NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

April 19 (UPI) --A chatbot turns hostile. A test version of a Roomba vacuum collects images of users in private situations. A Black woman is falsely identified as a suspect on the basis of facial ...

Students discuss a film during a class outside the Lesser House. Whether from emergent social media and communication technologies to environmental and energy crises, young engineers must be equipped ...

News of corporate scandals and insider trading, and the recent fraud perpetrated by a New York Times reporter who was found to have invented stories out of whole cloth, have put professional ethics on ...

Photo: The winning team from Brigham Young University. Staying at the cutting edge of technology is at the core of our mission. Lockheed Martin relies on a pipeline of highly trained, highly capable ...

Engineers and philosophers gathered to discuss the meaning of ethics in the context of nuclear security at a panel Tuesday evening in Sutardja Dai Hall. The panel event, titled “Ethics in Nuclear ...

All engineers are familiar with the engineering design cycle in one form or another. While each step may be represented differently in different interpretations, design is always understood to be a ...

In 1982, when I wrote my first ethics column for Genetic Engineering News, enthusiasm for genetic engineering’s potential to remake medicine, manufacturing, and agriculture was set against grave ...

The goal of engineering design is to address physical needs using practical, analytical, and technical skills to develop robust, efficient, and appropriate solutions. Unlike many of the calculations ...