The world population is growing, yet we continue to pursue higher levels of well-being, and as a result, increasing energy demands and the destructive effects of climate change are just two of many major threats that we face. Engineers play an indispensable role in addressing these challenges, and whether they recognize it or not, in doing so they will inevitably encounter a whole range of ethical choices and dilemmas. This book examines and explains the ethical issues in engineering, showing how they affect assessment, design, sustainability, and globalization, and explores many recent examples including the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Dieselgate, 'naked scanners' at airports, and biofuel production. Detailed but accessible, the book will enable advanced engineering students and professional engineers to better identify and address the ethical problems in their practice.
By:
Behnam Taebi
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 250mm,
Width: 175mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9781107177536
ISBN 10: 1107177537
Series: Cambridge Applied Ethics
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 27 May 2021
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
1. Ethics and engineering: an ethics up-front approach; Part I. Assessment and Evaluation in Engineering: 2. Risk analysis and the ethics of technological risk; 3. Balancing costs, risks, benefits, and environmental impacts; Part II. Ethics and Engineering Design: 4. Values in design and responsible innovation; 5. Morality and the machine; Part III. Engineering Ethics, Sustainability, and Globalization: 6. Sustainability and energy ethics; 7. Engineering ethics in the international context: globalize or diversify?.
Behnam Taebi is Professor of Energy and Climate Ethics at Delft University of Technology, and Scientific Director of the University's Safety & Security Institute. He is co-editor of The Ethics of Nuclear Energy (with Sabine Roeser, Cambridge, 2015) and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Science and Engineering Ethics.
Reviews for Ethics and Engineering: An Introduction
'This book is a good source for current trends in engineering ethics analysis and ethics-influenced design, and will be useful to anyone interested in how recent thinking is trending in these matters ... Recommended.' K. D. Stephan, Choice Magazine