Ethics and Justice in Science and Engineering Training Program

该项目由跨nsf科学与工程伦理教育项目支持，是一个研究和教育项目，旨在培养科学和工程研究生以及社会科学和人文研究生从自己的实践中提出伦理问题。该项目解决了伦理学教学和探究的主要方法中的一个关键问题：通过将伦理和正义问题视为研究问题和工程实践形成后要解决的问题，科学家和工程师将伦理和正义问题视为其学科的补充，而不是基础。这个培训项目通过培训研究生如何在他们自己的研究中识别和应对需要关注道德和正义的良好科学和工程实践的时刻来解决这个问题。为此，将对工程科学伦理教育中的个案研究方法进行修改。该项目不是训练学生退一步去看已经发生的案例，而是训练学生如何在自己的实践中进行道德调查，实际上是在自己的研究中创建自己的“案例研究”。通过阐明科学/工程与伦理/正义如何相遇，该培训计划将开辟科学和工程的新途径，提供对自然世界更好的解释，并回应更广泛的人类关切。在产生稳健和负责任的科学实践方面受过培训的研究员将继续以研究人员和教授的身份传播这些方法，为更广泛的努力做出贡献，以产生将伦理和正义问题纳入科学和工程项目设计的创新实践。该项目的结果将通过公共专题讨论会和UCSC科学与司法工作组网站以跨学科受众可访问的格式在线传播。PI和博士后将通过会议报告和期刊文章传播教学成果。

This project--supported by the Cross-NSF Ethics Education in Science & Engineering Program--is a research and education program that trains science and engineering graduate students alongside social science and humanities graduate students to create ethical inquiries from within their own practice. The project addresses a key problem in dominant methods of ethics pedagogy and inquiry: by treating ethics and justice concerns as issues to be addressed after research questions and engineering practices have formed, scientists and engineers experience ethics and justices issues as supplemental, and not fundamental, to their disciplines. This training program remedies this problem through training graduate students how to identify and respond to moments within their own research in which good scientific and engineering practices require attentiveness to ethics and justice. To do this, it will revise the existing case-study approach in engineering and science ethics education. Instead of training students to step back and look at cases that have already transpired, the program will train students how to create ethical inquiries from within their own practice, in effect creating their own "case studies" as they arise from within their own studies.Through clarifying how science/engineering and ethics/justice meet, the training program will open up new ways of doing science and engineering that provide better accounts of the natural world and respond to a broader range of human concerns. Fellows trained in producing robust and responsible scientific practice will continue to propagate the methods as researchers and professors, contributing to wider efforts to produce innovative practices that integrate ethic and justice concerns into the very design of science and engineering projects. Results of the project will be disseminated via public symposia and online via the UCSC Science and Justice Working Group website in a format accessible to interdisciplinary audiences. The PI and postdoctoral fellow will disseminate pedagogical outcomes via conference presentations and journal articles.