US-Qatar Workshops: Engineering Ethics for a Globalized World, Doha, Qatar, October 2011 and College Station, Texas, October 2012

1066174德克萨斯州墨菲农工大学建议摘要：该项目是为了支持美国与会者，包括教授和学生，参加2011年10月在卡塔尔多哈举行的关于全球化世界的工程伦理研讨会？联合组织者是卡塔尔德克萨斯农工大学的哈桑·巴希尔博士。按照计划，在卡塔尔举办研讨会之后，将于2012年在德克萨斯州大学站的德克萨斯农工大学举办第二次研讨会。第一期讲习班将集中于查明全球化挑战工程伦理标准和教育的确切方式。它将包括以下会议：(1)全球化；(2)西方工程规范在非西方背景下的相关性；(3)国际背景下的许可挑战；(4)工程实践中的全球差异；(5)在国际背景下教授工程伦理的教学挑战；(6)西方和非西方道德观点的比较；以及(7)西方和非西方道德决策方法的比较。第二期讲习班将侧重于制定应对第一期讲习班所确定的挑战的对策。它将包括以下方面的会议：(1)制定国际道德准则的可能性；(2)工程实践国际化的标准和限制；(3)职业精神和注册的国际标准的可能性；(4)制定国际工程伦理课程的可能性；(5)在一个多元化的世界中，国际标准和国际课程的合理性。PIs和TAMU通过开设工程伦理课程和编写工程伦理教科书，在工程伦理教育中发挥了重要作用。智力价值：尽管全球化显然正在发生，人们认识到有必要为工程伦理制定一套国际标准，但还没有系统地处理为什么以及如何修改工程伦理准则、执照考试和课程，使其适合国际受众和全球化的专业环境。拟议的讲习班将是解决这些问题的首批国际努力之一。私人投资机构和工程、哲学和政治学方面的外国合作者的背景使他们非常适合组织讲习班，并在日益全球化的背景下将工程实践和教育的技术、道德和社会/政治方面的知识和专门知识汇集在一起。更广泛的影响：工程研究和教育具有日益全球化的特征。这就提出了工程师应该如何在不同的文化和制度框架中进行裁决的重大问题。拟议的讲习班对工程道德标准和教育有直接影响，有助于确定和编写教育工程师理解和考虑其工作的社会层面和影响所需的材料。来自美国和其他国家的几名女科学家将参加研讨会。

1066174 Murphy, Texas A&M UniversitySummary of Proposal: This project is for support for US participants, including professors and students - to a workshop on ?Engineering Ethics for a Globalized World, Doha, Qatar, October 2011? The co-Organizer is Dr. Hassan Bashir, at Texas A&M University in Qatar. The plan is for the workshop in Qatar to be followed by a second one at Texas A&M in College Station, Texas in 2012. The first workshop will concentrate on identifying the precise ways that globalization challenges engineering ethics standards and education. It will include sessions on (1) globalization; (2) the relevance of Western engineering codes in non-Western contexts; (3) challenges in licensure in an international context; (4) global differences in engineering practice; (5) pedagogical challenges in teaching engineering ethics in an international context; (6) comparison of Western and non-Western moral perspectives; and (7) comparison of Western and non-Western approaches to moral decision-making. The second workshop will focus on formulating responses to the challenges identified in the first workshop. It will include sessions on (1) the possibility of an international code of ethics; (2) the standards and limits of internationalization in engineering practice; (3) the possibility of international standards of professionalism and registration; (4) the possibility of an international engineering ethics curriculum; and (5) the justification of international standards and an international curriculum in a pluralistic world. The PIs, and TAMU, have played an important role in engineering ethics education through establishing a course and authoring a textbook on engineering ethics.Intellectual merit: While globalization is clearly taking place and the need to develop an international set of standards for engineering ethics is recognized, there has been no systematic treatment of why and how engineering ethics codes, licensure examinations, and curricula must be modified to make them appropriate for and relevant to an international audience and globalized professional setting. The proposed workshops will be among the first international efforts to address these issues. The backgrounds of the PIs and foreign collaborator in engineering, philosophy, and political science make them quite suited to organize the workshops and to bring together knowledge and expertise in the technical, moral, and social/political dimensions of engineering practice and education in an increasingly globalized context. Broader impacts: Engineering research and education has an increasingly globalized character. This raises significant issues about how engineers should adjudicate among different cultural and institutional frameworks. The proposed workshops have direct implications for engineering ethics standards and education, helping to identify and develop the materials required to educate engineers to understand and take into account the social dimensions and implications of their work. Several female scientists from the US and from other countries will participate in the workshops.