Engineering ethics : an industrial perspective / Gail D. Baura.

Author/creator Baura, Gail D.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBoston : Elsevier Academic Press, ©2006.
Description1 online resource (xix, 220 pages) : illustrations
Supplemental ContentEbook Central
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.
Dissertation noteEbooks.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formPrint version: Baura, Gail D. Engineering ethics. Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, ©2006
Genre/formAcademic theses.
Genre/formCase studies.
Genre/formAcademic theses.
Genre/formThèses et écrits académiques.

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