Topics in Engineering Ethics
Topics bearing on engineering ethics of interest to engineers.
An Uncommunicative Research Supervisor
I need to publish some of my research but the supervisor who has worked most closely with me on it is failing to communicate so that we can publish togehter.
Engineering and Autism
I'm 49 years old. At age 40 I discovered I have Autism (Asperger Syndrome in particular). Knowledge of the problem has been of no help in finding employment. Maybe engineering doesn't want Autistics, regardless of other considerations? I'm sorry body is too long, blame brain dumps in Autism if you want.
Silent Spring
This is a book on ecology and how DDT and other pesticides are harmful to the enviroment.
Ethics , E-mail and Online affair
John and Sally "meet" on a bulletin board provided by a commercial network operator and then begin corresponding through e-mail. The operator has a "standard' set of acceptable use policies that prohibit sending (through e-mail) or posting (on either type of bulletin board) any 'defamatory, obscene, threatening, sexually explicit, ethnically offensive, or illegal material." John receives a private e-mail note from Sally's husband saying: "I know what's going on between you two, and I'm not putting up with it. It's too late to save her. She's a gonner." John notifies the operator and forwards a copy of this note, requesting that the operator notify the local police in Sally's home town (since John has no way of knowing where Sally lives).