THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING

Law and Employment Essays and Articles

• On Being the Bearer of Bad News
  Essay descibing problems engineers have when reporting flaws and problems to management.

• Speaker's Guide for the Presentation: How to Be a Good Engineer
  This set of pages comprises a sample lecture that might be given to an audience of engineering students on the topic of the importance of ethical behavior in the engineering profession. Text for slides, an annotated bibliography, and several examples of engineering ethics pledges and oaths are also included. The talk was prepared by the authors for the Ethics Committee of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Washington, DC.

• Essays on Ethics Support by Professional Societies and on Wrongful and Retaliatory Discharge
  Essays and information about the history of the IEEE professional ethics activities and their involvement with issues of wrongful discharge.

• A Comparison of Ethical Concern Channels in Aerospace Corporations
  A student project using interviews with several aerospace firms, this essay explores how ethical concerns are managed within these organizations.

• Optimization, Option Disclosure, and Problem Redefinition: Derivative Moral Obligations of Engineers and the Case of the Composite-Material Bicycle
  This article describes the moral obligation of engineers and how it is related to design, manufacturing and responsible conduct of research; specifically composite material used in bicycle frame design.

• Military Projects in the Workplace: Introduction
  In this student project scenario, an employee objects to working on a federally-sponsored corporate project to develop parts for use in a new weapon. Interviews with employees in various companies reveal a diversity of responses to this problem.

• Carrot and Stick: Incentive Proposals for Eliminating Whistleblowing
  Several bold initiative incentives are proposed for handling ethical and technical dissent, thereby reducing the need for whistleblowing by constructively resolving conflicts.

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