Engineering Ethics
Essays

¶ … engineering ethics websites were reviewed: the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Code of Ethics (IEEE), the American Council of Engineering Companies Ethical Guidelines, and the Institution of…

The tension between business and ethics—such as that robustly illustrated by the Ford Pinto debacle—fits extraordinarily well with the consideration of vehicular technology, the use of which may pose safety hazards for drivers and others in the vicinity of preoccupied drivers. The question then begs: where does the responsibility for safety belong—with the consumer who is in the driver's seat, the manufacturer who will quite obviously have mixed motivations, or with the government that will need to balance cost with benefit. Or perhaps the responsibility ultimately goes to watchdog groups and consumers demand—through legislative process—that human lives are not well matched to economic cost-benefit analysis made from a particularly economic frame.

The Challenger Space Shuttle's final flight ended in disaster nearly 30 years ago in early 1986. This fateful journey ended the lives of 7 brave astronauts and provided the revelation of the vulnerability of NASA and…