Now in Engineering Ethics
Engineering a Better World
Do engineers have an ethical responsibility to achieve social justice? Michael Davis, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, says maybe, but as of yet, engineers lack the institutional and disciplinary support to do so. Eric Feinblatt, cofounder of Waste For Life, a group of engineers, scientists, and educators, using engineering to find poverty-reducing solutions to ecological problems, agrees engineering for social justice can be difficult.
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Difficult ethical cases in the engineering community are explored. Ethically challenging cases sometimes force intellectual property protections into a clash with freedom of speech protections under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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What is “whistleblowing?” The word presents dramatic images; the shrill sound of a whistle warning of danger or calling a halt to out of bounds actions. However, those are not the accurate images of many whistleblowers who have served a greater good.
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