Ethics Across the Curriculum: Continuing the Transfer of Technology

在许多，也许是大多数的学院和大学里，在工程和科学课程中教授伦理学仍然更多的是一种愿望，而不是现实。伊利诺伊理工学院职业伦理研究中心为该学院和其他地方的教职员工举办了一系列暑期研讨会，成功地解决了这一问题。这个项目将把IIT在整个课程中所学到的关于教授伦理学的知识传递给大约60个其他校区的科学和工程项目的教职员工。该项目包括：a)为期七天的暑期教师密集讲习班，以开发课堂上使用的具体材料以及使用这些材料的技能和信心；b)在家庭机构的课堂上对这些材料进行必要的测试；c)对结果进行评估(教师自我报告、学生评估和后续调查问卷)。许多校区的教职员工不仅将学习如何将伦理学融入自己的技术课程，以及如何帮助其他教员做到这一点，而且他们的努力将受到跟踪和评估，他们的最佳工作将在全国范围内传播。

Teaching ethics across the engineering and science curriculum remains more of an aspiration than a reality at many, perhaps most, colleges and universities. The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at Illinois Institute of Technology has developed a successful approach to this subject, with a series of summer workshops for faculty at IIT and elsewhere. This project will transfer to faculty at science and engineering programs at approximately sixty other campuses what IIT has learned about teaching ethics across the curriculum. The project includes: a) an intensive seven-day summer faculty workshop to develop specific materials to use in class and the skills and confidence to use them; b) a required testing of those materials in class at the home institution; and c) an evaluation of the results (a faculty self-report, student assessment, and follow-up questionnaires). Not only will faculty at numerous campuses be taught both to integrate ethics into their own technical courses and how to help other faculty do the same, but their efforts will be tracked and assessed and their best work disseminated nationally.