Talk:Engineering ethics

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[edit] The "History" section

This reads more like a history of technological development that one of engineering ethics. The material on James Watt is interesting but uncited. I'm expecting to yank this.

The impression this gives is that ethical development in engineering has revolved around the strucutral failures. That certainly addresses the "hold paramount the public" ethic, but it's only part of the whole story. Many case studies revolve around conflicts-of-interest and other more "business ethics" issues. There's a huge emphasis now on bribery and corruption. ASCE, NSPE, ICE, and no doubt others are all over this now. This passage will need to be addressed.

There are some spectacular failures that drove the public to demand that engineers be placed in charge. The Boston molasses flood was instrumental in moving licensure laws onto the books in New England at the time.

There's a fair amount of non-neutral tone to this as well that need to be cleaned up.

I've got to get some sleep and will be tackling this tomorrow. I'll leave the {{inuse}} tag on for a bit. Thank you for your patience. MARussellPESE 02:08, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Whoopee! I'm done! MARussellPESE 05:21, 21 October 2006 (UTC)