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- Module 1.2 International Accountability
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Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-12-02 12:34
- Good Lives and Meaningful Work
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Authors: Wallace, James D.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Year: 2002Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:42
- Teaching ethics in the engineering design process: a legal scholar's view
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Authors: Brannigan, V. M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE
Abstract: The author discusses the critical role engineers play in protecting public health in the design process. Though regulation and liability puts constraints on the design process, the engineer is given the professional autonomy throug...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2003.1265936Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-10 16:01
- The Social Ascription of Obligations to Engineers
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Authors: Busby, J. S. ; Coeckelbergh, M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The article discusses the obligations and professional responsibilities that are ascribed to engineers by other. The moral imagination of engineering students, the author argues, cannot be developed merely by contemplating oneself,...
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-003-0033-xBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-10 16:03
- Engineering, ethics & electricity
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Authors: Casazza, J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IEEE Spectrum
Abstract: In this article, the author argues that engineers must share the blame for the billion-dollar debacles in the US electric utility industry....
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2003.1209601Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:09
- Ambiguity, Trust, and the Responsible Conduct of Research
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Authors: Grinnell, Frederick
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Ambiguity associated with everyday practice of science has made it difficult to reach a consensus on how to define misconduct in science. This essay outlines some of the important ambiguities of practice such as distinguishing data ...
Year: 1999
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-999-0011-zBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:20
- The Application of Ethics to Engineering and the Engineer's Moral Responsibility: Perspectives for a Research Agenda
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Authors: Grunwald, Armin
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: In this paper, the author asks two questions about the professional responsibility of engineers:ible (1) which types of situation in the practice of engineering require ethical reflection? and (2) to what extent are engineers expec...
Year: 2001
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-001-0063-1Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:20
- But Is It Unique to Nanotechnology? Reframing Nanoethics
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Authors: Godman, Marion
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This article looks at the sub-discipline of nanoethics and discusses the nature of this new discipline. The author argues that it is important to focus on the broader ethical implications of nanotechnology, rather than only on the u...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-008-9052-yBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:20
- Ethics and Civil Engineering: Past, Present, and Future
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Authors: Forister, Clay A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education & Practice
Abstract: Deals with the role of ethics in civil engineering. Factors that contributed to the changes in the role of ethics in the profession; History of the development of ethics in civil engineering; Ethical dilemmas encountered by civil en...
Year: 2003Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:20
- Thinking like an engineer studies in the ethics of a profession
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Authors: Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: Practical and Professional Ethics
Abstract: In this book, the author concentrates on a set of issues crucial to engineering ethics and seeks to outline a philosophy of engineering as a profession. The volume looks at the history of engineering, the role codes of ethics play i...
Year: 1998Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:12
- Rethinking Technology, Revitalizing Ethics: Overcoming Barriers to Ethical Design
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Authors: Feng, Patrick
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Because human choices are present at stage in the design process, ethic can and should be included from the beginning of the process of designing new technologies. The author draws examples from the area of privacy and gives some g...
Year: 2000
DOI: http://www.springerlink.com/content/b191164v42t2136u/Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:12
- Sharpening the Focus: Legal Context of Engineering Ethics
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Authors: Ennis Dulin, Betsy
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education & Practice
Abstract: This paper examines the sources of professional responsibility requirements for engineers, typical provisions, enforcement mechanisms, and the legal implications of engineering ethics in the professional liability context, and sugge...
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1052-3928Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:12
- International Science and Fair-Play Practices
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Authors: Drenth, Pieter J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: In this paper an analysis is made of the advisory role of an academy of science, with a particular focus on ethical and societal issues. It is defended that scientists, and a fortiori academies of science carry moral and social resp...
Year: 2002
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-002-0028-zBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:12
- The Professional Approach to Engineering Ethics: Five Research Questions
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Authors: Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This paper argues that research for engineering ethics should routinely involve philosophers, social scientists, and engineers, and should focus for now on certain basic questions such as: Who is an engineer? What is engineering? Wh...
