Engineering Ethics Blog

Here's a little quiz. I'm going to give you a passage from the 1939 novel The Sword In the Stone , about King Arthur's tutelag...

Since death is one of the things we try to avoid in doing engineering ethics, it only stands to reason that we need to have a good, widely a...

America's space program has always been interesting from an engineering ethics perspective. During the race to the moon in the 1960s, w...

Last Tuesday, Feb. 2, the U. S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a synopsis of its final report on the crash of Flight 3...

"When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not ...

Two weeks ago tomorrow, the worst earthquake in two centuries hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The official death toll has exceeded 100,000 and i...

The government of the People's Republic of China has only nominal regard for freedom of speech. It considers censorship part of its job...

After Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to explode his underwear on a Christmas-day flight from Holland to the U. S. last year, a lot of peop...

Not that the scientists and politicians from Al Gore to the attendees of last month's Copenhagen summit are completely without rationali...

Most engineering is carried out in a context of complex global economic and social interactions that share certain underlying assumptions. ...

It might have been Isaac Asimov who was once asked in an interview about the future of the job market, and how advances in computing might l...

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency has just got itself a new pair of choppers. It did this last week (Dec. 7, to be exact) by findin...

California likes to think of itself as leading the nation in various progressive measures such as environmental consciousness. Last Nov. 18...

A little over a week ago, according to the New York Times , someone posted a large number of emails and other internal correspondence that t...

Every now and then we take a look at ethics in general: what ethics is, how to think about it, and, although you don't have to figure t...

A good fraction of classic engineering-ethics cases are concerned with accidents involving air transport of some kind, with commercial airli...