Bridging the Gap Between Engineers and Society: Learning to Listen

弥合工程师与社会之间的差距：学会倾听

• 批准号: 1135328
• 负责人: Marc Edwards
• 金额: $ 34.98万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-10-01 至 2015-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1135328&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bridging; Gap; Between; Engineers; Society

This Ethics Education in Science and Engineering project, Bridging the Gap Between Engineers and Society: Learning to Listen, will combine research and education to explore the relationships between engineering, science, and society. The project will develop a theoretical framework, a graduate-level engineering ethics course, and four freestanding multimedia modules that draw on empirical social science theory and research methods to bridge the relational gap between engineers and their clients. Goals of engineering ethics education will be promoted by teaching engineers to acknowledge and listen to the voices of the communities they serve. The project has the following objectives: Objective 1: Develop a theoretical framework for an expanded pedagogical approach to engineering ethics that grounds ethical dilemmas in the unfolding realities, uncertainties, diverse perspectives, and multiple levels of technical expertise of the publics affected by engineering and science decisions, research, and products. Objective 2: Build a multidisciplinary, multimedia, empirical engineering ethics graduate course that teaches ethical and scientific inquiry best practices, with explicit consideration of stakeholder needs, values, observations, and knowledge. Objective 3: Partner with the engineering, science, and public health graduate students who take the course to create four teaching modules: Listening, Responsible Conduct of Research, Responsible Conduct of Practice, and Witnessing Wrongdoing and the Obligation to Prevent Harm. Objective 4: Assess the effectiveness of the course and modules in helping students understand their role as vital actors in a larger social fabric, and recognize that consideration of the public is an essential resource for their research and a critical component of their practice. The proposed research and education plan will advance understanding of a highly promising and currently underutilized method of teaching engineering ethics. Faculty at four universities with diverse audiences have committed to teaching the project's principles and materials. As project collaborator, the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors will aid in the development and dissemination of the work products. The project team and participating students include underrepresented groups in engineering and science, in a variety of contributing roles.

这项在科学和工程项目中的道德教育，弥合了工程师与社会之间的鸿沟：学习倾听，将结合研究和教育，以探索工程，科学和社会之间的关系。该项目将开发一个理论框架，研究生级的工程道德课程以及四个独立的多媒体模块，这些模块借鉴了经验社会科学理论和研究方法，以弥合工程师与其客户之间的关系差距。教学工程师将促进工程道德教育的目标，以表彰和倾听他们所服务的社区的声音。该项目具有以下目标：目标1：为扩展的教学方法开发一个理论框架，以实现工程伦理，从而在不断发展的现实，不确定性，不同的观点以及受工程和科学决策，研究和产品影响的出版物中的多种技术专业知识中理解道德困境。目标2：建立一个多学科的多媒体，经验工程伦理研究生课程，教授道德和科学探究的最佳实践，并明确考虑利益相关者的需求，价值观，观察和知识。目标3：与工程，科学和公共卫生研究生合作，他们参加了创建四个教学模块的课程：倾听，负责任的研究，负责任的实践行为以及目睹不当行为以及防止伤害的义务。目标4：评估课程和模块在帮助学生了解他们在更大的社会结构中的重要角色的有效性，并认识到对公众的考虑是其研究的重要资源，也是其实践中关键的组成部分。拟议的研究和教育计划将提高人们对一种高度有前途且目前不足的教学工程伦理学方法的理解。四所有不同受众的大学的教师致力于教授项目的原则和材料。作为项目合作者，环境工程与科学教授协会将有助于开发和传播工作产品。项目团队和参与的学生包括各种贡献角色的工程和科学领域的人数不足。