Engineering ethics : an industrial perspective / Gail D. Baura.
| Author/creator | Baura, Gail D. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, ©2006. |
| Description | xix, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Contents | A personal engineering ethics threshold -- Options for action when an engineering ethics threshold is reached -- 1978: Ford Pinto recall -- 1981: Kansas City Hyatt Regency skywalk collapse -- 1986: Challenger space shuttle explosion -- 1989: Exxon Valdez oil spill -- 1989: San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge earthquake collapse -- 1994: Bjork-Shiley heart valve defect -- 1999: Y2K software conversion -- 2002: Bell Laboratories scientific fraud -- 2002: Ford Explorer rollover -- 2003: Columbia space shuttle explosion -- 2003: Guidant Ancure Endograft System -- 2003: Northeast blackout -- 2004: Indian Ocean tsunami -- Anonymous industrial engineering ethics cases. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2006296555 |
| ISBN | 012088531X |
| ISBN | 9780120885312 |