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The pre-retreat stage consists on five activities:
- Hold a forum at UPRM to discuss ethics and values studies in the business, science and engineering context (EVS/BSE) : We held a forum in Spring 1996 involving BSE instructors at the secondary school
and university levels. This forum allowed us to explore where (1) BSE content is needed in EVS courses and (2) EVS content is needed in BSE courses.
- Identify retreat participants: Twenty-one BSE faculty and five EVS faculty have been identified to participate in the retreat. The core will consist of faculty who participated in the NSF-funded
planning and scoping workshop. The participants in the workshop have already committed for the retreat should it be approved and have helped us in recruting other BSE faculty.
- Assign readings and cases to prepare for the retreat:Each participant will be assigned readings prior to the retreat on ethical theory and methodology. This allowed them to explore more advanced
issues during the retreat. Each participant brought examples related to their professional experience.
- Establish a BSE Consulting Commitee: A consulting committee of four BSE faculty members (Professor Carlos Delannoy from Biology, Professor Moises Orengo from Physics, Professor Rama Asundi from
Business Administration and Professor Zulma Toro from Industrial Engineering) was formed. The members of the committee had the followings responsabilities; (a) to participate in writing the proposal,
(b) to identify colleagues in BSE interested in participating in the retreat and post-retreat activities, (c) to help modify courses related to EVS/BSE, (d) to monitor the integration of EVS into the BSE
content in the post-retreat stage, (f) to help PI's and CoPI's plan phase II ( a series of follow-up activities).
- To plan the retreat: Three issues around which the retreat was constructed: (1)the selection of the cases to be discussed and developed in the retreat, (2) the retreat stucture (objectives,
length, and the constituent workshops and their contents, (3) the expected outcomes of the retreat and ways in which these could be implemented, measured, and evaluated.
- Business Ethics Class for Engineering Students: In the winter semester of 1998, Professors Frey and Velez-Arocho, team-taught a course in business ethics for engineering students. It
provided an oportunity to experiment with integration activities as well as to develop and refine measuring and evaluating tools that will develop an evaluation form and a matrix to measure and evaluate
the integration of skills and content into the class.
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