Beyond Responsible Conduct of Research to Discipline-Specific Training: Evaluating Insights from Faculty Experiences with Ethics in Biomedical Engineering Research

This interactive session will introduce an NSF-funded Ethical and Responsible Research study, including topics and themes of ethical and responsible research in biomedical engineering. These topics and themes will be grounded in faculty members’ lived experiences with research, teaching, and mentoring. Throughout the session, we will engage participants in interactive activities and small group discussions that allow them to share and interrogate their own views, experiences, approaches to training, and perspectives on ethics in engineering research in light of these topics and themes. We hope this session will inform the development of new field-specific guidelines and approaches for ethics training. Such lessons could support efforts toward recently updated RCR instruction recommendations of NIH (NOT-OD-22-055). We will compile highlights from this session and post them in the Online Ethics Center Biomedical Engineering Ethics Community of Practice website for others to access and potentially generate usable heuristics for their individual teaching or mentoring contexts.