Courage and Creativity: The Innovation of Ethics in Science and Engineering

在最近的一次EESE计划PI会议上，来自科学和工程领域的教育工作者对STEM本科生和研究生看待道德的方式表示失望，他们似乎认为道德是一种约束或惩罚，阻碍了创造力和创新。 PI认为，约束行为（不欺骗，不伪造数据）只是伦理学在科学和工程中扮演的角色之一;另一个是作为一种创造性和生成性的力量，有助于新知识的发展。 在这个项目中，PI的目标是解决这个看似矛盾的问题，通过建立和传播对科学和工程中正式和非正式伦理调查的作用的新理解，作为从工业革命到现代新发现的重要催化剂。 为此，PI组建了一个来自电影，戏剧和电视，信息研究和科学技术研究领域的团队，其中还包括工作的媒体艺术家。 他们将利用他们的不同观点，共同开发一套围绕原始纪录片短片的案例研究，这些案例研究将被收集在一个可访问的门户网站上。 这些多媒体教育材料，包括采访，外景镜头和动态图形，将是第一个使用专业媒体讲述道德辩论的创造力的故事，并将为本科生和研究生STEM道德培训提供一个新的，积极的和生成的视角。 更广泛的影响：在线和视频媒体是吸引学生的主要方式。 高生产价值（即，仔细的研究，专业的剧本，和引人注目的运动图形）不仅会吸引目标学生观众，但有必要传达所选主题的复杂性。 除了课程材料外，该项目还将提供使用以道德为重点的方法创建多媒体和视频内容的方法经验，PI将记录和分享这些经验，以鼓励教育工作者和STEM研究人员进行类似的道德研究，作为创新的催化剂。 PI认识到，该项目的形式提供了一个机会，以突出不同的和传统上代表性不足的社区的贡献，以独特和高度可见的方式在科学和工程的伦理调查，他计划在选择和生产过程中仔细考虑代表性问题的案例研究。

At a recent EESE Program PI meeting, educators from across science and engineering expressed frustration with the way in which ethics is perceived by STEM undergraduate and graduate students, who seem to view it as a constraint or punitive, something that stands in the way of creativity and innovation. The PI argues that constraining behavior (don't cheat, don't falsify data) is only one of the roles ethics plays in science and engineering; another is as a creative and generative force that contributes to the development of new knowledge. In this project the PI's goal is to address this seeming contradiction, by building and disseminating new understandings on the role of formal and informal ethical inquiry in science and engineering as an essential catalyst of new discoveries from the industrial revolution through modern times. To this end the PI has assembled a team drawn from the domains of film, theater and television, information studies, and science and technology studies, and which also includes working media artists. They will harness their diverse perspectives to jointly develop a set of case studies centered around original documentary film shorts, which will be gathered in an accessible Web portal. These multimedia educational materials, including interviews, location footage, and motion graphics, will be the first to use professional media to tell stories about the creative power of ethical debate, and will impart a new, positive and generative perspective to undergraduate and graduate STEM ethics training. Broader Impacts: Online and video media are key ways of engaging students. High production values (i.e., careful research, professional screenwriting, and compelling motion graphics) will not only engage the target student audience, but are necessary to convey the complexity of the selected topics. In addition to the curricular materials, the project will contribute methodological experience in the creation of multimedia and video content using ethics-focused approaches, which the PI will document and share in order to encourage educators and STEM researchers to pursue similar studies of ethics as a catalyst for innovation. The PI recognizes that the project format provides an opportunity to highlight the contributions of diverse and traditionally under-represented communities to ethical inquiry in science and engineering in a unique and highly visible way, and he plans to carefully consider questions of representation during selection and production of the case studies.