Engineering as a Global Profession

Michael Davis

doi:10.5771/9781538155059

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-5504-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-5505-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 306
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Permissions No access
4. Preface No access
1. 1. 1. Occupation, Discipline, and Profession No access
  2. 2. Philosophical Approaches No access
  3. 3. The Socratic Conception Explained No access
  4. 4. Is There a Profession There? No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. References No access
2. 1. 1. The Problem No access
  2. 2. The American Engineer at Home No access
  3. 3. The Engineer in Someone Else’s Home No access
  4. 4. The Chinese Engineer at Home No access
  5. 5. Definition? No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
3. 1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. 3. Some Differences between Architects and Engineers Today No access
  3. 4. History’s Contribution to these Differences No access
  4. 5. Conclusions No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. References No access
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4. 1. 1. Some Differences between Chemists and Engineers No access
  2. 2. Ethics in General No access
  3. 3. Professional Ethics No access
  4. 4. Chemistry and Engineering: Two Professions No access
  5. 5. Back to Eaton No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
5. 1. Notes No access
  2. References No access
6. 1. 1. The Changing Relation No access
  2. 2. Business Ethics versus Engineering Ethics No access
  3. 3. Importance of Disagreement between Engineers and Managers No access
  4. 4. A Proposal No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. References No access
1. 1. 1. Function No access
  2. 2. Origin of this Approach No access
  3. 3. Discipline No access
  4. 4. Occupation and Profession No access
  5. 5. Profession and Codes of Engineering Ethics No access
  6. 6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. References No access
2. 1. 1. Profession and Some Related Concepts No access
  2. 2. Relation of Profession to Ethics of Technology No access
  3. 3. Advantages for Study of Technology No access
  4. 4. Advice on Using the Lens of Profession No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. References No access
1. 1. 1. Preliminary Caveats No access
  2. 2. Engineers’ Responsibility for What They Do No access
  3. 3. The Rationality of Taking Responsibility No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. References No access
2. 1. 1. Culture, Organization, and Law No access
  2. 2. Professions, Organizations, and Legislation No access
  3. 3. A Possible Explanation of the Question No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. References No access
3. 1. 1. Origin of Terms No access
  2. 2. Determining Engineers’ Responsibilities No access
  3. 3. Relation to Social Justice and Social Responsibilities No access
  4. 4. Conclusion: Engineers as Revolutionaries? No access
  5. Note No access
  6. References No access
4. 1. 1. Micro, Macro, and the Great in-Between No access
  2. 2. Engineering Ethics as Meso-Ethics No access
  3. 3. Another Objection No access
  4. 4. Is Macro-Ethics Ethics? No access
  5. 5. Concluding Remarks No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
5. 1. 1. The Minimum No access
  2. 2. Contract and Reasonable Care No access
  3. 3. The Blame Game No access
  4. Note No access
  5. References No access
6. 1. 1. Culture No access
  2. 2. Culture and Globalism No access
  3. 3. A Ulysses Contract No access
  4. 4. Global Standards No access
  5. 5. Curriculum No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
7. 1. 1. Spock as Engineer No access
  2. 2. Analyzing Emotion No access
  3. 3. The Emotional Life of a Good Engineer No access
  4. 4. Emotions and Engineering Ethics No access
  5. 5. Pedagogical Conclusions No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
1. 1. 1. The Scandal Begins No access
  2. 2. The “Facts” No access
  3. 3. The Engineer as Employee No access
  4. 4. The Engineer as Member of a Profession No access
  5. 5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
2. 1. 1. Caveats No access
  2. 2. Why Compare these Four Disasters? No access
  3. 3. Three Mile Island No access
  4. 4. Chernobyl No access
  5. 5. Fukushima No access
  6. 6. Katrina No access
  7. 7. Conclusions No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. References No access
3. 1. 1. Dilemmas and Defense No access
  2. 2. Ethical Issues No access
  3. 3. Engineers in the Global Arms Industry No access
  4. 4. How Engineers Might Help with Some Ethical Issues No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. References No access
4. 1. The Question No access
  2. Refining the Question No access
  3. How Engineers as Such Plan No access
  4. The Useful Life of an Artifact (or Process) No access
  5. How Far into the Future Can Engineers as Such Plan? No access
  6. How Far into the Future Should Engineers as Such Plan No access
  7. Planning in General No access
  8. Concluding Remarks No access
  9. Notes No access
  10. References No access
5. 1. 1. Study of Engineering: Four Kinds No access
  2. 2. Empirical Research: the Fourth Sense of “Study” No access
  3. 3. Philosophers Doing Empirical Research No access
  4. 4. Three Empirical Studies of Engineering No access
  5. 5. Conclusions: A Research Agenda No access
  6. References No access
Index No access Pages 303 - 306