Workplace Culture and the Ethically Responsible Engineer

Whether someone becomes an ethically responsible engineer depends partly on her/his personal values, ideals, and resolve. However, society can encourage engineers to be ethically responsible in their professional practice by introducing appropriate incentives, social innovations, and legislation to enable, benefit, and protect those who want to fulfill their ethical responsibilities. In the contemporary United States, the social infrastructure supportive of ethically responsible engineering practice is modest. Nevertheless, would-be ethically responsible engineers should be aware of the resources and options available to them. Discussion follows of three kinds of relevant resources and options, two societal and one individual in nature.  

The Ethically Responsible Engineer Concepts and Cases for Students and Professionals, First Edition. Robert McGinn. 2015 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Published 2015 by John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

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