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Engineering Ethics
W. Richard Bowen
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Description for Engineering Ethics
Paperback. This book gives engineers an overall ethical direction with direct practical outcomes. It focuses on military engineering and water provision in developing countries but touches other topics such as engineering ethics relative to medical and business ethics. Num Pages: 111 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JNRV; KJMV6; TBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 6. Weight in Grams: 180.
Around the turn of the millennium, a young woman with outstanding academic achievements in science and mathematics applied to study engineering at a Eu- pean university. She had chosen to study engineering particularly because of the opportunities she expected it would give her to make a contribution to the well- ing of others. It happened that the university engineering department to which she applied had just been involved in the design of a vehicle for a world speed record attempt. When the young woman visited the university for interview this “triumph of technology” was presented as being a quintessential example ... Read more
Around the turn of the millennium, a young woman with outstanding academic achievements in science and mathematics applied to study engineering at a Eu- pean university. She had chosen to study engineering particularly because of the opportunities she expected it would give her to make a contribution to the well- ing of others. It happened that the university engineering department to which she applied had just been involved in the design of a vehicle for a world speed record attempt. When the young woman visited the university for interview this “triumph of technology” was presented as being a quintessential example ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
111
Condition
New
Number of Pages
111
Place of Publication
England, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849968287
SKU
V9781849968287
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99-15
About W. Richard Bowen
The author is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering. He holds chairs in the Schools of Engineering at the University of Wales Swansea and the University of Surrey. He has carried out extensive consultancy for industry, government departments, research councils and universities on an international basis, currently through i-NewtonWales.
Reviews for Engineering Ethics
From the reviews: This book deals with engineering ethics in an unusual and interesting way. Here, Bowen (international consultant and fellow, UK Royal Academy of Engineering) provides a broad, big-picture presentation of the topic by emphasizing the aspirational and philosophical aspects of the engineering profession... This well-written work is a welcome addition to the engineering ethics literature... Recommended. ... Read more