Engineering Ethics: Balancing Cost, Schedule, and Risk - Lessons Learned from the Space Shuttle

by Rosa Lynn B. Pinkus, Norman P. Hummon, Larry J. Shuman

Book Overview

How do engineers respond to ethical dilemmas that occur in practice? How do they view their individual and collective responsibilities? How do they make decisions before all the facts are in? Using the space shuttle program as its framework, this book examines the role of ethical decision making in the practice of engineering. In particular, the authors consider the design and development of the main engines of the space shuttle as a paradigm for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521437504
• ISBN13: 9780521437509
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"