Why teach engineering ethics? One possible answer is the long
and familiar list of tragedies, disasters, and scandals in which engineers
have been major players. Something should be done about all
these bad things. This answer, what we can call the big news/bad
news approach to ethics education, seems to miss the mark. Although
these incidents should be a matter of concern to all of us,
and especially to engineering students, who can learn from past
mistakes