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Ethics within engineering : an introduction
- Title
- Ethics within engineering : an introduction / Wade L. Robison.
- Author
- Robison, Wade L.
- Publication
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2017].
- ©2017.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 281 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Engineering begins with a design problem: how to make occupants of vehicles safer, settle on an inter-face for an x-ray machine, or create more legible road signs. In choosing any particular solution, engineers must make value choices. By focusing on the solving of these problems, Ethics Within Engineering: An Introduction shows how ethics is at the intellectual core of engineering. Built around a number of engaging case studies, it presents real examples of engineering problems that everyone, engineer or not, will recognize, ranging from such simple artifacts as toasters and the layout of burners and knobs on a stove top to the software responsible for the Colombia airliner crash"
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Analyzing accidents -- The Colombia airliner crash -- How artifacts can provoke harm -- Moral responsibility: how ethics is integral to engineering -- Permitting, encouraging, and provoking errors -- Harms and design solutions -- Role morality -- Engineering and ethics.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-1449
- ISBN
- 9781474286053
- 1474286054
- 1474286046
- 9781474286046
- OCLC
- 935985910
- Author
- Robison, Wade L., author.
- Title
- Ethics within engineering : an introduction / Wade L. Robison.
- Publisher
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2017].
- Copyright Date
- ©2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-1449