Year: 2001
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-001-0060-4Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:12
- Virtue as the Basis of Engineering Ethics
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Authors: Crawford-Brown, Douglas J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This paper explores the nature of virtue theory as applied to engineering practice. It links virtue to specific areas of practice such as the selection of ends, devotion to service, the formation of justified belief, the conduct of ...
Year: 1997
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-997-0049-8Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:09
- On Genies and Bottles: Scientists’ Moral Responsibility and Dangerous Technology R&D
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Authors: Koepsell, David
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Looking at real-world examples of science and technologies that have caused damage to humans and the environment, this author calls for scientists to reassess their moral culpability when researching fields whose impact may be catas...
Year: 2010
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-009-9158-x
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-009-9158-xBiblio - KBL781 - 2010-02-16 14:34
- The Engineering Intern
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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In this video case study by students at Kansas State University, an intern is asked to perform technical work that should be done by a licensed engineer. ...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.youtube.com/user/enggethics#p/u/1/iukWWMp9M_8Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-04-01 11:33
- Too Busy to Stamp : Engineering Ethics Skit
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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In this case study by students of Kansas State University, a professional engineer asks one of his employees to stamp his approval on a set of plans that he does not have time to review before they go out to be mailed. ...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.youtube.com/user/enggethics#p/u/8/TMEClC5dzRoBiblio - KBL781 - 2010-04-01 11:32
- Plan Stamping
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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case study by students at Kansas State University focuses on issues of plan stamping. When a company is almost ready to submit the documentation to apply for a permit from one of their clients, the professional engineer on the ...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.youtube.com/user/enggethics#p/u/7/mKNlTCBHCXABiblio - KBL781 - 2010-04-01 11:32
- The Engineer's Moral Right to Reputational Fairness
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Authors: McGinn, Robert E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This essay explores the issue of the moral rights of engineers. An historical case study is presented in which an accomplished, loyal, senior engineer was apparently wronged as a result of actions taken by his employer in pursuit of...
Year: 1995Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-14 16:55
- What You See Is What You Don't Get!
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Authors: National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center ; National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: While experimenting with a new hand-held computer, a college engineering student discovers an error in a simple computing function. This case study concerns both nature of the error and its ethical implications...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/profpractice/ppcases/numericalprob/pda.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-15 13:57
- Incident at Morales
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Authors: National Institute for Engineering Ethics
Publication Type: Audiovisual
Abstract: Incident at Morales involves a variety of ethical issues faced by a company that wants to quickly build a plant in order to develop a new chemical product to gain a competitive edge over the competition. Because of complex environme...
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.asce.org/files/pdf/professional/incidentstudyguide.pdfBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-15 15:36
- To Flush or Not to Flush: That’s the Question
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Authors: Ronald E. Bucknam
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Putting the final touches on a toxic contaminant study report, you visit the site being monitored one more time unannounced, only to find the owner flushing some of the monitoring wells....
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.niee.org/Case_of_the_Month/1008%20-%20To%20Flush%20Or%20Not%20to%20Flush.docBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-08-03 11:45
- An Engineering Exorcise (Case 1011)
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Authors: Ronald E. Bucknam
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: You are contacted by a developer who wants you to step into a project in place of another engineer whose recommendations the developer does not like....
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.niee.org/Case_of_the_Month/1011%20-%20An%20Engineering%20Exorcise.docBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-08-03 14:03
- The Fetid Favor Fiasco (Case 1007)
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Authors: Ronald E. Bucknam
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The architect in a state college town hears that a local contractor working on a project at the university is using men and materials from that project to build a garage at the home of one of the project managers employed by the uni...
Year: 1999
URL: http://www.niee.org/Case_of_the_Month/1007%20-%20The%20Fetid%20Favor%20Fiasco.docBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-08-03 10:50
