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The Value Engineering Clause
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Hypothetical Case
A design firm considers adding unnecessary items to an initial design in order to boost profits.
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Risk Assessment and Nuclear Waste Sites
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Open-Ended Scenario
A scenario in which an engineer must choose between state-of-the-art science and a simpler method to fulfill a contract.
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The Persistent Engineer
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Fictionalized Case
Is it within an engineer's responsibility to fight against a public danger, even if it is not within his area of expertise?
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Lamination Press Layout
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Hypothetical Case
An engineer discovers potentially hazardous dust in the company press room.
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Generating Good will in a Subdivision Without Electricity
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Fictionalized Case
Are engineers obligated to use their expertise and skill to solve social and ethical problems?
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Chemical A or B?
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Open-Ended Scenario
A scenario in which an engineering student attempts to innitiate a manufacturing process that will ensure the safety of company workers and is met with stiff resistance from management.
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Is the Bidding Process Written in Stone?
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Hypothetical Case
This case discusses a common practice in some countries of "underbidding for a job" by including deliberate mistakes in the construction drawings.
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Numerical & Design Problems With Ethical Content
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These 18 assignable problems were originally developed as part of an NSF-funded project to create numerical problems that raise ethical issues for use in engineering and other course assignments. They are technical problems that apply to a number of engineering disciplines.
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Professional Ethics in Engineering Practice: Discussion Cases Based on NSPE BER Cases
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A collection of cases brought before the National Society of Professional Engineers Board of Ethical Review. The NSPE BER reviews cases with the specific purpose of making an ethical judgment on the actions of (only) the engineers in the cases, based solely on the NSPE Code of Ethics.
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Engineering Ethics Cases from Texas A&M
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These are summaries of cases maintained in full by Texas A& M University on their site. The full cases include diagrams, numerical problems, teaching guides, and other useful classroom material. They investigate engineering ethics issues, from gross violation of environmental regulations to conflict of interest in the operations of a professional engineering society.