Collaborative: Ethics in the Details

迈克尔·戴维斯，伊利诺伊理工学院；Alan Feinerman，伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校提案# 0629416 / 0629393科学、工程和技术中的伦理与价值观该奖项是在科学和工程伦理教育（NSF 06-524）下获得的。工科伦理教育主要有三种途径：(1)开设独立的伦理学课程；(2)大规模的教育伦理模块；(3)在技术课程中微观插入伦理教学。本课题提出了微插入技术在应用上的创新。它将集中讨论微插入方法在工程师研究生教育中的应用。由于实验室是工程和科学研究生教育的中心，我们将对课堂微插入与实验室微插入的有效性进行比较。将包括纳米技术实验室，因为研究生参与新兴技术的实际项目应提供启发性的新微插入问题、与之相关的有用问题和有用的见解。该项目的目标是：1)展示一种有效的方法，教教师和研究生如何开发适合于研究生工程课程（课程和实验室）的微插入问题；2)评估微插入在研究生工程课程中的有效性，将其在课堂上的效果与在纳米技术实验室中的效果进行比较；3)创建一个电子资源，向全世界的工程学院传播微插入问题。该项目将至少在两个方面为工程伦理领域做出贡献。首先，项目团队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，还将为随后与其他方法的比较研究奠定基础。其次，它将使研究生准备制作微插入问题，从而确定研究生是否可以协助教师将伦理学整合到工程课程中（概念证明）。拟议的项目将促进对工程伦理的理解，并促进研究生水平的教学和培训。项目团队和参与的大学包括代表性不足的群体，并将确保伦理筐符合身体和认知残疾用户的可访问性标准。研究结果将在一系列的文章和会议论文中报告，这些文章和会议论文针对三个相关领域的研究人员和教育工作者：工程、伦理和技术交流。

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.