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Engineering and society working towards social justice. Part II, Engineering decisions in the 21st century /

Part II: Engineering: Decisions in the 21st Century Engineers work in an increasingly complex entanglement of ideas, people, cultures, technology, systems and environments. Today, decisions made by engineers often have serious implications for not only their clients but for society as a whole and th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Catalano, George D.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2009.
Series:Synthesis lectures on engineers, technology, & society (Online), # 9.
Subjects:
Engineering ethics.
Engineering ethics > Case studies.
Engineering > Social aspects.
Engineering > Case studies. > Social aspects
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Making decisions in the 21st century
  • Introduction
  • Introductory note
  • Using ethics cases
  • Engineering profession
  • 2. Ethics
  • Introduction
  • Engineering and codes of ethics
  • Ethics and the ethical sequence
  • 3. Landmines and the war in Iraq
  • Impact of the war in Iraq
  • Landmines
  • Conclusions and reflections
  • 4. Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans
  • The Great Flood of 1927
  • Hurricane Katrina
  • 5. Disappearing bumble bees
  • Developing crisis
  • Colony collapse disorder model
  • 6. Engineering and traditional approaches
  • Traditional approaches to engineering ethics
  • Utilitarianism
  • Respect for persons
  • Virtue ethics
  • Review of existing ethical codes
  • 7. Engineering and freedom
  • Individualism and freedom
  • Ethics of freedom: substantial freedom
  • Ethics of freedom: capabilities
  • 8. Engineering and chaos
  • Definition
  • Nature and chaos
  • Newtonian and chaos-based ethic
  • 9. Engineering and a morally deep world
  • Self-organizing systems
  • A morally deep world
  • Engineering in a morally deep world
  • Applying the morally deep world view
  • 10. Engineering and globalism
  • Globalism and globalization
  • Emergence of a global ethic.
  • 11. Engineering and love
  • Definitions of love
  • An ethic of love
  • 12. Case study application
  • The next generation of land mines
  • Advances in automotive technologies in the developing world
  • Levees, coastlands, and safety
  • National parks, dangerous drivers, and the removal of trees
  • 13. Final thoughts
  • Bibliography.

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