Engineering as a global profession : technical and ethical standards / Michael Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Michael, 1949 April 26- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engineering--Vocational guidance.

Engineering.

Engineering ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]

Summary:

This book looks to establish worldwide technical and ethical standards of engineering as an occupation. The author is the most senior thinker in this field and has spent much of his career developing this thesis.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Permissions

Preface

1. Philosophy of Engineering Today

2. Founding the Philosophy of Engineering

3. Contents of this Book

4. Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Part I: Distinguishing Engineering from Other Professions

Chapter 1: Profession

1. Occupation, Discipline, and Profession

2. Philosophical Approaches

3. The Socratic Conception Explained

4. Is There a Profession There?

Chapter 2: Engineering-From Chicago to Shantou

1. The Problem

2. The American Engineer at Home

3. The Engineer in Someone Else's Home

4. The Chinese Engineer at Home

5. Definition?

Chapter 3: Why Architects Are Not Engineers

1. Introduction

3. Some Differences between Architects and Engineers Today

4. History's Contribution to these Differences

5. Conclusions

Chapter 4: Distinguishing Chemists from Engineers

1. Some Differences between Chemists and Engineers

2. Ethics in General

3. Professional Ethics

4. Chemistry and Engineering: Two Professions

5. Back to Eaton

Chapter 5: Will Software Engineering Ever Be Engineering?

Chapter 6: Engineering and Business Management: The Odd Couple

1. The Changing Relation

2. Business Ethics versus Engineering Ethics

3. Importance of Disagreement between Engineers and Managers

4. A Proposal

Part II: The Study of Engineering as a Profession

Chapter 7: Methodological Problems in the Study of Engineering

1. Function

2. Origin of this Approach

3. Discipline

4. Occupation and Profession

5. Profession and Codes of Engineering Ethics

6. Conclusion

References.

Chapter 8: Profession as a Lens for Studying Technology

1. Profession and Some Related Concepts

2. Relation of Profession to Ethics of Technology

3. Advantages for Study of Technology

4. Advice on Using the Lens of Profession

Part III: Professional Responsibility of Engineers

Chapter 9: "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Social Forces": Constructing the Professional Responsibility of Engineers

1. Preliminary Caveats

2. Engineers' Responsibility for What They Do

3. The Rationality of Taking Responsibility

Chapter 10: Engineering Ethics, Individuals, and Organizations

1. Culture, Organization, and Law

2. Professions, Organizations, and Legislation

3. A Possible Explanation of the Question

Chapter 11: "Social Responsibility" and "Social Justice" for Engineers?

1. Origin of Terms

2. Determining Engineers' Responsibilities

3. Relation to Social Justice and Social Responsibilities

4. Conclusion: Engineers as Revolutionaries?

Note

Chapter 12: Macro-, Micro-, and Meso-Ethics

1. Micro, Macro, and the Great in-Between

2. Engineering Ethics as Meso-Ethics

3. Another Objection

4. Is Macro-Ethics Ethics?

5. Concluding Remarks

Chapter 13: Doing "the Minimum"

1. The Minimum

2. Contract and Reasonable Care

3. The Blame Game

Chapter 14: Re-inventing the Wheel: "Global Engineering Ethics"

1. Culture

2. Culture and Globalism

3. A Ulysses Contract

4. Global Standards

5. Curriculum

Chapter 15: In Praise of Emotion in Engineering

1. Spock as Engineer

2. Analyzing Emotion

3. The Emotional Life of a Good Engineer

4. Emotions and Engineering Ethics

5. Pedagogical Conclusions

Part IV: Engineering's Globalism

Chapter 16: The Whistle Not Blown: WV, Diesels, and Engineers

1. The Scandal Begins

2. The "Facts"

3. The Engineer as Employee

4. The Engineer as Member of a Profession

5. Conclusion

Chapter 17: Three Nuclear Disasters and a Hurricane: Reflections on Engineering Ethics

1. Caveats

2. Why Compare these Four Disasters?

3. Three Mile Island

4. Chernobyl

5. Fukushima

6. Katrina

7. Conclusions

Chapter 18: Ethical Issues in the Global Arms Industry: A Role for Engineers

1. Dilemmas and Defense

2. Ethical Issues

3. Engineers in the Global Arms Industry

4. How Engineers Might Help with Some Ethical Issues

Chapter 19: Temporal Limits of Engineers' Planning

The Question

Refining the Question

How Engineers as Such Plan

The Useful Life of an Artifact (or Process)

How Far into the Future Can Engineers as Such Plan?

How Far into the Future Should Engineers as Such Plan

Planning in General

Concluding Remarks

Chapter 20: Epilogue: A Research Agenda

1. Study of Engineering: Four Kinds

2. Empirical Research: the Fourth Sense of "Study"

3. Philosophers Doing Empirical Research

4. Three Empirical Studies of Engineering

5. Conclusions: A Research Agenda

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5381-5505-2

OCLC:

1281976197