Professional Societies; Technical and Scholarly Societies
Raising an Issue of Participation in a Professional Society An engineer actively participates in professional and technical societies. This participation accords with the policy of the engineer's employer, but the engineer's immediate supervisor tries to block some of it.
Who Benefits From Ethics Support, by Stephen H. Unger. This essay discusses the benefits of support for ethical issues, specifically ethics support by IEEE.
Herkert, Joseph R. 1997. "Making Connections: Engineering Ethics on the World Wide Web." Originally in IEEE Transactions on Education 40 (4): CD- ROM Supplement. Other keywords for this: computer ethics courses; engineering ethics courses; ethical codes and guidelines; pedagogy; technological disasters.
Controlling Technology: Ethics and the Responsible Engineer, by Stephen H. Unger. (From the back cover): This valuable guide provides an in-depth treatment of what constitutes ethical behavior on the part of engineers. It carefully examines the various conflicts faced by engineers and offers practical, proven advice on what to do in such situations. Stephen H. Unger, Controlling Technology: Ethics and the Responsible Engineer, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1994. Other keywords for this book: code violations, ethical codes and guidelines, conscientious objection, engineering ethics, the media, professional responsibility, ethics support, technological disasters, unions, whistleblowing.
Stephen H. Unger, "Reality Check: Ethics and Air Bags", IEEE Institute, August, 1998, p. 2. Other keywords for this article: conscientious objection, product quality, ethics support.
Stephen H. Unger, "Would Helping Ethical Engineers Get Professional Societies into Trouble?", IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, V. 6, No. 3, Sept, 1987, pp. 17-21. Reprinted in Johnson, "Ethical Issues in Engineering", 1991, Prentice-Hall. Other keywords for this article: conscientious objection, ethics and the law, ethics support, whistleblowing.
Stephen H. Unger, "Role of Engineering Societies in Controlling Hazardous Technology", J. of Professional issues in Engineering, V. 112, No. 3, July, 1986, ASCE. Reprinted in Flores, "Ethics and Risk Management in Engineering", 1989, University Press of America. Other keywords for this article: engineering ethics, ethics officers, technological disasters, worker safety.
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; design and the environment; 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. 1999. "Ethics and Professional Responsibility." In John G. Webster, ed., Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (in press). Other keywords for this: engineering ethics courses, ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies, ethics support, pedagogy, product quality, professional responsibility, 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: design and the environment; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; ethics and economics; global environmental issues; professional responsibility.
Layton, E. The Revolt of the Engineers: Social Responsibility and the American Engineering Profession. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1986. Other keywords for this: obligations; public safety; professional responsibility; code violations; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies.
Sarah K. A. Pfatteicher, "Death By Design: Ethics, Responsibility, and Failure in the American Civil Engineering Community, 1852-1986." (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996). Other keywords for this: public safety; professional responsibility; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; code violations; responsibilities, general.
John M. Staudenmeier, sj, The Politics and Ethics of Engineering (in press with pilot-project version for use in NSF-supported Greenfield Coalition ethics component at Focus: Hope, Detroit, MI). Other keywords for this: ethics and prudence; lying, deception; self-deception; moral ambiguity; pedagogy and the use of cases in teaching; incompetent superiors; professional responsibility; consulting relationships; ethics support; workplace relationships; communication; research and cultural diversity; research misconduct; whistleblowing; research integrity; correcting errors in databases.
John M. Staudenmeier, sj, "Science and Technology: Who Gets a Say?" in Martin Bakker and Peter Kroes eds, Technological Development and Science in the Industrial Age: New Perspectives on the Science-Technology Relationship (Boston, Kluwer 1992): 205-230. Other keywords for this: lying, deception; moral ambiguity; professional responsibility; research and cultural diversity.