FIGURE 1: Business decisions are made for a variety of reasons, including the cost of construction, energy costs, operating costs, owner preferences, past experiences, and industry trends, just to ...

Any engineering artifact—a bridge, software or something seemingly as simple as an electrical switch—can unintentionally cause harm. So engineering students need to think about the ethical aspects of ...

In our latest episode of Lexicon, we sat down with Dr. Karen Panetta, IEEE Fellow, Dean of Graduate Education at Tufts University’s School of Engineering, and co-inventor of the first digital twin.

Engineering has evolved beyond the equations, laboratory inventions, and drawings. Engineers now have a significant impact on public safety, data privacy, infrastructure reliability, environmental ...

No training in ethical theory, applied ethics, or philosophy is required for either the instructor or the students as they tackle these materials.This ethics module for software engineering courses ...

Michael McFarland, SJ, computer scientist and Jesuit priest, talks about why ethics is important for engineers and the impact of his Jesuit education on his interest in the human dimension of ...

In 1956, as an 18-year-old, I entered UC-Berkeley as a freshman in Civil Engineering. Coming from a chronically poor, dysfunctional family, and being a strong math and science student, engineering was ...

Even if it met the minimum standard for ethical conduct, the State Dept.'s environmental consultant for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project, Cardno Entrix, should have refrained from taking ...

I had only been working as a graduate engineer for a few years and was minding my own business working for a yacht designer when my boss asked me to get in touch with a person who was looking for ...