Baura, Gail D.

Engineering ethics : an industrial perspective / Gail D. Baura. - Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, c2006. - xix, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

012088531X 9780120885312

2006296555


Engineering ethics.
Engineering ethics--Case studies.

TA157 / .B344 2006

174.962 / B328e