FIGURE 1: Business decisions are made for a variety of reasons, including the cost of construction, energy costs, operating costs, owner preferences, past experiences, and industry trends, just to ...

A new Code of Ethical Conduct for engineering professionals comes into force on 1 July. Institution of Professional Engineers (IPENZ) Chief Executive Susan Freeman-Greene says the Code sets out ...

A phase II $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will help Dahm and a cohort of researchers across three ...

In practice when we are faced with an ethical dilemma, we seldom think it through from first principles. We usually draw on existing experience and past judgments. Making a sound ethical judgment is ...

S. Travis Waller is a Director at Mobility Thinking Pty Ltd. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Transport for NSW, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd and CISCO Systems. Kourosh ...

The short answer to this question is: yes, they do, but it is perhaps in the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ that the real need and necessity for ethics among engineers and the engineering profession unfolds.

A senior design analysis of Engineering Ethics and the challenge of building a modular house in post-earthquake Haiti. The following article (and accompanying PowerPoint slideshow) was written by ...

Far before I ever stepped foot into a CU engineering classroom, I swore off the idea of ever working for an oil company. I’ve always been a staunch environmentalist and from that perspective, fewer ...

The news keeps getting worse for Volkswagen. Following a scandal last month that exposed a software hack rigging diesel vehicles to falsely pass emissions tests, the company is now planning widespread ...