In practice when we are faced with an ethical dilemma, we seldom think it through from first principles. We usually draw on existing experience and past judgments. Making a sound ethical judgment is ...

Engineering has evolved beyond the equations, laboratory inventions, and drawings. Engineers now have a significant impact on public safety, data privacy, infrastructure reliability, environmental ...

Engineering ethics education has evolved into a fundamental component of modern engineering curricula, bridging the gap between technical expertise and moral responsibility. This discipline seeks to ...

Any engineering artifact—a bridge, software or something seemingly as simple as an electrical switch—can unintentionally cause harm. So engineering students need to think about the ethical aspects of ...

I had only been working as a graduate engineer for a few years and was minding my own business working for a yacht designer when my boss asked me to get in touch with a person who was looking for ...

An interdisciplinary pair of RIT students is headed to Bethesda, Md., to participate in the 2023 Lockheed Martin Ethics in Engineering Case Competition. Emma Nastro, a third-year museum studies ...

The news keeps getting worse for Volkswagen. Following a scandal last month that exposed a software hack rigging diesel vehicles to falsely pass emissions tests, the company is now planning widespread ...

A code of ethics issued by a business is a particular kind of policy statement. A properly framed code is, in effect, a form of legislation within the company binding on its employees, with specific ...

Enjoyable, high-quality research can only be conducted when everyone feels safe, secure, and supported. All Geoscience community members are thus required to maintain a discrimination-free and ...

The story of Occidental Engineering, which is fictional but hardly implausible, illustrates several important points about ethics. First of all, ethics is normative. That is, it involves making ...