Ethical Engineering: A Practical Guide with Case Studies

ISBN-13: 9781032151120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 456 str.

USA) S Eugene (Purdue University Northwest (Hammond campus)

Opis

This book provides practical guidance for engineers in making decisions about the many ethical issues they face. 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 to weigh the considerations, and analyses of issues.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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.