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 ...

As the latest contribution from UNESCO, the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology’s endeavour to study climate engineering technologies is timely as the research, ...

New research is being conducted to explore how engineers understand and navigate ethics on a day-to-day basis, prompting questions about how ethics education can be improved. Engineering disasters are ...

As engineers, our creations have an immeasurable effect on the world, often one that continues to evolve after us in unimaginable ways. From bridges that tragically collapse to robots that are used as ...

The pace at which AI is developing almost always outstrips that of policy and regulatory development. This is a problem because AI-based systems have been shown to reproduce existing biases or even ...

All of morality aims at the same thing but there are several basic ways to get there. If you prefer, each approach is like a different tool—a hammer, a nail, a level. Using the right tool for the ...