Engineering Ethics

NSPE provides a wide selection of ethics resources that can help prepare for dealing with difficult issues.

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University conducts programs in many disciplines including technology, bioethics, business and product safety ethics

Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions Illinois Institute of Technology. A database of ethics case studies from the fields of science, engineering, the social sciences, and business.

The purpose of this site is to provide resources and tools for teachers of research ethics.

Case studies and other resources for teaching research ethics

Free classroom activities, co-designed by scientists and teachers, designed to bring contemporary research and authentic data into the classroom. Data Nuggets feature a scientist role model and the story of what inspired their research.

The NCCSTS Case Collection, created and curated by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, on behalf of the University at Buffalo, contains nearly a thousand peer-reviewed case studies on a variety of topics in all areas of science.

The purpose of the Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism at Texas Tech University is to provide engineering ethics and professionalism education, research, and communications to students, faculty, staff, and engineers in industry, government and private practice, other professionals, and citizens in the community, state, and nation.

Provides engineers and engineering students with resources for understanding and addressing ethically significant problems that arise in their work.

A blog about current issues in the field of engineering, by Karl Stephan, a practicing engineer who also teaching as the University of Texas, San Marcos.

Discussion of ethics and how they apply to engineers.

Playlist produced by American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE).

In this edition of ASCE Interchange, ASCE interviews Steve Starrett, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE, F.EWRI, dean of engineering at LeTourneau University.

In this ASCE video, interviewees discuss the ethical obligation to perform services “only in their areas of competence,” and the importance of maintaining their engineering competence in the midst of today’s breathtaking pace of scientific and technological advancement.

In this ASCE video, interviewees discuss how sound and ethical engineering judgments can best serve communities and enhance quality of life for all persons who are impacted by their work.

In this ASCE video, interviewees discuss how people’s safety and welfare are impacted every day by the actions of engineers who are guided by this ethical principle.