Focuses on the importance of ethics in engineering in preventing recurrence of structural failures. Analysis of the ethics of actions of engineers involved in building the Quebec Bridge in 1907; Discussion on the American Society of Civil Engineers Code of Ethics; Issues involved in the structural failure of the Hyatt Regency walkaway in 1981.
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Puri, Satinder P. S.; Source Info: Mar95, Vol. 121 Issue 3, p588; Subject Term: ENGINEERING; Subject Term: ETHICS; Subject Term: STRUCTURAL failures; Subject Term: PONT de Quebec (Quebec); Subject Term: QUEBEC (Province); Subject Term: CANADA; Company/Entity: AMERICAN Society of Civil Engineers; Number of Pages: 2p; Document Type: Article