NSF Org:	DBI Division of Biological Infrastructure
Recipient:	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Initial Amendment Date:	August 12, 2008
Latest Amendment Date:	August 12, 2008
Award Number:	0832738
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Sally O'Connor DBI  Division of Biological Infrastructure BIO  Directorate for Biological Sciences
Start Date:	August 15, 2008
End Date:	July 31, 2012 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$49,999.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$49,999.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2008 = $49,999.00
History of Investigator:	Sohail Murad (Principal Investigator) murad@iit.edu Lewis Wedgewood (Co-Principal Investigator) Ludwig Nitsche (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	University of Illinois at Chicago 809 S MARSHFIELD AVE M/C 551 CHICAGO IL  US  60612-4305 (312)996-2862
Sponsor Congressional District:	07
Primary Place of Performance:	University of Illinois at Chicago 809 S MARSHFIELD AVE M/C 551 CHICAGO IL  US  60612-4305
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	07
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	W8XEAJDKMXH3
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s):	Broadening Participation of Gr, BIO INFOR POSTDOCT RSCH FELLOW, HUMAN RESOURCES
Primary Program Source:	app-0108  01000809DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s):	SMET, 7491, 9152, 9179
Program Element Code(s):	115700, 139800, 722600
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.074

ABSTRACT

GILEE: Graduate Interdisciplinary Liberal Engineering Ethics

In this project, a team of engineering science, engineering, humanities and
business educators is developing a graduate interdisciplinary liberal engineering ethics curriculum, known as GILEE. It addresses how issues of engineering ethics and cultural identities are necessarily intertwined within a globalized workplace and has a four-prong approach: 1) develop a course for graduate students and seniors interested in transitioning to graduate school, which will consist of various ethics training modules; 2) conduct a two-track summer training workshop, one for students and the other for faculty; 3) establish a seminar series in which scholars, practitioners, and senior graduate students speak on matters related to engineering ethics; and 4) include ethical issues in the Ph.D. preliminary examination and require graduate students to present ethics learning modules as part of the examination. The team includes partners from Virginia Tech, North Carolina A&T State University, and University of Illinois at Chicago. Test institutions include Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Jadavpur University, India. The evaluation and assessment plan includes both formative and summative evaluations.

The GILEE curriculum is grounded in the relevant research literatures of engineering education, science and technology studies, philosophy, and business management and builds a community of graduate students from engineering, humanities, and business who better understand each other's disciplines and are thus better prepared to be productive and collaborative members of an increasingly diverse society and its workforce.

Broader impacts are both national and international for graduate students in science and engineering. It offers a method to integrate mentoring programs, infrastructure development, faculty capacity building, and graduate-student involvement in program development.

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