Developing an On-line Resource for Ethics Education in Science and Engineering

这个项目有短期和长期目标。在短期内，美国国家工程院（NAE）的工程、伦理和社会中心（CEES）将修改并提供NAE CEES在线伦理中心（OEC）的网站增强功能，该中心位于www.onlineethics.org。这些增强的功能将帮助主要研究人员和机构明智地响应国家科学基金会对道德教育的要求，这是2007年美国竞争法案的一部分。从长远来看，该项目将提高OEC为学院成员和其他希望在研究和研究道德方面取得卓越成就的人提供服务的能力，并建立可信赖的研究社区，对民主问题作出反应。OEC咨询小组及其成员将帮助开发、测试、修改和评估OEC网站的改进，并为需要提供援助的研究团体举办活动，收集有关网站效用的信息。此外，伊利诺伊理工学院（IIT）职业道德研究中心（CSEP）图书馆员将对IIT和其他附近机构的管理人员和教师进行用户需求评估。CSEP将利用这些结果来确定和开发材料，并为CSEP主页和OEC设计界面和数据库。印度理工学院的可用性测试和评估中心将在项目结束时对网站进行评估。这些程序允许对这些地点的效用进行一定程度的独立评估。科学和技术研究领域在评估数字资源开发的过程和结果方面具有专门知识，并将为此目的使用项目顾问。结果将包括研究成果、教学材料和有前途的教育实践，以促进科学和工程研究的道德和负责任的行为，以及在民主社会中发展值得信赖的研究。这些结果将提供给NSF打算支持的国家数字图书馆。该项目的成果将使良好的实践和材料广泛可用，并有助于在科学和工程伦理教育方面建立一个基础广泛、知识渊博的社会网络。将特别注意在科学和工程领域代表性不足的人口所拥有和为他们提供的资源，以及为他们所产生的问题，以及研究日益全球化和跨学科性质所产生的问题。该项目的宣传将通过美国国家科学院(National Academies？新闻稿、网站和出版物，以及专业学会和学术组织的相关会议，包括与代表性不足人口特别相关的会议。

This project has short-term and long-term goals. In the short term, the Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society (CEES) at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) will modify and provide site enhancements to the NAE CEES Online Ethics Center (OEC), found at www.onlineethics.org. These enhanced features will help principal investigators and institutions respond knowledgeably to NSF requirements for ethics education instituted as part of the America COMPETES Act of 2007. In the long term, the project will improve the ability of the OEC to serve Academy members and others who wish to enhance excellence in research and research ethics, and to build trustworthy research communities responsive to democratic concerns. The OEC Advisory Group and its members will help to develop, test, modify, and evaluate OEC site enhancements, and to host activities to gather information about the utility of the site for the research communities for whom assistance should be provided. In addition, the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP) librarian at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) will develop and conduct user needs assessments of administrators and faculty at IIT and other nearby institutions. CSEP will use the results to inform the identification and development of materials, and the design of interfaces and databases for the CSEP home page as well as the OEC. The Usability Testing and Evaluation Center at IIT will assess the sites at the end of the project. These procedures allow for a degree of independent evaluation of the utility of these sites. The field of Science and Technology Studies has expertise in evaluating process and results in digital resource development, and a project consultant will be used for this purpose also. Results will include research findings, pedagogical materials, and promising practices in education for the ethical and responsible conduct of research in science and engineering and for development of trustworthy research in democratic societies. These results will be available to a National digital library that NSF intends to support. Results from this project will make good practices and materials widely available and accessible and help the development of a broad-based, knowledgeable social network in ethics education in science and engineering. Special attention will be paid to resources by and for populations that are underrepresented in science and engineering, and to issues that arise for them and from the increasingly globalized and interdisciplinary nature of research. Publicity about the project will be disseminated broadly, through National Academies? press releases, websites, and publications, and at relevant meetings of professional societies and academic organizations, including those of special relevance to underrepresented populations.