Nano-ethics on the World Wide Web: Helping Faculty Enhance Graduate Education

该项目旨在为教师开发一个全面的、多方面的网络资源，以通过以下目标将纳米技术（SEIN）中的社会和伦理问题纳入其中。它将为新兴的纳米技术工作人员提供伦理培训，为教师提供免费的多种形式的教学材料，鼓励研究生了解伦理培训在日常研究活动中的应用以及他们研究的更大影响，并为纳米伦理教材提供一个集中的资源。现有SEIN材料的综合网络资源，加上大型研讨会和案例研究的发展，将为教师提供纳米技术伦理在专业技能发展中的新视角，与他们的研究生分享。这一网络资源将从多方面促进研究生道德教育的长期发展。国家机构可以利用这一资源，为它们提供各种纳入纳米伦理培训的方法。其次，拟议会议上的演讲将被录制和编辑，以创建一个主题的15分钟短模块，可以从网站上下载或流式传输。纳米指导计划将侧重于纳米技术伦理案例研究的发展，以发展研究生在其研究生涯中可能面临的真实世界情况。

This project is developing a comprehensive, multifaceted web resource for faculty to utilize in incorporating social and ethical issues in nanotechnology (SEIN) through the following goals. It will make ethics training available for the emerging nanotechnology workforce, provide faculty with free access to instructional materials available in multiple formats, encourage graduate students to gain an appreciation of the application of ethics training in their everyday research activities as well as the larger implications of their research, and provide a centralized resource for nano-ethics teaching materials. A comprehensive web resource of existing SEIN materials, coupled with a large symposium and the development of case studies, will provide faculty with a new-found perspective on nanotechnology ethics in the development of professional skills to share with their graduate students. This web resource, the first of its kind, will generate long-term improvement in ethics education for graduate students in multiple ways. This resource can be utilized by institutions nationally in providing them with a variety of ways to incorporate nano-ethics training. Second, the presentations at the proposed conference will be recorded and edited to create short 15 minute modules on a subject that can be downloaded or streamed from an internet site. The Nano-Mentoring Program will focus on the development of case studies of nanotechnology ethics in order to develop real world situations that graduate students may be confronted with in their research careers.