Online Ethics Center for Engineering

Three other intra-organizational innovations deserve brief mention. First, the National Institute of Engineering Ethics (NllE), the lEBE, and the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Research (OEC) once had ethics hot lines or help lines that engineers could use anonymously to report ethics concerns or seek information and advice about ethics issues they were facing at work. Those services no longer exist. 

Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Research. 2011. Glossary. National Academy of Engineering. (www.onlineethics.org/Default.aspx id=2960) May 13. 

Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Research. 2011. Codes of Ethics in English. National Academy of Engineering, May 13. (www.onlineethics.org/Resomces/ethcodes/ EnglishCodes.aspx) (Provides quick access to many and varied ethics codes drawn from a wide array of engineering and engineering-related disciplines.)... 

Hollander, R. (2010). Opening remarks, APPE 2010. Online Ethics Center for Engineering, www. onlineethics.org/Topics/Enviro/EnviroResources/APPE2010/23243.aspx... 

Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Research (National Academy of Engineering) WWW. onlineetMcs. oig to provide engineers and engineering students with resources... Cases, scenarios, discussion points, codes Multiple codes of ethics from international locations and published in multiple languages, essays on international engineering ethics topics... 

National Academy of Engineering. (2013). Online ethics center for engineering and research. Retrieved 12 Mar 2013, from http //www.onlineethics.org/... 

It is important for an engineer, or one preparing for entry into the profession, to develop the ability to address, in an ethical fashion, significant workplace problems that may involve difficult choices. For this purpose, the Online Ethics Center (OEC) for Engineering and Science (formerly the World Wide Web Ethics Center for Engineering and Science), was established in 1995 under a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Center, located at Case-Western Reserve University, provides very extensive educational resources, including more than 100 case studies, at the Web site ... 

While there is considerable overlap in the ethical issues in the fields of biomedical engineering and medicine, biomedical engineers also sometimes face ethical dilemmas that are unique to their profession. Issues such as safety, intellectual property ownership, risk disclosure, whistle blowing, and engineering professional codes of ethics are all examples. The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology is a valuable resource in this regard, and maybe accessed online at http // ethics.iit.edu. In the following sections some brief case studies are offered for review and discussion. 

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