Collaborative Research: Research: Intersections between Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Ethics in Engineering

合作研究：研究：多样性、公平性和包容性 (DEI) 与工程伦理之间的交叉点

基本信息

批准号：
2027519
负责人：
Justin Hess
金额：
$ 34.95万
依托单位：
Purdue University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-03-01 至 2025-02-28
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2027519&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Intersections between Diversity

项目摘要

Efforts focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and ethics are often siloed in engineering. While generally pursued as separate lines of investigation, we hypothesize that the aims, objectives, and goals pertaining to ethics and DEI often overlap. By investigating this potential overlap, we hypothesize that we can help improve overall efforts at promoting DEI and ethics in engineering. Our primary research objective is to synthesize intersections between ethics and DEI among engineering academic and workforce communities. In this study, we begin with a systematic literature review that explores potential overlap in literature in ethics and DEI. Second, we will study how engineering academics view (consciously and subconsciously) ethics and DEI as related. Finally, we will study how industrial practitioners view (consciously and subconsciously) the potential overlap between ethics and DEI. Collectively, this study will enable us to compare how literature, academics, and practitioners view ethics and DEI as related. We will use findings to generate curricular and workforce training efforts to better integrate ethics and DEI in engineering. This study will benefit society by promoting the formation of engineers who can engage with different values and perspectives in ethical ways.Despite various models, initiatives, and pockets of innovation by scholars and programs, we have not realized widespread changes in the diversification of the engineering workforce. We theorize that one barrier to change is the disjuncture between lines of scholarship from engineering education researchers in the intersecting spaces of DEI and engineering ethics. This study seeks to find ways for these communities to support one another by making explicit hidden structural issues that mask the intersections between ethics and DEI in the context of engineering. This study is comprised of three phases, addressing the following respective research questions: (1) How are engineering ethics and DEI related based on theoretical and empirical understandings of affective and cognitive development of students and practitioners within these communities?; (2) How are engineering ethics and DEI related based on mental models elicited from academics active in these two areas of research and scholarship?; and (3) How are engineering ethics and DEI related based on mental models elicited from a diverse cross-section of industrial practitioners? To address RQ1, we will use systematic literature review procedures to synthesize peer-reviewed scholarship on approaches to, and outcomes of, interventions centered around ethics and DEI. To address RQ2 and RQ3, academics (Phase 2) and industrial practitioners (Phase 3) will respond to an ethics/DEI challenge in multiple formats, including graphically, textually, and verbally. We will critically analyze the literature and mental models via a discourse analysis approach, guided by seven building tasks identified by Gee (significance, practices, identities, relationships, politics, connections, and sign systems). We will triangulate Phase 1, 2, and 3 findings to identify how discourses vary across the academic and industrial contexts. This triangulation will enable us to generate actionable modalities for supporting educational efforts aimed at the intersection of ethics and DEI both in curricular and workforce contexts. We will adopt an activist-oriented approach to disseminate findings to the research community and professional organizations through multiple mechanisms. This will directly benefit society by facilitating the professional formation of engineers who are more ethically adept and capable of engaging with difference.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

关注多样性、公平性、包容性 (DEI) 和道德的努力通常在工程领域是孤立的。虽然通常将调查作为单独的线索进行，但我们假设与道德和 DEI 有关的宗旨、目的和目标经常重叠。通过调查这种潜在的重叠，我们假设我们可以帮助改善促进 DEI 和工程道德的整体努力。我们的主要研究目标是综合工程学术界和劳动力社区中道德与 DEI 之间的交叉点。在这项研究中，我们首先进行系统的文献综述，探讨伦理学和 DEI 文献中潜在的重叠。其次，我们将研究工程学者如何（有意识地和潜意识地）看待道德和 DEI 的相关性。最后，我们将研究工业从业者如何（有意识地和潜意识地）看待道德与 DEI 之间的潜在重叠。总的来说，这项研究将使我们能够比较文献、学者和从业者如何看待道德和 DEI 的相关性。我们将利用研究结果来制定课程和劳动力培训工作，以更好地将道德和 DEI 融入工程中。这项研究将通过促进培养能够以道德方式参与不同价值观和观点的工程师来造福社会。尽管学者和项目提出了各种模型、倡议和创新，但我们尚未实现工程多样化的广泛变化劳动力。我们认为，变革的一个障碍是工程教育研究人员在 DEI 和工程伦理交叉领域的学术路线之间的脱节。这项研究旨在通过明确隐藏的结构性问题来掩盖工程背景下伦理与 DEI 之间的交叉点，从而找到这些社区相互支持的方法。本研究分为三个阶段，分别解决以下研究问题：（1）基于对这些社区内学生和从业者的情感和认知发展的理论和实证理解，工程伦理和 DEI 之间的关系如何？ (2) 根据活跃于这两个研究和学术领域的学者得出的心智模型，工程伦理和 DEI 之间是如何相关的？ (3) 基于从不同行业的工业从业者中得出的心理模型，工程伦理和 DEI 之间的关系如何？为了解决 RQ1，我们将使用系统的文献综述程序来综合关于以道德和 DEI 为中心的干预措施的方法和结果的同行评审学术成果。为了解决 RQ2 和 RQ3，学术界（第 2 阶段）和行业从业者（第 3 阶段）将以多种形式（包括图形、文本和口头）回应道德/DEI 挑战。我们将通过话语分析方法批判性地分析文献和心理模型，并以 Gee 确定的七个构建任务（意义、实践、身份、关系、政治、联系和符号系统）为指导。我们将对第一、第二和第三阶段的研究结果进行三角测量，以确定学术和工业背景下的讨论如何变化。这种三角测量将使我们能够制定可行的模式来支持旨在在课程和劳动力环境中实现道德与 DEI 交叉的教育工作。我们将采取积极主动的方式，通过多种机制向研究界和专业组织传播研究结果。这将通过促进道德上更娴熟、能够参与差异的工程师的专业培养，直接造福社会。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（4）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

How do ethics and diversity, equity, and inclusion relate in engineering? A systematic review

道德与多样性、公平和包容性在工程中有何关系？

DOI：
10.1002/jee.20571
发表时间：
2024-01
期刊：
Journal of Engineering Education
影响因子：
3.4
作者：
Hess, Justin L.;Lin, Athena;Whitehead, Andrew;Katz, Andrew
通讯作者：
Katz, Andrew

Promoting Research Quality to Study Mental Models of Ethics and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Engineering

提高研究质量，研究工程中的道德和多样性、公平性和包容性 (DEI) 的心理模型

DOI：
10.18260/1-2--43983
发表时间：
2023-06
期刊：
ASEE Conferences
影响因子：
0
作者：
Hess, Justin;Katz, Andrew;Anakok, Isil;Jesiek, Brent;Whitehead, Andrew;Panuganti, Sri Sowmya
通讯作者：
Panuganti, Sri Sowmya

WIP: Exploring Faculty Members' Conceptualizations of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Engineering Education

WIP：探索教师对工程教育多样性、公平性和包容性的概念