This story of Occidental Engineering is provided by Michael McFarland, visiting scholar at the Ethics Center and former president of College of the Holy Cross. It is a fictional case study designed to ...

When we are faced with an ethical issue, whether it is in the evaluation of a case, the choice of a course of action, or the formulation of a policy, there are a number of questions that we need to ...

First, people need to understand and appreciate the issues, whether it’s why ethics is important in engineering or why weapon x is bad and needs to be banned. This is primarily about education.