Engineering ethics [electronic resource] : an industrial perspective / Gail D. Baura.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, c2006.Description: xix, 220 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 174.962 B328e 22
LOC classification:
  • TA157 .B344 2006eb
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Contents:
A personal engineering ethics threshold -- Options for action when an engineering ethics threshold is reached -- 1978: Ford Pinto recall -- 1981: Kansas City Hyatt Regency skywalk collapse -- 1986: Challenger space shuttle explosion -- 1989: Exxon Valdez oil spill -- 1989: San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge earthquake collapse -- 1994: Bjork-Shiley heart valve defect -- 1999: Y2K software conversion -- 2002: Bell Laboratories scientific fraud -- 2002: Ford Explorer rollover -- 2003: Columbia space shuttle explosion -- 2003: Guidant Ancure Endograft System -- 2003: Northeast blackout -- 2004: Indian Ocean tsunami -- Anonymous industrial engineering ethics cases.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A personal engineering ethics threshold -- Options for action when an engineering ethics threshold is reached -- 1978: Ford Pinto recall -- 1981: Kansas City Hyatt Regency skywalk collapse -- 1986: Challenger space shuttle explosion -- 1989: Exxon Valdez oil spill -- 1989: San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge earthquake collapse -- 1994: Bjork-Shiley heart valve defect -- 1999: Y2K software conversion -- 2002: Bell Laboratories scientific fraud -- 2002: Ford Explorer rollover -- 2003: Columbia space shuttle explosion -- 2003: Guidant Ancure Endograft System -- 2003: Northeast blackout -- 2004: Indian Ocean tsunami -- Anonymous industrial engineering ethics cases.

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