Ethics Across the Curriculum: A Campus-Wide Approach to Integrating Ethics into the Professional Curriculum

为了锻炼领导力，科学和工程教育工作者需要为他们的学生提供工具，以识别和适当地应对具有道德维度的专业问题。该项目将开发一个创新的校园项目，将伦理融入到专业课程中，使专业协会能够适应他们的继续教育项目。该项目分为四个步骤：1)为印度理工学院的教师开发和提供讲习班，讲授如何在他们的技术课程中教授职业道德；1)为教师在技术课程中引入职业道德提供制度支持（持续的研讨会、案例档案、视频等）；3)重新设计现有的顶点课程，包括一个要求学生在两个或多个专业项目之间进行道德困难合作的设计项目；4)通过为专业协会继续教育项目的工作人员和志愿者举办为期一天半的工作会议，以及为其他大学的教师举办为期一周的研讨会，传播结果；以及通过在专业会议上的演讲和在适当的期刊上的出版物。这个建议集中在伦理和价值研究的一个重要领域。调查人员非常有资格；这个计划考虑周到，可行；大学的支持非常好。研究结果可能会改善该校乃至全国本科课程的工程伦理学教学。鉴于该建议的优点和普遍积极的审查，强烈建议予以支持。

To exercise leadership, science and engineering educators need to provide their students with the tools to identify and respond appropriately to professional problems with ethical dimensions. This project will develop an innovative campus-wide program integrating ethics into the professional curriculum, a program professional societies could adapt to their continuing education programs. The project has four steps: 1) developing and offering workshops for IIT faculty in how to teach professional ethics in how to teach professional ethics in their technical courses; 1) providing institutional support (a continuing seminar, case file, videos, and so on) for faculty introducing professional ethics into their technical courses; 3) redesigning existing capstone courses to include a design program requiring ethical difficult cooperation among students in two or more professional programs; and 4) disseminating results through a day-and-a-half working conference for staff and volunteers in continuing education programs of professional societies and a weeklong version of the workshop for faculty of other universities, as well as through presentations at professional meetings and publications in appropriate journals. This proposal focuses on an important area in Ethics and Values Studies. The investigators are very well qualified; the plan is thoughtful and feasible; university support is extremely good. Results are likely to improve the teaching of engineering ethics on this campus and in undergraduate curricula nationwide. Based on the merits of the proposal and the generally positive review, support is highly recommended.