The Ethically Responsible Engineer

By: Robert McGinn

ISBN-13: 9781119060192
ISBN-10: 1119060192
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
Published date: 2015-07-27
The book lays out and discusses four Fundamental Ethical Responsibilities of Engineers (FEREs) that are incumbent of engineers. It also shows how the FEREs can be applied to particular engineering situations to determine specific “derivative ethical responsibilities” that are incumbent on engineers in those situations Includes a variety of case studies in various fields of engineering that are divided into four parts: salient factual background, ethical issues, analysis of ethical issues, and moral lessons Grasp ethical issues in real-life situations The author is a professor of Management Science and Engineering and Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Stanford University