SIRA Modules for Effectively Engaging Engineers in Ethical Reasoning About Emerging Technologies

这一科学和工程伦理教育奖旨在回应日益增长的要求，将伦理作为工程教育的核心能力。本研究的基本问题是：(1)对涉及新兴技术的案例进行伦理分析的脚手架、集成和反身分析(SIRA)方法对学生伦理推理的发展和对伦理教育的满意和参与的影响是什么？(2)这种SIRA方法的哪些特征最有助于道德推理能力的变化，以及对学生对工程伦理教育的满意和参与？将通过考察研究生和高年级本科生参与和体验在线学习模块与他们发展伦理推理和对伦理教育的满意和参与之间的关系来研究这一问题。其结果将是几个SIRA模块将以在线形式进行试点，越来越多的工程学大四学生和研究生群体将参与其中。它们的效果将通过分析推理、互动性、话语和反思来评估。广泛的影响：该项目的结果将通过在专业工程教育、国家工程和伦理会议上的陈述在工程教育和伦理界进行交流。这将包括在同行评议的出版物上发表研究结果，这些出版物有可能接触到大学教育工作者。此外，基于案例的互动单元将通过国家科学基金会赞助的在线道德、道德核心网站http://nationalethicscenter.org，和NAE在线道德中心http://www.onlineethics.org.提供SIRA的学习模块具有成熟的评估工具，已被证明在培养工程师的伦理推理能力方面是有效的，对于将其嵌入到各种跨学科的工程课程和课程以及本科生和研究生的各种工程课程中来说，将是一个有吸引力的选择。

This Ethics Education in Science and Engineering award addresses growing calls for ethics as a core competency in engineering education. The fundamental questions addressed by this research are:(1) What is the impact of a scaffolded, integrated, and reflexive analysis (SIRA) approach to ethical analysis of cases concerning emerging technology on the development of students' ethical reasoning and satisfaction and engagement with ethics education?(2)What characteristics of this SIRA approach most contribute to change in moral reasoning ability and to student satisfaction and engagement with engineering ethics education?This will be studied by examining the relationship between graduate and senior-level undergraduate students' participation in and experience of the online learning module and their development of ethical reasoning and satisfaction and engagement with ethics education. The result will be several SIRA modules that will have been piloted in the online format with increasingly larger groups of engineering seniors and graduate students. Their effect will be assessed through analysis of reasoning, interactivity, discourse, and reflectivity.Broader Impacts: The results of this project will be communicated in engineering education and ethics communities by presentation at professional engineering education, national engineering, and ethics conferences. This will include publishing findings in peer reviewed publications with potential to reach collegiate educators. In addition, the interactive case-based modules will be made available through the NSF-sponsored website for online ethics, Ethics CORE at http://nationalethicscenter.org, and the NAE Online Ethics Center at http://www.onlineethics.org. SIRA learning modules with established assessment instruments that have proven to be effective in developing ethical reasoning abilities for engineers will be an attractive option for embedding into a wide variety of engineering courses and curricula across disciplines and within a variety of engineering programs at both undergraduate and graduate levels.