ENHANCING ENGINEERING RESPONSIBILITY WITH HUMANITARIAN ETHICS: Theory and Practice of Humanitarian Ethics in Graduate Engineering Education

该奖项授予科罗拉多矿业学院，支持由人文艺术与国际研究系Juan Lucena博士领导的五名教师组成的团队，对人道主义伦理（HE）在工程中的应用进行研究，并在研究生教育中创建工程HE模型。工程伦理教育和研究，主要关注个人和社会责任，通过分析工程实践的一个重要方面，即工程师在人道主义活动中的作用，可以大大加强这一点。此外，科学和工程（SE&）研究生教育的改革举措尚未实现其将伦理纳入研究生课程的潜力，有助于这些概念，方法和课程的挑战，拟议的项目有以下目标：1）审查和批判性评估人道主义和工程之间的关系，以发展一个适用于工程教育和实践的HE概念; 2）发现和克服目前教与学的高等教育在研究生工程教育中的整合障碍; 3）创建和实施高等教育在研究生工程教育中的模式; 4）评估和改进高等教育模式，使其成为广泛传播的榜样。拟议项目对社会的好处包括为人道主义干预和社区发展领域的工程专业毕业生开辟替代职业道路，并为越来越多参与人道主义活动的工程师提供人道主义实践的道德框架。该奖项的提案是为了响应科学与工程伦理教育公告，NSF 05-532，并由工程教育和中心（EEC）在工程局，计算机和网络系统在计算机&信息科学&工程局的司，并由社会，行为&经济科学局。

This Ethics Education In Science and Engineering award to The Colorado School of Mines supports a team of five faculty led by Dr. Juan Lucena, Department of Liberal Arts and International Studies to conduct research on the application of humanitarian ethics(HE) to engineering, and to create a model of HE for engineering in graduate education.Engineering ethics education and research, with focus mainly on individual and social responsibilities,can be substantially enhanced by the analysis of an important dimension of engineering practice: the roleof engineers in humanitarian activities. Further, reform initiatives in science and engineering (S&E)graduate education have not yet realized their potential for integrating ethics into graduate curricula.Contributing to these conceptual, methodological, and curricular challenges, the proposed project has thefollowing objectives: 1) to review and critically assess relations between humanitarianism andengineering in order to develop an applicable concept of HE in engineeringeducation and practice; 2) to discover and overcome barriers to the integration of HE in graduateengineering education as currently taught and learned; 3) to create and implement a model of HE ingraduate engineering education; and 4) to assess and improve the model of HE in order to make it anexample for broad dissemination. The benefits to society from the proposed project include opening alternative career paths tograduate engineering students in the areas humanitarian intervention and community development andproviding an ethical framework for humanitarian practice to an increasing number of engineers involvedin humanitarian activities.The proposal for this award was received in response to the Ethics Education in Science and Engineering announcement, NSF 05-532, and was funded by the Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) in the Directorate for Engineering, Division of Computer and Network Systems in the Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate, and by the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences Directorate.