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For use in undergraduate engineering programs incorporating ethics topics. Engineering Ethics serves as both a textbook and a resource for the study of engineering ethics. It is written to help future engineers be prepared for confronting and resolving ethical dilemmas that they might encounter during their professional careers. Salient  Features Codes of Ethics of Professional Engineering Societies IEEE NSPE ASME ASCE AICHE Part of Prentice Hall's ESource Program: ESource enables you to choose individual chapters from published books in the Prentice Hall ESource Series. The content available in this online book-building system covers topics in engineering problem-solving and design, graphics, and computer applications. Using this program, you can create a unique text for your introduction to engineering course that exactly matches your content requirements and teaching approach. New To This Edition A new section showing how ethical issues are viewed in non-western societies including  China, India, and the Middle East. Codes of Ethics of professional engineering societies from outside the U.S. have been added. The issues brought up by competitive bidding by engineers are discussed. Case studies have been updated. Several new case studies including ones on the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, issues related to the recall of Toyota passenger cars, and the earthquake damage in Haiti have been added. Many new and updated problems have been added.