Ethics and Engineering: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781107177536 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 250 str.

Behnam Taebi

Opis

This book focuses on the ethical issues in engineering that have to do with assessment, design, sustainability and globalization.

Recenzje

'This book is a good source for current trends in engineering ethics analysis and ethics-influenced design, and will be useful to anyone interested in how recent thinking is trending in these matters … Recommended.' K. D. Stephan, Choice Magazine

Spis treści

1. Ethics and engineering: an ethics up-front approach; Part I. Assessment and Evaluation in Engineering: 2. Risk analysis and the ethics of technological risk; 3. Balancing costs, risks, benefits, and environmental impacts; Part II. Ethics and Engineering Design: 4. Values in design and responsible innovation; 5. Morality and the machine; Part III. Engineering Ethics, Sustainability, and Globalization: 6. Sustainability and energy ethics; 7. Engineering ethics in the international context: globalize or diversify?.