EESE Collaborative Research: Energy Ethics in Science and Engineering Education

这项行动资助了美国国家工程院（NAE）和亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）的一个合作项目。它采取问题导向的伦理教育方法，重点关注21世纪的国际能源问题。美国当前的政策讨论强调，如果要实现国家和全球的公平和可持续性目标，就需要改变能源系统，甚至进行转型。该项目考察了科学和工程的负责任行为以及科学、工程、技术和社会的交叉领域的能源伦理问题，强调了美国的潜在情况，同时承认其他国家和国际机构在未来能源中发挥的关键作用。它开发新的研究和教育活动，涉及研究生的跨学科研究项目。美国国家科学院最近关于美国能源未来的报告主要关注改善美国能源供应的技术选择。在第一年，该项目综合并扩充了有关改善美国能源供应、分配和使用的伦理方面的研究成果和教育材料；开发一个更具包容性的模型，检查能源选择的技术和社会学合理性以及道德可取性；并开发材料和方法来研究能源研究和开发领域的研究伦理问题，从而促进对这些领域的研究生和博士后教育中这些问题的关注。第二年，它在亚利桑那州立大学的研究生课程中实施和评估能源伦理研究和教育内容。第三年包括一个研讨会和国家能源、伦理与社会研究所（NIEES），该研究所邀请来自全国各地能源研究项目的15名研究生参加为期一周的项目，为他们在能源伦理和能源伦理教育领域的领导地位做好准备。同样在最后一年，NAE的项目研讨会将提高能源科学和政策受众对扩大能源领域伦理教育必要性的认识。

This action funds a collaborative project of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and Arizona State University (ASU). It takes a problem-oriented approach to ethics education, focused on the international issue of energy in the 21st century. Current policy discussions in the U.S. stress the need for energy system change, even transformation, if national and global goals for justice and sustainability are to be met. This project examines energy ethics issues for the responsible conduct of science and engineering and in the intersections of science, engineering, technology, and society, emphasizing potential scenarios for the U.S., while acknowledging the critical roles other nations and international institutions play in the future of energy. It develops new research and educational activities involving graduate students in interdisciplinary research programs. Recent reports about America's Energy Future from The National Academies focus mainly on technological options for improving America's energy supply. In its first year, this project synthesizes and augments research findings and educational materials about ethical aspects of options for improving energy supply, distribution, and use in the U.S.; develops a more inclusive model that examines technological and sociological plausibility as well as ethical desirability of energy option; and develops materials and approaches that examine issues of research ethics in domains of energy research and development, so as to promote attention to these issues in graduate and post-doctoral education in these fields. In the second year, it implements and evaluates energy ethics research and education components in graduate programs at ASU. The third year includes a workshop and a National Institute on Energy, Ethics, and Society (NIEES) that engages fifteen graduate students from energy research programs around the nation in a week-long program to prepare them for leadership in the fields of energy ethics and energy ethics education. Also in the final year, the project workshop at the NAE will raise the visibility among energy science and policy audiences of the need for expanding ethics education in energy fields.