Teaching Engineering Ethics: A Case Study Approach

工程伦理教学：案例研究方法

• 批准号: 8820837
• 负责人: Michael Pritchard
• 金额: $ 12.5万
• 依托单位: Western Michigan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-07-01 至 1993-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8820837&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Teaching; Engineering; Ethics; Case; Study

Undergraduate engineering curricula in the U.S. require issues of engineering ethics to be addressed. Engineers and the engineering profession recognize that students need to learn how to use and assess available information in making ethical decisions, and how to test and develop their own perspectives on professional ethics. They need to develop the thought processes necessary to integrate information with acceptable professional "norms" of behavior, to make ethical decisions. Yet, surveys demonstrate little in the way of formal or systematic approaches to the development and testing of new curricula or teaching methods. This project will develop and test annotated case studies, with accompanying commentaries and bibliographies, in print and software form, for classroom use. Special effort will be made to develop multiphased cases, sensitive to organizational contexts and to the importance of thinking through the likely outcomes of initial decisions for later decisions that also call for ethical reflection. Workshops for engineering faculty at WMU will help them develop effective ways of meeting the ethics requirement of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. Project results will be available for national dissemination. This project addresses an important issue in a unique way. The research team and collaborators are interdisciplinary and well qualified to collaborate. Further effort is likely to continue beyond the duration of this award. The project is designed well; appropriate testing and dissemination are planned. University support is good. An award in the amount of $124,977 is therefore recommended.

美国的本科工程课程要求解决工程伦理问题。 工程师和工程专业人士认识到，学生需要学习如何使用和评估现有信息来做出道德决策，以及如何测试和发展自己对职业道德的看法。 他们需要发展必要的思维过程，将信息与可接受的专业行为“规范”相结合，以做出道德决策。 然而，调查显示很少有正式或系统的方法来开发和测试新课程或教学方法。 该项目将开发和测试带注释的案例研究，并附有印刷版和软件形式的评论和参考书目，供课堂使用。我们将特别努力开发多阶段案例，对组织环境敏感，并考虑到初步决策的可能结果对于后续决策的重要性，这些决策也需要道德反思。 为 WMU 工程教师举办的研讨会将帮助他们制定有效的方法来满足工程与技术认证委员会的道德要求。 项目成果将在全国范围内传播。 该项目以独特的方式解决了一个重要问题。 研究团队和合作者是跨学科的，并且具备良好的合作资格。 在该奖项期限结束后，可能还会继续进行进一步的努力。 项目设计良好； 已计划进行适当的测试和传播。 大学的支持很好。 因此建议奖励金额为 124,977 美元。