How do engineers respond to ethical dilemmas that occur in practice? How do they view their individual and collective responsibilities? How do they make decisions before all the facts are in? Using the space shuttle program as its framework, this book examines the role of ethical decision making in the practice of engineering. In particular, the authors consider the design and development of the main engines of the space shuttle as a paradigm for how individual engineers perceive, articulate, and resolve ethical dilemmas in a large, complex organization. A series of in-depth case studies show engineers at work on various stages of the project as they balance budgets, deadlines, and risks. By documenting the historical development of a single system, the volume provides a unique opportunity to explore the complex interactions between political, organizational, and technical pressures and engineering and management decisions. The resulting book will appeal to everyone with an interest in engineering and the history of technology.
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"...opens a vista on a dilemma that confronts all engineers and decision makers in the modern politically correct world." Choice
"I found the chapter describing the engineering ethics framework enlightening and invaluable....As a reference book on ethics and the engineering decision making process, it is a valuable edition to your library." Mechanical Engineering News
"Engineering Ethics provides what may be the most comprehensive examination of contemporary science-technology-society issues available to science educators who view STS through a systemic, systems-wide lens...inherently interesting, comprehensible, and insightful...a skillfully crafted reflective analysis of a complex world where scientific reasoning meshes with social and political structures, and where science and technology are presented as creative endeavors and are revealed in every sense to be human enterprises." Science Education
"As a detailed study of ethical issues arising in the space shuttle program, Engineering Ethics is quite successful. The methodology it offers is quite helpful in organizing and analyzing those ethical issues...a good read and a welcome contribution to the growing literature of engineering ethics." Technology and Culture
"I found the chapter describing the engineering ethics framework enlightening and invaluable....As a reference book on ethics and the engineering decision making process, it is a valuable edition to your library." Mechanical Engineering News
"Engineering Ethics provides what may be the most comprehensive examination of contemporary science-technology-society issues available to science educators who view STS through a systemic, systems-wide lens...inherently interesting, comprehensible, and insightful...a skillfully crafted reflective analysis of a complex world where scientific reasoning meshes with social and political structures, and where science and technology are presented as creative endeavors and are revealed in every sense to be human enterprises." Science Education
"As a detailed study of ethical issues arising in the space shuttle program, Engineering Ethics is quite successful. The methodology it offers is quite helpful in organizing and analyzing those ethical issues...a good read and a welcome contribution to the growing literature of engineering ethics." Technology and Culture
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This text examines the role of ethical decision making in engineering. In particular, it considers the design and development of the main engines of the space shuttle as a paradigm for how engineers perceive, articulate, and resolve ethical dilemmas within a large, complex organization.
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Philosophizing about space flight while awaiting blast-off atop the space shuttle Columbia, astronaut Alan B. Shepard jokingly commented that it was a humbling experience knowing that his fate depended on a vehicle built by the lowest bidder! Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
main engine project, simplex seal, disaster ethics, tacit ethic, oxidizer turbopump, first manned orbital flight, engine development program, cost reduction items, oxidizer valve, shuttle project, fuel turbopump, main combustion chamber, critical items list, shuttle development, ethical engineer, engineering ethics, space shuttle main engine, launch constraint, audit panel, main injector, hydrogen leaks, deputy associate administrator, flight readiness review, testing philosophy, factual components Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Rogers Commission, Cicero's Creed, Covert Committee, Marshall Space Flight Center, Air Force, Space Shuttle History Project, Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, Management Operations Office, Transcript Collection, National Research Council, Adequate Structural Design, Alex Roland, Office of Space Flight, Big Science, Danner Clouser, Hastings Center Report, House of Representatives, Johnson Space Center, Michael Pritchard, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Space Business Daily, Defense Department, James Kingsbury, Space Shuttle Challenger Accident New!
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Philosophizing about space flight while awaiting blast-off atop the space shuttle Columbia, astronaut Alan B. Shepard jokingly commented that it was a humbling experience knowing that his fate depended on a vehicle built by the lowest bidder! Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
main engine project, simplex seal, disaster ethics, tacit ethic, oxidizer turbopump, first manned orbital flight, engine development program, cost reduction items, oxidizer valve, shuttle project, fuel turbopump, main combustion chamber, critical items list, shuttle development, ethical engineer, engineering ethics, space shuttle main engine, launch constraint, audit panel, main injector, hydrogen leaks, deputy associate administrator, flight readiness review, testing philosophy, factual components Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Rogers Commission, Cicero's Creed, Covert Committee, Marshall Space Flight Center, Air Force, Space Shuttle History Project, Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, Management Operations Office, Transcript Collection, National Research Council, Adequate Structural Design, Alex Roland, Office of Space Flight, Big Science, Danner Clouser, Hastings Center Report, House of Representatives, Johnson Space Center, Michael Pritchard, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Space Business Daily, Defense Department, James Kingsbury, Space Shuttle Challenger Accident New!
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- Ethics in Engineering by Mike W. Martin on 7 pages
- Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Beauchamp)) by Tom L. Beauchamp on 6 pages
- Administrative Behavior, 4th Edition by Herbert A. Simon on 6 pages
- The Voyages of Columbia: The First True Spaceship by Richard S. Lewis on 5 pages
- Political Ethics and Public Office by Dennis Thompson on 4 pages
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