Engineering Ethics

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This student project uses interviews with Texas Instruments employees to explore the ramifications of reverse engineering....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/revintro.aspx

Publication Type: Web Article
Abstract: This page presents the case of whistleblower Inez Austin as an example of someone who, even in the face of overwhelming adversity, followed her ethical convictions and refused to sanction a procedure she believed to be unsafe. The i...
Year: 2005
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Topics/ProfPractice/Exemplars/BehavingWell/austinindex.aspx

Authors: Dusek, Val
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book takes a look at the relationships between philosophy of science and technology, and explores the interesting philosophical questions that arise as technology becomes an integral part of our society. Recommended as an intro...
Year: 2006

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Authors: Moriarty, Gene ; University of California Santa Cruz, Jack Baskin School of Engineering
Publication Type: Syllabi
Abstract: This engineering ethics course is taught at the University of Santa Cruz Jack Baskin School of Engineering by Dr. Gene Moriarty. it looks at ethical theories and their application in the practice of engineering, such as issues of s...
Year: 2010
URL: http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/courses/course?cmpe080e

Authors: Hillmer, Philip ; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Publication Type: Syllabi
Abstract: ECE/Philosophy 316: Ethics and Engineering is a course taught by Professor Philip Hillmer of the the Department of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This syllabus from the Spring 2011 includes a description...
Year: 2011
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/ECEPhilosophyUIUC2011.pdf

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The City Council of Golden Fields discusses the prospect of adopting stricter building standards that would force any new construction to adhere to nationally established energy efficient standards. While some members of the city ...
Year: 2010
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/eb/IPRO%20Ethics%20Bowl%20Case%20Studies%20Fall%202010.pdf

Authors: Epstein, Sidney
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: The article discusses public attitudes of architects and how the public tends to discount all of the hard work and and excellent design once one mistake is made. The article briefly discusses how to manage clients' expectations abou...
Year: 1984
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v4n2%20perspective.pdf

Authors: National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center ; Didier, Christelle
Publication Type: Conference Paper
Secondary Title: OEC International Conference on Ethics in Engineering and Science
Abstract: By Christelle Didier. According to Didier, a historical investigation suggests that the profession of engineering in France was not an organized one. This "scattering" of the profession has led to the absence of a discourse represen...
Year: 1999
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Topics/ProfPractice/PPEssays/internindex/Historical.aspx

Authors: National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center ; Tavares de Castro, Paulo M.S.
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Essays on International Engineering Ethics
Abstract: By Paulo M. S. Tavares de Castro. After a concise description of the author's institution, this article describes the education of engineers and the profession of engineering in Portugal. In particular, Tavares de Castro considers t...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Topics/ProfPractice/PPEssays/internindex/portugal.aspx

Authors: McGinn, Robert E. ; Stanford University
Publication Type: Conference Paper
Secondary Title: OEC International Conference on Ethics in Engineering and Science
Abstract: In this essay, Robert E. McGinn talks about the results of a survey of engineering students and practicing engineers that looked at the expectations that students brought to a class on engineering ethics and what kinds of ethical is...
Year: 1999
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Education/instructessays/mcginn.aspx

Authors: Veys, Michel ; Goujon, Philippe ; National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center ; Dubreuil, Bertrand ; Lhute, Jean Marie
Publication Type: Conference Paper
Secondary Title: OEC International Conference on Ethics in Engineering and Science
Abstract: The European Ethics Network has fostered the formation of an editorial team to produce a textbook in Engineering Ethics. This committee has selected about thirty specialists from eleven European Countries to summarize the ethics of ...
Year: 1999
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Education/instructessays/european.aspx

Authors: Spier, Raymond E.
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: Technology management series; Variation: Technology management series (CRC Press)
Abstract: Ethics, Tools, and the Engineer describes and defines the roles of the engineer and tools in society today. It gets to the heart of the ethical issues that pertain to living in a rapidly changing world where the most preeminent chan...
Year: 2001

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Authors: Spier, Raymond E.
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: Professional ethics; Variation: Professional ethics.
Abstract: 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 ...
Year: 2002

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Authors: Huang-Saad, A. ; Van Hout, W. ; Lewis, S.
Publication Type: Conference Proceedings
Secondary Title: Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2010 IEEE
Abstract: In the fall of 2008, the University of Michigan, Department of Biomedical Engineering engaged industry representatives to introduce a new framework designed to teach graduate level engineering students about biomedical ethical issue...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2010.5673545

Authors: Thackara, John
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: "We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Design...
Year: 2005

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Authors: Barry, Robert Laurence ; Seebauer, Edmund Gerard
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book employs classic virtue theory to help readers develop a basis for ethical reasoning. Each chapter of the book is accompanied by real-life and fictional cases. After first introducing students to virtue theory, the books go...
Year: 2000

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Authors: Gunn, Alastair S. ; Vesilind, P. Aarne
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book seeks to provide students with practical insight into the engineering code of ethics and how a practicing engineering is obligated to act in a responsible manner. The book is written as a dialogue between two characters th...
Year: 2011

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Authors: Humphreys, Kenneth King
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: What every engineer should know
Abstract: This book uses case studies drawn from the National Society of Professional Engineers' Board of Ethical review to explain the engineering profession's code of ethics. It also explore historical engineering ethics case studies in ord...
Year: 1999

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Authors: Fouke, Janie McLawhorn ; Dooling, David ; Bell, Trudy E.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: Examines several significant devices, techniques, software developments, and systems concerns related to twenty-first century advances in technology; explores technologies that could directly affect individuals and society; and arti...
Year: 2000

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Authors: Abaté, Charles J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Should engineering ethics be taught? Despite the obvious truism that we all want our students to be moral engineers who practice virtuous professional behavior, I argue, in this article that the question itself obscures several ambi...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-010-9211-9

Authors: Katz, Eric
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Engineers, architects, and other technological professionals designed the genocidal death machines of the Third Reich. The death camp operations were highly efficient, so these technological professionals knew what they were doing: ...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-010-9229-z

Authors: Harris, Charles E. ; Murphy, Colleen ; Gardoni, Paolo
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Engineers must deal with risks and uncertainties as a part of their professional work and, in particular, uncertainties are inherent to engineering models. Models play a central role in engineering. Models often represent an abstrac...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-010-9242-2

Authors: Davis, Michael ; Welin, Stellan
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Discusses how the interest in ethics in Sweden has gone up due to renewed investment in the Swedish stock market, the engineering ethics scandal of the Bofors Corporation who sold Swedish-made weapons to forbidden countries accordin...
Year: 1991
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v11n1%20perspective.pdf

Authors: Kleijnen, J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This article starts with an overview of the author’s personal involvement—as an Operations Research consultant—in several engineering case-studies that may raise ethical questions; e.g., case-studies on nuclear waste, water manageme...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-010-9215-5