Award Abstract #0530053
Bridging Macro and Micro Ethics: Advancing Ethics Education for Nano-Scale Researchers

NSF Org:	EEC Division of Engineering Education and Centers
Initial Amendment Date:	August 30, 2005
Latest Amendment Date:	October 17, 2007
Award Number:	0530053
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Sue Kemnitzer EEC Division of Engineering Education and Centers ENG Directorate for Engineering
Start Date:	September 1, 2005
Expires:	August 31, 2009 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$200000
Investigator(s):	Tod Laursen laursen@acpub.duke.edu (Principal Investigator) Timothy Lenoir (Co-Principal Investigator) Robert Clark (Co-Principal Investigator) Elizabeth Kiss (Co-Principal Investigator) Daniel Vallero (Former Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	Duke University 2200 W. Main St, Suite 710 Durham, NC 27705 919/684-3030
NSF Program(s):	NANOTECHNOLOGY UNDERGRAD EDUCA, NANOMANUFACTURING, SPECIAL STUDIES AND ANALYSES
Field Application(s):
Program Reference Code(s):	OTHR, 7491, 0000
Program Element Code(s):	7219, 1788, 1385

ABSTRACT



The Ethics Education in Science and Engineering award to Duke University supports a team of five faculty led by Dr. Tod A. Laursen, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, to conduct research and education on ethical issues which can have profoundly adverse impacts on society, such as those posed by unintended consequences of nanoscientific breakthroughs.

This combined research and educational project consists of a team of engineers, scientists,

ethicists, and educational specialists to collaboratively develop a new paradigm of ethical education of graduate-level researchers in emerging fields. The team includes researchers from several such interdisciplinary fields and benefits from its presence in a university that has already systematized the delivery of Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) in all its Ph.D. programs. This project will build upon that base by developing, implementing, and assessing multiple modes of delivery for micro- and macroethical training and by working with doctoral and professional master's students to imbed these modes within their graduate experience. The project's collaborative approach to providing ethics education will involve multiple schools and centers within Duke as well as interactions and partnerships with NC Central University's Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute, NC State University's Graduate School and Research and Professional Ethics Program, and the UNC-Chapel Hill's Graduate School.

The proposal for this award was received in response to the Ethics Education in Science and Engineering announcement, NSF 05-532, and was funded by the Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) in the Directorate for Engineering and by the Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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D. Vallero.  "On Ethics: The Socially Responsible Engineer,"  PE: The Magazine for the Professional Engineer,  2006, 

D. Vallero.  "On Ethics: A Formula for Success.,"  PE: The Magazine for the Professional Engineer,  v.Decembe,  2006, 

Daniel A. Vallero and P. Aarne Vesilind.  "Preventing Disputes with Empathy,"  J. Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice,  v.132,  2006,  p. 272.

Daniel Vallero, Tod Laursen, Timothy Lenoir, Robert Clark and William Reichert.  "Beyond Responsible Conduct: Macroethics of Nanobiotechnology,"  International Journal of Medical Implants and Devices,  v.2,  2007, 

Tod Laursen, Daniel Vallero, Timothy Lenoir, Robert Clark and William Reichert.  "The Next Stage in Responsible Conduct: Macroethics of Nanobiotechnology Research,"  International Journal of Medical Implants and Devices,  v.2,  2007, 

Vallero, Daniel A..  "Beyond responsible conduct in research: New pedagogies to address macroethids of nanobiotechnologies,"  Journal of Long-Term Effects of Medical Implants,  v.17,  2007,  p. 1.


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