Description: "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: An Introduction shows how ethics is at the intellectual core of engineering. Built around a number of engaging case studies, it 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 Colombia airliner crash"
Brief description: Wade L. Robison is Ezra A. Hale Professor in Applied Ethics at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Review Quotes: "This text will be of great value for engineering students and practicing engineers, helping them understand the repercussions of their design decisions and the requirements for being a professional engineer." - CHOICE