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col. ill., ports. (some col.) ; 29 cm.What are key policy and social issues facing the Internet? -- What is the secret of happiness in a career? -- What are some of technology's unanticipated consequences? -- What constitutes a good scientific theory? -- How can we be wiser about decisions of what to pursue in science and technology? -- How soon can we free ourselves from fossil fuels? -- If you could 'uninvent' a technology, which would it be? -- How will information technology transform global culture? -- Are we prepared for the nanotechnology revolution? -- When will society recognize that nuclear reactors are environmentally safer than fossil-fuel power plants? -- How can effective communication help engineers develop the best products? -- Can engineers abdicate leadership forever? -- How can we accurately evaluate creativity and diversity? -- Can we make society smarter? -- How can we separate the Internet's wheat from its chaff? -- Are computers really the tide that will float all boats? -- How can we prevent ourselves from drowning in high-tech waste? -- Are we eating our seed corn? -- When is unlimited information effectively no information at all? -- The electromagnetic spectrum--public trust or pork barrel? -- What is the role of industrial research laboratories in the twenty-first century? -- What is the most environmentally sound way to dispose of consumer electronics products? -- How will the Internet affect social relationships? -- What is the future of the U.S.'s universities and corporate research laboratories? -- Why can't we better predict which technologies will succeed? -- How can mentoring overcome racial discrimination? -- What practical advice can encourage women engineers? -- How can we ensure that technology is humane and not inane? -- When computer intelligence exceeds human intelligence, what will it mean to be human? -- How much will we pay for freedom of movement? -- What is the potential of computer intelligence in mass transit? -- Will cars ever have jet fighter controls? -- Can we overcome our fear of flying? -- How can we further explore the 'microverse'? -- Why are humans driven to explore? -- Do we really need an armada to explore Mars? -- Will humans live in cities floating on the oceans? -- Why should engineers take the long view? -- How can we best invest in the next generation of scientists and engineers? -- What does it take for people to realize that technology-induced climate change is jeopardizing our very lives? -- Why is it urgent now to investigate low-carbon sources of energy? -- How can we watch out for a weapon that hasn't been invented? -- Can we mount an effective defense without having to shoot? -- How much privacy will we trade for safety? -- How do we reduce the body count? -- How can students experience the impact of engineering on society? -- Engineering ethics--who cares? -- Why is diversity essential to sustaining creativity? -- How can people learn to get along better? -- How can more young people be attracted to engineering?Includes index.Janie Fouke, editor ; Trudy E. Bell and Dave Dooling, writers. More Records: Show record informationBook

2005025431Val Dusek.24 cm.Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-233) and index.Philosophy of science and technology -- What is technology? : defining or characterizing technology -- Technocracy -- Rationality, technological rationality, and reason -- Phenomenology, hermeneutics, and technology -- Technological determinism -- Autonomous technology -- Human nature : tool-making or language? -- Women, feminism, and technology -- Non-western technology and local knowledge -- Anti-technology : romanticism, Luddism, and the ecology movement -- Social constructionism and actor-network theory.

ill. ; 24 cm.About this Book: A Note to the Instructor -- Doing the right thing -- Deception I -- Keeping Promises -- Doing the Right Thing -- Theft of Music -- Obligation to Strangers -- Moral Rules -- The engineering profession -- On Being a Professional -- Technical Expertise and Ethical Obligations -- Organization of Professional Engineering -- Can We Afford to Be Ethical? -- Engineering Codes of Ethics -- Can a Person Stop Being an Engineer? -- Codes of Ethics and the Environment -- Ethically Right for Me? I -- Ethical Theories as Decision-Making Models -- Enhance human welfare -- Moral Responsibilities of Engineers -- Engineering and Terrorism -- Engineers as Intelligent Robots -- Hold paramount -- Why Can't Ethicists Be as Efficient as Engineers? -- Medical Ethics -- Legal Ethics -- Jokes about Engineers -- Engineers Working Together -- A Technical Challenge -- Engineering Qualifications -- Factors of Safety -- Engineering Triumphs -- Engineering Failures -- Engineers as Managers -- Acceptable Risk -- Decision Making: Technical and Ethical Aspects -- Consulting with Colleagues -- Safety of the public -- The Moral Status of Animals -- Ethical and Legal Obligations -- Ethical Dilemmas I -- Calculating the Value of Life -- Fix Up Your Organization Ethically? -- Whistle-Blowing I -- Whistle-Blowing II -- Disaster in Kansas City -- Options -- Ethically Right for Me? II -- Trusting the Experts -- Deception II -- Confidentiality -- Moral Development of Engineers -- Professional development -- Tenure in Engineering Schools.Includes bibliographical references and index.Alastair S. Gunn, P. Aarne Vesilind. More Records: Show record informationBook

