Ethics in engineering practice and research / Caroline Whitbeck.
Engineers encounter difficult ethical problems in their practice and in research. In many ways, these problems are like design problems: They are complex and often ill-defined; resolving them involves an iterative process of analysis and synthesis; and there can be more than one acceptable solution....
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1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to ethical concepts : Values and value judgments
- Moral rights and moral rules
- Moral character and responsibility
- Privacy, confidentiality, intellectual property, and the law.
- Ethics as design : doing justice to ethical problems
- The basis and scope of professional responsibility
- Central professional responsibilities of engineers
- Two models of professional behavior : Roger Boisjoly and the Challenger, William LeMessurier's fifty-nine story crisis
- Workplace rights and responsibilities
- Responsibility for research integrity
- The responsibility of investigators for experimental subjects
- Responsibility for the environment
- Fair credit in research and publication
- Credit and intellectual property in engineering practice
- Epilog : Making a life in engineering and science.