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| Introduction | |
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| Is Ethics Relative? | |
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| Ethics Is Not Just Personal Opinion | |
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| The Need for Ethics | |
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| Engineering and the Freedom of Choice | |
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| Ethics and Morals | |
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| What If? Does Ethics Involve Only "Serious" Choice Behavior? | |
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| The Temptation of Moral Relativism | |
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| The Temptation of Moral Absolutism | |
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| Try It! | |
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| What If? Neither Giants nor Dwarves | |
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| The Truths of Absolutism and Relativism | |
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| The Usefulness of Ethics Codes | |
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| Try It! | |
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| What If? Ethics Codes and Technical Standards | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Exploring Different Dimensions of Ethics | |
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| Doing What Is Right | |
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| What If? Not Doing What is Wrong | |
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| Crime, Vice, Virtue, and Heroic Virtue | |
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| Try It! | |
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| Deciding Which Action is Right | |
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| Moral Dilemmas | |
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| Try It! | |
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| Reflecting on Why an Action Is Right | |
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| What If? First- and Second-Order Ethical Principles | |
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| Descriptions, Norms, and Meta-Ethics | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Ethical Theories | |
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| Moral Reasoning and the Structure of Human Action | |
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| Consequential Theory | |
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| What If? The Ford Pinto | |
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| Deontological Theory | |
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| Try It! | |
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| Virtue Theory | |
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| The Three Theories Reviewed | |
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| Relationships among Theories | |
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| Try It! | |
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| Ethics and Psychology | |
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| Lawrence Kohlberg's Six Stages of Moral Development | |
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| What If? Facts and Values | |
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| The Ethics of Care | |
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| What If? Two Moral Voices | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Ethics and Institutions | |
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| Individual and Group Behavior | |
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| Try It! | |
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| Going Along to Get Along versus Loyal Opposition | |
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| Organizations and Engineering | |
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| Win-Win Solutions and the Ethics of Care | |
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| Manifestations and Limitations of Organizational Structures | |
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| Organizations and Ethics | |
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| Styles of Management and Leadership | |
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| Try It! | |
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| Globalization, Deorganization, and a New Engineering Ethics | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Models of Professionalism | |
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| What Is a Professional? | |
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| What If? A Vision of the Engineering Profession | |
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| Independent Professionals | |
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| Professional Employed within an Organization | |
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| Professional Engineers | |
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| Try It! | |
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| Professional Ethics | |
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| Try It! | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Loyalty in Engineering | |
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| The Moral Status of Loyalty | |
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| Try It! | |
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| Loyalty on Campus | |
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| Good and Bad Loyalty | |
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| Case Study: Loyalty and Friendship | |
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| What If? | |
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| Loyalty in the Workplace | |
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| Why Do Companies Want Loyalty? | |
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| Try It! | |
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| When Do We Owe Loyalty to an Employer? | |
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| What If? Loyalty Checklist | |
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| Loyalty and Contracts | |
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| Whistle Blowing | |
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| What If? Commonsense Steps in Whistle Blowing | |
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| Case Study: Health in the Workplace | |
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| What If? | |
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| Conflicts of Loyalty and Conflicts of Interest | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Honesty in Engineering | |
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| The Moral Status of Honesty | |
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| Honesty as Respect for Self and Others | |
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| Checklist for Honest Action | |
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| Honesty on Campus: Honor Codes | |
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| Case Study: Senior Competition | |
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| What If? | |
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| Case Study: The Co-Op Student | |
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| Honesty in the Workplace | |
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| Honesty and the Successful Employee | |
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| Honesty and the Self-Employed | |
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| Try It! | |
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| A New Understanding of Honesty in the Workplace | |
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| Try It! | |
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| What If? Honest Engineering | |
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| The Deadline | |
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| Consulting the Design Engineer | |
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| The Customer Is Consulted | |
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| The Customer Is Not Consulted | |
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| Things Don't Work Out, or They Do | |
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| Honesty and Intellectual Property | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Responsibility in Engineering | |
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| The Moral Status of Responsibility | |
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| Role Responsibility | |
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| Responsibility and Freedom | |
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| Try It! | |
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| Responsibility on Campus | |
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| Case Study: Bits and Bytes | |
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| What If? | |
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| Giving Results, Not Excuses | |
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| Responsibility in the Workplace | |
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| Responsibility to Employers | |
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| Responsibility to the Profession and the Public | |
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| Starting a New Job | |
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| Caustic Spill | |
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| What Is To be Done? | |
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| Responsible Decisions | |
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| The Particular Responsibility of Product Liability | |
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| Assessing Responsibility | |
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| Positive Responsibility | |
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| What If? Responsibility Checklist | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Informed Consent in Engineering | |
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| The Moral Status of Informed Consent | |
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| Informed Consent on Campus | |
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| Case Study: The Roommate | |
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| What If? | |
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| Try It! | |
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| Informed Consent in the Workplace | |
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| Case Study: Transportation Bias? | |
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| Safety and Risk | |
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| Not Made in the USA | |
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| Confrontation with the Truth | |
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| What If? Informed Consent Checklist | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Ethical Engineering and Conflict Resolution | |
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| The Moral Status of Conflict Resolution | |
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| What Moral Compromise Is Not | |
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| Moral Compromise: Bad and Good | |
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| Conflict Resolution on Campus | |
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| Case Study: Roommate Conflict | |
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| Conflict Resolution: Personal Approaches and Negotiation Strategies | |
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| Personal Approaches for Dealing with Conflict | |
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| Negotiation Strategies | |
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| Try It! | |
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| Conflict Resolution in the Workplace | |
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| Beyond Negotiation Strategies | |
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| Try It! | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Engineering and the Environment | |
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| The Moral Status of the Environment | |
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| Environmental Ethics on Campus | |
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| Case Study: Product Life Cycles | |
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| Case Study: Environmental Power | |
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| Environmental Ethics in the Workplace | |
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| The Chemical Spill Report | |
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| The Response | |
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| The Second Spill | |
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| Beyond Industry versus the Environment | |
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| What If? The Environmental Conscious Engineer | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Index | |