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Chapter 1 Ethics and Professionalism 1

1.1 Scope of Engineering Ethics 2

1.2 Accepting and Sharing Responsibility 11

1.3 Responsible Professionals and Ethical Corporations 21

Key Concepts 28

References 29

Chapter 2 Moral Reasoning and Codes of Ethics 32

2.1 Resolving Ethical Dilemmas 32

2.2 Making Moral Choices 39

2.3 Codes of Ethics 44

Key Concepts 52

References 52

Chapter 3 Moral Frameworks 54

3.1 Utilitarianism 55

3.2 Rights Ethics and Duty Ethics 60

3.3 Virtue Ethics 66

3.4 Self-Realization and Self-Interest 72

Key Concepts 84

References 84

Chapter 4 Engineering as Social Experimentation 88

4.1 Engineering as Experimentation 89

4.2 Engineers as Responsible Experimenters 95

4.3 Challenger 106

Key Concepts 114

References 115

Chapter 5 Commitment to Safety 117

5.1 Safety and Risk 118

5.2 Assessing and Reducing Risk 125

5.3 Three Mile Island，Chernobyl，and Safe Exits 134

Key Concepts 143

References 143

Chapter 6 Workplace Responsibilities and Rights 146

6.1 Teamwork 147

6.2 Confidentiality and Conflicts of Interest 155

6.3 Rights of Engineers 163

6.4 Whistleblowing 172

6.5 The BART Case 180

Key Concepts 184

References 185

Chapter 7 Honesty 189

7.1 Truthfulness and Trustworthiness 190

7.2 Research Integrity 195

7.3 Consulting Engineers 203

7.4 Expert Witnesses and Advisers 208

Key Concepts 216

References 216

Chapter 8 Environmental Ethics 219

8.1 Engineering，Ecology，and Economics 220

8.2 Ethical Frameworks 232

Key Concepts 239

References 239

Chapter 9 Global Issues 242

9.1 Multinational Corporations 243

9.2 Computer Ethics and the Internet 254

9.3 Weapons Development 266

Key Concepts 271

References 271

Chapter 10 Engineers and Technological Progress 274

10.1 Cautious Optimism 275

10.2 Moral Leadership 285

Key Concepts 293

References 294

Appendix 297

A General Resources on Engineering Ethics 297

B Codes of Ethics：NSPE，IEEE，AIChE，ASCE，ASME，ACM-IEEE/CS 300

Index 326