Welcome to the enhanced Online Ethics Center,  made possible by a generous grant from the National Science Foundation to improve resources for ethics in science and engineering education. You can read more about it in the About section. The Center for Ethics, Engineering and Society (CEES) at the National Academy of Engineering and the Ethics Education Library (EEL) at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology are working together on this project.

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Resource Highlights

  • Responsible Research

    This section of the OEC contains cases, discussions, guidelines, and regulations bearing on the responsible conduct of research, including both issues of research integrity and issues of the treatment of the research subject.

  • Cases and Scenarios

    Contains all of the cases and scenarios available in the Online Ethics Center for use in classes, seminars, or research.

  • Ethics Community

    Biographies of administrators and faculty at academic institutions, as well as persons in business and industry and at non-profit organizations with careers involving science, engineering, technology, ethics, and society.

  • Ethics Codes and Guidelines

    Includes guidelines and codes of ethics from scientific and engineering professional societies from several countries, as well as essays on the topic. Some are available in Spanish.

  • Bibliographies

    This section contains annotated bibliographies on relevant topics as well as links to online libraries related to ethics in science and engineering

 
Discuss a Case

The Ethics Case Discussions Webforum  is a place to discuss ethics problems that may arise in any area of engineering research and practice.


Permissions & Reuse

If you wish to use information that you find on the Online Ethics Center, please refer to "Disclaimer and Citations" in the "About" section, where you can find our general guidelines for citations, permissions, and republication.