These brief cases present situations that raise ethical questions common in engineering practice and research. The cases were rewritten to make them more suitable for group and class discussion. Each of the discussion cases has a link to the original NSPE case. Cases are grouped into five categories.
Some cases appear in more than one category.
Five Detailed Cases in which engineers or scientists showed exemplary behavior in fulfilling their professional responsibilities or acting for the public good. These cases focus on the problems that each engineer or scientist faced. The cases are presented in hypermedia. The Detailed Case of David LaMacchia . LaMacchia was an MIT student who allegedly used university hardware to distribute commercial software over the Internet.