ETHICS IN ENGINEERING

Ethics in Engineering provides an introduction to the issues in engineering ethics. It places those issues within a philosophical framework, and it seeks to exhibit their social importance and intellectual challenge. The goal is to stimulate reasoning and to provide the conceptual tools necessary for responsible decision making. The book clarifies key concepts, sketching alternative views, and providing relevant case study material. It offers updated, reorganized and developed chapters with the most recent data and research findings. It discusses confucian role ethics, duty ethics, philosophy of technology and life cycle-assessment among others.