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- Lab Safety Manual
- Creator
- Unknown
- Date
- 2010, 2010
- Title
- PA 508 Student Computer Usage Survey: PA 508 Student Survey
- Creator
- Ahrens, Aric G.
- Date
- 2010-01-19, 2010-01-19
- Description
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Included are a survey, and the results in graphic form. The survey was designed to find out how and where the Chinese contingent of Master of...
Show moreIncluded are a survey, and the results in graphic form. The survey was designed to find out how and where the Chinese contingent of Master of Public Administration students used computers. The focus was to determine whether they preferred to use computers on the Downtown Campus, where classes were taught, or on Main Campus, where most of the students lived.
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- Title
- The Moral Legislature
- Creator
- Davis, Michael
- Date
- 2006, 1985-11-05
- Publisher
- Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
- Description
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This paper is an experiment in what John Rawls recently called "Kantian constructiivism". It seeks to establish a "suitable connection between...
Show moreThis paper is an experiment in what John Rawls recently called "Kantian constructiivism". It seeks to establish a "suitable connection between a particular conception of the person and first principles of [morality] by means of a procedure of construction. Yet, it differs from Rawls' similar efforts in a number of ways. The emphasis is morality generally, not justice in particular. The construction attempts to be more "realistic" especially in substituting external procedures for Rawls' "veil of ignorance". These differences are, I hope, at least suggested by substituting "the moral legislature" for Rawls' "original position". Section I of this paper explains further what motivates the sort of construction proposed, sections II-V describe the moral legislature itself, explaining as well why it makes sense to construct it as I do and how it differs from some obvious alternatives. Section VI concludes with an example of how the moral legislature might be used, the sketch of an argument for the claim that positive law cannot in in generally be morally obliging.
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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
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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
- 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The aim of this paper is to delineate ethical issues raised by applications of recombinant DNA technology in agriculture.
- Title
- The Engineering Significance of Limit Analysis
- Creator
- Hodge, Philip G. Jr.
- Date
- 2011-05-12, 1958-04
- Publisher
- Department of Mechanics, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Description
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By definition, the limit load on a structure is the unique magnitude of the given loads under which a structure can first deform if it is made...
Show moreBy definition, the limit load on a structure is the unique magnitude of the given loads under which a structure can first deform if it is made of a rigid-perfectly plastic material. The significance of the limit load for a structure made of a real material is discussed in relation to a simple truss.
Sponsorship: Contract No. Nonr 140604
This research was sponsored by the federal government. The appropriate Department of Defense database, DTIC Online Access Controlled, was consulted prior to submission to confirm that the report has no distribution limitations and may therefore be made available to the public online.
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