Hold Paramount

1. DOING THE RIGHT THING.
Morals, Obligations to Strangers. Ethics.
2. FAITHFUL AGENTS.
Technical Expertise and Ethical Obligations. Organization of Professional Engineering. Can We Afford to be Ethical? Engineering Codes of Ethics. Can a Person Stop Being an Engineer? Codes of Ethics and the Environment. Ethically Right for Me?
3. ENHANCE HUMAN WELFARE.
Moral Responsibility of Engineers.
4. HOLD PARAMOUNT.
Why Can't Ethicists be as Efficient as Engineers? Life and Death Decisions. Legal Ethics. Jokes About Engineers. Engineers Working Together. A Technical Challenge. Engineering Qualifications. Engineering Triumphs. Engineering Failures. Engineers as Managers. Decision Making: Technical and Ethical Aspects. Consulting with Colleagues.
5. SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC.
The Moral Status of Animals. Ethical and Legal Obligations. Ethical Dilemmas I. Calculation the Value of Life. Fix Up Your Organization Ethically. Whistleblowing I. Whistleblowing II. Disaster in Kansas City. Ethics and Engineering Education. Options. Ethically Right For Me? II. Acceptable Risk. Trusting the Experts. Deception I. Confidentiality. Loyalty to the Firm.
6. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
Tenure in Engineering Schools. Famous Engineers in History. The Reputation Game in Engineering Education. Networking.
7. SOLICIT OR ACCEPT GRATUITIES.
Deception II. Corporate Gift Policies.
8. SELF-LAUDATORY LANGUAGE.
Advertising.
9. CONTRIBUTIONS IN ORDER TO SECURE WORK.
Competitive Bidding. Bribery and Law. When in Rome. Ethical Dilemmas II. Human Rights I.
10. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF OTHERS.
The Existential Pleasures of Engineering I. The Existential Pleasures of Engineering II. Engineering and Armaments. Reverence for Life. The Ethics of Asking and the Ethics of Giving. Maintaining the Quality of Engineering Education. Affirmative Action.
11. OVERSEAS WORK.
Human Rights II. Politicians and Their Reputations.
12. UPHOLD THE HONOR AND DIGNITY.
Manners. Workplace Harassment.
13. WITHOUT THE

Gunn, Alastair
Alastair S. Gunn was a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Vesilind, P.
P. Aarne Vesilind received his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Lehigh University and his Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of North Carolina. He spent a post-doctoral year with the Norwegian Institute for Water Research in Oslo and a year as a research engineer with Bird Machine Company. He joined the faculty of Duke University in 1970 where he served as chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In 1999, he was appointed to the R. L. Rooke Chair of the Historical and Societal Context of Engineering at Bucknell University. He served in this capacity until his retirement in 2006.