Disclaimer: The material herein is developed under NSF-NUE - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

NanoTRA -T exas Regional Alliance to Foster Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety http://nsf-nue-nanotra.engineering.txstate.edu/ Disclaimer: The material herein is developed under NSF-NUE (Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education) award #1242087, NUE: NanoTRA- Texas Regional Alliance to foster 'Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety Awareness' in tomorrow's Engineering and Technology Leaders. http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1242087 This material is developed pursuant to a National Science Foundation grant and is to be used strictly for educational purposes. Developers of the material have used a number of images to enhance understating of various concepts and they are acknowledged accordingly. Any comments or concerns over the use of these images should be directed to Dr. Jitendra S Tate JT31@txstate.edu NSF-NUE Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education

NanoTRA -T exas Regional Alliance to Foster Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety http://nsf-nue-nanotra.engineering.txstate.edu/ NUE: NanoTRA- Texas Regional Alliance to foster 'Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety Awareness' in tomorrow's Engineering and Technology Leaders. NSF Program Manager: Ms. Mary Poats • Investigators: • Students: – Dr. Trybula, Walt – Mr. Alvarez, Andres – Mr. Espinoza, Sergio – Dr. Fazarro, Dominick – Ms. Wilson, Luna – Dr. Hanks, Craig – Mr. Mokhtari, Adam – Dr. Tate, Jitendra – Mr. Dutta, Satyajit – Dr. Allhoff, Fritz – Dr. McLean, Robert NSF-NUE Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education

NanoTRA -T exas Regional Alliance to Foster Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety http://nsf-nue-nanotra.engineering.txstate.edu/ Social, Ethical, Safety and Health Issues in Nanotechnology MODULE 2A Ethics of Science and Technology Developed by Dr. Craig Hanks and Ms. Luna K. Wilson NSF-NUE For comments please contact at ch25@txstate.edu Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education

NanoTRA -T exas Regional Alliance to Foster Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety http://nsf-nue-nanotra.engineering.txstate.edu/ GOAL AND OBJECTIVES Goal: To introduce students to social and ethical dimensions of science, engineering, and technology. Objectives: Introduce students to: • The Impacts of Scientific and Technological Change • The Concepts of Moral Agency and Moral Consequences • The Intersection of Engineering and Business • The Concepts of Positive and Negative Duties NSF-NUE Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education

NanoTRA -T exas Regional Alliance to Foster Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety http://nsf-nue-nanotra.engineering.txstate.edu/ PREREQUISITES AND TEXTS Prerequisites by Topic: None Required Texts (if applicable): • Jonas, Hans, “ T echnology, ” Hastings Center Report, oward a Philosophy of T (February, 1979), 34-43. • Nelson, C, and S.R. Peterson, “ If You ’ re an Engineer, You ’ re Probably a Utilitarian, ” Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers: Issues in Engineering (1982) 8:1, 13-18. • Harris, Charles E., Jr., Michael S. Pritchard, and Michael J. Rabins, “ T ests in Moral Problem Solving ” in Engineering Ethics, Concepts and Cases, (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1995), 155-187. • Drexler, K. Eric, “ Three Revolutions and a Fourth, ” in Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology will Change Civilization, ” (New York: Public Affairs, 2013) 39-54. NSF-NUE Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education

NanoTRA -T exas Regional Alliance to Foster Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety http://nsf-nue-nanotra.engineering.txstate.edu/ TOPICS COVERED • Lecture I: Science, Technology, and Change – Are we facing a fourth technological revolution (Drexler) – The formal and material dimensions of Science, Technology, and Change (Jonas) – False problems with technology (Ellul – notes and PowerPoint) – Why Ethics? NSF-NUE Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education

NanoTRA -T exas Regional Alliance to Foster Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety http://nsf-nue-nanotra.engineering.txstate.edu/ TOPICS COVERED • Lecture I: Science, Technology, and Change – Why Ethics? – past problems • Biomedical – Tuskegee • Chemical/Agricultural – DDT • Construction – Kansas City Hyatt Regency • Aerospace – Challenger NSF-NUE Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education

