Engineer ethics essay

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ENGINEERING ETHICS LEARNING RESOURCES Core Text for Engineering Ethics: Harris, Charles E. et al. (2009) Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases (4th edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Full PDF version: file:///E:/Engineering%20Ethics%20-%20Concepts%20and%20Cases.pdf Hard copy: UniM Store Engin: 174.962 HARR (also available in ERC in high use section).

• General o Chapters 1-3

• Question 1 o Chapter 1 (esp. 1.5-1.6) o Chapter 10

• Question 2 o Chapter 3 (esp. 3.6-3.8) o Chapter 4 (esp. 4.5-4.6) o Chapter 10 (esp. 10.2)

• Question 3 o Chapter 1 (esp. 1.4-1.6) o Chapter 2 o Chapter 4 (esp. 4.3; 4.5-4.6) o Chapter 8 (esp. 8.2-8.3; 8.6-8.7)

• Case Studies o There is a selection of case studies in Harris et al. (pp.229-285) any of which

you might draw upon. Some relate quite obviously to particular questions (e.g. Cases 7, 35 and 39 to Q1; Cases 5, 14 and 33 to Q2; Cases 10, 27 and 31 to Q3); others are less specific to any particular question, but might nevertheless be perfectly suitable if appropriately tailored to your chose topic.

Supplementary Texts for Engineering Ethics

• Ethical and Environmental Challenges to Engineering. UniM Store Engin: 174.962

GORM.

• Hold Paramount: The Engineer’s Responsibility to Society. UniM Store Engin:

174.962 GUNN.

• What every engineer should know about ethics. UniM ERC : 174.962 KING.

• Ethics in Engineering. UniM ERC: 174.962 MART.

• Humanitarian Engineering. Full PDF available here:

http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdf/10.2200/S00248ED1V01Y201006ETS012

• Convergence: Philosophies and Pedagogies for Developing the Next Generation of

Humanitarian Engineers and Social Entrepreneurs. Full PDF available here:

https://www.engineeringforchange.org/static/content/Learning/IJSLE_Book.pdf

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Journals with articles on engineering ethics and cases:

• Business and Professional Ethics Journal

• Journal of Business Ethics

• Science and Engineering Ethics

• Journal of Engineering Education

• Journal of Humanitarian Engineering

• International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering

Useful online resources:

• Online Ethics Centre for Engineering and Research. <http://onlineethics.org/>

• Zachry Department of Civil Engineering Ethics (Texas A&M University).

<http://ethics.tamu.edu/>

• Engineers Without Borders (Australia). <http://www.ewb.org.au/>

• Pro Bono Engineering Report. <http://www.ewb.org.au/about/media>

• The Humanitarian Engineer (Engineers Australia).

<http://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/news/humanitarian-engineer>

• Engineering Ethics (A series of podcasts by Dr Taft Broome of MIT and Howard

University available on iTunes U). <https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/engineering-

ethics/id341597867>

• IEEE Humanitarian Technology (webinar series). <https://itunes.apple.com/sn/itunes-

u/ieee-humanitarian-webinars/id418552570?mt=10>

Selection of journal articles on engineering ethics:

• Alpern, Kenneth D. (1983) ‘Moral Responsibility for Engineers’, in Business and

Professional Ethics Journal, 2. pp.39-48.

• Amadei, Bernard et al. (2009) ‘A Model for Sustainable Humanitarian Engineering

Projects’, in Sustainability, 1, 4. pp.1087-1105.

• Broome, Taft H. (1989) ‘Can Engineers Hold Public Interests Paramount?’, in

Research in Philosophy and Technology, 9. pp.3-11.

• Cohen, Stephen and Damian Grace (1994) ‘Engineers and Social Responsibility: An

Obligation to do Good’, in Technology and Society Magazine IEEE, 13, 3.

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• Davis, Michael (1991) ‘Thinking Like an Engineer: The Place of a Code of Ethics in

the Practice of a Profession’, in Philosophy and Public Affairs, 20. pp.150-167.

• Davis, Michael (1996) ‘Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing’, in Business and

Professional Ethics Journal, 15. pp.3-19.

• Davis, Michael (2012) ‘“Ain’t No One Here But Us Social Forces”: Constructing the

Professional Responsibility of Engineers’, in Science and Engineering Ethics, 18, 1.

pp.13-34.

• DeGeorge, Richard T. (1981) ‘Ethical Responsibilities of Engineers in Large

Organisations: The Pinto Case’, in Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 1. pp.1-

14.

• Flores, Albert and Deborah G. Johnson (1983) ‘Collective Responsibility and

Professional Roles’, in Ethics, 93. pp.537-545.

• Johnson, Deborah G. (1989) ‘The Social/Professional Responsibility of Engineers’, in

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 577. pp.106-114.

• Ladd, John (1982) ‘Collective and Individual Moral Responsibility in Engineering:

Some Questions’, in IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 1. pp.3-10.

• Lissenden, J. et al. (2015) ‘An era of Appropriate Technology: Evolutions, oversights

and opportunities’, in Journal of Humanitarian Engineering, 3, 1. pp.24-35.

• Lynch, William T. and Ronald Kline (2000) ‘Engineering Practice and Engineering

Ethics’, in Science, Technology, & Human Values, 25. pp.195–225.

• McFarland, Michael C. (1986) ‘The Public Health, Safety, and Welfare: An Analysis

of the Social Responsibility of Engineers’, in IEEE Technology and Society

Magazine, 5. pp.18-26.

• Vandersteen, J. D. J. et al. (2009) ‘International Humanitarian Engineering: Who

benefits and who pays?’, in IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, winter edition.

pp.32-41.

• Witherspoon, Thomas and Edward Harris (2011) ‘Avoiding the 30-Pound

Paperweight’, at the Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), 2011

IEEE.