creator Davis, Michael The author discusses why he believes that Hurricane Katrina, which is certainly the biggest engineering disaster in the history of the United States, is not a good case for teaching engineering ethics. This is for three major reasons. First, there is the question of what happened. Second, there is the question of what part engineers had in what happened, which decisions were theirs and which belonged to elected or appointed officials who were not engineers. Third, there is the question of what part engineering ethics had, or should have had, in the decisions engineered did make. We lack any dramatic moment such as the Challenger Disaster provided, a moment when ethics mattered in a way that is both precise and interesting. Submitted by Kelly Laas (laas@iit.edu) on 2011-10-06T21:44:13Z No. of bitstreams: 3 license_rdf: 23631 bytes, checksum: 0ebfb63a28ea1d6f51b802c66ebf651c (MD5) license_text: 23084 bytes, checksum: 24f8f2abcc0a604d988d82a6620de1dd (MD5) Using_Katrina_revised_ASEE_17_June_2006-2.pdf: 105143 bytes, checksum: e2dc44088e57d3101ab10dbeb7492e0b (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-10-06T21:44:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 license_rdf: 23631 bytes, checksum: 0ebfb63a28ea1d6f51b802c66ebf651c (MD5) license_text: 23084 bytes, checksum: 24f8f2abcc0a604d988d82a6620de1dd (MD5) Using_Katrina_revised_ASEE_17_June_2006-2.pdf: 105143 bytes, checksum: e2dc44088e57d3101ab10dbeb7492e0b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 resentation at the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference. Hyatt Regency, Chicago, IL. June 20, 2006. 2006 2006 2006

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en Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT Hurricane Katrina engineering ethics ethics education Article born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Open Access CSEP / Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:10226