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Engineering Ethics Problems in a Develo** Country

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Ethical Engineering for International Development and Environmental Sustainability

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The paper draws on case studies of the experiences of successful leading designers in the areas of hardware, software, applications and research to discuss ethical issues related to working in the ICT and automation industry in Poland. The situation both before and after the political and economic changes in 1989 is considered, with developments in the subsequent period based almost exclusively on technology transfer. A number of ethical theories are applied to analyse the action of leading designers, large corporations post-1989 and the authorities in the state-owned firm Elwro pre-1989. Similarities and differences in the experiences of leading designers in the two periods are noted, and various suggestions for surviving while behaving ethically are made.

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Abbreviations

ABB:

Asea Brown Boveri

CIMMs:

Computer-integrated manufacturing and management system

IASE:

Institute for Power System Automation

KWP:

Switched measurement display (komutowany wyświetlacz pomiarów)

MSK:

Interuniversity computer network (miedzyuczelniana siec komputerowa)

PGUM:

Power-generating unit monitor

PoP:

Power of people

ProSter:

For control (pro sterowanie)

SAPI ODMs:

Regional power control centre automatic data processing systems (systemy automatycznego przetwarzania informacji okręgowych dyspozycji mocy)

SOSAPI:

Operating system for automatic data processing system (system operacyjny systemu automatycznego przetwarzania informacji)

SVDU:

Semigraphic visual display unit

SWIIS:

Supplemental Ways for Improving International Stability

TECIS:

Technology, Culture and International Stability

WPR:

Who has got power is right

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  1. BPBIT Leader LLC, Newark, DE, USA

    Jozef Bohdan Lewoc

  2. Electronic Department, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Antoni Izworski

  3. Informatics and Management Department, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Slawomir Feliks Skowronski

  4. Institute for Power System Automation IASE, Wroclaw, Poland

    Antonina Kieleczawa

  5. School of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, University of Glasgow, Rankine Building, Glasgow, Scotland

    Marion Hersh

  6. Management, Informatics and Finance Department, Wroclaw University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland

    Iwona Chomiak-Orsa

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Lewoc, J.B., Izworski, A., Skowronski, S.F., Kieleczawa, A., Hersh, M., Chomiak-Orsa, I. (2015). Engineering Ethics Problems in a Develo** Country. In: Hersh, M. (eds) Ethical Engineering for International Development and Environmental Sustainability. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6618-4_8

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