Graduate Research Ethics: Cases and Commentaries- Volume 7, 2006 Added08/15/2016 Updated08/15/2016 Volume 7 addresses dealing with research on groups, research with indigenous peoples, encountering criminal behavior in the course of research, invasion of privacy, use of students in research, the IRB and social science research, conflicting roles of researchers, and research on the internet. Contributor(s) Brian Schrag Authoring Institution Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) Year 2006 Read More
Values and Policy in Interdisciplinary Environmental Science: A Dialogue-based Framework for Ethics Education http://eese.msu.edu/ Added08/16/2018 The “Values and Responsibility in Interdisciplinary Environmental Science” curriculum ( http://eese.msu.edu/ ) is a modular resource designed to be implemented by environmental science instructors who have no ethics training for the purpose of guiding students through an analytic ... Author(s) Michael O'Rourke Troy E. Hall Jan Boll Barbara Cosens Thomas Dietz Jesse Engebretson Lissy Goralnik Zachary Piso Sean Valles Kyle Whyte Year 2018 Read More
Responsibility for Public Safety and the Obligation of Client Confidentiality (adapted from NSPE Case No. 90-5) Added06/10/2006 Updated01/29/2016 Tenants sue their building's owner, and the owner employs an engineer who finds structural defects not mentioned in the tenants' lawsuit. Issues of public safety versus client confidentiality. Authoring Institution Online Ethics Center Year 1999 Read More
Knowledge of Damaging Information (adapted from NSPE Case No. 76-4) Added06/10/2006 Updated01/20/2016 Public Safety and Public Welfare An engineer has a conflict between honoring an agreement with a former employer and reporting a hazard to protect the public interest. This is an open-ended scenario for discussion based on a case from the NSPE Board of Ethical Review. Authoring Institution Online Ethics Center Year 1999 Read More
The Gladiator Sparrow-Ethical Issues in Behavioral Research on Captive Populations of Wild Animals Added04/04/2006 Updated08/19/2016 animals in research, research, anthropomorphism, conservation criterion, deontology, sentience, utilitarianism This case discusses whether humans should consider animal suffering and sentience when conducting research; and, who is stopping an experiment justified on the grounds that animal welfare takes precedence over human intellectual endeavor? Contributor(s) Brian Schrag Authoring Institution Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) Year 2000 Read More
The Use of Work from an Unpaid Consultation (adapted from NSPE Case No. 77-5) Added06/10/2006 Updated01/20/2016 Ethical Engineering/Fair Trade This case covers the pursuit of a contract and use of a study authored by a competing firm. It raises questions about the limits that are required in order to keep competition for a contract fair. This is an open-ended scenario for discussion based on a case from the NSPE Board of Ethical Review. Authoring Institution Online Ethics Center Year 1999 Read More
Human Enhancement Bibliography Added02/08/2017 Updated04/01/2016 A annotated bibliography looking at ethical issues and societal implications raised by human enhancement, including cybernetic and genetic technologies, cognitive enhancement, moral enhancement, and what it means to be human. Types of materials included in the bibliography include policy documents, reports web sites, films, books and journal articles. Author(s) Valerie Racine Contributor(s) Valerie Racine Karin Ellison Joseph R. Herkert Kelly Laas Year 2016 Read More
Sketch of the Giving Voice to Values Approach Added11/09/2016 Updated11/09/2016 What is Giving Voice To Values? Giving Voice to Values (GVV) is an innovative approach to values-driven leadership development in business education and the workplace, pioneered by Dr. Mary C. Gentile (GentileM@darden.virginia.edu ). GVV is based at University of Virginia-Darden ... Author(s) Mary Gentile Robert Martello Year 2016 Read More
Conflict and Sustainability Added11/09/2016Updated11/16/2016 This paper draws attention to an important aspect that has not gotten sufficient examination: How the substance of engineering programs and projects -- location, design, and effects on potential winners and losers -- can worsen, or ameliorate, hostilities in conflicted societies. In ... Author(s) Robert J. Muscat Year 2015 More Info
Implied Ethics in Energy Policies and Institutions Added08/28/2012 Updated06/30/2016 This essay by Frank N. Laird outlines how engineering students should examine the ethical issues in energy policies and institutions. The paper was developed for the Energy Ethics in Science and Engineering Education Project and presented at a workshop on the topic. Author(s) Frank N. Laird Read More
Educational Pipeline Issues for Women http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/pipeline.html Added01/18/2010 Updated05/02/2016 This essay is based on a talk by Nancy G. Leveson in 1990 in which she stressed a clearer understanding of the problem before constructing well-directed programs to help increase the number of women in Science and engineering fields. Author(s) Nancy G. Leveson Read More
A Comparison of Ethical Concern Channels in Aerospace Corporations Added08/19/2006Updated04/25/2016A student project using interviews with several aerospace firms, this essay explores how ethical concerns are managed within these organizations. Year 1998 More Info
Three Teaching Case Studies of Accidents in Nuclear Energy Development in Japan Added08/15/2006Updated01/29/2016An essay describing three historical Japanese cases and their use in the development of ethics education in Japan. Author(s) Hiroshi Iino Year 2006 More Info
Research Safety in Laboratories Added06/08/2006Updated01/19/2016A student's project about research safety in laboratories promted by her job as a new researcher in the laboratory where safety precautions were ignored. In this scenario, a student going into a lab tries to understand why researchers don't follow uniform procedures when disposing of toxic chemicals. Author(s) Gwen Crevensten Year 1995 More Info
The Love Canal Disaster: An Error in Engineering or Public Policy? A student-written essay dealing with the causes of the Love Canal toxic waste case. This essay was the second-place winner in a 1996 OEC contest for student-authored websites on topics in science and engineering ethics. Author(s) Joshua Hertz Year 1996 Read More
Reasonable Children: Science Teachers as Moral Educators Added01/01/2000 Updated10/06/2015 There is a form of critical thinking that includes moral and scientific thought. Children of school age are capable of this thought, and curriculi should be constructed to encourage it. To do this, science teachers must include ethical issues in their lessons. Author(s) Michael Pritchard Contributor(s) Michael Pritchard Year 2000 Read More
Chapter 1: How Ethics and Values Intersect with Science Assistance to teachers who wish to integrate ethics and values into their pre-college science classes. Chapter 1 is a discussion of a book that descibes the effect of the insertion of ethics/values into the teaching of science which rests on the assumption that ethics and values play a significant role in science. Author(s) Theodore Goldfarb Michael Pritchard Contributor(s) Michael Pritchard Year 1999 Read More
How Children and Adolescents Relate to Nature Added09/21/1999 Updated10/05/2015 A study of how children react to nature, natural objects, and the environment. Focuses on how children react to ethical conflicts about the local environment. (This paper was presented at the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University.) Author(s) Patricia Nevers Contributor(s) Patricia Nevers Year 1999 Read More
Ethics and Reverse Engineering Added09/05/1998Updated12/16/2015This student project uses interviews with Texas Instruments employees to explore the ramifications of reverse engineering. Author(s) John L. Wallberg Year 1998 More Info
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