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W. Richard Bowen - Engineering Ethics: Challenges and Opportunities - 9783319040950 - V9783319040950
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Engineering Ethics: Challenges and Opportunities

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Description for Engineering Ethics: Challenges and Opportunities Hardcover. Engineering Ethics Num Pages: 146 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; TBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.

Engineering Ethics: Challenges and Opportunities aims to set a new agenda for the engineering profession by developing a key challenge: can the great technical innovation of engineering be matched by a corresponding innovation in the acceptance and expression of ethical responsibility? Central features of this stimulating text include:

·          An analysis of engineering as a technical and ethical practice providing great opportunities for promoting the wellbeing and agency of individuals and communities.

·          Elucidation of the ethical opportunities of engineering in three key areas:

­   Engineering for Peace, emphasising practical amelioration of the root causes of conflict rather than military solutions.

­   Engineering for ... Read more

­   Engineering for Development, providing effective solutions for the reduction of extreme poverty.

·          Innovative strategies for implementing these ethical opportunities are described:

­   Emphasis on the personal responsibility of every engineer and on the benefits of supporting social structures.

­   Use of language and concepts that are appealing to business managers and political decision makers.

·          Future prospects for increasing the acceptance and expression of ethical responsibility by engineers are envisaged.

·          Engineering Ethics: Challenges and Opportunities provides engineers, decision makers and the wider public with new understanding of the potential of engineering for the promotion of human flourishing. 

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
Number of Pages
146
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319040950
SKU
V9783319040950
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About W. Richard Bowen
Professor W. Richard Bowen, FREng is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering. He holds chairs in engineering at University of Wales Swansea and the University of Surrey and has carried out consultancy on an international basis through i-Newton Wales. His contributions to the development of membrane separation processes and atomic force microscopy are widely regarded as world ... Read more

Reviews for Engineering Ethics: Challenges and Opportunities
From the book reviews: “Engineering ethics is a breath of fresh air for those of us who have argued for many years that the engineering profession needs to dramatically widen its sense of ethical responsibility to include issues of war and peace, as well as social justice. The book makes an important contribution to the changing notion of ethical ... Read more

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