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Looking for books on ethics and engineering? Try the following Subject Heading searches in UA's online catalog --
-- by clicking on the links below:
Call number and location
Copy down the call number and
location of the books you want to find.
Locations
• Science and Engineering Library.....2nd
floor of Rodgers Library, book section
• Science and Engineering Library Reference.....Reference
Section, on the first floor of Rodgers LIbrary
• Other locations: The catalog may also
list ethics book in other libraries on campus.
For most of your ethics cases/topics, you will need to look in the table of contents or at the index at the back of the engineering ethics books to find your topic.
Also try keyword searches in UA's online catalog.
• Use
as few keywords as possible: two, if possible, and then look
through just the beginning references for the most relevant results.
Return
to TopNeed journal articles, technical reports or conference papers? Search these databases and print indexes for citations and/or full text.
ACCESS KEY:
UA- - - - - - - - Available to UA campus computers
Remote- - - - -Available via remote access to
current UA faculty, staff, and students
Open access - Available to the public
Database: Compendex in Engineering
Village 2
Comprehensive index, with abstracts, to all fields of engineering literature.
Some links to fulltext. Articles from older year of periodicals may be available
as bound volumes in Rodgers Library. 1884-current. Access: UA,
Remote
Database: Inspec in Engineering
Village 2
Covers computers and control engineering; electrical engineering, electronics,
communications, information technology, and physics. 1896-current. Access: UA,
Remote
Database: Applied
Science & Technology Index
Indexes over 700 English language journals in engineering and the applied sciences.
Selected journals available full text. 1983-current. Access: UA,
Remote
Print: Applied Science & Technology Index REF
Z 7913 .I7, 1959-1994
Database: ASCE'S
Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) (American Society of Civil Engineers)
The CEDB Provides Access to over 100,000 bibliographic and abstracted records.
1970 - Present.
Database: Web
of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded)
Interdisciplinary database covers major journals in all areas of science and
engineering. This database may be searched by subject, author, or cited author.
Abstracts are available for most indexed journal articles. 1985-current. Access: UA,
Remote
Print: Science Citation Index SEL REF
Z 7401 .S365, 1961, 1965-2001
GoogleScholar
Use Google Scholar from the Libraries' web page to be sure it is configured
to connect to UA Libraries' resources.
Database: Reader's
Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)
Contains references in the popular press from 1982
back to 1890. Some links to full text. It indexes the most popular general-interest
periodicals published in the
United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. If your case
study event took place in this time period, you may be able to find a contemporary
account
of the event. Access: UA,
Remote
Database: American
Periodical Series Online 1740-1900
Contains
full text of popular newspapers and magazines. If your case study event took
place in this time period, you may be able to find a contemporary account
of the event. Access: UA,
Remote
Database: America,
History and Life
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory
to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published
worldwide. Covers history periodicals published from 1964 - current. Access: UA,
Remote
From the Titanic to the Challenger : an annotated bibliography on technological
failures of the twentieth century
Science & Engineering Library Reference Z 5853.S94 H47 1989
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/]
Although frequently a good source for information, you will want to compare
the information from this encyclopedia to other
sources, because anyone can edit
this encyclopedia. You may find that it gives you a good start with dates,
names, references.
ELECTRONIC books
Most of the book titles are in print, and you will need to go to the library to find and use them. Search the subject headings in the first section to obtain titles and call numbers.
Below are some electronic book titles you can access from your lab or at home. To access netLibrary titles from home, you may need to create a netLibrary account on campus or while logged in to your myBama account.
What Every Engineer Should Know About Ethics
• Available
as an electronic book in netLibrary
What Every Engineer Should Know About Decision Making
Under Uncertainty
• Available
as an electronic book in ENGnetBASE.
Thinking Like an Engineer: Studies in the Ethics of a
Profession
• Available
as an electronic book in netLibrary.
Also available in print: Science & Engineering Library TA157 .D32 1998
DVDs
Engineering disasters (Modern Marvels Series)
Science and Engineering Library DVD 2005-139 (Ask
at Rodgers Library circulation desk)
The 20th century -- Kansas City Hyatt -- Teton Dam -- Fear of flying --
Aluminum -- Flight 800 -- Heartbreak -- The Hubble -- Industrial disasters
-- Space Shuttle Challenger.
Also includes: Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state, the collapse of
the Kansas City Hyatt, the
sinking of the Titanic, the collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, the exploding
of the Hindenburg, the crashing of several commercial airplanes, the malfunctioning
and repair of the Hubble space telescope, the nuclear accidents at Three
Mile Island and Chernobyl, and the explosion at the Union Carbide Plant
in Bhopal,
India.
More engineering disasters (Modern Marvels Series)
Science and Engineering Library DVD 2005-80 (Ask
at Rodgers Library circulation desk)
Includes: The rockets -- The chauchat, 1917 -- USS Thresher, 1963 -- Liberty ships, 1943-1945 -- Andrea Doria, 1956 -- Hartford Civic Center, 1978 -- St. Francis Dam, 1928 -- Northeast blackout, 1965.
Inviting disasters (Modern Marvels Series)
Science and Engineering Library DVD 2005-79 (Ask at
Rodgers Library circulation desk)
Expands on the book by James Chiles, Inviting disaster
: lessons from
the
edge
of
technology
: an inside look at catastrophes and why they happen, Science & Engineering
Library T 174.5 .C57 2002.
DVD Includes: Chernobyl; the crash of the Concorde; the sinking
of
the Russian submarine Kursk. Also includes
the destruction
of the giant drilling rig Ocean Ranger, the PEPCON factory explosion in Nevada.
Failure Watch (from ICivil Engineer.com)
Information on recent civil engineering failures.
Engineering Failures (category from Wikipedia)
DIRECTORIES AND SEARCH ENGINES
Engineering Disasters and Learning from Failure
Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science at Case Western Reserve University
Introducing Case Studies into Required Undergraduate Engineering Courses (Texas A&M University)
Engineering Disasters and Learning from Failure
Web Clearinghouse for Engineering and Computing Ethics
Websites Promoting Ethics in Engineering Education and Practice
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions- Links
Software Engineering Ethics Research Institutes (SEERI) - Ethics Resources
Professionalism in Computing Digital Library (Virginia Tech)
Examples of Engineering Failures (University of British Columbia Library)
Carleton University Civil
and Environmental Engineering Exhibits
"This
exhibit will eventually contain a collection of notable works of Civil
and Environmental Engineering. They may be notable because of size, technology
used, or because of disaster."
Ask a Rodgers Library Librarian
Click here to send an email reference question to Rodgers Library.
CODES
Codes of Ethics Online: Engineers (Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions)
Codes of Ethics and Conduct (Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science)
Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice
TUTORIALS for engineering information
EngineeringINFO Tutorial (UA College of Engineering and Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering)
Bama Undergraduate Information Literacy Tutorial (BUILT) for Sciences (Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering)
Revised, 09/07