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The Ethically Responsible Engineer: Concepts and Cases for Students and Professionals

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The book lays out and discusses four Fundamental Ethical Responsibilities of Engineers (FEREs) that are incumbent of engineers. It also shows how the FEREs can be applied to particular engineering situations to determine specific derivative ethical responsibilities that are incumbent on engineers in those situations * Includes a variety of case studies in various fields of engineering that are divided into four parts: salient factual background, ethical issues, analysis of ethical issues, and moral lessons * Grasp ethical issues in real-life situations * The author is a professor of Management Science and Engineering and Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Stanford University

Table of Contents:
Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii 1 THE ETHICS GAP IN CONTEMPORARY ENGINEERING 1 1.1 Two Vignettes 1 1.2 The Gap Between Education and Experience 2 1.3 Evidence 3 1.4 Importance 5 1.5 Unfruitful Approaches to Bridging the Gap 7 Requiring a Typical Philosophy-Department Ethics Class 8 Integrating Ethics Study into Technical Engineering Classes 8 1.6 Preferred Approach 10 2 SOCIOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL PRELIMINARIES 11 2.1 Sociology of Engineering 12 2.2 Engineering Society Codes of Ethics 15 3 THE FUNDAMENTAL ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF ENGINEERS 21 3.1 An Ethical Responsibilities Approach 21 3.2 Ethical Issues and Harm 22 3.3 The Fundamental Ethical Responsibilities of Engineers 25 FERE1 27 FERE2 32 FERE3 32 FERE4 33 4 SIXTEEN CASE STUDIES OF ETHICAL ISSUES IN ENGINEERING 37 4.1 Introduction 37 4.2 Case Studies 39 Case 1: The Cadillac DeVille / Seville Engine-Control Chip (1990 1995) 39 Case 2: SDI Battlefield Management Software (1983 1985) 45 Case 3: Collaborative Research Practices at Bell Laboratories (1997 2002) 52 Case 4: The Apple Newton MessagePad (1990 1993) 60 Case 5: An Employee Database Management System 65 Case 6: The Citicorp Center Tower (1970 1978) 70 Case 7: The Union Carbide MIC Plant in Bhopal (1970 1984) 81 Case 8: The Space Shuttle Challenger (1983 1986) 98 Case 9: A Composite-Material Bicycle Project (1989 1992) 110 Case 10: Nanotechnology R&D (1985 present) 121 Case 11: The Ford Pinto (1969 1972) 132 Case 12: Topf & Sons: Crematorium Ovens for the Nazi SS (1939 1945) 138 Case 13: TRW and the US Ballistic Missile Defense System (1995 2003) 149 Case 14: The Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel Walkways (1979 1981) 158 Case 15: The Manhattan Westway Project (1974 1985) 170 Case 16: Product Design for Kenya (1991 present) 186 5 ETHICAL ISSUES AND SITUATIONAL FACTORS CONDUCIVE TO MISCONDUCT 197 5.1 Specific Ethical Issues Raised in the Case Studies 198 5.2 General Engineering-Related Ethical Issues 207 5.3 Specific Situational Factors Involved in Misconduct in the Cases 208 5.4 General Situational Factors Conducive to Engineering Misconduct 214 6 KEY IDEAS AND LESSONS OF THE CASES 217 6.1 The Leading Precept of Most Current Codes of Engineering Ethics 217 6.2 The FEREs 218 6.3 Ethics and the Sociology of Contemporary Engineering 219 6.4 An Ethically Problematic Pattern of Engineering Practice 220 6.5 Conditions for Whistle-Blowing to be an Engineer s Ethical Responsibility 220 6.6 Risk and the Idealization of Technology in Society 221 6.7 Ethical Responsibility and the Culture of the Engineering Workplace 222 6.8 Codes and Regulations: Letter, Spirit, and Ethics 223 6.9 An Overlooked Ethical Responsibility of Engineers 223 6.10 An Engineering Professional 224 6.11 Radical Engineering Design and the Ethics of Precaution 225 6.12 Normalizing Risk and Routinizing the Experimental 226 6.13 Technology Transfer and Ethical Responsibility 227 6.14 Two Cultures and Ethical Responsibility 228 6.15 Decontextualization 228 6.16 The Politicization and Economization of Engineering Decision-Making 229 6.17 Negligence 229 6.18 Workplace Culture and the Ethically Responsible Engineer 230 7 RESOURCES AND OPTIONS FOR ETHICALLY RESPONSIBLE ENGINEERS 233 7.1 Organizational Resources 234 7.2 Legal Resources and Options 238 7.3 Employment-Related Options 241 8 CONCLUSION 245 8.1 Bucciarelli s Critique of US Engineering-Ethics Education 245 8.2 A Foundational-Contextual Ethical Responsibilities Approach 249 8.3 Two Quotes 252 Bibliography 255 Index 267


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781119060192
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Depth: 22
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Weight: 435 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1119060192
  • Publisher Date: 27 Jul 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 294
  • Sub Title: Concepts and Cases for Students and Professionals
  • Width: 157 mm


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