Bridging the Gap Between Engineers and Society: Learning to Listen

这个科学与工程伦理教育项目，弥合工程师与社会之间的差距：学会倾听，将联合收割机研究和教育相结合，探索工程，科学和社会之间的关系。该项目将开发一个理论框架，一个研究生水平的工程伦理课程，和四个独立的多媒体模块，借鉴经验社会科学理论和研究方法，以弥合工程师和他们的客户之间的关系差距。工程伦理教育的目标将通过教学工程师来促进，以承认和倾听他们所服务的社区的声音。该项目有以下目标：目标1：开发一个理论框架，扩大教学方法，以工程伦理，理由伦理困境中展开的现实，不确定性，不同的观点，和受工程和科学决策，研究和产品影响的公众的技术专长的多个层次。目标二：建立一个多学科，多媒体，实证工程伦理研究生课程，教授伦理和科学探究的最佳实践，明确考虑利益相关者的需求，价值观，观察和知识。目标三：与工程，科学和公共卫生研究生谁采取的过程中创建四个教学模块的合作伙伴：倾听，研究的负责任的行为，实践的负责任的行为，并见证不法行为和防止伤害的义务。目标4：评估课程和模块的有效性，帮助学生了解他们在更大的社会结构中的重要角色，并认识到公众的考虑是他们的研究和实践的重要组成部分的重要资源。拟议的研究和教育计划将促进了解一个非常有前途的和目前未充分利用的教学工程伦理方法。四所大学的教师与不同的观众致力于教授该项目的原则和材料。作为项目合作者，环境工程和科学教授协会将帮助开发和传播工作产品。项目团队和参与的学生包括在工程和科学代表性不足的群体，在各种贡献的角色。

This Ethics Education in Science and Engineering project, Bridging the Gap Between Engineers and Society: Learning to Listen, will combine research and education to explore the relationships between engineering, science, and society. The project will develop a theoretical framework, a graduate-level engineering ethics course, and four freestanding multimedia modules that draw on empirical social science theory and research methods to bridge the relational gap between engineers and their clients. Goals of engineering ethics education will be promoted by teaching engineers to acknowledge and listen to the voices of the communities they serve. The project has the following objectives: Objective 1: Develop a theoretical framework for an expanded pedagogical approach to engineering ethics that grounds ethical dilemmas in the unfolding realities, uncertainties, diverse perspectives, and multiple levels of technical expertise of the publics affected by engineering and science decisions, research, and products. Objective 2: Build a multidisciplinary, multimedia, empirical engineering ethics graduate course that teaches ethical and scientific inquiry best practices, with explicit consideration of stakeholder needs, values, observations, and knowledge. Objective 3: Partner with the engineering, science, and public health graduate students who take the course to create four teaching modules: Listening, Responsible Conduct of Research, Responsible Conduct of Practice, and Witnessing Wrongdoing and the Obligation to Prevent Harm. Objective 4: Assess the effectiveness of the course and modules in helping students understand their role as vital actors in a larger social fabric, and recognize that consideration of the public is an essential resource for their research and a critical component of their practice. The proposed research and education plan will advance understanding of a highly promising and currently underutilized method of teaching engineering ethics. Faculty at four universities with diverse audiences have committed to teaching the project's principles and materials. As project collaborator, the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors will aid in the development and dissemination of the work products. The project team and participating students include underrepresented groups in engineering and science, in a variety of contributing roles.