NanoTRA -T exas Regional Alliance to Foster Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety http://nsf-nue-nanotra.engineering.txstate.edu/ TOPICS COVERED • Lecture II: Developing an Ethical Framework 1: – Negative and Positive Duties – Introducing Two Approaches (Harris, Pritchard, and Rabins): • Deontology • Consequentialism – Why Engineers are Utilitarians (Nelson and Peterson) • NSF-NUE Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education

NanoTRA -T exas Regional Alliance to Foster Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety http://nsf-nue-nanotra.engineering.txstate.edu/ LEARNING OUTCOMES Student Learning Outcomes: • Be able to explain social and ethical impacts of scientific and technological change • Be able to recognize the ethical dimensions of decisions, actions, and policies • Be able to differentiate between personal values and professional ethics • Be able to distinguish between cultural or individual preferences and ethically relevant situations and practices. • Be able to employ major ethical theories – Deontology(Kantian Ethics) and Utilitarianism/Consequentialism • Be able to discuss and debate the ethical dimensions of decisions, actions, and policies • Be able to propose possible solutions to ethical concerns • Be able to compare and evaluate differing possible solutions • Develop critical thinking skills and judgment NSF-NUE • Develop an ethical identity to carry forward to working life Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education

NanoTRA -T exas Regional Alliance to Foster Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety http://nsf-nue-nanotra.engineering.txstate.edu/ ABET PROGRAM OUTCOMES Relationship to ABET Program Outcomes: • (c) An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical constraints as well as considerations of public health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability. • (f) An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. • (g) An ability to communicate effectively. • (h) The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global economic, environmental, and societal context. • (i) A recognition for the need for and an ability to engage in lifelong learning. • (j) A knowledge of contemporary issues. NSF-NUE Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education

NanoTRA -T exas Regional Alliance to Foster Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety http://nsf-nue-nanotra.engineering.txstate.edu/ 20cartoon.png 01000238/Centricity/Domain/268/ethics% http://www.pascack.k12.nj.us/cms/lib5/NJ MODULE 2A: Ethics of Science and Technology LECTURE I: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND CHANGE NSF-NUE Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education

NanoTRA -T exas Regional Alliance to Foster Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety http://nsf-nue-nanotra.engineering.txstate.edu/ Lecture 1: Science, Technology, and Change • A Fourth Technological Revolution? – Humans have experienced three previous revolutions: • Agricultural • Industrial • Information • Are we facing a fourth? • APM (atomically precise manufacturing) - ie: nanotechnology • Will the impact of this revolution be as profound as that of the three previous ones? • Drexler suggests that technological change is a constant for humans. NSF-NUE Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education

NanoTRA -T exas Regional Alliance to Foster Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety http://nsf-nue-nanotra.engineering.txstate.edu/ TOPICS COVERED Lecture I: Science, Technology, and Change • Hans Jonas: Four structural, or formal, traits of modern technology – Technological change tends not toward equilibrium, but toward further change. – Innovation spreads quickly because of a) communications technologies, and b) competition – Technological Means create new ends, new tools open new possibilities for action and new possible goals. – Progress - “ the juggernaut moves on relentlessly, spawning its always mutated progeny by coping with the challenges and lures of the now NSF-NUE Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education

NanoTRA -T exas Regional Alliance to Foster Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety http://nsf-nue-nanotra.engineering.txstate.edu/ • Lecture I: Science, Technology, and Change – the formal and material dimensions (Jonas) • Contemporary science and technology are restless, we now constantly and intentionally seek change. • This is different from earlier eras of human existence. • This means ever new products and techniques, changing individual lives, communities, nations, the international community, and nature itself. • This also means that change comes to be accepted as the natural state of human existence, as a taken- for-granted background condition. NSF-NUE Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education