Ethics Within Engineering: An Introduction

The author contends that ethics is always part of engineering and explains how engineers must make value choices in solving design problems to avoid causing unnecessary harms. He discusses analyzing accidents, an example accident (the Colombia airliner crash in 1996) and how faulty design was responsible for it, how artifacts can cause harm, how ethics is integral to engineering, examples of design problems that were not fully articulated and provoked errors, unprovoked harms, and role morality in professional engineering. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)