Ethics in Engineering

Chapter 1 Ethics and Professionalism
Chapter 2 Moral Reasoning and Codes of Ethics
Chapter 3 Moral Frameworks: A Global Survey
Chapter 4 Engineering as Social Experimentation
Chapter 5 Safety, Risk, and Design
Chapter 6 Workplace Cultures, Responsibilities and Rights
Chapter 7 Honesty
Chapter 8 Engineering and Environmental Ethics in the Anthropocene
Chapter 9 Engineering Ethics in the Global Context
Chapter 10 Technology and Engineering Leadership in Future Societies
Appendix
Index

Overview:

Ethics in Engineering provides an introduction to the issues in engineering ethics. It places those issues within a philosophical framework, and it seeks to exhibit their social importance and intellectual challenge. The goal is to stimulate reasoning and to provide the conceptual tools necessary for responsible decision making. The book clarifies key concepts, sketching alternative views, and providing relevant case study material. It offers updated, reorganized and developed chapters with the most recent data and research findings. It discusses confucian role ethics, duty ethics, philosophy of technology and life cycle-assessment among others.


Key Features:

1. Expanded discussions on corporate social responsibility, research ethics, environmental ethics, and design
ethics among others.
2. Global and international dimension has been added to this edition
3. Most recent studies on artificial intelligence and robotics
4.Comprehensive review of the existing approaches to engineering ethics in the global context.