RAISE Program: Research and Integrity in Science & Engineering

与学术、科学和工程的诚信相关的伦理问题正日益成为公众关注的焦点。这些问题包括伪造实验结果、捏造数据、行业资助研究中的利益冲突、剽窃、举报人的脆弱性以及不适当地将作者归属于合作者。由于科学和工程是跨学科的努力，公众对不当行为的看法迅速蔓延到它的所有领域。由于它们是全球性的努力，规范和期望需要广泛适用，但从业者之间的文化差异、学术等级、发表论文的压力以及对研究的社会氛围的忽视，给达成伦理规则带来了巨大的挑战。建立和执行道德规范和期望的困难威胁到知识的安全积累、公众对学术科学和工程诚信的看法、对科学研究的财政支持以及对科学成果的接受。RAISE项目旨在通过一个试点项目吸引研究生参与，该项目将为大学的研究制定道德和诚信准则。培养项目将高级研究生培养成道德教育者？在科学和工程领域提供这种指导。这一培训强调以问题为基础的学习方法，并使用小组将导致建立共识以及道德和诚信守则的过程。然后，每个小组制定的准则将通过一个在关于伦理的哲学文献中被称为反思平衡的过程来评估和调整。将特别注意准则是否对文化、性别和纪律差异敏感。归根结底，目标是为全校范围内的研究诚信政策提供基础。

Ethical issues associated with the integrity of academic science and engineering are increasingly in the public spotlight. These issues include the falsification of experimental results, fabrication of data, conflicts of interest in industry-funded research, plagiarism, vulnerability of whistleblowers, and improper attribution of authorship for collaborators. Since science and engineering are interdisciplinary endeavors, the public perception of impropriety quickly spreads to all of its fields. Since they are global endeavors, norms and expectations need to be broadly applicable, but cultural differences among practitioners, academic hierarchies, pressures to publish, and inattention to the social climate of research present significant challenges to agreement on ethical rules. Difficulties in establishing and enforcing ethical norms and expectations threaten the secure accumulation of knowledge, the public perception of the integrity of academic science and engineering, financial support for scientific research, and acceptance of scientific results. The RAISE project seeks to engage graduate students through a pilot project that will result in a code of ethics and integrity for research at the university. The RAISE project trains advanced graduate students as ?ethics educators? across the science and engineering fields to provide this instruction. This training emphasizes the pedagogy of problem-based learning and using small groups will lead to a process of consensus building and codes of ethics and integrity. The codes developed by each small group will then be evaluated and adjusted through a process known in the philosophical literature on ethics as ?reflective equilibrium.? Special attention will be given to whether the code is sensitive to culture, gender, and disciplinary differences. Ultimately, the goal is to provide the basis for a university-wide policy on research integrity.