Engineering Ethics for a Sustainable Future
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 252
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 264
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In Engineering Ethics for a Sustainable Future, faculty, students, and engineering practitioners will find an accessible and pragmatic approach to the study of ethics in the areas of engineering, computer science, technology, and environmental studies. The approach emphasizes the value of diverse ethical frameworks in the professional practice of engineers, including the virtues, duties, utilitarianism, care ethics, and theories of justice.
The book provides a comprehensive survey of the following: engineering history and practice; the concept of morality and ethical theory; justice and race, gender, and disability; professional codes of ethics; confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and whistleblowing; research ethics; safety, risk, and resilience; environmental ethics and frameworks of sustainability; disasters and climate change; water conflicts, food justice, and consumption; values and technology; computers and digital ethics; military and security applications of technology; robots and artificial intelligence; and the exploration and commercialization of space.
Readers will engage these topics and more using contemporary case studies such as Boeing 737 Max, COVID-19, Facebook algorithms, Theranos, Bhopal, Champlain Towers collapse, Space Shuttle Challenger, FIU bridge collapse, Tesla’s autopilot, Texas power grid crisis, Hurricane Katrina, Waymo’s AVs, Colorado River crisis, right-to-repair, Pegasus spyware, and ChatGPT.
Chapter 1: Engineering, Technology, and Ethical Imperatives
1.1 What Is Engineering?
1.2 Features of Engineering Practice
1.3 Ethics in Engineering
1.4 Overview of the Book
Chapter 2: Ethical Theory
2.1 Why Study Ethical Theory?
2.2 Relativism, Subjectivism, and Egoism
2.3 Virtue Ethics
2.4 Duty Ethics
2.5 Consequentialist Ethics
2.6 Care Ethics
2.7 Justice and Equality
2.8 Race, Gender, and Disability
Chapter 3: Professional Ethics in the Workplace
3.1 Professions and Professionalism
3.2 Codes of Ethics
3.3 Professional Virtues
3.4 Professional Rights and Duties
3.5 Rights and Duties in the Workplace
3.6 Research Ethics
Chapter 4: Safety, Risk, and Resilience
4.1 Assessing Risk and Resilience
4.2 Managing Risk
4.3 Human Factors in Accidents
4.4 Ethical Challenges of Safety, Risk, and Resilience
Chapter 5: Sustainability
5.1 Environmental Ethics
5.2 Frameworks of Sustainability
5.3 The Product Life Cycle
5.4 Discounting the Future
5.5 Disasters and Climate Change
5.6 Water Ethics and Food Justice
5.7 Ethics, Economics, and Consumption
Chapter 6: Emerging Technology
6.1 Engineering, Technology, and Progress
6.2 Values and the Question of Technology
6.3 Digital Ethics, Computers, and the Internet
6.4 Military and Security Applications
6.5 Ethics, Robots, and Artificial Intelligence
6.6 Exploration, Commercialization, and Settlement of Space
Endnotes
Appendix A: List of Key Terms
Appendix B: Codes of Ethics in Professional Engineering
References
Dr. Kory P. Schaff is Faculty Lecturer of applied ethics in the College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology at California State University, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from University of California, San Diego, and specializes in normative and applied ethics with a particular focus on ethics and economics in the areas of work, technology, and sustainability. Schaff is the editor of Philosophy and the Problems of Work (2001), Fair Work: Ethics, Social Policy, Globalization (2017), and co-editor of Debating a “Post-Work” Future (Routledge, 2022).
Dr. Tonatiuh Rodriguez-Nikl is Professor of Civil Engineering at California State University, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in structural engineering from University of California, San Diego. His disciplinary work is in earthquake- and blast-resistant structures. His broader interests are in systems thinking, resilient and sustainable communities and infrastructure, and engineering philosophy. He is Chair of the Engineering Philosophy Committee of the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers.