Award Abstract #0530100
Ethics Training for Engineers in Emerging Technologies and Fieldwork in Developing Communities

NSF Org:	EEC Division of Engineering Education and Centers
Initial Amendment Date:	September 8, 2005
Latest Amendment Date:	August 24, 2006
Award Number:	0530100
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Sue Kemnitzer EEC Division of Engineering Education and Centers ENG Directorate for Engineering
Start Date:	September 15, 2005
Expires:	August 31, 2009 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$279000
Investigator(s):	Garrick Louis gel7f@virginia.edu (Principal Investigator) Michael Gorman (Co-Principal Investigator) Nathan Swami (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	University of Virginia Main Campus P.O. BOX 400195 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22904 434/924-4270
NSF Program(s):	Ethics & Values of SET, INT'L RES & EDU IN ENGINEERING, SPECIAL STUDIES AND ANALYSES, RES EXP FOR TEACHERS(RET)-SITE, ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Field Application(s):
Program Reference Code(s):	OTHR, 7491, 6194, 118E, 115E, 0000
Program Element Code(s):	7915, 7641, 1385, 1359, 1340

ABSTRACT



This project will emphasize integrative ethics training for students in engineering laboratory research and fieldwork in water and sanitation infrastructure in developing communities.

The goal of this research and education project is to train engineering graduate students to

integrate societal and ethical dimensions, including privacy, risk, equity, indigenous knowledge,

and sustainability into their technical research in emerging technologies and fieldwork in

developing communities. This will be achieved by four objectives; i) to educate students about

the ethical issues associated with their work in emerging technologies and fieldwork in

developing communities; ii) to integrate ethics into the way students think about their work as

evinced by the explicit mention of ethical issues in their experimental design, expected results,

and analysis; iii) to make students articulate in dialogue on issues of ethics in the professions of

science and engineering, iv) to document, evaluate, and disseminate the results of the project to

educators and practitioners in science and engineering.

The intent is for this research to serve as a model for integrating ethics and engineering in other engineering disciplines besides Systems Engineering, and that it will be possible to create a community of students pursuing ethics and engineering at the University of Virginia and at the University of Colorado-Boulder, that could be modeled elsewhere.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Garrick Louis.  "A Fieldwork Model for Service Learning in Engineering Education,,"  National Science Foundation/National Academy of Engineering, National Conference on Service Learning in Engineering,  v.May 24,  2006,  p. 1.

Garrick Louis and Ali Bouabid.  "A Capacity Factor Approach for Acquisition of Water and Sanitation Infrastructure by Developing Communities,"  International Conference on Sustainable Engineering Development in Africa, Yaounde, Cameroon,  v.June,  2006,  p. 1.

Louis, G., and J. Shih,.  "A Flexible Inventory Model for Municipal Solid Waste Recycling,,"  Socio-Economic Planning Sciences,  v.41,  2007,  p. 61.

Louis, G., and L. Magpili.  ""A Life-Cycle Capacity-Based Approach to Allocating Investments in Municipal Sanitation Infrastructure,","  Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, Vol 3, No. 2. June 2007, 121-131.,  v.3,  2007,  p. 121.

Louis, G., and L. Magpili,.  ""A Life-Cycle Capacity-Based Approach to Allocating Investments in Municipal Sanitation Infrastructure,","  Structure and Infrastructure Engineering,  v.3,  2007,  p. 121.

Louis, G., L. Magpili, and C.A. Pinto.  "Risk Based Sequential Resource Allocation of Competing Sanitation Investments,?,"  International Journal of Environment and Waste Management,  2008, 

Louis, G., L. Magpili, and C.A. Pinto,.  "Multi-Criteria Decision Making and Composting of Waste in the Municipality of Bacoor in the Philippines,?,"  International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, Special Issue on Composting for Municipal Solid Waste,  2008,  p. 351.

Rogers, J., and G. Louis.  "Risk and Opportunity in Upgrading the US Drinking Water Infrastructure System,?,"  Journal of Environmental Management,  v.87,  2008,  p. 26.

Rogers, J., and G. Louis.  "A Method for the Comparative Performance Assessment and Evaluation of Consolidating Community Water Systems as a Regional Water System,?,"  ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems,  v.13,  2007,  p. 280.

Rogers, J., and G. Louis.  "Conceptualization of a Robust Performance Assessment and Evaluation Model for Consolidating Community Water Systems,?,"  Journal of Environmental Management,  2008, 

Rogers, J., and G. Louis,.  "A Financial Resource Allocation Model for Regional Water Systems, 14 (2007). 25-37.,"  International Transactions in Operations Research (ITOR),  v.14,  2007,  p. 25.

Rogers, J., and G. Louis,.  "A Financial Resource Allocation Model for Regional Water Systems,?,"  International Transactions in Operations Research,  v.14,  2007,  p. 25.


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