Collaborative: Ethics in the Details

协作：细节中的道德规范

• 批准号: 0629416
• 负责人: Michael Davis
• 金额: $ 23.87万
• 依托单位: Illinois Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0629416&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Ethics; Details

Michael Davis, Illinois Inst. of Technology ; Alan Feinerman, Univ. of Illinois-ChicagoProposal # 0629416 / 0629393Ethics and Values in Science, Engineering and TechnologyThis award is made under Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (NSF 06-524).There are three major approaches to ethics education in engineering and science:(1) free-standing courses in ethics; (2) large scale education ethics modules, and (3) micro-insertions of ethics instruction into technical courses. This project proposes an innovation inthe application of micro-insertion. It will focus on the micro-insertion approach in graduate education of engineers. Because labs are central to graduate education in both engineering and science the comparison of the effectiveness of micro-insertion in the classroom with micro-insertion in the lab will be studied. A nanotechnology lab will be included because graduate students' engagement with practical projects in an emerging technology should provide illuminatingly new micro-insertion problems, useful questions related to them, and useful insights.The objectives of the project are: 1) to demonstrate an efficient way to teach faculty andgraduate students how to develop micro-insertion problems that are suitable for use ingraduate engineering curricula, both courses and labs; 2) to assess the effectiveness of themicro-insertion in graduate engineering curricula, comparing its effects in the classroomwith its effects in a nanotechnology lab; and 3) to create an electronic resource fordisseminating micro-insertion problems to engineering faculty worldwide.The proposed project will contribute in at least two ways to the field ofengineering ethics. First, the multi-year assessment data that the project team will gather andanalyze will not only provide insights into the micro-insertion method but will also lay thegroundwork for later comparative research with other methods. Second, it will preparegraduate students to produce micro-insertion problems, allowing the determination of whethergrad students can assist faculty in integrating ethics into engineering courses (a proof ofconcept).The proposed project will both advance understanding and promote teaching andtraining at the graduate level in engineering ethics. The project team and participating universities include underrepresented groups and will ensure that the Ethics In-Basket meetsaccessibility standards for users with physical and cognitive disabilities. Research results will bereported in a series of articles and conference papers directed at researchers and educators in threeinterrelated fields: engineering, ethics, and technical communication.

迈克尔·戴维斯，伊利诺伊州研究所。技术； 艾伦·费纳曼，大学。伊利诺伊州-芝加哥提案# 0629416 / 0629393科学、工程和技术的伦理与价值观该奖项是在科学和工程伦理教育 (NSF 06-524) 下颁发的。工程和科学伦理教育有三种主要方法：(1) 免费-道德常设课程； （2）大规模教育伦理模块，以及（3）将伦理指导微插入技术课程。该项目提出了微插入应用的创新。它将重点关注工程师研究生教育中的微插入方法。由于实验室是工程和科学研究生教育的核心，因此将研究课堂微插入与实验室微插入的有效性比较。将包括一个纳米技术实验室，因为研究生参与新兴技术的实际项目应该提供具有启发性的新的微插入问题、与之相关的有用问题以及有用的见解。该项目的目标是：1）展示一种有效的方法教授教师和研究生如何开发适用于研究生工程课程（课程和实验室）的微插入问题的方法； 2) 评估研究生工程课程中微插入的有效性，比较其在课堂上的效果和在纳米技术实验室中的效果； 3）创建一个电子资源，用于向全世界的工程学院传播微插入问题。拟议的项目将至少在两个方面对工程伦理领域做出贡献。首先，项目团队将收集和分析的多年评估数据不仅将为微插入方法提供见解，而且还将为后续与其他方法的比较研究奠定基础。其次，它将帮助研究生做好产生微观插入问题的准备，从而确定研究生是否可以协助教师将伦理学融入工程课程（概念验证）。拟议的项目将促进理解并促进研究生水平的教学和培训工程伦理。项目团队和参与大学包括代表性不足的群体，并将确保道德篮子满足有身体和认知障碍的用户的无障碍标准。研究结果将在一系列文章和会议论文中报告，这些文章和会议论文针对三个相关领域的研究人员和教育工作者：工程、伦理学和技术传播。