Ethics and Justice in Science and Engineering Training Program

该项目由跨NSF科学工程伦理教育项目支持，是一项研究和教育项目，旨在培养科学和工程研究生以及社会科学和人文科学研究生，从他们自己的实践中创建伦理调查。该项目解决了道德教育和调查的主流方法中的一个关键问题：通过将道德和正义问题视为研究问题和工程实践形成后要解决的问题，科学家和工程师将道德和正义问题视为其学科的补充，而不是基本问题。该培训计划通过培训研究生如何识别和应对他们自己的研究中，良好的科学和工程实践需要关注道德和正义的时刻，解决了这个问题。为此，它将修改现有的工程和科学伦理教育的案例研究方法。 该计划将培训学生如何从自己的实践中创建伦理调查，而不是让学生退后一步，看看已经发生的案例，实际上是在他们自己的研究中创建自己的“案例研究”。通过澄清科学/工程和伦理/正义如何相遇，这项培训计划将为科学和工程开辟新的途径，更好地了解自然世界，并对更广泛的人类关切作出反应。 在产生强大的和负责任的科学实践中受过训练的研究员将继续作为研究人员和教授宣传这些方法，为更广泛的努力做出贡献，以产生将伦理和正义问题纳入科学和工程项目设计的创新实践。 该项目的成果将通过公共研讨会和通过UCSC科学与司法工作组网站以跨学科受众可访问的格式在线传播。PI和博士后研究员将通过会议演讲和期刊文章传播教学成果。

This project--supported by the Cross-NSF Ethics Education in Science & Engineering Program--is a research and education program that trains science and engineering graduate students alongside social science and humanities graduate students to create ethical inquiries from within their own practice. The project addresses a key problem in dominant methods of ethics pedagogy and inquiry: by treating ethics and justice concerns as issues to be addressed after research questions and engineering practices have formed, scientists and engineers experience ethics and justices issues as supplemental, and not fundamental, to their disciplines. This training program remedies this problem through training graduate students how to identify and respond to moments within their own research in which good scientific and engineering practices require attentiveness to ethics and justice. To do this, it will revise the existing case-study approach in engineering and science ethics education. Instead of training students to step back and look at cases that have already transpired, the program will train students how to create ethical inquiries from within their own practice, in effect creating their own "case studies" as they arise from within their own studies.Through clarifying how science/engineering and ethics/justice meet, the training program will open up new ways of doing science and engineering that provide better accounts of the natural world and respond to a broader range of human concerns. Fellows trained in producing robust and responsible scientific practice will continue to propagate the methods as researchers and professors, contributing to wider efforts to produce innovative practices that integrate ethic and justice concerns into the very design of science and engineering projects. Results of the project will be disseminated via public symposia and online via the UCSC Science and Justice Working Group website in a format accessible to interdisciplinary audiences. The PI and postdoctoral fellow will disseminate pedagogical outcomes via conference presentations and journal articles.