Abstracts A. C. Rich is an entrepreneurial inventor who invented and patented a new form of solar water heater that, he claims, will significantly reduce home heating costs and is aesthetically pleasing. This case asks students to evaluate Rich's design in terms of its cost, performance, marketability, and in terms of a set of ethical and environmental criteria set up by Notes on Moral Reasoning and Environmental Sustainability.
Design Ecology Ethics and the Making of Things If we understand that design leads to the manifestation of human intention, and if what we make with our hands is to be sacred and honor the earth that gives us life, then the things we make must not only rise from the ground but return to it, soil to soil, water to water, so everything that is received from he earth can be freely given back without causing harm to any living system.
Love Canal History, essays, photos, links and more relating to this landmark toxic waste case.
Relevant Literature on this Topic
Gorman, M. E. (1998). Transforming nature: Ethics, invention and design. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Other keywords for this book: trust, distrust; rights; obligations; responsibilities, general; design process; global environmental issues; chemical environmental issues; endangered ecosystems; engineering ethics courses, pedagogy.
Gorman, M. E., Stocker, J., & Mehalik, M. M. (1997). "Using detailed, multimedia cases to teach engineering ethics." Paper presented at the American Society for Engineering Education, Milwaukee, WI. Other keywords for this article: design process; global environmental issues; chemical environmental issues; endangered ecosystems; engineering ethics courses; pedagogy; ethics and the law.
Mehalik, M. M., Gorman, M. E., & Werhane, P. (1996). DesignTex, Inc. A & B (Business Case E-0099, E-0100). Charlottesville, VA: Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia. Other keywords for this article: design process; global environmental issues; engineering ethics courses; pedagogy.
Mehalik, M. M., Gorman, M. E., & Werhane, P. (1997). Rohner Textil AG (A-D) (Business Case E-0107 to E-0110). Charlottesville, VA: Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia. Other keywords for this article: design process; global environmental issues; engineering ethics courses; pedagogy.
Gorman, M. E. (1996). American Solar Network A & B (Business Case E-0097, E-0098). Charlottesville, VA: Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia. Other keywords for this: design process; global environmental issues; engineering ethics courses; pedagogy.
Sonenshein, S., Gorman, M., & Werhane, P. (1997). Solar Electric Light Fund (A), (B), and Teaching Note (Darden Case Bibliography UVA-E-0112). Charlottesville, VA: Colgate-Darden School of Business. Other keywords for this: design process; global environmental issues; engineering ethics courses; pedagogy.
Joseph R. Herkert, ed. 1999. Social, Ethical and Policy Implications of Engineering: Selected Readings. Piscataway, New Jersey: IEEE Press (in press). Other keywords for this: consumer safety; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; ethics and economics; ethics and the law; ethics support; global environmental issues; medical information; negligence, privacy; product quality; professional responsibility; professional societies; technical and scholarly societies; professionalism in computing; public safety; risk assessment; safety & performance; system security; whistleblowing.
Joseph R. Herkert. 1998. "Sustainable Development, Engineering and Multinational Corporations: Ethical and Public Policy Implications." Science and Engineering Ethics 4 (3): 333-346. Reprinted in CHEMTECH, November, 1998: 47-53. Other keywords for this: ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; ethics and economics; global environmental issues; professional responsibility; professional societies; technical and scholarly societies.
Joseph R. Herkert. 1998. "Sustainable Development, Engineering and Multinational Corporations: Ethical and Public Policy Implications." Science and Engineering Ethics 4 (3): 333-346. Reprinted in CHEMTECH, November, 1998: 47-53. Other keywords for this: design and the environment; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; ethics and economics; professional responsibility; professional societies; technical and scholarly societies.
Susskind, C. Understanding Technology. San Francisco Press, San Francisco, 1985. Other keywords for this: preferences vs. values; global environmental issues; professional responsibility; technological disasters.
Marx, L. The Machine in the Garden. Oxford University Press, NY, 1964. Other keywords for this: preferences vs. values; self-deception; endangered ecosystems; responsibilities, general.