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 ...

The joint ACM/IEEE-CS Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct 38 contains a number of principles to guide the judgment and conduct of software engineers, organized around the ...

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.