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Title: Philosophy 370 : Moral Issues in Engineering, Engineering Ethics
Creator: Weil, Vivian
Date: 2009-07, 2009-08
Description: Syllabus of the Fall 2009 undergraduate course, Moral Issues in Engineering, taught by Dr. Vivian Weil.

Title: Ethical Considerations for Personnel Administrators and Human Resources Managers
Creator: Frankel, Mark S., Frankel, Mark S.
Date: 2005, 1984-06
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: Human resource professionals and personnel administrators in their professional role will inevitably make decisions that affect the welfare of...
Show moreHuman resource professionals and personnel administrators in their professional role will inevitably make decisions that affect the welfare of the organizations and the people they work for and with. Determining the "proper course of action" often raises ethical concerns. This paper discusses how ethical analysis and decision making can help human resource managers make decisions that benefit both the company and the company's employees.
Invited paper presented at the National Conference of the American Society for Personnel Administration, Chicago June 1984.
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Title: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Workplace : A Philosophical Inquiry
Creator: Ladenson, Robert F.
Date: 2005, 1979-11-01
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: Should the employees of a large private business be free to speak out on any subject without fear of dismissal or other sanctions even when...
Show moreShould the employees of a large private business be free to speak out on any subject without fear of dismissal or other sanctions even when they level harsh criticisms at their employers? In this paper I will argue that they should for reasons that closely parallel one of the fundamental bases for the principle of freedom of expression pertaining to the relation between individuals of the state. An important consequence of this view is that corporate employees should be free to speak without fear of sanction even when they make false allegations that lead to a decline in either productivity or profits.
Paper presented at the Conference on Business Ethics, Western Michigan University, November 1-2, 1979.
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Title: On the Need for Ethical Buying and Selling
Creator: Parker, Robert C.
Date: 2005, 1982-05
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: In 1978 the Center for the Study of the Professions at IIT conducted a survey for the National Association of Purchasing Management to...
Show moreIn 1978 the Center for the Study of the Professions at IIT conducted a survey for the National Association of Purchasing Management to determine the real ethical practices of industrial buyers in the United States. This survey started the Ethical Standards Committee thinking about the current ethical practices in the field, and this paper seeks to discuss the roots of some of these practices questions that arose after reviewing the results of this survey.
CSEP Occasional Papers No. 6, May 1982. Remarks Delivered at the Professional Ethics Luncheon Seminar, Americana Congress Hotel, Chicago, March 23, 1982
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Title: Ownership of Computer Programs
Creator: Snapper, John W.
Date: 2006, 1981-12-09
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: Discusses reasons for against copyrighting computer software programs. Reasons against include the potential for holding back scientific...
Show moreDiscusses reasons for against copyrighting computer software programs. Reasons against include the potential for holding back scientific discoveries. Though the labor that goes into creating computer programs does seem to create property rights, the principle of free thought seems to override this right. The author discusses some of the problems that exist in copyright, trade secret, and patent law and discusses why these laws should be changed to discourage secrecy so they do not interfere with free thought.
Presented at a meeting of the Collegiate Institute for Values and Science, University of Michigan, December 9, 1981
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Title: Engineering Codes of Ethics : Analysis and Applications
Creator: Luegenbiehl, Heinz C., Davis, Michael
Date: 2008, 1992-07-10
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: This paper uses the events leading up to the explosion of the Challenger to begin a discussion about the important role professional codes of...
Show moreThis 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
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Title: Critical Attributes of Good Process Decisions: a Guide for Reflective Special Education Hearing Officers
Creator: Ladenson, Robert, Ladenson, Robert
Date: 2011, 2011
Description: This monograph offers guidance for special education due process hearing officers in their efforts to write good due process decisions. It has...
Show moreThis monograph offers guidance for special education due process hearing officers in their efforts to write good due process decisions. It has four sections dealing respectively with: - Summary and explanation of factual findings; - Justification of legal conclusions; - Framing and determination of rulings and orders; - Writing choices in a special education due process opinion as to word selection, organizational structure, style, rhetoric, and tone. The monograph is not intended to replace, but instead to supplement, the use of comprehensive summaries of substantive and procedural special education law. It aims to address an essential, yet presently unmet need – for an educational approach that helps special education due process hearing officers to focus critical reflection upon processes involved both in thinking through issues in a case and finding words to express the conclusions arrived at in writing a decision.
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Title: Limitations Upon Legitimate Authority to Suspend and Expel K-12 Public School Students: A Moral Analysis
Creator: Ladenson, Robert
Date: 2011, 2011
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: This paper presents a moral analysis of the limitations upon legitimate authority to suspend and expel students in K-12 public schools. The...
Show moreThis paper presents a moral analysis of the limitations upon legitimate authority to suspend and expel students in K-12 public schools. The paper has four sections. The first presents two case vignettes that pose difficult moral issues concerning suspensions and expulsions in K-12 public schools. The second section develops an analysis of the moral bases of a child’s right to receive a K-12 public education. Section three extends the analysis in section two, relating it specifically to limitations upon morally legitimate authority to suspend and expel students in K-12 public schools. The fourth section returns to the two case vignettes and discusses the moral issues they pose from the standpoint of the analysis developed in sections two and three. . The analysis, I hope, will benefit educators, parents, and the general public in helping to identify, clarify their understanding of, and gain insight into principles, which, I believe underlie any morally justifiable policy concerning K-12 public school suspensions and expulsions.
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Title: Moral Responsibility and Whistleblowing in the Nuclear Industry : Browns Ferry and Three Mile Island
Creator: Weil, Vivian
Date: 2005, 1983
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: This paper analyzes the actions of a number of Nuclear Engineers at Browns Ferry and Three Mile Island who resigned from their positions in...
Show moreThis paper analyzes the actions of a number of Nuclear Engineers at Browns Ferry and Three Mile Island who resigned from their positions in order to highlight the safety concerns they saw in the U.S. nuclear power program and nuclear power plant safety. The paper includes a description and chronology of events, and an in-depth case study analysis of the moral responsibility of engineers and whistleblowing.
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Title: Ethics and Biotechnology - Identifying Issues in the Face of Uncertainities
Creator: Weil, Vivian
Date: 2009, 1995
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: The aim of this paper is to delineate ethical issues raised by applications of recombinant DNA technology in agriculture.

