Ebook Engineering ethics: peace, justice, and the earth

A response of the engineering profession to the challenges of security, poverty and
under-development, and environmental sustainability is described. Ethical codes,
which govern the behavior of engineers, are examined from a historical perspective
linking the prevailing codes to models of the natural world. A new ethical code based
on a recently introduced model of Nature as an integral community is provided and
discussed. Applications of the new code are described using a case study approach.
With the ethical code based on an integral community in place, a new design
algorithm is developed and also explored using case studies. Implications of the
proposed changes in ethics and design on...

Từ khóa: Challenge of Security, Challenge of Poverty, Challenge of Environmental Sustainability, Under-Development, Historical Overview