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Case Studies, Ethics, Disasters & Failures
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Case Studies
Numerical Problems Associated with Ethics Cases
Website from conference at Texas A&M in which 35 faculty members worked to create case studies and "to develop engineering ethics resource material." Site includes cases from civil engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering.
Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism Cases
List of hundreds of cases from the National Society of Professional Engineers Board of Ethical Review.
Applied Ethics in Professional Practice (formerly Case-of-the-Month Club)
"The program presents cases taken from professional practice in order to stimulate greater emphasis on ethical issues in real-world context."
Books with Case Studies
Ethics
Online Ethics for Engineering and Science
This website from Case Western University's mission is to "provide engineers, scientists, and science and engineering students with resources for understanding and addressing ethically significant problems that arise in their work, and to serve those who are promoting learning and advancing the understanding of responsible research and practice in science and engineering.
Web Clearinghouse for Engineering and Computing Ethics
Website created in conjunction with a paper presented at the 1996 Frontiers in Education Conference. Contains links to professional societies, codes of ethics, books, newsletters and journals, online articles, case studies and more.
Ethics in Computing
Website from North Carolina State University covers issue such as commerce, social-justice, intellectual property, abuse, privacy, security and more.
Computer Ethics Institute
Part of the Brookings Institute this site has, "provided an advanced forum and resource for identifying, assessing and responding to ethical issues associated with the advancement of information technologies in society."
Center for Computing and Social Responsibility
"Addressing the social and ethical impacts of information and communication technologies through research, consultancy and education."
National Society of Professional Engineers
Professional Organization with links to Ethics and Liability including a Code of Ethics, articles and links to related content.
Books about ethics
Disasters & Failures
Engineering Disasters and Learning from Failure
Webpage from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at SUNY-Stony Brook with bibliography and links.
Importance of Failure
Article by Vicky Hendley with links from ASEE PRISM.
Examples of Engineering Failures
List of books, videos, articles, and websites from the University of British Columbia Library.
Failure Watch
Frequently updated list of various failures with links to newspaper and journal articles.
Books about Failures and why they are important
Professional Societies and Organizations
American Society for Safety Engineers (ASEE)
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
International Conference on Engineering Failure Analysis (ICEFA)
International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility
Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism
National Society of Professional Engineers
National Institute for Engineering Ethics
Women in Global Science and Technology
This page was created by Kate Peterson, updated by Cathy Outten and maintained by Hema Ramachandran, Engineering Librarian
University Library, California State University, Long Beach