ETHICS CASES IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

摘要

This forum is a continuation of a regular series of columns on engineering ethics based on the Applied Ethics Case of the Month program, sponsored by the National Institute for Engineering Ethics (NIEE), Texas Tech University. The Case-of-the-Month program consists of applied ethics cases taken from actual professional practice and presented in narrative format on the NIEE's interactive Web site, with the names of the participants and the locations altered to preserve anonymity. Each case is linked to a series of suggested solutions, not all of which are necessarily ethical but which represent reactions commonly found in professional practice. Web site visitors are given the opportunity to vote on their preferred course of action for the dilemma, as well as to offer commentary. Results are tabulated at the end of the voting period and the statistical responses are reported, along with commentary and in some cases, the actual solution for the case.