Caroline Whitbeck

Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 involves an iterative process of analysis and synthesis; and there can be more than one acceptable solution. In the second edition of this text, Dr Whitbeck goes above and beyond by featuring more real-life problems, stating recent scenarios and laying the foundation of ethical concepts and reasoning. This book offers a real-world, problem-centered approach to engineering ethics, using a rich collection of open-ended case studies to develop skill in recognizing and addressing ethical issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139179614
• Artikelnr.: 52843657

Autorenporträt

Caroline Whitbeck is the Emerita Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Schneider Professor in Ethics at Case Western Reserve University. Professor Whitbeck teaches in both the Philosophy and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering departments. Her research goes across numerous fields such as philosophy, engineering, technology, medicine and feminist philosophy. Dr Whitbeck is currently the Director of the The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science at the National Academy of Engineering. Dr Whitbeck has published numerous articles on bioethics and is the author of Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

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.