[grandmczeb]

Why? The engineering department version of ethics was a required class at my undergrad and it was a total waste of time.

[mcguire]

Henry Petroski claims that engineering ethics was founded on the principle that an engineer should not compete with another engineer on the basis of price.

A good philosophical ethics class is mostly uncomfortable...

[mnemonicsloth]

Adam Smith:

> People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.