The proposed study is a combined education and research project aimed at improving ethics education for international graduate students in engineering. Our major argument is that an educational intervention consisting of a series of online ethics learning modules will help international graduate students overcome the acculturation barriers to inculcating normative ethical obligations associated with engineering practice in the United States.

In the increasingly global community of biomedical science and graduate science education, many US academic researchers work with international trainees whose views on scientific writing and plagiarism can be strikingly different from US norms. Although a growing number of countries and international professional organizations identify plagiarism as research misconduct, many international trainees come from research environments where plagiarism is ill-defined and even commonly practiced.