Institutional Transformation: Empowering Faculty to Cultivate a Culture of Ethics in Engineering

机构转型：赋权教师培养工程道德文化

• 批准号: 1835029
• 负责人: Cynthia Schairer
• 金额: $ 34.98万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1835029&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Institutional; Transformation; Empowering; Faculty; Cultivate

Most scientific ethics training programs rely heavily on online or in-person training, but such programs are limited in their efficacy and often fail to address the broader cultural aspects of scientific ethics and scientific misconduct. The goal of this project is to cultivate a culture of scientific ethics at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. The investigators will do so by using a diversity of approaches at multiple levels within the school. A major component will be to empower faculty and other stakeholders to create a self-perpetuating culture of scientific ethics at their institution. Social surveys will be used to assess and understand the current ethical culture at UC San Diego. Next, the investigators will organize a retreat with deans, faculty, and administrators to discuss scientific ethics and hold a workshop based on findings from conversations at the retreat. The workshop will also be used to conduct a comprehensive literature review on pathways for creating a culture of scientific ethics, and to develop specific plans for doing so at UC San Diego. The final research component will be systematically testing and evaluating the impact of their activities on scientific ethics at their university.The main goal of this study is to understand how to create a culture of scientific ethics at a major university and to then use that information to create institutional transformation at UC San Diego. The project moves beyond current approaches to studying and encouraging scientific ethics in four ways: (1) comparing faculty perceptions to gauge the presence of an ethical culture; (2) empowering faculty as agents of cultural change; (3) applying department specific approaches to encouraging and cultivating a culture of ethics; and (4) emphasizing the importance of local cultures and climates for shaping ethical behavior, rather than simply explaining it as the behavior of one or two unethical individuals. These four novel elements will advance understanding of research integrity and provide tools for affecting cultural changes towards ethical science at major research universities. Overall, the project will benefit society by promoting ethical teaching, training, and learning, and by nurturing a community of researchers who will be better prepared to engage in discussions about ethical dimensions of academia and research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

大多数科学伦理培训项目严重依赖在线或面对面培训，但这些项目的有效性有限，而且往往无法解决科学伦理和科学不端行为的更广泛的文化方面。该项目的目标是在加州大学圣地亚哥分校雅各布斯工程学院培养科学伦理文化。调查人员将通过在学校内的多个层面上使用多种方法来做到这一点。一个主要组成部分将是授权教师和其他利益相关者在他们的机构创造一个自我延续的科学道德文化。社会调查将用于评估和了解当前的伦理文化在加州大学圣地亚哥分校。接下来，研究人员将与院长、教师和管理人员组织一次务虚会，讨论科学伦理问题，并根据务虚会上的谈话结果举办一个研讨会。该研讨会还将用于对创建科学伦理文化的途径进行全面的文献综述，并制定在加州大学圣地亚哥分校这样做的具体计划。最后的研究部分将是系统地测试和评估他们的活动对他们所在大学的科学伦理的影响。这项研究的主要目标是了解如何在一所主要大学创造科学伦理文化，然后利用这些信息在加州大学圣地亚哥分校创造制度转型。该项目超越了目前研究和鼓励科学道德的方法，从四个方面：（1）比较教师的看法，以衡量道德文化的存在;（2）授权教师作为文化变革的推动者;（3）应用部门具体的方法来鼓励和培养道德文化;（4）强调当地文化和气候对塑造道德行为的重要性，而不是简单地将其解释为一两个不道德的个人的行为。这四个新要素将促进对研究诚信的理解，并为影响主要研究型大学的伦理科学文化变革提供工具。总体而言，该项目将通过促进伦理教学、培训和学习，以及培养一个更好地准备参与学术和研究伦理层面讨论的研究人员社区，造福社会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。