FIGURE 1: Business decisions are made for a variety of reasons, including the cost of construction, energy costs, operating costs, owner preferences, past experiences, and industry trends, just to ...
Engineering shapes lives, infrastructure, and technology—but also faces complex moral crossroads. From mechanical systems to AI, ethical decision-making is now a critical skill for engineers.
The existence of ethical conflict, so obvious and so painful in our experience, has led some to question whether there is any common basis at all for ethical judgment. In this view, commonly called ...
I joined Arm because of its amazing people and world-class technology. But while I’m constantly excited by the possibilities of what we can achieve, as Arm’s General Counsel I must also consider the ...
Humans are not inherently born with ethics. Instead, these moral principles are instilled through our environment. A part of that environment is education and the values taught through schooling. Here ...
Engineering has evolved beyond the equations, laboratory inventions, and drawings. Engineers now have a significant impact on public safety, data privacy, infrastructure reliability, environmental ...
Chairman Eric Schmidt speaks May 3, 2019, at a Defense Innovation Board event at the Pentagon. (DOD / Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith) The Defense Innovation Board debuted a shiny new document on Thursday — ...
The story of Occidental Engineering, which is fictional but hardly implausible, illustrates several important points about ethics. First of all, ethics is normative. That is, it involves making ...