International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering

该项目由科学与工程伦理教育 (EESE) 跨部门计划资助，涉及跨学科合作，为研究生、教师和专业人士设计、试点和评估基于网络的课程。 研究人员通过纳入国际维度来扩大科学与工程伦理教育。 具体来说，跨学科项目团队制作以下领域的教材、教学法、教学笔记和网络工具：工作场所道德、国际责任、跨国传播和行为、国际监管流程的变化、负责任的参与、国家之间的道德冲突以及利益相关者和社会包容。 这些材料是为基于查询的网络模块开发的，这些模块是为不同学习者定制的教程。研究人员将在多个站点和学科中对这些教程进行试点测试。 课程将通过学生的测试来客观评价？获取目标知识和推理技能，以及学生和教师对材料内容、可用性和重要性的主观看法。 细化后的课程将通过国家在线资源中心、国家数字政府中心等方式进行传播。此次道德教育的重要拓展将在几个方面进行创新：1）通过使用交互式、可定制的软件，让学生在九个教育模块中进行主动探究； 2）关注科学和工程全球化以及科学技术国际监管所固有的伦理问题； 3）让世界各地政府机构的道德结构和流程的多样性变得可见。 广泛传播的课程将使各学科的科学家和工程师受益，他们在经济和研究环境中面临全球化的挑战。 该教育项目旨在通过为科学家和工程师提供更大的能力来产生广泛的影响，使他们能够在不同国家和文化中进行反思和道德工作，并应对在多种政治和社会环境中工作所涉及的道德挑战。

This project, funded through the Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (EESE) cross-directorate program, involves interdisciplinary collaboration to design, pilot, and evaluate a web-based curriculum for graduate students, faculty and professionals. The investigators expand science & engineering ethics education by incorporating international dimensions. Specifically, the interdisciplinary project team produces teaching materials, pedagogies, teaching notes and web-based tools in: workplace ethics, international accountability, transnational spread and conduct, variation in international regulatory processes, responsible participation, ethical conflict between nations, and stakeholder and social inclusion. These materials are developed for inquiry-based web modules that are customized tutorials for diverse learners.The researchers will pilot test these tutorials in multiple sites and disciplines. The curriculum will be evaluated objectively by tests of students? acquisition of target knowledge and reasoning skills, and subjectively by student and instructor perceptions of the content, usability and importance of the materials. The refined curriculum will be disseminated through the National Online Resource Center and the National Center for Digital Government, among other modes.This important expansion of ethics education will be innovative in several ways: 1) by using interactive, customizable software that allows students to engage in active inquiry in the nine education modules; 2) by focusing on the ethical issues inherent in globalization of science and engineering and the international regulation of science and technology; and 3) by making visible the diversity of ethical structures and processes in governmental bodies around the world. The widely disseminated curriculum will benefit scientists and engineers across the disciplines, who face the challenges of globalization in the economy and in their research settings. This educational project is designed to effect a broad impact by affording scientists and engineers a greater capacity to work reflectively and ethically across countries and cultures and to engage ethical challenges involved in working in multiple political and social settings.