TABLE OF CONTENTS In Part II we discussed national cases in which at least one engineer forewarned his or her supervisor of an impending disaster but was ignored. Using an ethical vocabulary based on previous experience and study, we discussed the decisions made by engineers and their managers that eventually made headlines.
In Part III we discuss more personal case studies. In Chapter 16, actual anonymous industrial cases of engineering ethics are presented that include an abbreviated description of each situation and how each engineer responded. Each of the 10 case studies begins with an ethics dilemma scorecard, identifying dilemmas the engineer faced in the work environment. Because the engineers in these case studies want students to be prepared for ethics situations before the students encounter them in industry, they were willing to discuss these painful events. To keep their identities secret, some small details have been changed to obscure company characteristics. Case Studies 3 and 10 are positive and are included for a balanced perspective.
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| Public Safety & Welfare |
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| Data Integrity & Representation |
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| Trade Secrets & Industrial Espionage | |
| Gift Giving & Bribery | |
| Principle of Informed Consent |
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| Conflict of Interest |
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| Accountability to Clients & Customers |
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| Fair Treatment |
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