"Ethics in the Details": An NSF Project to Integrate Ethics into the Graduate Engineering Curriculum

An NSF grant is described that supports the development, assessment, and dissemination of "micro- insertions " designed to integrate ethics into the graduate engineering curriculum. In contrast to traditional modular approaches to ethics pedagogy, micro-insertions introduce ethical issues by means of a "low-dose" approach. Following a description of the micro-insertion approach, we outline the workshop structure being used to teach engineering faculty and graduate students how to develop micro-insertions for graduate engineering courses. We also explain the role that technical communication faculty and graduate students are playing as part of the grant team, specifically in developing an Ethics In-Basket that will serve as a repository for micro-insertions.