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Engineering begins with a design problem: how to make occupants of vehicles safer, settle on an inter-face for an x-ray machine or create more legible road signs. In choosing any particular solution, engineers must make value choices. By focusing on the solving of these problems, Ethics Within Engineering shows how ethics is at the intellectual core of engineering.
Built around a number of engaging case studies, Wade Robison presents real examples of engineering problems that everyone, engineer or not, will recognize, ranging from such simple artifacts as toasters and the layout of burners and knobs on a stove top to the software responsible for the Columbia airliner crash. The most dramatic examples center on error-provocative designs: designs that provoke mistakes for even the most intelligent, well-informed, and highly motivated. These examples all raise ethical issues, posing questions for the reader, forcing the give-and-take of discussion in classrooms and the consideration of alternative solutions that solve the original design problem without the unfortunate features of the original solution. This original, focused approach provides an ideal entry point for anyone looking to better understand professional ethical responsibilities within engineering.
Built around a number of engaging case studies, Wade Robison presents real examples of engineering problems that everyone, engineer or not, will recognize, ranging from such simple artifacts as toasters and the layout of burners and knobs on a stove top to the software responsible for the Columbia airliner crash. The most dramatic examples center on error-provocative designs: designs that provoke mistakes for even the most intelligent, well-informed, and highly motivated. These examples all raise ethical issues, posing questions for the reader, forcing the give-and-take of discussion in classrooms and the consideration of alternative solutions that solve the original design problem without the unfortunate features of the original solution. This original, focused approach provides an ideal entry point for anyone looking to better understand professional ethical responsibilities within engineering.
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Information
Morality
permeates
our
lives
in
the
artifacts
we
use,
for
they
reflect
our
moral
choices.
e
intellectual
core
of
engineering
is
the
solution
to
a
design
problem,
and
those
problems
always
leave
room
for
creativity.
In
choosing
among
possible
options,
engineers
are
also
necessarily
playing
off
one
value
against
another,
and
the
choice
of
what
to
create
will
necessarily,
once
realized
in
an
artifact,
have
effects—some
good,
some
bad.
In
addition,
once
the
solution
is
clearly
articulated,
the
artifact
that
is
to
realize
it
follows,
and
that
artifact
may
incorporate,
intentionally
or
not,
new
features
that
cause
different
effects—some
good,
some
bad.
It
is
a
basic
moral
principle
that
we
should
cause
no
unnecessary
harm,
and
so,
in
making
a
choice,
an
engineer
has
a
moral
obligation,
at
a
minimum,
to
ensure
that
none
of
the
harms
likely
to
ensue
from
the
artifact
are
gratuitous.
e
most
striking
examples
of
how
moral
considerations
enter
into
design
solutions
come
in
error-provocative
designs.
ese
are
design
solutions
which
are
going
to
provoke
errors
in
even
the
most
intelligent,
well-trained,
and
highly
motivated
operator
in
the
most
pristine
of
conditions.
Since
neither
the
circumstances
nor
the operator
can
be
at
fault,
the
artifact
must
be,
and
we
are
all
familiar with
such
objects—
1
Introduction
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Analyzing accidents
- 3 The Colombia airliner crash
- 4 How artifacts can provoke harm
- 5 Moral responsibility: How ethics is integral to engineering
- 6 Permitting, encouraging, and provoking errors
- 7 Harms and design solutions
- 8 Role morality
- 9 Engineering and ethics
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index