Bridging Macro and Micro Ethics: Advancing Ethics Education for Nano-Scale Researchers

杜克大学科学与工程伦理教育奖支持一个由土木工程和环境工程系托德·A·劳尔森博士领导的五人团队，就可能对社会产生深远不利影响的伦理问题进行研究和教育，例如纳米科学突破的意外后果造成的伦理问题。这个研究和教育项目由工程师、科学家、伦理学家和教育专家组成，旨在合作开发新兴领域研究生水平研究人员的伦理教育新范式。该团队包括来自几个这样的跨学科领域的研究人员，并受益于它在一所大学的存在，该大学已经将所有博士项目的负责任研究行为(RCR)的交付系统化。该项目将以此为基础，制定、实施和评估微观和宏观伦理培训的多种交付模式，并与博士和专业硕士学生合作，将这些模式纳入他们的研究生经验。该项目提供伦理教育的合作方法将涉及杜克大学内的多所学校和中心，以及与北卡罗来纳州中央大学生物医学/生物技术研究所、北卡罗来纳州州立大学研究生院和研究与职业伦理项目以及北卡罗来纳州教堂山研究生院的互动和合作伙伴关系。该奖项的提案是根据科学和工程伦理教育公告(NSF 05-532)收到的，并由工程局的工程教育和中心司(EEC)和社会、行为和经济科学局提供资金。

The Ethics Education in Science and Engineering award to Duke University supports a team of five faculty led by Dr. Tod A. Laursen, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, to conduct research and education on ethical issues which can have profoundly adverse impacts on society, such as those posed by unintended consequences of nanoscientific breakthroughs.This combined research and educational project consists of a team of engineers, scientists,ethicists, and educational specialists to collaboratively develop a new paradigm of ethical education of graduate-level researchers in emerging fields. The team includes researchers from several such interdisciplinary fields and benefits from its presence in a university that has already systematized the delivery of Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) in all its Ph.D. programs. This project will build upon that base by developing, implementing, and assessing multiple modes of delivery for micro- and macroethical training and by working with doctoral and professional master's students to imbed these modes within their graduate experience. The project's collaborative approach to providing ethics education will involve multiple schools and centers within Duke as well as interactions and partnerships with NC Central University's Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute, NC State University's Graduate School and Research and Professional Ethics Program, and the UNC-Chapel Hill's Graduate School.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 and by the Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences.