Planning to Introduce Legal Ethical, and Value Issues in Engineering Education

美国的本科工程课程要求解决工程伦理问题。 工程师和工程专业认识到，学生需要学习如何使用和评估现有的信息，在作出道德决策，以及如何测试和发展自己的职业道德的观点。 他们需要发展必要的思维过程，将信息与可接受的职业行为“规范”结合起来，做出合乎道德的决定。 科学、技术和社会中的伦理和价值观研究正在支持几个项目，以开发和测试新的课程和教学方法。 该项目将召集一个专家小组，制定将工程道德纳入工程课程的项目和策略计划。 该小组和相关顾问将审查材料、方案和战略，并制定一套建议和备选方案，以推动这一进程。 结果将包括一份最终报告，讨论下一步的NSF，一些论文将在技术会议上提出，并介绍了工程教育工作者的美国社会的年度会议，并在其杂志上发表“工程教育”。 该项目以独特的方式解决了一个重要问题。 研究团队和合作者是跨学科的，有资格合作。 在本奖项颁发之后，可能会继续作出进一步努力。 该项目设计得很好;大学的支持是好的。 因此建议赔偿32，687美元。

Undergraduate engineering curricula in the U.S. require issues of engineering ethics to be addressed. Engineers and the engineering profession recognize that students need to learn how to use and assess available information in making ethical decisions, and how to test and develop their own perspectives on professional ethics. They need to develop the thought processes necessary to integrate information with acceptable professional "norms" of behavior, to make ethical decisions. Ethics and Values Studies in Science, Technology and Society is supporting several projects to develop and test new curricula and teaching methods. This project will convene a panel of experts to develop a plan for programs and strategies to integrate engineering ethics into engineering curricula. The panel and associated advisors will review materials, programs and strategies and develop a set of recommendations and options by which to further this process. Results will include a final report to NSF discussing next steps, a number of papers to be presented at technical meetings, and a presentation for the annual meeting of the American Society of Engineering Educators and for publication in its journal "Engineering Education". This project addresses an important issue in a unique way. The research team and collaborators are interdisciplinary and well qualified to collaborate. Further effort is likely to continue beyond the duration of this award. The project is designed well; university support is good. An award in the amount of $32,687 is therefore recommended.