Professional Responsibility

Authors: Schaub, James Hamilton ; Morris, M. D. ; Pavlovic, Karl
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This is a selection of readings about professionalism and ethics in engineering. It addresses topics such as the concept of professionalism, education, and maintenance of competence, registration, professional autonomy, social effec...
Year: 1986

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Authors: Salzberg, Aaron A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: In contrast to Reiser and Bulger's "The Responsibilities of Biological Scientists", the author suggest that the exercise of socially responsible behaviour by biological scientists is primarily dependent upon the moral sensitivities ...
Year: 1997
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-997-0006-6

Authors: Robison, Wade L. ; Hoeker, David ; Boisjoly, Roger
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This paper examines the role of the Morton Thiokol engineers in the decisions surrounding the launch of the 'Challenger', particularly with reference to an analysis of this event by Edward Tufte. The authors examine the actions of t...
Year: 2002
URL: http://people.rit.edu/wlrgsh/FINRobison.pdf
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-002-0033-2

Authors: Pritchard, Michael S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: After outlining different possible conceptions of responsibility (ranging from a minimalist view of "staying out of trouble" to "going above and beyond the call of duty"), the author looks at the importance certain virtues for scien...
Year: 1998
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-998-0052-8

Authors: Pritchard, Michael S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: A engineer has begun his new position as supervisor of several acid and caustic distribution systems. He notices some problems with the safety system of one of the caustic tanks and when he asks his colleague about it, his colleague...
Year: 2001
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-001-0050-6

Authors: Herkert, Joseph R.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This commentary on the Challenger Explosion focuses on the professional responsibility of NASA and Thiokol Managers to heed the warnings of their engineers, and their outright dishonesty in justifying their managerial decisions were...
Year: 1991
DOI: 10.1007/BF00382881

Authors: Pritchard, Michael S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: A response to Michael Davis's response to the case study, "Doing the Minimum" that appears in the same issue of this journal. ...
Year: 2001
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-001-0052-4

Authors: Shuman, Larry J. ; Pinkus, Rosa Lynn ; Hummon, Norman P.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: Using the example of the Challenger Explosion, the authors of this book focus on the everyday ethical decisions of practicing engineers. The authors discuss the methodology behind their understanding of engineering ethics, review fi...
Year: 1997

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Authors: Petroski, Henry
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: Discusses a number of well-known engineering failures such as the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the collapse of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel walkways -- and many lesser known examples....
Year: 1992

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Authors: Morgenstern, Joe
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education & Practice
Abstract: Focuses on structural engineer William J. LeMessurier's discovery and acknowledgement of conceptual errors pertaining to joint weaknesses, tension and wind force of the Citicorp Center skyscraper in Manhattan, New York. Construction...
Year: 1997
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1052-3928

Authors: Fletcher, David
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The Project Engineer in charge of the day-to-day engineering decisions connected with the building of a large outdoor stadium begins to have doubts about the reliability of the work and tests done by a company contracted to research...
Year: 1995
URL: http://ethics.tamu.edu/Nsfcases/cven/3/civil03.htm

Authors: Voshall, Roy E.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Jane is a new engineering working at an electrical consulting company. She specifies using a 115 V/ 20 A circuit breaker on the advice of a colleague, even though normal practice dictates that a 115 V/ 15 A breaker is used with the...
Year: 1995
URL: http://ethics.tamu.edu/Nsfcases/elen/12/ee12.htm

Authors: Jordan, William ; Latcha, Michael A.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: As the quality control supervisor for a steel mill, you are asked to test each coil for stregnth, and verify that it meets the requirement of having a minimum yield strength of 60,000 psi. You must decide which of these coils to sh...
Year: 1995
URL: http://ethics.tamu.edu/Nsfcases/meen/2/mech02.htm

Authors: Latcha, Michael A. ; Jordan, William
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Neal is a metallurgical engineer for Diamond Steel Inc. who negotiating a contract with a consumer appliance company to make the cores for a new design of a basic electronic motor used in appliances manufactured by the company. Whe...
Year: 1995
URL: http://ethics.tamu.edu/Nsfcases/meen/3/mech03.htm

Authors: Letton, Alan
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Jim Anderson, a materials engineer specializing in polymeric materials, has been asked to evaluate the cost associated with the replacement of hyperbaric and hypobaric windows (or windows used in hyperbaric chambers and submersible...
Year: 1995
URL: http://ethics.tamu.edu/Nsfcases/meen/7/mech07.htm

Authors: Burkett, Susan ; Mahaffey, Derek ; Tyler, John
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: During the removal of a solid-state-fueled missile from its packing case on an extremely cold day, a number of servicemen were killed when the missile ignited when it got too close to a grounded metal antenna. The students are aske...
Year: 1995
URL: http://ethics.tamu.edu/Nsfcases/elen/06/ee06.htm

Authors: Underwood, Martin Clifford
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The author discusses the career of Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat, one of the most distinguished scientists and peace campaigners of the post second world war period. He made significant contributions to nuclear physics and worked on ...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-009-9117-6

Authors: Vesilind, P. Aarne ; Gunn, Alastair S.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book seeks to examine why engineers have a special professional obligation to protect and enhance the environment. The text opens with a series of case studies in which engineers face complex and challenging decisions about th...
Year: 1998

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Authors: Krulwich, Terry Ann
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Scenairo discusses issues between postdoc students and technicians in a lab, including favoritism and professoral responsibility....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/2963/rescases/msindex/mshow.aspx

Authors: Hinman, Lawrence M.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students, this web resources includes case studies from a large variety of disciplines and subject areas, instructional materials, and other, related resources. ...
Year: 1999
URL: http://ethics.sandiego.edu/

Authors: Carr, Edward ; Diaz-Sprague, Raquel ; Matalski, Mark ; Potthast, Adam ; Dodds, Rhainnon ; Dillard, Brenda ; Miller, Richard ; Jones, Jeremy ; Russell, Terry
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Politicans have switched parties for as long as political parties have been in place. In 2004, U.S. Representative Ralph Hall made the switch from Democrat to Republican. He stated that he did so because the Democratic Party refuse...
Year: 2006
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Switching%20Parties.pdf

Authors: Garrett, Michael
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Leadership & Management in Engineering
Abstract: The article focuses on the importance of work ethics on civil engineers. The author says, given an ethical training can only give you intellectual knowledge a shallow information of what is really moral behavior however, if you trul...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1061/(asce)lm.1943-5630.0000048

Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This volume seeks to link theory and practice by examining the views of academics and journalists on a range of ethical questions facing practicing journalists, such as issues of public trust and the public interest, undercover repo...
Year: 2007

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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An engineer working in a transmitting tower must decide if the tower presents a safety issue when a lightening rod falls off the tower, and he thinks that something serious might be wrong with the structure. Case study video by stud...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.youtube.com/user/enggethics#p/u/0/j3s4JwQp9_E

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In a video case study by students of Kansas State University, a younger engineer determines a design is inadequate and needs to be redesigned. His supervisor wants designs done immediately....
Year: 2008
URL: http://www.youtube.com/user/enggethics#p/u/14/Rwgt-KksSs8