William LeMessurier and the 59-Story Crisis William LeMessurier, structural consultant on New York City's Citicorp Tower, must take responsibility to correct design flaws that could lead to the building's collapse.
Who Benefits From Ethics Support, by Stephen H. Unger. This essay discusses the benefits of support for ethical issues, specifically ethics support by IEEE. In the given hypothetical scenario, an engineer's sense of responsibility is severely tested.
Joshua B. Kardon, "The Structural Engineer's Standard of Care." (Paper presented at International Conference on Ethics in Engineering and Computer Science, March 23, 1999.) Other keywords for this article: negligence; competency in engineering; mistakes.
New Supervisor Policies. Chief engineer of Axtell's Installation Division, Howard Hanson implements a new policy which may be necessary. A situation arises for two engineers which makes them question how necessary the policy is.
IEEE Guidelines for Engineers Dissenting on Ethical Grounds. From the Ethics Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)11/11/96. The goal of these guidelines is to provide general advice to engineers, including engineering managers, who find themselves in conflicts with management over matters with ethical implications. Much of this advice is pertinent to more general conflicts within organizations.
NSPE Ethics in Employment Task Force Report. Developed by The National Society of Professional Engineers -NSPE-. This report emphasizes the right and the obligation of engineers to raise ethical concerns in the workplace, and provides guidance on how best to raise such issues. It also guides companies that want to guarantee a working environment where employees can feel free to raise concerns.
Relevant Literature on this Topic
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 societies, ethics support, technological disasters, unions, whistleblowing.
Gunsalus, C. K., "How to Blow the Whistle and Still have a Career Afterwards", Science and Engineering Ethics, V. 4 (1998): Issue 1, pp. 51-64. Other keywords for this article: conscientious objection, research misconduct, self-preservation, whistleblowing.
W. R. Collins, K. Miller, B. Spielman, and P. Wherry. How good is good enough? An ethical analysis of software construction and use. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 37, No. 1 (January 1994), 81-91. Other keywords for this article: computer ethics; product quality, responsibility for; consumer safety.
W. R. Collins and K. Miller. Programming and the public trust. In Computers, Ethics & Social Values. D. Johnson and H. Nissenbaum, eds. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1995). Other keywords for this article: computer ethics; product quality, responsibility for.
W. R. Collins and K. Miller. Paramedic ethics for computer professionals. In Computers, Ethics & Social Values. D. Johnson and H. Nissenbaum, eds. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1995). Other keywords for this article: computer ethics.
Whitbeck, Caroline. 1998. Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research. New York: Cambridge University Press. Other keywords for this article: ethics and prudence; preferences vs. values; negligence; trust, distrust; ambiguity; moral ambiguity; responsibilities, general; public safety; worker safety; laboratory safety; design process; engineering competence; environmental issues, global; environmental issues, chemical; conflict of interest; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; harassment, sexual harassment and aggression; workplace relationships; research misconduct; falsification and fabrication; plagiarism; authorship; human subjects in research; animals in scientific research.
Herkert, Joseph R., 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; 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 societies; technical and scholarly societies; professionalism in computing; public safety; risk assessment; safety & performance; system security; whistleblowing.
Herkert, Joseph R. 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 societies; technical and scholarly societies, whistleblowing.
Herkert, Joseph R. 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 societies; technical and scholarly societies.
Herkert, Joseph R. 1997. "Collaborative Learning in Engineering Ethics." Science and Engineering Ethics 3(4):447-462. Other keywords for this: computer engineering courses; engineering ethics courses; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; pedagogy; product quality.
Herkert, Joseph R. 1994. "Ethical Risk Assessment: Valuing Public Perceptions." IEEE Technology and Society 13 (1): 4-10. Other keywords: communication; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; public safety; risk assessment; technological disasters.
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; professional societies: technical and scholarly societies; public safety; code violations; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies.
Susskind, C. Understanding Technology. San Francisco Press, San Francisco, 1985. Other keywords for this: preferences vs. values; global environmental issues; design and the environment; technological disasters.
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; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; code violations; professional societies; responsibilities, general.
Daniel W. Mead, "Why a Code of Conduct?" in Baum and Flores, Ethical Problems in Engineering (Troy, NY: Center for the Study of the Human Dimensions of Science and Technology, 1980). Other keywords for this: responsibilities, general; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; professional responsibility; obligations; professional advice.
Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. and Allen Webb, "Business Ethics: A View from the Trenches," California Management Review 3 (Winter 1995): 8-28. Other keywords for this: ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; ethics and prudence; professional advice; ethics support; corporate ethics.
Stanley H. Goldstein and Robert A. Rubin, "Engineering Ethics," Civil Engineering (October 1996): 41-4. Other keywords for this: public safety; ethics and prudence; negligence; trust, distrust.
Carl Mitcham, "Schools for Whistleblowers," Commonweal 114 (April 10, 1987): 201-5. Other keywords for this: pedagogy; engineering ethics; professional advice; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; responsibilities, general.
Karen Fitzgerald, "Whistleblowing: not always a losing game," in IEEE Spectrum (December 1990): 49-52. Other keywords for this: public safety; professional advice; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; 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; consulting relationships; professional societies; 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 societies; research and cultural diversity.
Don Gotterbarn and Simon Rogerson, "The Ethics of Software Project Management," in Ethics and Information Technology, ed. Goran Collste, New Academic Publisher, Delhi, 1998. Other keywords for this: professionalism in computing; ethical codes; code violations; accountability; criteria for competency.
Don Gotterbarn, "Establishing Standards of Professional Practice," chapter 3 in The Responsible Software Engineer, ed. Colin Meyer, Springer Verlag 1996. Other keywords for this: professionalism in computing; ethical codes; code violations; accountability; criteria for competency.
Don Gotterbarn, "Computer Practitioners: Professionals or Hired Guns," in The Social and Ethical Effects of the Computer Revolution, edited by Joseph M. Kizza, McFarland & Company Inc, March 1996. Other keywords for this: professionalism in computing; ethical codes; code violations; accountability; criteria for competency.
Don Gotterbarn, "Standards for Certifying Computer Professionals," in Ethics in the Computer Age, edited by Joseph M. Kizza, ACM Press, 1995. Other keywords for this: professionalism in computing; ethical codes; code violations; accountability; criteria for competency.
Don Gotterbarn, "Establishing Standards of Professional Practice," chapter 3 in The Responsible Software Engineer, ed. Colin Meyer, Springer Verlag 1996. Other keywords for this: professionalism in computing; ethical codes; code violations; accountability; criteria for competency.
Don Gotterbarn, "Computer Practitioners: Professionals or Hired Guns," in The Social and Ethical Effects of the Computer Revolution, edited by Joseph M. Kizza, McFarland & Company Inc, March 1996. Other keywords for this: professionalism in computing; ethical codes; code violations; accountability; criteria for competency.
Don Gotterbarn, "Standards for Certifying Computer Professionals," in Ethics in the Computer Age, edited by Joseph M. Kizza, ACM Press, 1995. Other keywords for this: professionalism in computing; ethical codes; code violations; accountability; criteria for competency.
Don Gotterbarn, "The Moral responsibility of Software Developers: Three levels of Professional Software Engineering," The Journal of Information Ethics, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring 1995, pp. 54-64. Other keywords for this: accountability; professionalism in computing.
Don Gotterbarn, "Software Engineering Ethics," in Encyclopedia of Software Engineering, vol. 2, edited by John J. Marciniak, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1994, pp. 1197-1201. Other keywords for this: accountability; professionalism in computing.