1st Edition
Ethical Engineering A Practical Guide with Case Studies
By Eugene Schlossberger
Copyright 2023
422 Pages
by
CRC Press
422 Pages
by
CRC Press
422 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Ethical Engineering: A Practical Guide with Case Studies provides detailed and practical guidance in making decisions about the many ethical issues practicing engineers may face in their professional lives. It outlines a decision-making procedure and helps engineers construct an ethics toolkit consisting of professional models, a comprehensive set of ethical considerations and factors that help... Read more
Part 1: Introduction and Ethical Decision-Making. Chapter 1: The Nature of Engineering Ethics. Chapter 2: Ethical Decision Making. Part 2: Sources of Ethical Decision Making. Chapter 3: The Engineering Way. Chapter 4: Values of the Engineering Profession. Chapter 5: Additional Ethical Sources (Part 1). Chapter 6: Additional Ethical Sources (Part 2). Chapter 7: Honesty and Professionalism. Chapter 8: Good Faith. Chapter 9: Employee-Employer Relations. Chapter 10: The Environment, Climate Change, and Sustainability. Chapter 11: Appropriate Technology and Lesser Developed Regions (LDRs). Chapter 12: Bioengineering and Medical Engineering. Chapter 13: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Software Engineering. Chapter 14: Consulting Engineering. Appendix I: Links to Codes of Ethics from Across the World. Appendix II: Summary of Major Western Ethical Theories. Appendix III: Additional Cases. Appendix IV: Two Sample Suggestions. List of Cases.
Biography
Eugene Schlossberger, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Purdue University Northwest, is the author of four previous books (Moral Responsibility and Persons; The Ethical Engineer; A Holistic Approach to Rights: Affirmative Action, Reproductive Rights, Censorship, and Future Generations; and Moral Responsibility Beyond Our Fingertips: Collective Responsibility, Leaders, and Attributionism) as well as numerous articles on business and engineering ethics, environmental ethics, and political philosophy in journals such as Mind, Philosophical Studies, Analysis, and Science and Engineering Ethics.