Title: The Moral Status of Loyality
Creator: Baron, Marcia
Date: 2009, 1984
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: This module looks at the moral issue of putting one’s loyalty to his or her company before other moral demands, such as one’s professional...
Show moreThis module looks at the moral issue of putting one’s loyalty to his or her company before other moral demands, such as one’s professional judgment and questions of public welfare. Focusing on the issues specific to engineers, the module analyzes the concept and nature of loyalty, isolates its positive and negative features, and determines, within broad parameters, when it is right to act loyally and when other moral considerations take precedence. Includes a bibliography of related materials.
Sponsorship: Exxon Education Foundation
The Module Series in Applied Ethics was produced by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions in under a grant from the Exxon Education Foundation. This series is intended for use in a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs in such areas as science and/or technology public policy, and professional ethics courses in engineering, business, and computer science.
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Title: Professional Responsibility for Harmful Actions
Creator: Curd, Martin, May, Larry
Date: 2009, 1984
Publisher: Kendalll/Hunt Publishing Company
Description: This module discusses the professional responsibility for harmful action, and the legal and moral duty of due care to avoid harming others or...
Show moreThis module discusses the professional responsibility for harmful action, and the legal and moral duty of due care to avoid harming others or risking their harm. The module discusses the relations and differences between legal and moral duty to avoid causing harm, and the differences between intentional and unintentional harm. The author uses examples and cases to illustrate different types of negligence that can occur in the engineering profession, and includes commentary and discussion questions. Includes a bibliography of related materials and legal cases.
Sponsorship: Exxon Education Foundation
The Module Series in Applied Ethics was produced by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions in under a grant from the Exxon Education Foundation. This series is intended for use in a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs in such areas as science and/or technology public policy, and professional ethics courses in engineering, business, and computer science.
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Title: Risk-Benefit Analysis Concerning Public Safety and Health
Creator: Sagoff, Mark
Date: 2009, 1985
Publisher: Kendalll/Hunt Publishing Company
Description: This module looks at the use of risk-benefit analysis to answer questions engineers often face when making decisions about public safety and...
Show moreThis module looks at the use of risk-benefit analysis to answer questions engineers often face when making decisions about public safety and health. It explains how risk-benefit analysis can be used in answering questions such as “how safe is safe enough?” and then defends the thesis that this form of analysis cannot provide answers to questions about public safety and health. While risk-benefit analysis offers guidance for policy decisions, it does not provide an adequate basis for reaching or for justifying these decisions. The module looks at the ethical basis and free market justification of this form analysis, and then looks at the practical methods that risk-benefit analysis employs and the difficulties faced in using these methods, such as the predictability of harmful events occurring, and the human factor. Includes bibliography of related materials.
Sponsorship: Exxon Education Foundation
The Module Series in Applied Ethics was produced by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions in under a grant from the Exxon Education Foundation. This series is intended for use in a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs in such areas as science and/or technology public policy, and professional ethics courses in engineering, business, and computer science.
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Title: Technology Assessment : A Historical Approach
Creator: Cameron, Rondo, Millard, A.j.
Date: 2009, 1985
Publisher: Kendalll/Hunt Publishing Company
Description: This module discusses the unique role engineers play in technology assessment; or the “process of discovering the potential benefits and risks...
Show moreThis module discusses the unique role engineers play in technology assessment; or the “process of discovering the potential benefits and risks of new technologies, weighing the social gains against the social costs, and then taking steps to influence the rate and direction of technological change.” This module deals with the ethical decisions of James Watt and his assessment of the steam engine, and Thomas Edison and his assessment of electricity. The module then looks at the more modern example of nuclear power, and shows the problems that arise when engineers fail to properly access the moral and ethical issues raised by the technologies they develop. Includes discussion questions and an annotated bibliography of related materials.
Sponsorship: Exxon Education Foundation
The Module Series in Applied Ethics was produced by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions in under a grant from the Exxon Education Foundation. This series is intended for use in a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs in such areas as science and/or technology public policy, and professional ethics courses in engineering, business, and computer science.
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Title: Unscrambling Ethics for Managers
Creator: Weil, Vivian
Date: 2005, 1988-04-26
Description: Though people tend to wonder what there is to talk about when discussing business ethics, many conversations with business faculty at IIT have...
Show moreThough people tend to wonder what there is to talk about when discussing business ethics, many conversations with business faculty at IIT have lead the author to believe that ethics is large part of business practice. The author explores why business people can be timid when talking about ethics and discusses three major questions surrounding this topic. One, is it possible to teach ethics to people who are no longer children, two, how do you spot ethical problems, and 3, how can you approach ethical problems.
Talk delivered to Frontenac Company Seminar, Carefree Colorado, April 26, 1988.
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Title: Whistleblowing : Ethical and Legal Issues in Expressing Dissent
Creator: Peterson, Farrell, Dan James C.
Date: 2009, 1986
Publisher: Kendalll/Hunt Publishing Company
Description: This module discusses the history of whistleblowing and some of the ethical ethical dilemmas faced by whistleblowers, including the...
Show moreThis module discusses the history of whistleblowing and some of the ethical ethical dilemmas faced by whistleblowers, including the conflicting values of loyalty to one’s employer and protecting the public good, clashes between professional judgment and organizational authority, and the legal aspects of whistleblowing. It also includes a summary of the Browns Ferry Case (Weil, 1977) and discussion questions. Includes annotated bibliography of related materials.
Sponsorship: Exxon Education Foundation
The Module Series in Applied Ethics was produced by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions in under a grant from the Exxon Education Foundation. This series is intended for use in a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs in such areas as science and/or technology public policy, and professional ethics courses in engineering, business, and computer science.
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Title: Mentions of Ethics Codes in Social Media: A Twitter Analysis
Creator: Laas, Kelly, Hildt, Elisabeth, Wu, Ying
Date: 2022, 2022-01-03
Publisher: Springer, Cham
Collection: Codes of Ethics and Ethical Guidelines: Emerging Technologies and Changing Fields

