Engineering Codes of Ethics : Analysis and Applications Luegenbiehl, Heinz C. Davis, Michael Challenger Codes of Ethics Engineering Ethics Professional Ethics This paper uses the events leading up to the explosion of the Challenger to begin a discussion about the important role professional codes of ethics play in shaping how professionals should respond to ethical questions and issues that come up in daily practice. The paper explores the history of codes of ethics, why different engineering professions, such as computer engineering, and mechanical engineering, have developed their own codes of ethics, and tries to answer the question, why obey your profession's code? The paper also analyzes a case study using the codes of ethics and offers a series of case studies for further discussion. Manuscript of an unpublished paper originally written to be part of the Exxon Modules for Applied Ethics Series. http://ethics.iit.edu/index1.php/Publications/Modules%20in%20Applied%20Ethics Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT 2008 1992-07-10 Technical report typescript application/pdf islandora:10159 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:10159 CSEP / Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions Illinois Institute of Technology en In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Open Access