Engineering Ethics: Cases

Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases

Cases

These cases are available on this site:

A Taxonomy of Cases - recommended topics and their relevant cases

Cases from the Book

Aftermath of Chernobyl	Microwaves
Air Bags	Moral Beliefs in the Workplace
AVIT	Oil Spill
Borrowed Tools	Parkville
Cadillac Chips	Pinto
Catalyst	Price is Right?
Containers	Promotion
Co-Op Student	Pulverizer
Cost-Cutting	Recommendation of Friend
Deadline	Renewable Energy Project
Disaster Relief	Side Saddle Gas Tanks
Dissent or Not Dissent	Smoking
Drinking Problem	Sunnyvale
Employment Opportunity	Training Firefighters
Excess	Trees
Failure	TV Antenna
Faulty Valve	Underground Project
Fire Detectors	Unlicensed Engineer
Forced Sex	USAWAY
Ghost of an Executed Engineer	Vacation
Gilbane Gold	Walkway Collapse
Glass Ceiling	Waste Disposal
Golfing	Whose Property?
Highway Safety	Why Won't They Read?
Hydrolevel	Window Safety
Innocent Comment	Wonderful
Inside Tool & Die	Working Overtime
Last Resort	XYZ Hose
Mere Technicality?

Cases exclusively on the site

NSF Workshop Cases - Numerical Problems with Ethical Issues

Chemical Engineering	Superphosphates Cotton Gin Dust Abatement Marginal Environmental Returns Chateau La Bomb Numerical Problems for Gilbane Gold
Civil Engineering	Parking Structure Foundation Weston Wastewater Treatment Case The Sinking Tower Heat Pump Ethics Case Heat Transfer Ethics Case H.V.A.C. Design Ethics Case
Electrical Engineering	Computer Encryption Defective Chips Calculator Display Database Discredited Missile Explosion Cellular Phones High Voltage Lines Software Testing TV Station Reliability Toaster Short Circuit Underbidding the Job
Mechanical Engineering	Nuclear Plant Heat Exchanger Problems To Ship or Not To Ship Specifications for a Conflict Light Duty Step Ladder How Far Should the Design Go? Hyperbaric and Hypobaric Chambers Mount Dioxin