Ethical Decision Making Processes From Penn State Engineering. Ethics Website (www.engr.psu.edu/ethics/processes.htm) Guidelines for Facilitating Solutions to Ethical Dilemmas in Professional Practice When money is involved, ethics sometimes becomes last priority. In professional practice, you a re faced with situations in which you need to consider not only the engineering aspect, but the business aspect as well. This process, featured by the E thics Case of the Month Club, can help guide professional engineers through such situations. Nine Checkpoints For Ethical Decision-Making Rushworth M. Kidder lists nine checkpoints for ethical decision-making in his book, How Good People Make Tough Decisions. This process is a broad guide to making a decision concerning ethics, and is not tailored to engineers a t all. The value of this process will probably no t be recognized unless accompanied by the material in the rest of the book. HARPS Method Donald Searing developed this process which is a general methodology for approaching and solving problems of any nature, While he was a teaching assistant in the Engineering Ethics program at Texas A&M, Searing realized that although the text they were using hinted at a me thodology for problem solving, there was no formalized methodology to speak of. He created this process to alleviate this problem. Analyzing and Resolving Ethical Problems This process is taken from Practicing Engineering Ethics, by Charles E. Harris, Jr. et al. It takes an engineer through several steps to breakdown a moral problem. It differentiates between factual, conceptual, and ethical questions, highlights different types of choices a problem presents, and gives tips on devising a solution. Learning and Teaching Ethics: October 2006 Resource Page 1
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8/9/2019 Resource Pages for Ethics Workshop - 2006