Engineering, Social Justice, and Sustainable Community Development

这项科学与社会会议资助旨在将工程伦理的讨论扩展到社会正义和可持续社区发展的新领域。工程解决了世界上贫穷和服务不足的人口和国家非常重要的问题和机会，许多工程师个人以及工程团体都对人道主义危机和社会和环境正义问题作出反应。本次会议将重点介绍和审查响应这些需求的工程活动和教育计划，以及这些努力所包含的伦理问题。它将在工程、伦理和人道主义行动、社会正义和可持续社区发展之间架起桥梁，加强工程和工程伦理的研究、实践和教育。它将促进对工程专业的道德问题和领导力的关注，并加强其他专业和公众对这些背景下的工程的理解。作为美国国家工程院（NAE）工程伦理中心的负责人，PI为这次会议召集了一个跨学科的顾问小组。咨询小组将协助制定评价计划和评价会议结果。实践与职业道德协会（APPE）已同意共同赞助该活动，并将帮助宣传并推荐演讲者和与会者。这是这些组织之间合作的新水平。大约100名与会者，其中三分之二是工程师，将参加定于2008年10月初在华盛顿国家科学院举行的为期一天半的会议，或在靠近主要国家和国际组织的类似地点举行会议。演讲者和参与者将是多样化的，包括美国和外国公民，科学和工程领域未被充分代表的群体的代表，私营和公共部门组织的领导人，以及处于早期和高级职业阶段的人。NAE将向许多领域和不同人群的感兴趣的学术、专业和公众广泛传播会议信息和结果。将利用各科学院的众多电子宣传和传播渠道，以及若干期刊和国家科学院出版社。其他传播渠道将包括有关专业学会的会议，包括实践和职业道德协会的会议，以及其期刊的文章，以及审稿期刊的特别部分或特刊。在涉及代表性不足的群体、工程教师和中学科学教师的组织中进行外联和传播将得到特别重视，NAE将在项目的整个规划、会议和后续阶段维护一个电子门户网站，用于研讨会宣传、文件和讨论。

This Science & Society conference grant seeks to extend the discussion of engineering ethics into new areas of social justice and sustainable community development. Engineering addresses problems and opportunities of great importance to the world's poor and underserved populations and nations, and many individual engineers as well as engineering groups are responsive to humanitarian crises and problems of social and environmental justice. This conference will highlight and examine engineering activities and educational programs that are responding to these needs, and the ethical issues that these endeavors encompass. It will build bridges between engineering, ethics, and humanitarian action, social justice and sustainable community development, to enhance research, practice and education in engineering and engineering ethics. It will promote attention to ethical issues and leadership in the engineering professions, and enhance understanding among other professions and the public about engineering in these contexts. The PI, in her position as head of the center for engineering ethics at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), has convened an inter-disciplinary group of advisors for the conference. The advisory group will help to develop the evaluation plans and assess conference results. The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) has agreed to co-sponsor the event and will help to publicize it and suggest speakers and attendees. This is a new level of collaboration between these organizations. About 100 participants, of whom two-thirds will be engineers, will attend the day and a half meeting, scheduled in early October 2008, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, or at a similar venue selected for its proximity to key national and international organizations. Speakers and participants will be diverse, including US and foreign citizens, representatives of groups underrepresented in science and engineering, leaders in private and public sector organizations, and persons in early as well as senior career stages. The NAE will disseminate conference information and results broadly to interested academic, professional and public audiences in many fields and from diverse populations. The numerous electronic publicity and dissemination channels in the Academies will be utilized, as well as several journals and the National Academies Press. Other dissemination channels will include sessions at the meetings of relevant professional societies, including the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, and articles for their journals, and special sections or issues in refereed journals. Outreach and dissemination in organizations that reach underrepresented groups and engineering faculty and science teachers at the secondary school level will be given special emphasis, and the NAE will maintain an electronic portal for workshop publicity, documents, and discussion throughout the planning, meeting, and follow-up phases of the project.