Ethical assessment

Ethical assessment made by the principal/coordinating investigator... 

DCM helped us shape what we believe was a meaningful and ethical assessment process, one that affected multiple groups of people. 

Four interviewer. "I found it very interesting because it touched on the issue—can you be a capitalist and be ethical at the same time " He also notes that he was in the right place at the right time "Hanna was about to do Nokia s first ever ethical assessment" And so the film took shape and gained international co-production support. The story—the film s train—is deceptively simple Balmes follows Nokia executive Kaskinen and English consultant Louise Jamison to China, to visit the factory of Nokia s major charger supplier.]... 

This is tantamount to the rule cited in Chapter 3, that when there is a conflict between private and public interests, the latter must take precedence over the former. The question, however, is this should LeMessurier be viewed without qualification as an ethically responsible engineer, or did he do anything problematic that has hitherto been overlooked and that should have been taken into consideration in striving for a balanced ethical assessment of his engineering conduct ... 

To conclude our discussion of this case, Volkhard Knigge s ethical assessment of Topf Sons collaboration with the Nazi SS is worth quoting - and pondering - at length ... 

Patients must also be willing to participate. This depends on personal values and preferences and on a broader ethical assessment of responsibility for healthcare processes and outcomes. 

Each of the three broad categories of technological innovation in healthcare under consideration also gives rise to the need for more specific ethical assessment. 

Following what we consider a general trend in the engineering world, professional associations are quite acquainted with the need to provide ethical assessment to practicing engineers, but mostly in the field of micro-ethics. Macro ethics, the general conception beyond the framework of a project or the strictly professional commitment is not envisioned. However these associations are aware of the importance of the formation in those subjects for future graduates. 

A matrix of surveillance technologies that reflects assessments of usability and of the risks of violating both ethical standards and fundamental rights is represented by numerical scores awarded in the usability and fundamental rights assessments and ethics assessment. The main conclusions that in the context of the matrix can be drawn from the combination of usability (technology), fundamental rights (law) and moral risk (ethics) assessments for 14 surveillance technologies. 

Keywords Engineering Ethics Assessment Instruction Teaching qualifications Stage theory Teaching resources... 

Self, D. J., Ellison, E. M. (1998). Teaching engineering ethics Assessment of its influence on moral reasoning skills. Journal of Engineering Education, 87(1), 29-34. 

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