Case from Harris, Charles, Michael Pritchard and Michael Rabins. Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2000. Available from website http://www.bsyse.wsu.edu/pitts/be120/Handouts/cases.htm

ill. ; 24 cm.Publisher descriptionhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0647/99032813-d.htmlIncludes bibliographical references and index./ Also available as an electronic book via the World Wide Web to institutions affiliated with netLibrary, Inc.EthicsKenneth K. Humphreys. More Records: Show record informationInternet resource (url); eBook (ebk)Book; Internet Resource

24 cm.Table of contents onlyhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0610/00027879-t.htmlIncludes bibliographical references and index.National bibliography no: GBA0-Y5051Edmund G. Seebauer, Robert L. Barry. More Records: Show record informationInternet resource (url)Book; Internet Resource

ill. ; 24 cm.Beginnings -- Tools in history -- The prehominid era -- Making stone tools -- Tools have downsides -- Humans turn to fire -- One tool leads to another: the birth of language -- A view as to how language might have begun -- Tools at the dawn of history -- Putting it in writing -- Money and metals -- Humans acquire power -- Tools and intentionality -- What is/are ethics? -- Ethics: the word -- Ethics as hypotheses or "best guesses" (absolute and relative ethics) -- Ethics as the set point in a control system modulating human behavior -- Ethics and values -- Ethics in history -- Ethics in practice: normative and metaethics -- Toward a well-founded metaethics -- The issue of determinism and free will -- What about responsibility? -- The "is-ought" question -- Descriptive ethics -- Ethical systems -- Ethical systems compared -- Resolving ethical conflicts -- Teaching and learning ethics -- The early years -- Growing up -- Influential bodies -- Ethics and science and engineering courses at the tertiary level of education -- Ethics experts? -- Engineers as toolmakers and users -- Defining an engineer -- The fourfold way -- The need to use and acquire knowledge -- Achieving the practical -- Being a genius -- The ethics component -- The process of doing science can cause ethical concerns -- Fabrication and falsification of data -- Plagiarism -- Data selection, manipulation, and management -- Conflict of interest -- Authorship issues -- Mentoring issues -- Peer review: misconduct/theft -- Safety issues.Includes bibliographical references and index.by Raymond E. Spier. More Records: Show record informationBook

Routledge23 cm.Science and engineering ethics: overview / Raymond E. Spier -- The processes of science / Stephanie J. Bird -- Ethics and the products of science / Rufus Black -- Engineering ethics / Vivian Weil -- Ethics in conflict / Brad Hooker -- A social contract? / Andrew Reeve -- Biology, engineering and ethics / Raymond E. Spier -- Computers and society / Simon Rogerson -- Ethical issues engendered by engineering with atomic nuclei / Raymond E. Spier -- Science and the military / Michael Atiyah -- Engineering, ethics and the environment / Susan B. Hodgson and Slobodan Perdan.Publisher descriptionhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0649/2001041857-d.htmlIncludes bibliographical references (p. 240-241) and index.National bibliography no: GBA1-V2552edited by Raymond E. Spier. More Records: Show record informationInternet resource (url)Book; Internet Resource

ill. ; 24 cm.Introduction -- Lightness -- Speed -- Mobility -- Locality -- Situation -- Conviviality -- Learning -- Literacy -- Smartness -- Flow.Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-295) and index.John Thackara. More Records: Show record informationBook