Hold Paramount: The Engineer S Responsibility to Society

by P. Aarne Vesilind, Alastair S. Gunn, P. Aarne Vesiland

Book Overview

This practical and essential text, co-authored by an engineer and an ethicist, covers ethical dilemmas that any engineer might encounter on the job, emphasizing the responsibility of a practicing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 053439258X
• ISBN13: 9780534392581
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: CL Engineering
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Readable novel with engaging side trips

An engaging short novel about an engineer, interspersed with side-bars on philosophy, history, and several well-known historical case studies. Like many other successful books on engineering ethics, co-authorship by an engineer and a philosopher/ethicist results in a thoughtful perspective on practical dilemmas that any engineer might encounter. By the time the reader has finished the book, essentially all of the categories of ethical conflicts encountered by engineers and addressed in professional engineering codes of ethics have been illustrated. This book (or just sections of it) would be a valuable supplement to almost any engineering design course.