SIRA Modules for Effectively Engaging Engineers in Ethical Reasoning About Emerging Technologies

科学与工程伦理教育奖旨在回应日益增长的要求，即将伦理作为工程教育的核心能力。本研究解决的基本问题是：(1)对涉及新兴技术的案例进行伦理分析的脚手架式、综合式和反思性分析（SIRA）方法对学生伦理推理的发展以及对伦理教育的满意度和参与度有何影响？(2) SIRA方法的哪些特征最有助于道德推理能力的改变，以及学生对工程伦理教育的满意度和参与度？这将通过检查研究生和高级本科生对在线学习模块的参与和体验与他们对道德推理的发展以及对道德教育的满意度和参与之间的关系来研究。结果将是几个SIRA模块，这些模块将在越来越多的工程专业大四学生和研究生群体中以在线形式试点。他们的效果将通过分析推理，互动性，话语和反射率来评估。更广泛的影响：本项目的结果将通过在专业工程教育、国家工程和伦理会议上的演讲，在工程教育和伦理社区中进行交流。这将包括在同行评审的出版物上发表研究结果，有可能影响到大学教育工作者。此外，交互式案例模块将通过美国国家科学基金会赞助的在线伦理网站，伦理核心（http://nationalethicscenter.org）和NAE在线伦理中心（http://www.onlineethics.org）提供。SIRA学习模块具有已建立的评估工具，已被证明在培养工程师的道德推理能力方面是有效的，这将是一个有吸引力的选择，可以嵌入到各种工程课程和跨学科课程中，以及本科生和研究生水平的各种工程项目中。

This Ethics Education in Science and Engineering award addresses growing calls for ethics as a core competency in engineering education. The fundamental questions addressed by this research are:(1) What is the impact of a scaffolded, integrated, and reflexive analysis (SIRA) approach to ethical analysis of cases concerning emerging technology on the development of students' ethical reasoning and satisfaction and engagement with ethics education?(2)What characteristics of this SIRA approach most contribute to change in moral reasoning ability and to student satisfaction and engagement with engineering ethics education?This will be studied by examining the relationship between graduate and senior-level undergraduate students' participation in and experience of the online learning module and their development of ethical reasoning and satisfaction and engagement with ethics education. The result will be several SIRA modules that will have been piloted in the online format with increasingly larger groups of engineering seniors and graduate students. Their effect will be assessed through analysis of reasoning, interactivity, discourse, and reflectivity.Broader Impacts: The results of this project will be communicated in engineering education and ethics communities by presentation at professional engineering education, national engineering, and ethics conferences. This will include publishing findings in peer reviewed publications with potential to reach collegiate educators. In addition, the interactive case-based modules will be made available through the NSF-sponsored website for online ethics, Ethics CORE at http://nationalethicscenter.org, and the NAE Online Ethics Center at http://www.onlineethics.org. SIRA learning modules with established assessment instruments that have proven to be effective in developing ethical reasoning abilities for engineers will be an attractive option for embedding into a wide variety of engineering courses and curricula across disciplines and within a variety of engineering programs at both undergraduate and graduate levels.