Title: An Introduction to the Societal Roles of Ethics Codes
Creator: Laas, Kelly, Davis, Michael, Hildt, Elisabeth
Date: 2022, 2022-01-03
Publisher: Springer, Cham
Description: In this collected volume, we are interested in the roles of ethics codes and ethical guidelines in professions in which research and...
Show moreIn this collected volume, we are interested in the roles of ethics codes and ethical guidelines in professions in which research and innovation play an important role and where emerging technologies bring about considerable, sometimes fast-paced change.
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Collection: Codes of Ethics and Ethical Guidelines: Emerging Technologies and Changing Fields

Title: Informed Consent in Digital Data Management
Creator: Hildt, Elisabeth, Laas, Kelly
Date: 2022, 2022-01-03
Publisher: Springer, Cham
Description: This article discusses the role of informed consent, a well-known concept and standard established in the field of medicine, in ethics codes...
Show moreThis article discusses the role of informed consent, a well-known concept and standard established in the field of medicine, in ethics codes relating to digital data management. It analyzes the significance allotted to informed consent and informed consent-related principles in ethics codes, policies, and guidelines by presenting the results of a study focused on 31 ethics codes, policies, and guidelines held as part of the Ethics Codes Collection. The analysis reveals that up to now, there is a limited number of codes of ethics, policies, and guidelines on digital data management. Informed consent often is a central component in these codes and guidelines. While there undoubtedly are significant similarities between informed consent in medicine and digital data management, in ethics codes and guidelines, informed consent-related standards in some fields such as marketing are weaker and less strict. The article concludes that informed consent is an essential standard in digital data management that can help effectively shape future practices in the field. However, a more detailed reflection on the specific content and role of informed consent and informed consent-related standards in the various areas of digital data management is needed to avoid the weakening and dilution of standards in contexts where there are no clear legal regulations.
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Collection: Codes of Ethics and Ethical Guidelines: Emerging Technologies and Changing Fields

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