ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Association for RCREC organizational members and RCREC sponsors: an Internet-based course in research ethics is available at http://rcrec.org/internet_course.htm
Bird, S.J. and Sieber, J. E., eds. (2005): Web-Based Education in Science and Engineering Ethics, a special issue of Science and Engineering Ethics 11 (3).
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at IIT, “Other Online Resources,” http://ethics.iit.edu/eac/other_resources.html (last visited July 24, 2008)
CITI-RCR for Engineers project, a collection of online RCR educational modules for engineering researchers, http://www.citiprogram.org/rcrpage.asp (forthcoming 2009)
Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative program https://www.citiprogram.org/dev/rcrpage.asp?language=english&affiliation=100
Commentaries on cases in Research Ethics: Cases and Commentaries edited by B. Schrag, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Bloomington, Indiana, Vol. I (1997), Vol. II (1998), Vol. III (1999), Vol. IV (2000), Vol. 5 (2001).
www.computingcases.com
An attempt to provide truly comprehensive cases in computing ethics. Each of the three historical cases covered on this website run up to 80 pages. Provides an idea of the real complexity of the sociotechnical systems that produce and channel the social and ethical effects of software engineering decisions. Cases are: Therac-25 (a radiation therapy device that delivered fatal overdoses); Machado (the first successfully prosecuted case of online hate crime), and Hughes Aircraft (a case of whistleblowing).
Duke, U. Puerto Rico, IIT, others: Engineering Ethics across the Curriculum approaches
Ethics Education Program
An ethics education instructional program intended to provide graduate students with sense making strategies to improve ethical decision-making has been developed. Evidence for the validity of this two day training program indicates that it results in gains of .8 to 1.2 delta in a pre-post design among doctoral students in multiple scientific fields. Course materials can be obtained by contacting Alison Antes (aantes@psychology.ou.edu) at the University of Oklahoma.
Ethics Evaluation Measures
A series of field specific, low-fidelity simulation measures have been developed for assessing ethical decision making applicable across a number of fields. These measures evidence adequate reliability and validity. These measures can be obtained by contacting Alison Antes (aantes@psychology.ou.edu) at the University of Oklahoma.
Ethics Instruction Program Development Template
A set of procedures have been developed for translating ethics sense making instruction into various different fields. This instructional development template can be obtained by contacting Alison Antes (aantes@psychology.ou.edu) at the University of Oklahoma.
www.ethicstoolkit.com/v1/
Modeled upon the practice of open source code development, the EAC (ethics across the curriculum) Toolkit has established an online environment that enables the sharing of best practices in ethics instruction. Working on Connexion courseware and its online platform, the Toolkit facilitates integrated access, collaborative creation, continual improvement, and interactive dissemination of EAC resources and instructional best practices.
Ethics Updates, founded by Lawrence M. Hinman, http://ethics.sandiego.edu/ (last visited July 24, 2008)
Gorman, M., Hertz, M., Louis, G., Magpili, L., Mauss, M., Mehalik, M., et al. (2000). Integrating ethics & engineering: A graduate option in systems engineering, ethics, and technology studies. Journal of Engineering Education, 89(4), 461-470: This project-based program in engineering ethics involves ethics students and engineering students in collaborative investigation of the ethical implications of technology.
Graduate Research Ethics: Cases and Commentaries http://onlineethics.org/cms/15333.aspx
GREE cases @ http://onlineethics.org
Group Mentoring in Responsible Research Conduct http://onlineethics.org/cms/13008.aspx
Harris, Pritchard, and Rabins, “Engineering Ethics”, Wadsworth Publishing, Belmont, CA, 1995.
Institute of Medicine, Integrity in Scientific Research: Creating an Environment that promotes Responsible Conduct, 2002. Available from National Academies Press.
Kanare, H., Writing the Laboratory Notebook, 1985, American Chemical Society.
Mitcham, Carl (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, MacMillan Reference USA (Detroit: 2005), vol. 2, p.p. 700-704.
MIT, Ethics Clearing House, Consulting Service and Speakers Bureau (dsjones@mit.edu;chare@mit.edu).
a. Clearing House:
If scientists and engineers become interested in -- or even concerned about -- some aspect of the practical dimension of their work, they can go to the Center to find about
- Official MIT policy
- Precedents
- Other MIT faculty who have faced or thought about problems of this kind
(many problems are quite generic – for example, having to do with
relationship between scientists and sponsors)
- State-of-the-art thinking about problems of this kind
This would serve several purposes. It would streamline problem solving for the interested scientists and engineers. It would produce teaching opportunities for involved faculty and students. It would identify promising areas of research for the ethics faculty.
b. Speakers Bureau
Several people said that there are issues that they would very much like to see discussed within their departments (e.g. patenting human genes, animal research). However, they feel like they cannot organize these talks themselves because of (a) lack of time, (b) lack of expertise, or (c) discomfort and embarrassment. The Center could solicit suggestions from a particular department about the issues they would like to discuss, organize a talk or seminar, and hold it in the department. The thing to stress is not that this would demand extra time and work of busy people, but that it would enable them to do something they could not do otherwise.
National Academy of Engineering, Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering, 2008. Available at www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12187
NAE Online Ethics Center, http://onlineethics.org/
New Directions: Science, Humanities, Policy: The site www.ndsciencehumanitiespolicy.org will soon be redone to become a new site www.csid.unt.edu.
NIH- Bioethics Resources on the web
http://bioethics.od.nih.gov/index.html
OpenSeminar for Research Ethics
Online course http://openseminar.org/ethics/ Community Page http://gsoars.acsad.ncsu.edu:85/
The education website of the federal Office of Research Integrity (DHHS): http://ori.dhhs.gov/education
Princeton University, http://www.princeton.edu/~uchv/
Poynter Center "Teaching Research Ethics": http://poynter.indiana.edu/tre/resources.shtml
Responsible Conduct of Research Education Consortium (Example of potential guide/clearinghouse for PI’s/instructors interested in Science/Engineering Ethics) http://rcrec.org/
Schrag, B. ed. Cases and Commentaries in Research Ethics, Volumes 1-7, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Bloomington, 1997-2006.
Schrag, B. Piercing the Veil: Ethical Issues in Ethnographic Research, DOI10.1007/s11948-008-9105-2 Journal Science and Engineering Ethics,
Full Text PDF http://www.springerlink.com/content/102jw5464107h788/fulltext.html
Science, Engineering, and Ethics: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions, Edited by Mark S. Frankel, 1988. Available from AAAS. Website: http://www.ndsciencehumanitiespolicy.org/workshop/ Making Sense of the ‘Broader Impacts’ of Science and Technology
Scientific Integrity: Text and Cases in Responsible Conduct of Research, Third Edition, American Society for Microbiology Press, 2005.
Steneck, Nicholas H., ORI Introduction to Responsible Conduct of Research, Department of Health and Human Services, 2004. http://ori.dhhs.gov/publications/ori_intro_text.shtml
The journal Science and Engineering Ethics.
University of Minnesota's program on Fostering Integrity in Research, Scholarship and Teaching (www.research.umn.edu/first ), especially the section on Resources for Teaching Ethics.
University of North Texas, Department of Philosophy (this is a provocative program): www.phil.unt.edu (Check out especially the Research Projects.)
University of Pittsburg, The Survival Skills and Ethics Program http://www.survival.pitt.edu/
For future references: http://people.ku.edu/~sewilson/bioengineeringethics.htm (not up and running yet, but will have bioengineering ethics cases written by students)