Collaborative Research: Research: Intersections between Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Ethics in Engineering

专注于多样性、公平和包容性(DEI)和伦理的努力往往被孤立在工程领域。虽然通常是作为单独的调查路线进行调查，但我们假设，目的、目的和与伦理和德性有关的目标经常重叠。通过调查这种潜在的重叠，我们假设我们可以帮助改善在促进工程设计和伦理方面的整体努力。我们的主要研究目标是在工程、学术和劳动力社区中综合伦理学和Dei之间的交叉。在这项研究中，我们从系统的文献回顾开始，探索伦理学和神学文献中潜在的重叠。其次，我们将研究工程学学者如何(有意识和下意识地)将伦理和Dei视为相关。最后，我们将研究工业从业者如何(有意识和潜意识地)看待伦理和Dei之间的潜在重叠。总而言之，这项研究将使我们能够比较文学、学者和实践者如何将伦理学和Dei视为相关。我们将利用调查结果来产生课程和劳动力培训努力，以更好地整合工程中的伦理和Dei。这项研究将通过促进以道德方式参与不同价值观和视角的工程师的形成而造福社会。尽管学者和项目提出了各种模式、倡议和零星创新，但我们并未实现工程劳动力多样化的广泛变化。我们的理论是，改变的一个障碍是在Dei和工程伦理的交叉空间中，来自工程教育研究人员的学术路线之间的脱节。这项研究试图找到让这些社区相互支持的方法，通过明确隐藏的结构性问题来掩盖工程背景下伦理和Dei之间的交叉。这项研究分为三个阶段，分别解决以下研究问题：(1)基于对这些社区内学生和从业者情感和认知发展的理论和经验理解，工程伦理和Dei是如何相关的？(2)基于活跃在这两个研究和学术领域的学者得出的心理模型，工程伦理和Dei是如何相关的？(3)基于来自不同行业从业者的心理模型，工程伦理和Dei是如何相关的？为了解决RQ1，我们将使用系统的文献回顾程序来综合同行评议的关于以伦理和Dei为中心的干预的方法和结果的学术研究。为了解决RQ2和RQ3，学术界(第二阶段)和行业从业者(第三阶段)将以多种形式回应伦理/Dei挑战，包括图形、文本和口头。我们将通过话语分析的方法批判性地分析文学和心理模型，以GEE确定的七个构建任务(意义、实践、身份、关系、政治、联系和符号系统)为指导。我们将对第一阶段、第二阶段和第三阶段的发现进行三角测量，以确定话语在学术和工业背景下的变化。这一三角测量将使我们能够产生可行的方式，以支持旨在在课程和工作环境中将道德和德行结合起来的教育努力。我们将采取积极主动的方式，通过多种机制向研究界和专业组织传播研究成果。这将直接造福社会，促进工程师的职业形成，他们在道德上更加熟练，能够与不同的人打交道。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Efforts focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and ethics are often siloed in engineering. While generally pursued as separate lines of investigation, we hypothesize that the aims, objectives, and goals pertaining to ethics and DEI often overlap. By investigating this potential overlap, we hypothesize that we can help improve overall efforts at promoting DEI and ethics in engineering. Our primary research objective is to synthesize intersections between ethics and DEI among engineering academic and workforce communities. In this study, we begin with a systematic literature review that explores potential overlap in literature in ethics and DEI. Second, we will study how engineering academics view (consciously and subconsciously) ethics and DEI as related. Finally, we will study how industrial practitioners view (consciously and subconsciously) the potential overlap between ethics and DEI. Collectively, this study will enable us to compare how literature, academics, and practitioners view ethics and DEI as related. We will use findings to generate curricular and workforce training efforts to better integrate ethics and DEI in engineering. This study will benefit society by promoting the formation of engineers who can engage with different values and perspectives in ethical ways.Despite various models, initiatives, and pockets of innovation by scholars and programs, we have not realized widespread changes in the diversification of the engineering workforce. We theorize that one barrier to change is the disjuncture between lines of scholarship from engineering education researchers in the intersecting spaces of DEI and engineering ethics. This study seeks to find ways for these communities to support one another by making explicit hidden structural issues that mask the intersections between ethics and DEI in the context of engineering. This study is comprised of three phases, addressing the following respective research questions: (1) How are engineering ethics and DEI related based on theoretical and empirical understandings of affective and cognitive development of students and practitioners within these communities?; (2) How are engineering ethics and DEI related based on mental models elicited from academics active in these two areas of research and scholarship?; and (3) How are engineering ethics and DEI related based on mental models elicited from a diverse cross-section of industrial practitioners? To address RQ1, we will use systematic literature review procedures to synthesize peer-reviewed scholarship on approaches to, and outcomes of, interventions centered around ethics and DEI. To address RQ2 and RQ3, academics (Phase 2) and industrial practitioners (Phase 3) will respond to an ethics/DEI challenge in multiple formats, including graphically, textually, and verbally. We will critically analyze the literature and mental models via a discourse analysis approach, guided by seven building tasks identified by Gee (significance, practices, identities, relationships, politics, connections, and sign systems). We will triangulate Phase 1, 2, and 3 findings to identify how discourses vary across the academic and industrial contexts. This triangulation will enable us to generate actionable modalities for supporting educational efforts aimed at the intersection of ethics and DEI both in curricular and workforce contexts. We will adopt an activist-oriented approach to disseminate findings to the research community and professional organizations through multiple mechanisms. This will directly benefit society by facilitating the professional formation of engineers who are more ethically adept and capable of engaging with difference.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.