Engineering ethics an industrial perspective /

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Main Author: Baura, Gail D.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, c2006.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.