工程和技术中的伦理和价值观该奖项由科学和工程伦理教育(NSF06-524)颁发。工程和科学中的伦理教育有三种主要方法：(1)独立的伦理课程；(2)大规模教育伦理模块；(3)在技术课程中插入伦理指导。本项目在微插入技术的应用方面提出了一项创新。它将侧重于工程师研究生教育中的微插入法。因为实验室是工程和科学研究生教育的中心，所以我们将研究课堂中微插入和实验室微插入的有效性的比较。纳米技术实验室将被包括在内，因为研究生参与新兴技术的实践项目应该提供启发性的新的微插入问题、与它们相关的有用的问题和有用的见解。该项目的目标是：1)展示一种有效的方法来教导教职员工和研究生如何开发适合于使用现有工程课程的微插入问题；2)评估在研究生工程课程中微插入的有效性，比较其在课堂上的效果和在纳米技术实验室中的效果；以及3)创建一个电子资源，用于向世界各地的工程教师传播微插入问题。拟议的项目将至少在两个方面对工程伦理领域做出贡献。首先，项目组将收集和分析的多年评估数据不仅将为微插入方法提供见解，还将为以后与其他方法的比较研究奠定基础。其次，它将使研究生做好产生微插入问题的准备，允许确定研究生是否能够帮助教师将伦理学融入到工程课程中(这是概念的证明)。拟议的项目将增进理解，并促进研究生层面的工程伦理学教学和培训。项目组和参与的大学包括代表性不足的群体，并将确保道德操守收文篮符合身体和认知残疾用户的无障碍标准。研究成果将以一系列文章和会议论文的形式发表，对象是三个相关领域的研究人员和教育工作者：工程学、伦理学和技术传播。

Michael Davis, Illinois Inst. of Technology ; Alan Feinerman, Univ. of Illinois-ChicagoProposal # 0629416 / 0629393Ethics and Values in Science, Engineering and TechnologyThis award is made under Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (NSF 06-524).There are three major approaches to ethics education in engineering and science:(1) free-standing courses in ethics; (2) large scale education ethics modules, and (3) micro-insertions of ethics instruction into technical courses. This project proposes an innovation inthe application of micro-insertion. It will focus on the micro-insertion approach in graduate education of engineers. Because labs are central to graduate education in both engineering and science the comparison of the effectiveness of micro-insertion in the classroom with micro-insertion in the lab will be studied. A nanotechnology lab will be included because graduate students' engagement with practical projects in an emerging technology should provide illuminatingly new micro-insertion problems, useful questions related to them, and useful insights.The objectives of the project are: 1) to demonstrate an efficient way to teach faculty andgraduate students how to develop micro-insertion problems that are suitable for use ingraduate engineering curricula, both courses and labs; 2) to assess the effectiveness of themicro-insertion in graduate engineering curricula, comparing its effects in the classroomwith its effects in a nanotechnology lab; and 3) to create an electronic resource fordisseminating micro-insertion problems to engineering faculty worldwide.The proposed project will contribute in at least two ways to the field ofengineering ethics. First, the multi-year assessment data that the project team will gather andanalyze will not only provide insights into the micro-insertion method but will also lay thegroundwork for later comparative research with other methods. Second, it will preparegraduate students to produce micro-insertion problems, allowing the determination of whethergrad students can assist faculty in integrating ethics into engineering courses (a proof ofconcept).The proposed project will both advance understanding and promote teaching andtraining at the graduate level in engineering ethics. The project team and participating universities include underrepresented groups and will ensure that the Ethics In-Basket meetsaccessibility standards for users with physical and cognitive disabilities. Research results will bereported in a series of articles and conference papers directed at researchers and educators in threeinterrelated fields: engineering, ethics, and technical communication.