Engineering as a Global Profession by Davis, Michael;

Long description:

"While this book begins with the analysis of engineering as a profession, it concentrates on a question that the last two decades seem to have made critical: Is engineering one global profession (like medicine) or many national or regional professions (like law)? While science and technology studies (STS) have increasingly taken an ""empirical turn"", much of STS research is unclear enough about the professional responsibility of engineers that STS still tends to avoid the subject, leaving engineering ethics without the empirical research needed to teach it as a global profession. The philosophy of technology has tended to do the same. This book's intervention is to improve the way STS, as well as the philosophy of technology, approaches the study of engineering. This is work in the philosophy of engineering and the attempt to understand engineering as a reasonable undertaking."

Table of Contents:

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Preface

Part I: Distinguishing Engineering from other Professions
1.Profession
2.Engineering-From Chicago to Shantou
3.Why Architects Are Not Engineers
4.Distinguishing Chemists from Engineers
5.Will Software Engineers ever be Engineers?
6.Engineering and Business Management: The Odd Couple

Part II: The Study of Engineering as a Profession
7.Methodological Problems in the Study of Engineering
8.Profession as a Lens for Studying Technology

Part III: Professional Responsibility of Engineers
9.""Ain't No One Here But Us Social Forces""
10.Engineering Ethics, Individuals, and Organizations
11.""Social Responsibility"" of Engineers
12.Macro-, Micro-, and Meso-Ethics
13.Doing the Minimum
14.Re-inventing the Wheel: ""Global Engineering Ethics""
15.In Praise of Emotion in Engineering

Part IV: Engineering's Globalism
16.The Whistle Not Blown: WV, Diesels, and Engineers
17.Three Nuclear Disasters and a Hurricane: Reflections
18.Ethical Issues in the Global Arms Industry
19.Temporal Limits