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Professional Practice Cases

Theses cases vary significantly in structure. Some are discussion cases that present open-ended situations requiring a response. Some are descriptions of completed actions and call for a judgment on an action taken. Many cases are brief, but some detailed descriptions also appear. Most cases are at least loosely based on real incidents, in order to give a realistic impression of the moral problems that face engineers.

Three Teaching Case Studies of Accidents in Nuclear Energy Development in Japan
An essay describing the use of historical Japanese cases in the relatively recent development of ethics education in Japan.
Numerical & Design Problems With Ethical Content
These 17 assignable problems were originally developed as part of an NSF-funded project to create numerical problems that raise ethical issues for use in engineering and other course assignments. They are technical problems that apply to a number of engineering disciplines.
Cases on Engineering Practice Ethics - static index
A variety of engineering cases that raise ethical issues. Includes historical cases, international cases, NSPE BER judgements, and cases reported to the IEEE.
Some Recent Engineering Ethics Cases That Have Come to the IEEE
A collection of cases that were subbmitted to the IEEE in the 1990s.
The Structural Engineer's Standard of Care
This paper briefly describes cases of engineering failure with which the author has become familiar in his practice as a consultant and expert in construction defects lawsuits, and other engineering failures in the published record, in order to expose students to the concept of the engineer's standard of care.
Engineering Ethics Cases from Texas A&M
These are summaries of cases maintained in full by Texas A& M University on their site. The full cases include diagrams, numerical problems, teaching guides, and other useful classroom material. They investigate engineering ethics issues, from gross violation of environmental regulations to conflict of interest in the operations of a professional engineering society.
Professional Ethics in Engineering Practice: Discussion Cases Based on NSPE BER Cases
A collection of cases brought before the National Society of Professional Engineers Board of Ethical Review. The NSPE BER reviews cases with the specific purpose of making an ethical judgment on the actions of (only) the engineers in the cases, based solely on the NSPE Code of Ethics.