Engineering ethics
An introduction to using Visual Basic for engineers. Introduces a disciplined approach to engineering analysis with a five-step problem-solving process. Includes numerous exercises and problems, such as "What if" and "Try It" features. For engineers and computer scientists intere...
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Upper Saddle River, NJ
Prentice Hall
2000
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| Call Number : | TA 157 .M54 1999 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Engineering ethics |c Carl Mitcham, R. Shannon Duval |
| 260 | |a Upper Saddle River, NJ |b Prentice Hall |c 2000 | ||
| 300 | |a ix,131 p. |b ill. |c 28 cm | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Is Ethics Relative? -- Ethics Is Not Just Personal Opinion -- The Need for Ethics -- Engineering and the Freedom of Choice -- Ethics and Morals -- What If? Does Ethics Involve Only "Serious" Choice Behavior? -- The Temptation of Moral Relativism -- The Temptation of Moral Absolutism -- What If? Neither Giants nor Dwarves -- The Truths of Absolutism and Relativism -- The Usefulness of Ethics Codes -- What If? Ethics Codes and Technical Standards -- Exploring Different Dimensions of Ethics -- Doing What Is Right -- What If? Not Doing What is Wrong -- Crime, Vice, Virtue, and Heroic Virtue -- Deciding Which Action is Right -- Moral Dilemmas -- Reflecting on Why an Action Is Right -- What If? First- and Second-Order Ethical Principles -- Descriptions, Norms, and Meta-Ethics -- Ethical Theories -- Moral Reasoning and the Structure of Human Action -- Consequential Theory -- What If? The Ford Pinto -- Deontological Theory -- Virtue Theory -- The Three Theories Reviewed -- Relationships among Theories -- Ethics and Psychology -- Lawrence Kohlberg's Six Stages of Moral Development -- What If? Facts and Values -- The Ethics of Care -- What If? Two Moral Voices -- Ethics and Institutions -- Individual and Group Behavior -- Going Along to Get Along versus Loyal Opposition -- Organizations and Engineering -- Win-Win Solutions and the Ethics of Care -- Manifestations and Limitations of Organizational Structures -- Organizations and Ethics -- Styles of Management and Leadership -- Globalization, Deorganization, and a New Engineering Ethics. | |
| 520 | |a An introduction to using Visual Basic for engineers. Introduces a disciplined approach to engineering analysis with a five-step problem-solving process. Includes numerous exercises and problems, such as "What if" and "Try It" features. For engineers and computer scientists interested in learning Visual BASIC. | ||
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