• Program Information
• Letter of Intent Deadline:
  

  January 22, 2013

• Program Description

  The Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (EESE) program accepts proposals for research and educational projects to improve ethics education in all of the fields of science and engineering that NSF supports, including within interdisciplinary or inter-institutional contexts. Proposals must focus on improving ethics education for graduate students in those fields or on developing summer post-baccalaureate ethics-education activities or other activities that transition students from undergraduate to graduate education.
  
  The program will entertain proposals in graduate ethics education in science and engineering generally and will continue to support exploration of new ethical questions in engineering, biology, computer science, and other fields. Priority areas include but are not limited to:

  • global/international challenges in science and engineering ethics
  • a general framework for the ethics of emerging technologies
  • issues of privacy and confidentiality in relation to data mining
  • fields for which there are few resources in ethics education or research
  • ethical issues related to robotics
  • intersection of the choices that society makes between natural resource development and utilization (e.g., energy sources) and environmental consequences
  • ethical issues associated with natural hazards, risk management, decision-making and the role of scientists in defining and negotiating the consequences of natural hazards in the face of scientific uncertainties
  The maximum award amount is $300,000 including indirect costs over a period of three years. Projects that include partnerships are eligible for an award amount of $400,000.
  
  The number of proposals UW-Madison may submit is limited to one, therefore, this opportunity is subject to an internal competition administered by the UW-Madison Graduate School.

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