I was on a road trip with 3 engineers this weekend and we were discussing this. I mentioned that I, along with nearly every grad student in life sciences is req

I was on a road trip with 3 engineers this weekend and we were discussing this. I mentioned that I, along with nearly every grad student in life sciences is required to take a research ethics course because NIH training grants mandate that any student funded on the grant take an ethics course. They all said that they wish that their graduate programs had required them to take an ethics course. One of them (from India) also noted that basic concepts such as plagiarism are assumed to be understood at the graduate level in the US, but that few students coming from Asia have received any orientation to ethical academic practice for students, much less researchers. I don't know enough about how CS and engineering graduate programs are funded, but it seems that NSF is not funding very many programs, given that they do seem to require such training https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/rcr.jsp https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/rcr.jsp.