Ethics & Engineering Research Guide

Articles

Databases:

• Academic Search Premier - a good source for undergraduates; many full-text articles; interdisciplinary, with good coverage of the applied sciences.
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - topics include bioethics, cloning, genetic engineering, water pollution, stem cells, renewable energy, and more.
• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library
• Aerospace & High Technology Database - Provides bibliographic coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, and space sciences. Also covers technology development and applications in complementary and supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics.
• Annual Reviews Online
• CQ Researcher - Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Every report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue with numerous charts, graphs and sidebar articles.
• Engineering Index (EI) - contains Compendex, EI WEB - indexes scholarly journals and conferences in all areas of engineering.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library - Dozens of reference sources in many subjects including:
  • Encyclopedia of Bioethics , 3rd Ed., 5v, 2004
  • Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology , 2v, 2000
  • Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics , 4v, 2005
  • Ethical and Socially Responsible Investment: A Reference Guide for Researchers , 2003
• IEEE Xplore - Provides full-text access to IEEE and IEE journals, conference proceedings, and current IEEE standards covering electrical and computer engineering, electronics, computer science, and physics.
• INSPEC - Contains more than 7 million citations with abstracts to worldwide literature of physics, electronics and electrical engineering, computing and control, and information technology.
• PubMed - Provides access to over 10 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases. Links to the full text articles are provided when available, subject to UT subscription status. Setting up the Find it @UT service will provide for better full text linking to library subscriptions.

Journals:

Science and engineering ethics. 1995-
Q 175.35 S354 CURRENT ISSUES Engineering Library
Q 175.35 S354 V.11 2005 Engineering Library
Electronic Access : Available from 1997- present

 

Books

Print Books

Library Catalog

Locate any of eight million items, including books, journals, and other materials in the University of Texas Libraries collections. For help locating books go to Find Books.

Sample Search Terms:

• Engineering ethics
• Engineering ethics--Bibliography
• Engineering ethics--Case studies
• Engineering ethics--Congresses
• Science--Moral and ethical aspects
• Technology--Moral and ethical aspects
• Nanotechnology--Moral and ethical aspects
• Human genetics--Moral and ethical aspects

Can't find what you're looking for? Try searching WorldCat or other library catalogs.

OCLC WorldCat - WorldCat is a comprehensive database of library holdings around the U.S. and also includes holding from a number of libraries around the world.  It may be used to search for book and serials materials (though not individual book chapters, journal articles or conference papers) not available at UT Austin

Once you find a book you want, you may be able to obtain materials NOT owned by UT Austin Libraries by going to InterLibrary Loan Services Borrowing. It is available to UT faculty, staff and students.

Electronic Books

• netLibrary.com - our main eBook (electronic book) site. Currently more than 50,000 titles in all subject areas are available online to UT Austin users. Included are scholarly, reference and professional works from leading university, academic and professional publishers.
• ebrary Computers, Engineering and Applied Sciences Collection
• Audiobooks (NetLibrary)
• more electronic books

Video

Please check the library catalog for availability.

Ethics and engineering. / Lincoln, NE / 1993(1992)
VIDCASS 10,886 Engineering Lib Reserves

The Truesteel affair. / Toronto, Ontario / 1984(1983)
VIDCASS 1078 Audio Visual Library FAC 341

Professional ethics and engineering. / (Durham?, N. C.) / 1999
VIDCASS 10,869 Engineering Library

Organizations

• AAAS Scientific Freedom, Responsibility & Law Program
• American Society for Engineering Education
  • Liberal Education Division
• Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• Ethics Officer Association
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Ethics and Member Conduct Committee
• IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
  • Ethics Committee
• International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility
• International Society for Ethics and Information Technology
• National Society of Professional Engineers
  • Ethics
• Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
• Women in Global Science and Technology

Websites

• PRiME Learning Modules - University of Texas

  The goal of these modules is to develop an awareness in Engineering students of the social and human impact of engineering design, investigation, and innovation. This awareness is fundamental to developing a mature sense of professional responsibility, especially the responsibility to “hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public” (NSPE Code of Ethics).

• Websites promoting ethics in engineering education and practice - Texas Tech University
• Engineering Ethics and the Drexel University Library: - by Jay Bhatt, et. al.
• Online Ethics Center - National Academy of Engineering

 

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