6 Engineering Ethics: An Industrial Perspective
having his case publicized by the 60 Minutes television program were these
actions reversed.
How did Spadaro arrive at his decisions? Let us examine engineering ethics
tools that enable this decision-making process. After defining engineering
ethics, we discuss the classic engineering ethics tools of ethical theories and
ethics codes. I then highlight three professional responsibilities that are a
subset of the ethics codes.
WHAT IS ENGINEERING ETHICS?
As stated by Schinzinger and Martin, “Engineering ethics . . . is the study
of the moral values, issues, and decisions involved in engineering practice”
(Schinzinger and Martin, 2000). Morality encompasses the first-order beliefs
and practices about good and ...