Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research / Caroline Whitbeck.
"The first edition of Caroline Whitbeck's Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research focused on the difficult ethical problems engineers encounter in their practice and in research. In many ways, these problems are like design problems: they are complex, often ill defined; resolving them...
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 414 p. cm :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Part I. Values and the Evaluation of acts in engineering: Introduction to ethical reasoning and engineering ethics; 1. Professional practice in engineering; 2. Two examples of professional behavior: Roger Boisjoly and William Lemessurier; Part II. Engineering Responsibility: 3. Ethics as design - doing justice to moral problems; 4. Central professional responsibilities of engineers; 5. Computers, software, and digital information; 6. Rights and responsibilities regarding intellectual property; 7. Workplace rights and responsibilities; Part III. Responsible research conduct: 8. Ethics in the changing domain of research; 9. Responsible authorship and credit in engineering and scientific research; Part IV. The future of engineering: 10. Responsibility for the environment; 11. End use and 'macro' issues.